The app best known for kids sharing video clips of themselves singing and dancing has become a powerful tool for activists speaking out against repression in Iran.
Digital technologies like drones are being heavily promoted to address the threats of climate change and biodiversity loss.
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TikTok is shaping the music industry like never before, but with rumours that the app may soon launch its own streaming service, the stakes for creative freedom are high.
Many NFT creators come from a practice of 3D modelling, graphic design, animation or video game design.
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Creators of NFT art are organizing themselves into new art scenes, but they are still searching for cultural legitimacy while museums remain skittish.
Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was more than just another mathematician.
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Lovelace was a prodigious math talent who learned from the giants of her time, but her linguistic and creative abilities were also important in her invention of computer programming.
People walk through Pearson International Airport in Toronto in March 2020.
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As Canada explores how technology can help streamline and improve the immigration process, migrant-centred design should be at the forefront of their planning.
A synthetic image generated by mimicking real faces, left, and a synthetic face generated from the text prompt ‘a photo of a 50-year-old man with short black hair,’ right.
Hany Farid using StyleGAN2 (left) and DALL-E (right)
The hacker who steals your data is just one part of an illicit supply chain featuring producers, wholesalers, distributors and consumers – a black-market industry worth millions of dollars.
If Twitter were to go dark, with it would go a valuable source of data as well as a means of sharing information relied on by activists, journalists, public health officials and scientists.
Many businesses simply choose to pay a ransom than suffer the consequences of a cyber attack.
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Despite their dangers, highly realistic deepfake images and videos are finding positive uses in the creative arts.
Population growth fuels knowledge, leading to new technology and energy use, fueling more population growth.
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The UN estimates the global population will pass 8 billion people on Nov. 15, 2022. From the Stone Age to today, here’s how things spiraled out of control.
Serena Williams has her eyes on Nigeria in a new venture.
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Canada is well positioned to gain far-reaching economic and social benefits from the rapidly developing quantum industry, but it must act now to secure its success.
Many AI algorithms, like facial recognition software, have been shown to be discriminatory to people of color.
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