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GamesBeat Summit Digital speakers: Stanley Pierre-Louis, Keisha Howard, Blake Harris, and Josh Tsui Blockchain

GamesBeat Summit Digital speakers: Stanley Pierre-Louis, Keisha Howard, Blake Harris, and Josh Tsui

We’re taking GamesBeat Summit 2020 into a digital online-only format. And here’s the next slate of speakers: Stanley Pierre-Louis, president and CEO of the Entertainment Software Association; Keisha Howard, founder of Sugar Gamers; Blake Harris, author of Console Wars and The History of the Future; and Josh Tsui, director of…
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April 7, 2020
Coronavirus: Can Canada fiscally handle ‘black swan’ events? Black Swan

Coronavirus: Can Canada fiscally handle ‘black swan’ events?

The federal and provincial governments have announced massive emergency spending measures to ease the financial hardships many Canadians are facing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Quick and significant spending is required. However, both levels of government will have to borrow heavily to pay for this financial support. Numbers from the…
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April 7, 2020
How an 18th Century Explorer Can Help Us Understand the Algorithms Taking Over Our World Alexander von Humboldt

How an 18th Century Explorer Can Help Us Understand the Algorithms Taking Over Our World

We are in the midst of a Cambrian explosion of algorithms. Roughly 540 million years ago, the fossil record tells us that the planet experienced a dramatic diversification of animal life, producing the ancestors of most of the complex organisms that we’re familiar with today. The acceleration of innovation in…
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April 7, 2020