New York and Toronto Stock Exchanges | The technology sector weighs down the indices
(New York and Toronto) The New York Stock Exchange closed in the red on Thursday digesting disappointing results in the tech sector and fearing a slowdown in American growth after a strong third quarter.The...
Breakdown at Laurentian | The head of technology had just left
Not two, but rather three of the ten members of the Laurentian Bank management committee have left the financial institution in recent weeks, taking into account the unannounced departure of the technology manager.The bank...
Biotechnology | Changing the future, one research at a time
In the 1990s, companies took charge of all stages of drug development, from research to commercialization. This is how the first effective drug against HIV, 3TC, and one of the most important treatments for...
Biotechnology | Corealis Pharma in the eye of the Caisse
Corealis Pharma, one of the leaders of contract research organizations (CROs) in Quebec, has experienced strong growth in recent years. The private company, which was financially independent, then attracted the attention of the Caisse...
ChatGPT technology consumes a lot of water in Iowa
(Des Moines) The cost of building an artificial intelligence (AI) product like ChatGPT can be difficult to measure.But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was lots of water, drawn from the Raccoon...
The technology sector is driving global markets higher
(Paris) The tech sector is pulling global markets on Tuesday, ahead of Nvidia's highly anticipated results on Wednesday and with a slight easing in interest rates.The European markets are moving up sharply: around 7:30...
The approach could be the future of biometric technology
Canadians have been unlocking their iPhones with their fingerprint since 2013 and are sometimes exposed to facial recognition software before boarding planes, but when it comes to biometric technology, Erik Scheme and Mayssa Rekik...
Ticket | The unwanted technology taking over our hotel rooms
At my hotel in the Swiss Alps, I came home from dinner, jet-lagged and a little tipsy, to find that a television set inside the bathroom mirror had been turned on during the turn-down...
Canadians and technology | Victims, suspicious, but heavy users
With internet usage in Canada peaking at 95% in 2022, more than 7 in 10 people say they've been victims of a cybersecurity incident, ranging from receiving spam to demanding a ransom. And while...
Portrait Novipro 2023 | Six-year low for technology investments
Exhausted by the pandemic, worried about inflation and economic uncertainty, Canadian companies have never been so numerous to plan technological investments.The 2023 IT Portrait drawn up by the Novipro group, which will be made...
Labor shortages would hurt technology adoption by manufacturers
(Toronto) A shortage of skilled workers and funding is hurting manufacturers' ability to adopt new technologies, a new survey finds.According to the results of a survey conducted by Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, 40% of...
Stock markets gloomy, but the technology sector still stands out
(New York) Western stock markets showed two faces on Thursday, between the surge of processor giant Nvidia, which drove the technology sector, and macroeconomic uncertainties which weighed on the rest of the market.In Europe,...
Wall Street in scattered order, the technology supported by Nvidia
(New York) The New York Stock Exchange opened in disorganized fashion on Thursday, torn between, on the one hand, a technology sector propelled by the ambitious forecasts of the giant Nvidia, and on the...
Feverishness in global markets, Nvidia in support of technology
(Paris) The surge in the stock market of the giant of graphics cards Nvidia, after its quarterly results, supports the technology sector, but the rest of the stock markets remain nervous in front of...
Digital Life | Is technology making us stupid?
Videoconferencing mutilates social cognition. The average attention span of a human being fell between 2000 and 2013 from 12 to 8 seconds, which is lower than that of a goldfish. We retain less information...
lincoln | The Nautilus attempts to reinvigorate itself with technology
He is probably not the default choice in his category, he who pays for a certain immobility of the Lincoln brand against much more proactive rivals. The Nautilus nevertheless remains a very important model...
Technology now gives more powers to launchers
(Montreal) In baseball, pitchers have always had the option of refusing a pitch called by their catcher. With new technology, the power is now completely in their hands.For the past few seasons, in order...
Pessimism in global markets, only technology is progressing
(Paris) The mood of the stock markets is rather pessimistic on Wednesday, after a rain of very mixed results and in a context still marked by fears of recession, only the results of the...
Capitalizations of the technology sector | Wall Street ends up
(New York) The New York Stock Exchange ended higher on Thursday, spurred by the continued decline in bond rates, which carried the giant capitalizations of the technology sector, capable, on their own, of carrying...
innovation | Create movies with gaming technology
The Quebec animation studio Squeeze recently teamed up with game developer Supercell to create a series of animated films designed with the Unreal Engine 5 game engine. A bold bet that allowed Squeeze to...
Israel defends the use of surveillance technology against protesters
ERUSALEM -- Israel’s attorney general has affirmed the Shin Bet security agency's usage of mobile-phone tracking technology last year to monitor and threaten Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem's most sacred holy site.
The civil rights group...
Intel from the US warns China that it could be dominant in advanced technology
U.S. officials have issued warnings about China's ambitions to develop artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. These could give Beijing a significant military advantage and possibly a dominance in the health care sector.Officials at...
Charging technology The charging time per kilometre is crucial
Charging technology – charging time per kilometre is crucial charging speed, charging power, charging time – when it comes to Recharging an electric car, is to face the buyers with completely...
Apple is set Tuesday on the new iPhone(s) before: some of the latest technology,...
Apple is set Tuesday for the new iPhone. Well, at least that is the rumor mill in the technologiewereldje. According to insiders, the techbedrijf three new versions of the popular smartphone will launch...