CTP Ep. 123 – Jul 11, 2017: Crouching Cat, Falling Squirrel

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Thanks to Techdoz.ca for the loan of the Snowball Blue Mic

Hosts & Guests

• Stuart Clark
• Derek Silva

Quick Hits

• Google’s next DeepMind AI research lab opens in Canada
  • https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/05/google-opens-deepmind-lab-in-canada/
• Apple is making Samsung rich
  • http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-is-making-samsung-rich-2017-7
• Fitness-tracking company Jawbone, once worth $3 billion, is shutting down and liquidating its assets
  • http://www.businessinsider.com/jawbone-shutting-down-liquidating-assets-2017-7
• Game developers: London companies score $800,000 boost from Ontario fund
  • http://www.lfpress.com/2017/07/10/game-developers-london-companies-score-800000-boost-from-ontario-fund
• Historic art gets ‘remixed’ with Art Gallery Ontario’s new ReBlink AR exhibit
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/07/historic-art-gets-remixed-art-gallery-ontarios-reblink-ar-exhibit/
• Flinks Raises $500,000 to Fuel Mission of Powering Canada’s FinTechs
  • http://betakit.com/flinks-raises-500000-to-fuel-mission-of-powering-canadas-fintechs/

Topics

• Rogers increases data overage rate by $20 per gigabyte
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/05/rogers-increases-data-overage-20-per-gig/
• Here are the mobile data overage fees for every Canadian carrier
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/07/canadian-carrier-overage-fees/
• Google is funding the creation of software that writes local news stories
  • https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/08/google-is-funding-the-creation-of-software-that-writes-local-news-stories/
• Would you get healthy for financial rewards? Ontario’s betting $1.5M that you will
  • http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/carrot-rewards-health-app-ontario-1.4197310
• Twitter introduces new notification filters to allow users to mute trolls
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/10/twitter-introduces-new-notification-filters/

Stuff We Like

• Stuart – Zip, Zero, Zilch, Nada!
• Derek – Lumen5

What are you up to lately?

• Stuart – On call and Quarter end done (finally), looking forward to vacation next week.
• Derek – Still coaching, put up a pool on the weekend, put together a content marketing video for CleverHost that will get uploaded soon, taking off for a few days up to North Bay, doing some freelance SysAdmin work for a private school.

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Music Credit:

“District Four” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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