A new iOS app called Sniff is taking a different approach to social networking by connecting dog owners within the same neighbourhood. Rather than encouraging users to build broad online communities, the app focuses on creating hyper-local communities through geofencing and address verification, limiting users to people who live nearby. The idea is simple: the dogs you discover on the app are likely the same ones you pass on your daily walks, making it easier to turn familiar

The fully autonomous ridesharing service, Waymo, is looking to add a new ridesharing option for Torontonians with self-driving vehicles. Waymo is a driverless taxi service where users can hail an autonomous vehicle via mobile phone, without a human driver in the front seat. In Toronto, the company expressed its plans to operate and apply for the Automated Vehicle Pilot Program to conduct vehicle testing. The California-based tech company has trademarked the term “The World’s

Four years after Canada shut Huawei out of its 5G networks, one of its former subsidiaries is hoping for a second chance in the Canadian market. Honor Device Co., a Chinese consumer electronics company and former Huawei subsidiary, is planning talks with federal officials in Ottawa as it explores bringing its electronic devices to Canadian consumers. Founded by Huawei in 2013, Honor was sold in 2020 after U.S. sanctions targeted its parent company. Today, the company is major

Quantum computers have long been promised to reshape the leading edge of computing technology, facilitating machines capable of completing operations unthinkably time-intensive for classical computers. Leading quantum computing companies including Toronto-based Xanadu Quantum are making this promise a reality, building and bringing quantum computing to the commercial mainstream. As described by quantum mechanics, at very small scales, particles exhibit special behaviours incl