Technology

Resilient Vancouver game creator builds virtual company culture

Phoenix Labs uses games, exercise to maintain creativity, collaboration during pandemic

Apr 16, 2020 11:03 AM Read more >

How B.C. tech is ensuring health-care workers don’t spread COVID-19 across multiple sites

What happened: Appnovation has been commissioned to help employers ensure health-care workers aren’t at multiple long-term care facilities Why it matters: The move helps prevent the spread of COVID-19 to some of the province’s most vulnerable populat

Apr 14, 2020 10:48 AM Read more >

Pandemic prompts telehealth acceleration for B.C. firms

If a pandemic was ever going to happen, Sonia Brodie takes at least some solace in the timing.

Apr 10, 2020 4:30 PM Read more >

Regulator fast-tracks 1QBit’s X-ray software to help fight COVID-19

What happened: Regulators have approved the use of radiology software developed in Vancouver Why it matters: The nod for the AI-powered tool was expedited after developers realized it could be applied to COVID-19 Perhaps mirroring the speed at which

Apr 10, 2020 12:36 PM Read more >

UPDATED: COVID-19 drugs trials start Thursday

Don’t expect a vaccine for up to 18 months: UBC researcher

Apr 8, 2020 12:08 PM Read more >

Telus CEO donates quarterly salary to COVID-19 relief efforts

The CEO of Telus Corp. (TSX:T) is donating his second-quarter salary to efforts helping frontline health-care workers amid the COVID-19 crisis.

Apr 8, 2020 8:15 AM Read more >

94% of tech CEOs say companies don’t qualify for wage subsidy: survey

What happened: Tech industry group urges federal government to rethink eligibility of wage-subsidy program Why it matters: Report shows almost all tech CEOs surveyed don’t believe their company qualifies for relief When Ottawa revised its wage-subsid

Apr 7, 2020 9:40 AM Read more >

Video games and other online diversions

n one online video you can be the audience to an Italian mayor yelling at Ping-Pong players to “go to your PlayStations” during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Apr 6, 2020 3:51 PM Read more >

PPE problem-solving puts B.C. innovators to test

Tech companies deploying projects aimed at fighting COVID-19 in as little as a week as government calls on private enterprise to help efforts

Apr 6, 2020 3:51 PM Read more >

Gaps in 75% wage subsidy worry B.C. tech sector

What happened: B.C.

Apr 6, 2020 11:52 AM Read more >