Today, the Canadian government announced a $5 million investment in theAutomotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association(APMA) to support Project Arrow, the automotive industry’s first Canadian-made, zero-emission concept vehicle. Project Arrow is the collective effort of industry partners and University students working together to design, engineer, and build a connected andautonomouszero-emissions vehicle concept car. A digital twin is an immersive and activevirtual reality environmentthat is used to test and validate connected and autonomous technologies before they are integrated into the physical car....

DeskAwayis an online project collaboration Web app by Indian entrepreneurial couple Sahil and Sitanshi Parikh. It’s a lightweight application that allows small and large teams to work together on projects, with built-in features like time tracking, delegation, file-sharing and to-do list management. It recently gained a new feature that combines internal project management with social networking on sites like Facebook and Twitter.Announced on the official blogon Tuesday, the new feature allows project owners or task assignees to share tasks with their social circle using a short URL that can be generated on request....

‘Free Kareem!’ was the title of a website that kept one of Egypt’s prominent bloggers alive in everyone’s memory for the 1470 days (4 years) he spent in an Egyptian jail cell. Being released November 16th 2010, Kareem is now missing again, possibly in a Cairo jail cell. Kareem Amer, notoriously known for his anti-Islamic rhetoric blog posts which focused on Egypt’s primary source of Islamic education Al-Azhar University, that in addition to his open criticism of the Egyptian regime’s oppressive security measures....

When Twitterannounced last weekthat it would be introducing ads into the news stream from accounts that users didn’t follow, it drew a fair amount of criticism. Essentially it means the ad system now more closely reflects Facebook’s, only with its ads being more intrusive into the user experience. For this reason there is inevitably more backlash against any ad announcement Twitter makes, as we see it impinging on the way in which we use the site and interrupting the organic news that we want to see....

Over the past year or so we’ve regularly looked at the way news publishers on the Web are starting to charge their readers. While we’ve usually looked at paywalls pretty negatively, some news out of the US shows that they can work – if they’re set up the right way. The New York Times, itself planning to start charging for access soon, reports on findings fromJournalism Online, a service that helps newspapers charge their users....