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Wearable ‘Ai Pin’ launched by Humane, backed by ex-Apple execs and Microsoft
FILE PHOTO: Artificial Intelligence words are seen in this illustration taken March 31, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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Silicon Valley investors want ‘corporate cities,’ but they should learn from history
Gus Carlson
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The pandemic-led decline in office dress codes is good for diversity and inclusion
Karl Oczkowski
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Silicon Valley VCs rush into defence technology start-ups
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Silicon Valley start-ups race for debt deals in funding crunch
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Smartphone with displayed Instacart logo is seen in this illustration taken March 25, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo/File Photo
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Has working from home killed the office dress code for good?
A midsection of unrecognizable teenage girl with a dog sitting on a sofa indoors, working on a laptop.
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Wealthsimple offers group retirement savings plan clients access to cryptocurrency portfolio
A Wealthsimple Trade app icon is shown on a smartphone on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jesse Johnston
technology
Rent-a-robot: Silicon Valley’s new answer to the labour shortage in smaller U.S. factories
A Rapid Robotics robot moves products inside a Westec Plastics Corp warehouse in Livermore, California, U.S. on August 19, 2021. Picture taken August 19, 2021. REUTERS/Nathan Frandino
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Is Canada in line to be the next Silicon Valley?
Chris Albinson
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Stepping on the gas: Canadian online car selling platform Clutch secures $60-million to build national platform
Dan Park (left), CEO of Clutch, a Canadian startup that is an online marketplace for buying cars, is photographed with Stephen Seibel, COO and Founder, with their delivery flat-bed truck, in Toronto, on Fri., March, 19, 2021. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
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After year of reset expectations, D-Wave secures $40-million from Ottawa for quantum computing
The quantum computers that can be bought today are made by D-Wave Systems Inc., a 16-year-old Canadian company that has raised $174-million from backers, including Goldman Sachs.
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Digital carbon-offset platform Patch attracts support from venture capitalists
Birdwatchers wear jackets at the Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, in Alameda, Calif. San Francisco skyline is seen in background. Snow is falling on cacti in southern Arizona, while Anchorage is seeing balmy weather - at least by Alaska standards. The weather appears to be flipped throughout much of the West. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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Ottawa’s Mistral raising nearly $50-million fund to capitalize on post-COVID opportunities
Ottawa's skyline is seen along the Ottawa River July 21, 2015 in Ottawa. DAVE CHAN FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL
technology
More than 200 Google employees unionize, marking a landmark moment for labour in Silicon Valley
FILE -- Google's main campus in Mountain View, Calif., Sept. 12, 2017. Google on Nov. 25, 2019, fired four employees who had been active in labor organizing at the company, according to a memo that was seen by The New York Times. (Christie Hemm Klok/The New York Times)
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Element AI hands out pink slips hours after announcement of sale to U.S.-based ServiceNow
A hallway and conference room at the company offices of Element AI in Montreal on Dec. 19, 2018.
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VC industry warns of ‘severely weakened’ innovation sector if Ottawa doesn’t back tech startups
Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association new CEO, Kim Furlong. handout photo
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Power unit Wealthsimple raises $114-million from venture capital giants, valuation tops $1-billion
Power unit Wealthsimple raises $114-million from venture capital giants
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D-Wave Systems unveils new hardware, business model in race to commercialize quantum computing
On Tuesday, D-Wave rolled out the latest edition of its hardware, a quantum computer chip that the company says it has re-engineered from the ground up.