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It’s Official - We’re Expanding
Our occasional collaborator and co-host Dr. Nadine Robinson is now formally working with the Smartypants team to help communicators and adminstrative staff make safe and...
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The Battle of the Bots…And Best Tools for Transcripts
All of the major tech players are releasing every more powerful A.I. tools. While many freelancers just want a reliable way to create transcripts from recordings.
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AI in Everyday Life - Part 1 of 5
The first of five two-hour sessions about AI in Everyday Life. Discussions, demostrations, relevant videos and video clips, documents and some very recent news about the world...
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An Overview of AI in Everyday Life for SCANS (Senior Collage Association of Nova Scotia)
AI seems like it just arrived, when in fact it's pretty much everywhere. This hour-long overview was a pre-amble to a 10-hour course that went far and wide to find real-world...
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An A.I. Presentation for a local Rotary Club
The Halifax Harbour Rotary Club asked for a 15-minute presentation about A.I. and its impact on businesses.
Continue ReadingPolitics rears its ugly head: Stephen Harper and the Chattering Masses
Canada's 22nd Prime Minister closed Parliament with a phone call at the tail end of 2009 on the same day that four Canadian soldiers and a journalist were killed in Afghanistan. Where,...
Continue ReadingWarning: The Domain Registry of Canada “Domain Slamming”
If you own or manage a domain name, chances are good that you've received a letter from a company called The Domain Registry of Canada (also known as The Domain Registry of America) -...
Continue ReadingBlame for Internet sewage comes ever closer to ICANN
If you know how the Internet works, you know that ICANN - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - has been the fox in charge of the domain name hen house almost since...
Continue ReadingCanadian Wireless Monopoly to Govmint: You Kill Globalive, And We Promise to Feed on its Carcass
Canada's licensed providers of wireless communications, after slinging everything but poisoned arrows at Globalive's effort to break open their little cabal, are now offering to scoop...
Continue ReadingIs it time to block Hotmail?
It's one thing sitting in your skivvies wading through your inbox to find the 15 per cent of valid messages among the 85 per cent of email today that's just plain trash.
It's...
Continue ReadingNational Geographic Society in the Spam business?
Among the top 10 spam-sending networks today - the National Geographic Society.
That's according to statistics collected and reported by the IronPort Security Network in their Top...
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