2020 saw a surge in data breach
A report by the company Risk Based Security revealed that data breaches have increased immensely in 2020. Although fewer security breaches were disclosed publicly than the previous year, 2020 saw…
Women in IT: Divya Sharma
Welcome to the next part of our Women and Diversity in IT editorial series. This series aims to speak with women about their experience in the IT and Testing industries. Focusing…
Four University of Toronto computer scientists named CIFAR AI Chairs
It was recently announced that four computer scientists from the University of Toronto have been named CIFAR AI Chairs in acknowledgment of their innovative research on artificial intelligence (AI), which…
First fully-automated commercial drone flights approved
U.S. aviation regulators have approved the very first fully-automated commercial drone flights, allowing a Massachussett’s company, American Robotics, to fly its Scout quadcopter without a person directing the machine or…
How can technology enhance agriculture?
Over the past 50 years, the agriculture industry has been hugely transformed with the rapid evolution of the tech sector. Indeed, the scale, speed, and productivity of farming development have…
Virgin Orbit successfully launched its first satellites into space
On Sunday, Virgin Orbit successfully launched its LauncherOne rocket into space for the first time. After 2 attempts in the past year, the space firm was finally able to…
Amazon gives access to Alexa’s software to help automakers build their own voice assistant
Amazon is launching a new service that will allow automakers and device manufacturers to create their own voice assistances, built on Alexa’s AI technology. The company declared that automakers…
New trillion-parameter AI language model
A team of researchers from Google revealed their new trillion-parameter AI language model. This model surpasses the latest OpenAI’s GPT-3, one of the largest language models ever trained, which…
Leaders in Tech: Harneet Bains
Welcome to the next feature of our Leaders in Tech editorial series. Speaking to leaders in the industry to capture their stories, career highs and lows, their trials and successes,…
Ubiquiti, victim of a security breach
At the beginning of the week, Ubiquiti revealed that it was the victim of a data breach and it became aware of unauthorized access to its systems hosted by a…
The Importance of QA in Software Testing
Quality Assurance (QA) is an essential part of any software development team. It helps the testing team save time and money as well as increase the quality of the products.…
Chip engineer Jim Keller joins AI Canadia startup
Jim Keller has recently joined AI Canadian silicon start-up, Tenstorrent as its Chief Technology Officer, President, and was appointed a member of its Board of Directors. The Toronto-based software…
US Army to develop a thermal facial recognition system
The US Army revealed its plan to develop robots that can see and identify faces in the dark with a facial recognition system. DEVCOM, the US Army’s corporate research…
Poor quality software cost US businesses $2 trillion in 2020
According to the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ), badly made software has cost the U.S. around $2.08tr in 2020. The Cost of Poor Software Quality in the US…
Temasek raises funds for Indian AI agritech company
Temasek Holdings Pte-backed ABC World Asia has raised $20 million for CropIn, an artificial intelligence (AI) and data-based agritech startup in order to help the adoption of digital technologies in farming.…
Women in IT: Mili Mathew
Welcome to the next part of our Women and Diversity in IT editorial series. This series aims to speak with women about their experience in the IT and Testing industries. Focusing…
AI neural network able to produce images from text prompts
OpenAi in partnership with Microsoft recently developed a new neural network called DALL-E. This network is a version of the company’s GPT-3 language model and is able to create images…
How to transform at scale
The UK telecoms industry is a very competitive market. One of the keys to success is to deliver software changes quicker to market than your competitors – that not only…
President Trump bans Chinese software apps on claims of espionage
On Tuesday, President Trump has signed an executive order that bans businesses with leading Chinese technology companies. The U.S President is also trying to forbid any transactions with eight companies,…
Canadian university’s major issues with Workday HR
According to the Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill (AGSEM), the new Workday HR and payroll system used by McGill University in Canada would not have paid its teaching…
