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Police to introduce student-developed cannabis screening device by Guard-Ex

The device, created by the team at Guard-Ex and developed through the Schlegel Centre’s LaunchPad Incubator, is being touted as a much-needed tool for public safety since Canada legalized cannabis.

Amazon-Backed Smart Glasses For $1,000: First Look

Tour Google KW's New Headquarters

University of Waterloo’s Velocity launches investment fund to support tech startups

Since it was founded in 2011, Velocity has held three pitch competitions annually, awarding prizes of $25,000 each to the top four startups in the competition.

University of Waterloo researchers develop sensor to save children, pets left in vehicles.

Small, inexpensive device uses radar technology and artificial intelligence.

Waterloo students create a system to help visually impaired using touch screens

WatVision is a three part process: smartphone app, industry standard detection markers placed on each corner of a touchscreen and a ring worn on the users’ finger

These are the best cities in Canada to launch a tech startup

Ontarian tri-cities Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo beat out the competition for first place.

Waterloo professor wins Nobel Prize in Physics

Donna Strickland wins Nobel Prize for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics. She is the first woman to win the physics prize since 1963

This Entrepreneur Went From Selling Firecrackers To Landing $70 Million For His Canadian Startup

Even before starting his mini-paper route empire, Michael Litt was importing firecrackers from south of the border to distribute to his third grade classmates