Sean Silcoff
@SeanSilcoff
Storyteller. Newshound. Co-wrote Losing the Signal, about BlackBerry. I cover Canadian tech/biotech/innovation for Globe & Mail. Verified.
Today is my 10th anniversary at the Globe & Mail (excluding a summer stint in 1996). It’s been a fun ride so far. Here are 10* stories I’ve written/cowritten in the past decade: 1. How BlackBerry blew it: The inside story/via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/report-on-busi… (*OK, 11)
The city of Ottawa risks being hollowed out by the federal government theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
Cloudflare CEO @eastdakota is having the most honest conversations I've come across about the current & future of content creation "6 months ago, 75% of queries to Google get answered on Google. Which means if you're an original content creator, your content is getting…
If you’re in media, this is worth a watch. Cloudflare handles ≈20% of global traffic, so when CEO Matthew Prince warns at Cannes that AI bots are reshaping the web, publishers need to adapt or risk being left behind.
🔋 Goodbye cables, hello lasers! DARPA just wirelessly beamed 800 watts of power over 8.6 km, setting a new distance record. Using infrared lasers and solar cells, they even popped popcorn during the test 🍿 Next goal? 10 kW over 200 km by 2027 — possibly drone-to-drone energy…
Hi, yes, g'morning. This is awkward. But targeting a reporter - hi! - with surreptitiously obtained photos and details of her tooling around town is an attack on the public's right to know. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
Deep Sky executive resigns as carbon-removal startup begins operations /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/business/techn…
Update on Attabotics filing: It's official. richter.ca/wp-content/upl… Robotics startup Attabotics files for bankruptcy protection /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…
Last-mile e-commerce delivery giant UniUni raises US$70-million theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…
Sonder co-founder Francis Davidson departs after seeing through Marriott deal betakit.com/sonder-co-foun… via @BetaKit
