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The lowdown on Deaf AI, the Toronto-based startup that's developed an innovative AI-powered solution to help people who are deaf to have better digital interactions. In a more connected world, we frequently interact with people who don’t speak the same language as us. To help bridge the gap, there are plenty of services to help translate what we’re saying so that we can hold convers...
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The lowdown on ChopValue, the Vancouver-based startup that's creating beautiful homeware and decorative products from recycled chopsticks... It may not be the world’s biggest environmental disaster, but every single week, hundreds of thousands, millions of chopsticks are thrown away. Bear with us.  These may be cheap, they may even come free with your takeaway, but that doesn’...
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Are President Trump’s ‘American First’ policies in danger of pushing American companies over the border into Canada? And if that happens, could a lot of skilled workers and essential supplies be lost in the process?At the start of the pandemic, President Trump made it clear at a press briefing that he wasn’t happy about essential medical supplies, including N95 respirators,...
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The community-driven team that's on a mission to develop an emergency-use ventilator to aid COVID-19 patients... Open Source Ventilator Ireland is a community-driven team of volunteer engineers, designers, medical professionals, and community builders working together to develop a low-cost and open-source emergency-use ventilator, producible at scale to aid the treatment of COVID19 patients....
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We recently shared word on Jobbio Higher, a fab next-generation careers event organised by (as the name of the event suggests, global careers marketplace Jobbio). Now we are delighted to announce that Jobbio have raised an additional $10m in Series A funding to accelerate growth in UK & North America with the platform currently growing at a rate of 250,000 talent users a month.&...
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