Nathan Drescher

Anthony Bassi brings technology to bear on development planning process

While most of the information needed to assess a development site in Ottawa is already public, finding that info across zoning maps, planning documents and city databases is another matter.

‘Civilization in a box’: Mac Brown takes Barracuda from R&D to commercialization

“If you look at the world at night from space and you see everything lit up, that...

Floods, tornadoes, wildfires: Ottawa’s Scott Annan might be able to help with that

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?”

Dispatch from China: The ups and downs of Changsha

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

Dispatch from China: An Ottawa tech reporter strolls the streets of Shanghai

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.

From retail to trades to medicine: How AI is being put to work in Ottawa

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

Ottawa’s surprising new tech clusters are nowhere near March Road

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

Kanwal Rekhi brings hard-won lessons from Silicon Valley to Ottawa

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

This Ottawa startup uses ‘vibe review’ to connect romance readers with books

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.

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