sidewalks

Last week, Amazon opened its Sidewalk protocol to third-party developers. Sidewalk is a large mesh network that draws on people’s home internet connections across the US. It’s a service that requires a lot of trust, and so far, most of the…

At least two dog owners in Metro Vancouver are warning others to beware after their pets received electrical shocks while walking on paved sidewalks.The first incident happened last Friday evening when Teresa Bouchard was walking her dog…

When customers in downtown Vancouver placed orders with Pizza Hut in September, many of the pies landed on their doorsteps without a courier in sight. Instead, diners were met by Angie, Hugo or Raja– autonomous robots resembling a…

Almost as soon as technologists invented robots to haul groceries or burritos to people’s doors, the arguments over sidewalks started.Officials in San Francisco, which is a testing lab for many new technologies, worried that interactions…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Kirkland, Wash. could be among a small selection of cities in the United States where Amazon's small…