How to close the gaming industry’s diversity gap
While everyone insists diversity and inclusion is important, a solution for desegregating the gaming industry remains out of reach
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This is the new ’brain belt’
Cities in the economically depressed rust belt of North America are reinventing themselves with new technology
Canada is a laggard at attracting investment. Here’s how to fix that.
Canada has all the talent and tools we need to win in the global competition for manufacturing investment, but it will not happen by accident.
Why ’sucking up’ to foreign tech companies is a good idea
Canada can boost its tech sector by attracting the Googles and Facebooks of the world, says Lars Leckie, a Canadian venture capitalist in Silicon Valley
Why Israel is so successful at building tech companies
Israel’s chief scientist explains why the country has the highest concentration of startups in the world. Are there lessons for Canada?
Why so glum, chum? One man’s crusade against pessimism.
The Pessimists Archive is a digital museum of undue doom and gloom about technology and human progress
A new website says ’Click Here’ to house Syrian refugees
A new online platform run by several Montreal tech entrepreneurs enlists Canadians to open up their homes to provide short-term housing to Syrian refugees
A nuanced look at a kinder, gentler Steve Jobs
In their new book, Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli explore how Jobs learned how to overcome his worst tendencies
The heart knows—and your phone is telling you
Go or stay? Buy or wait? You can follow your heart, but now a cure for indecision is just an app away.
Living in terror of online shaming
Jon Ronson on the uses and abuses of digital shaming, the personal wreckage, and the fear you might be the next target