Etiket: McKenna
Former Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna Slams Fossil Fuel Industry’s Climate Inaction
The former federal Minister of the Environment, Catherine McKenna, bluntly denounces the climate inaction of the fossil fuel industry and its desire to block policies to combat climate change. In…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] The Great Disconnect
“I already pay for the Internet. The implication: why would I pay extra for the newspaper, movies or music? This is a feeling shared by a significant number of Internet…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] Reading is bad: it gives ideas
The disaster is here. In a small 181-page book that looks like an unbridled reactionary manifesto, two CEGEP philosophy professors rage against the increasingly common use of digital technologies at…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] How to save the planet without running out of steam
There are ads everywhere. The proof: the Royal Bank managed last fall to embroider its logo on the front of the jersey of the Montreal Canadiens. On your wireless too,…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] Praise be Amazon!
Health is priceless. For everything else, there is a subscription plan. In a world where we can no longer afford anything, life in permanent rental is becoming the solution to…
[Chronique de Alain McKenna] State media as seen by TikTok
Social networks have become a front for combat and propaganda since the beginning of the war of aggression in Ukraine. TikTok was in particular inundated with Russian propaganda videos from…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] GPT-4, the exponential leap after ChatGPT
The speed at which artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving is already insane. The expected arrival towards the end of 2023 of GPT-4, the next generation of the system that brings…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] TikTok, soon in Odorama
Many refuse to admit it, but we’ve all shed at least one tear at the end of a particularly emotional film. Who has ever cried because of a video game?…
[Chronique de Alain McKenna] Without mastering the power is nothing
Quebec is one of the places in the world where obtaining a driver’s license would be the most difficult. It’s far from apparent on the road… A strange phenomenon is…
[Chronique de Alain McKenna] Down with smart phones!
One of the reasons 5G is so important to cellular providers is that it allows them to connect more devices to their networks. However, in many cases, the connection will…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] What if Zuckerberg was right?
There are many people who roll their eyes at the mere mention of the term “metaverse”. Meta Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is giving himself ten years to confound these…
[Chronique de Alain McKenna] Tell me what’s playing in your headphones…
Friday will take place in the United States and Canada as well (increasingly) as Black Friday, a very consumerist tradition where millions of people rush to stores to buy all…
[Chronique de Alain McKenna] A loyalty card for cybercriminals
“Use our ransomware web platform and get a 10% discount on your next order!” » Is this a joke? No. This is the state of the not-so-obscure market for cybercrime…
[Chronique de Alain McKenna] Canada, paradise of hidden costs
The Trudeau government says it and repeats it at every opportunity it is given: it is doing everything possible to improve competition in the Canadian telecommunications market, more specifically in…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] All against Elon Musk and Elon Musk against all!
If you’re the richest man on the planet, you’re building a private planetary Internet, you’ve just got your hands on a digital communications network already reaching 300 million people, and…
[Chronique de Alain McKenna] The new iPad, between digital tablet and personal computer
The tenth-generation iPad that Apple is releasing this week is a more compelling PC replacement than ever. The iPad Pro that accompanies it in the fall offensive of the Californian…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] The artificial intelligence that reads our thoughts
Created quietly in recent years, the Montreal application Waverly officially comes out of the shadows today. It relies on the ability of its algorithms to understand the natural language of…
[Chronique Alain McKenna] Add the Clock to a Microwave
Autumn has barely begun when electronics manufacturers are already preparing their holiday catalogs… Apple, Google, Microsoft… Computer giants are adding a clock to the microwave oven this year, can we…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] Why unplug 5G?
This is not a conspiracy. Disconnect 5G? is the title of a work published today by a collective of French researchers grouped around Jean-Michel Hupé, himself associated with the French…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] It’s time for Apple to save Android
Steve Jobs was a fierce capitalist. Yet he understood the importance of industry standards. For him, it seemed to go without saying: messaging on the iPhone should eventually become an…