Google Allo gets new Assistant button

Google Allo has started to roll out a new feature to give you quicker access to Google Assistant. The app now gets a quick access button and Google plans to roll this out to all users. What this does is it makes it easier to share information within your chat windows. All you need to do is tap on the Google Assistant button and you and the people you’re chatting with can see the answers. Other new features expected to come to Allo in future updates include a new “quick selfie” feature, backup and restore, and the ability to add stickers to photos.

Source: 9to5Google

Casper's VR experience is more than just pillow talk

By Sonya Davidson

It started as a fun campaign around the weekend that we had to "spring forward" our clocks. You know, Daylight Savings Time, when it screws up our sleep patterns for a few days. For some of us, it takes a couple weeks to adjust. Casper, has been making news as the online (no retail showroom) memory-foam mattress company, had sent out a fun promotional sleep aid kit complete with a fluffy pillow and a cardboard VR viewer. 

The accompanying instructions requested to a download their Nap Simulator App. Curiousity got me and hey, anything to help catch that lost hour of sleep was welcomed. The app was downloaded onto my phone and popped into the cardboard viewer. Pillow propped my head and "why, yes, I am doing work! It's called research!"

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KEEN partners with not-for-profit Trans Canada Trail to launch The Great Trail App

We'll be exploring more of our home country this year and there's so much to see! We will take some time on the

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Two Canadian universities chosen for new Autonomous Vehicle Competition

At WCX 17: SAE World Congress Experience, SAE International and General Motors announced that the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo are finalists among eight North American universities who will compete in the upcoming autonomous vehicle design competition, AutoDrive Challenge.

This new autonomous vehicle design competition will be a three-year challenge to develop and demonstrate a full autonomous driving passenger vehicle. The competition’s technical goal is to navigate an urban driving course in an automated driving mode as described by SAE Standard (J3016) level four definition by Year 3.

The other finalists are: Kettering University, Michigan State University, Michigan Tech, North Carolina A&T University, Texas A&M University and Virginia Tech.

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