Etiket: digital
Digital transition at ARTM | Future facial recognition software raises concerns
We’ve gotten used to unlocking our phones using facial recognition, but this technology could soon allow Greater Montreal public transit users to buy their fares. The Autorité régionale de transport…
Data centers, bitcoin… Five things to remember about the United Nations report on pollution in the digital sector
The United Nations report, released Wednesday, highlights the growing environmental impact of the digital economy. Five key points. Published 07/11/2024 3:01 PM Update 07/11/2024 3:01 PM Reading time: 3 min…
CNN bets on paid digital offering, around a hundred people will be laid off
(New York) The news channel CNN, lacking identity and audience, wants to bet on a new paid digital offer generating more than a billion dollars and will lay off a…
Tendering system | Another difficult digital transition
After the SAAQclic crisis last year, the migration of the Electronic Tendering System (SEAO) to a new platform managed by Quebec is also causing difficulties, this time in the construction…
The digital breviary of hate
A cookie emoji refers to the oven, and therefore to the crematorium. A drawing of a shower evokes the gas chambers of the death camps disguised as bathrooms. Two lightning…
Digital services tax | Freeland confident she can reach agreement with US
(Ottawa) Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is confident she can reach a “win-win solution” with the United States in the dispute over a tax on web giants like Amazon, Google, Apple…
Federal government officially imposes 3% tax on digital services
In the absence of an international agreement on taxing digital giants, Ottawa is officially imposing a 3% tax on the services they offer in Canada, more than three and a…
Digital Life | AI is revolutionizing pharmaceutical research
(Monrovia, California) The Terray Therapeutics lab is a hive of miniaturized automation. Robots carrying tiny tubes of fluids whir to their stations. Scientists in blue lab coats, sterile gloves and…
US opposes Canadian digital services tax
(Washington) The Office of the United States Trade Representative says it will move to end Canada’s tax on large foreign digital services companies. Published at 1:46 p.m. Kelly Geraldine Malone…
The digital OPUS card will be deployed in summer 2025
It will be possible to access your OPUS card from your cell phone in order to travel on public transport services in the Montreal metropolitan region from the summer of…
Digital life | Winks
A few bits of digital news Updated yesterday at 4:00 p.m. Quiz What technological reprisals does Sweden, which joined NATO, accuse Russia of? Answer Sweden has noticed that its satellite…
The Minister of Cybersecurity and Digital Affairs, Éric Caire, clings to the digital health issue
We generally draw up a report at the end of the journey. But this is not the case of that proposed by Éric Caire to Duty on his achievements as…
Digital life | Winks
A few bits of digital news Updated yesterday at 4:00 p.m. Quiz After Amazon, which major American tech company is being sued for subscriptions that are too difficult to cancel?…
It takes a village to protect children in the digital world
I recently spoke out in The duty on the importance of taking into account the evolving capacities of the child in our discourse on their relationship to screens. Another element…
Responsible for events and training for 42 Quebec, Quebec digital will close its doors
The flagship of the digital Québec techno economy, responsible for the accelerated IT training program 42 Québec, will close its doors on July 31, 2024. The Ministry of Employment and…
the RN imagines TF1 or M6 “buying all or part of France 2 or France 3” to no longer be “dwarfs” in the face of the digital giants
In passing, it will be necessary to “change the legislation”, underlines the former journalist on Thursday on Franceinfo, referring to the aborted merger between TF1 and M6. Published on 06/13/2024…
The law allowing the creation of a digital health record for patients will come into force on July 1
More than a year after its adoption, the law aimed at ensuring that health data is “linked to the patient” rather than to the place where the care was provided…
“Le Devoir” shines at the Awards of Excellence in Digital Publication gala
The duty shone at the Digital Publishing Excellence Awards gala which took place Friday in Toronto. He won three distinctions, including one for general excellence in digital publishing: large publication.…
International Biennial of Digital Art | Find – and present – the AI glitch
For its 25 years of existence, ELEKTRA marks the occasion with the 7e International Biennial of Digital Art (BIAN) by offering responses to disinformation and hyperfaking (deepfakes) which challenge reality…
Optimism at the end of UNESCO’s first reflections on digital discoverability
For three days, 18 independent experts from UNESCO have been meeting in Quebec. The mission of this working group was to launch a major international reflection on the urgency of…