Nathan Drescher

When the University of Ottawa went into lockdown a few months ago, no one knew what was happening. “There was no information,” said local tech entrepreneur Scott Annan, whose wife works on campus. “Was there a shooter on the loose?”

Last month, I went to Changsha, China to visit a factory producing two BYD electric vehicle models...

I sat down at a small restaurant a few blocks from my hotel, somewhere west of the Bund in a Shanghai neighbourhood where I didn’t see any other tourists. There was a laminated QR code on the corner of the table, so I opened AliPay, scanned the code and a menu translated into English opened on my phone.

Countless businesses and organizations in the city are putting AI to work in unique — and sometimes...

Tech workers fill Little Italy’s patios and the park benches around Dow’s Lake every sunny afternoon, sipping...

Kanwal Rekhi arrived in America with $8 in his pocket.  It was 1967, and the Indian government had...

For years, Natasha Tardioli kept a spreadsheet tracking romance books. Every novel she finished got its own row. Every book she wanted to read went on a list. She tracked it all year by year and, by the end of each year, she got to see how many books she had read.

While thousands of government workers are facing return-to-office mandates, many local tech companies are stocking the fridge, booking caterers and finding other ways to encourage employees to spend at least some time in the office.

Adam Wilk is the Ottawa-based founder of Zerowriter, which makes a distraction-free word processor that uses e-ink displays, the same low-glare technology found in e-readers. It connects to nothing. There’s no browser, no notifications and no video player.