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The Internet Works—and It’s No Accident

September 21, 2021February 25, 2022 - by Katie Underwood

The pandemic has revealed the incredible value–and non-negotiable costs–of keeping Canadians connected. Both are expected to increase in the future.

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Arts & Culture

Life in the Stacks: A Love Letter to Browsing

June 24, 2021June 9, 2022 - by Jason Guriel

Algorithms are integral to how we find and consume art. But old-fashioned browsing still has its benefits

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Technology

Is Buying a Piece of Virtual Art Better for the Environment?

May 18, 2021October 21, 2021 - by J.B. MacKinnon

Online consumption behaves exactly like real-life shopping, devouring more and more resources every year

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September/October 2020 / Technology

The Making of an Incel

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 - by Katherine Laidlaw

How misogyny in online forums turns into real-life violence

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COVID-19 didn’t break the internet.
It brought the future to our doorstep

June 26, 2020February 25, 2022 - by Shaw Communications

Canada is in a strong position to keep pace with the insatiable demand for bandwidth

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Technology

This Is the Internet We Were Promised

April 29, 2020May 1, 2020 - by Angela Misri

The World Wide Web hasn’t felt this supportive since it was invented. Why did it take a pandemic?

Technology

The Decade in Science and Technology

December 26, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From surveillance capitalism to Russian hacking, these are the science and tech conversations that helped define Canada

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Technology

Why Twitter Wants You to Hate

October 25, 2017July 31, 2023 - by Michael Coren

How the social platform uses anger to power its popularity

Science

How We Finally Taught Machines to Think

March 30, 2017July 17, 2019 - by Jonathan Kay

Today’s launch of the Vector Institute caps a stunning run for Canadian researchers in the field of AI

July/August 2016 / Technology

The Burden of Digital Existence

June 20, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

How Sartre and Beauvoir inspired me to turn off my smartphone

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Life in the Stacks: A Love Letter to Browsing

Is Buying a Piece of Virtual Art Better for the Environment?

The Making of an Incel

COVID-19 didn’t break the internet.
It brought the future to our doorstep

This Is the Internet We Were Promised

The Decade in Science and Technology

How We Finally Taught Machines to Think

The Burden of Digital Existence

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