by PanamericanWorld | Jun 14, 2019
Ontario is no latecomer to the artificial intelligence age in Canada. In fact, decades ago, it was here that Geoffrey Hinton and a band of AI pioneers hunkered down in labs in Toronto and Waterloo, sustaining what has become today’s hottest discipline. Their...
by PanamericanWorld | Jun 6, 2019
Canada is emerging as a global leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI), with some of the world’s top minds and inventors of AI technology, and Waterloo is one of Canada’s main AI development hubs. Already there are more than 90 companies in Waterloo’s AI...
by PanamericanWorld | May 31, 2019
The high costs of access, high interest rates, lack of products and services that provide value to users, and the confusing user experience are among the main factors which make the financial industry one of the least appreciated by users—especially in regions...
by PanamericanWorld | May 29, 2019
Did you know that 88% of schools in Latin America do not have a science laboratory? Under such conditions, how can teachers hope to go beyond the textbook and demonstrate the laws of thermodynamics or the states of matter – let alone inspire a new generation...
by PanamericanWorld | May 17, 2019
SoftBank Group Corp.’s $1 billion bet on Rappi has made the delivery app one of the most valuable tech startups in Latin America, according to people with knowledge of the deal. Rappi, the Colombia-based company, is worth around $3.5 billion after the...
by Corina Briceño | May 13, 2019
At times, Felipe Echandi looks back at everything that has happened to him and it seems surreal. He majored in law and worked as a lawyer. Now he lives in Silicon Valley, California, an entrepreneur’s dream paradise. In 2008 he came up with the idea of Cuanto, the...