/channels/taxonomy/term/5851/all en /channels/channels/news/expert-canada-reaches-online-news-deal-google-353186 <p><!-- x-tinymce/html -->The Canadian government has reached a deal with Google over the Online News Act that will see the tech giant pay $100 million annually to publishers, and continue to allow access to Canadian news content on its platform. Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge announced the "historic development" regarding the implementation of Bill C-18 on Wednesday, after the tech giant had threatened to block news on its platform when the contentious new rules come into effect next month.</p> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:54:34 +0000 webfull 195278 at /channels /channels/channels/news/experts-apple-users-can-say-no-being-tracked-new-software-update-330714 <p>Apple rolled out a software update for its mobile devices that gives users the option of stopping apps from tracking their location and sharing other identifying information with third parties. Services such as Facebook and others currently have the ability to track users on mobile devices in order to learn more about them to target advertisements and other location-based services to them. In some instances, the tracking is in place even if the user is not actively using the app in question.</p> Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:10:15 +0000 webfull 170250 at /channels /channels/channels/news/expert-google-duplex-ai-287133 <p>Google’s AI fest offers an ominous glimpse of the robot future: Machines fooling humans into thinking they are people raise obvious ethical concerns (source: <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/99635a6e-540b-11e8-b3ee-41e0209208ec">Financial Times</a>)</p> Thu, 10 May 2018 17:35:59 +0000 webfull 137932 at /channels /channels/channels/event/engineers-action-speaker-series-part-techweek-designing-collaborative-sensemaking-google-284068 <p>Join us to learn more about designing for collaborative sensemaking! All Æ»¹ûÒùÔº students and staff from all Faculties are welcome!</p> Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:01:32 +0000 webfull 134315 at /channels /channels/news/experts-googles-ai-wins-game-over-go-champion-259562 <p><img src="//www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/files/newsroom/go_720x220.jpg" /></p> Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:47:12 +0000 webfull 117237 at /channels /channels/news/google-facebook-amazon-microsoft-and-ibm-join-forces-set-guidelines-future-artificial-intelligence-r-263202 <p>The end of September saw the formation of a new team of rivals: the Partnership on AI, whose motto is "to benefit people and society". The partnership includes tech giants Amazon, Google and its subsidiary Deepmind, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft.</p> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:38:19 +0000 webfull 121764 at /channels