How Luxury Watchmakers Are Embracing Sustainable Design
Luxury watchmakers are mining the ocean and beyond to power timepieces that merge timeless craftsmanship with sustainable innovation. Blending precision with purpose, these watches prove that conscious design can still keep impeccable time. 1. Ulysse Nardin Diver NET Vendée Globe, price upon reques
How AI Demand Is Fueling a Massive Data-Centre Boom
The day after he was sworn in as the 47th president, Donald Trump turned up in the Roosevelt Room in the White House, accompanied by three of the most consequential figures in the booming artificial intelligence industry: OpenAI founder Sam Altman, Oracle founder Larry Ellison and SoftBank’s found
Style Meets Surveillance as Agentic AI Redefines Wearables
While the fashion world is busy trying to figure out how technology can augment its existing offering—from AI-generated ad campaigns to the mechanical “beating heart” dress on the Schiaparelli fall couture runway—Silicon Valley has created a new multibillion-dollar product category: agentic
In a Connected World, Cybersecurity Is a Strategic Investment
As relations between Russia and Ukraine continued to fray in 2022, Lester Chng was thinking about how that conflict could pose cybersecurity risks for the major Canadian bank he worked for. He and his colleagues assessed potential risks and used what they learned to run an exercise with company lead
5 Sustainable Materials Greening the Glamour of Design
The textile industry is responsible for incredible beauty: eye-catching patterns, luxe fabrics, even the cozy cotton of your favourite hoodie. But creating these materials can have severe environmental impacts. Innovative scientists and start-ups are working to repair that damage by seeking alternat
The New Power Brokers
In May 2015, oil and gas giant ExxonMobil struck gold off the coast of Guyana: deepwater drillships had found offshore oil. It was a discovery that would immediately catapult the tiny nation onto the world’s energy stage and fundamentally reshape the trajectory of the country’s future. Dubbed th
Meet The Canadian Founder Changing The Future of Computing
Some of the world’s largest and most powerful technology companies —and some of the world’s largest and most powerful nations—are struggling to keep pace with a Toronto-based quantum computing start-up of fewer than 240 staff. Founded in 2016 by Australian-born entrepreneur Christian Weedbro
Why Artisanal Cheese Is The Latest Industry To Innovate
Whether they’re in Italy, France or the Middle East, the world’s many cheese-makers have a reputation for being traditionalists. Preferred dairy sources, handcrafting techniques and aging processes have held strong through generations—but even this history-bound industry is changing. In fact,
Looking For Love? Culture-Specific Dating Apps Can Help
To those who are well-versed in the world of online dating, finding the ideal match requires a fine-grained understanding of how technology, intimacy and intention commingle. It’s a complex world full of contradictions. The mental taxation of scrolling through an endless stream of dating apps come
The Newest Way To Watch Sports Is Here— & It’s Luxe
When the SkyDome opened in downtown Toronto in 1989, it was the first sports stadium with a fully retractable roof—a technological marvel, making the space an immediate tourist attraction. Fans both locally and travelling into the city wanted to watch a live event at the SkyDome, whether it was a
