Smart Agriculture is for everyone — not just for farmers

 By Vincent Guyonnet Canada along with the rest of the world is facing the challenge of feeding a growing population while sparing more natural resources. On a global basis, the challenge is huge as we must contemplate how to feed an additional two billion people by 2050 while arable area will

Marching backwards into the 5G future

 Madison Avenue’s knack for hyperbole would have us believe that every new product is revolutionary rather than a mere upgrade. Bells and whistles do not a revolution make, as in; so what if my refrigerator spits out ice? Automobile basics have not really changed since the Model-T, nor has assembly

Ottawa’s Crypto4A heads off those scary quantum threats

 Photo: Crypto4A founders Bruno Couillard, Brad Ritchie, Jim Goodman, and Jean-Pierre Fiset with QASM (credit: Ben Welland) Crypto4A is an Ottawa tech start-up with stellar credentials whose mission is to keep us safe in the strange new world of the Internet of Things (IoT). The company vision statement pledges “to

Huawei in Canada and the internet of things

 Photo courtesy of Shutterstock Big inventions disrupt the age in which they appear, but in simpler times that disruption was slow in coming. In the 1920s only one in every three homes had a telephone, and most were attached to a ‘party line’ shared with other families. Most rural regions