By Brytan Mendes It is fashionable at this time of year to leave Montreal for someplace warm – usually in the form of some Mexican or Caribbean locale – to hide from the snow. Yet Montreal has become arguably the hottest city on earth. For decades, such topics as deep learning and machine learning…
What is Google doing with Hardware?
On January 13th, Google shocked the tech world by announcing that it would be purchasing Nest Labs for a staggering $ 3.2 billion. This makes Nest Google’s second most expensive company purchase to date, after the acquisition of Motorola Mobility in 2011 ($ 12.5 billion). Nest Labs is the company behind the Nest Learning Thermostat,…