It wasn’t until I started competing that I realized there (weren’t) any women in the competition. Stephanie Harvey has been playing video games since she was a kid. The now 33-year-old even got into CounterStrike: GO to impress a boy in the hopes he’d take her to their high school... Read More
Augmenting our appearance may seem like a Black Mirror episode, but it’s coming. And when it does, what does this mean for our sense of self if we can change who we are on a person by person basis? AR author and artist Galit Ariel breaks down the issues of... Read More
Put four boys in front of an Xbox with an Internet connection and, depending on where you live, it’s likely at least one of them has been bullied over that headset while playing his favourite game. Put four girls in front of that same screen and the number almost doubles. ... Read More
Our smartphones are a tool for democracy, even as we fear the privacy invasions that come with a device we have within arms-reach 23 hours of every day. Read More
Our smartphones know more about us than our spouses, partners and friends. It’s no surprise we guard them with more than just screen protectors, considering the secrets they hold. But if we were to hand over the metadata to our devices and those of about 3 million of our neighbors,... Read More
“What lessons are there in the voice and how can it actually affect our everyday life?” That is the question being posed throughout We Speak Music, a six-episode documentary series presented by Nokia Bell Labs and starring world-class beatboxer and artist Harry Yeff, also known as Reeps One. Yeff, an... Read More
By 2021, almost all of us will use augmented reality every single day, and it won’t be from playing Pokémon Go. But Pikachu will certainly help get us there. More than half a billion people downloaded the Nintendo app within the first year of its release. That’s 1 in 12... Read More
It took us a decade to see how social media could be used against us. Almost as long to question why we’re always staring into our glowing rectangles instead of exploring the world with our own eyes. And now we’re wondering how artificial intelligence will change the way decisions big... Read More
