Google sister company Sidewalk Labs wants to turn a piece of Toronto’s waterfront into a data driven smart city. Imagine an urban laboratory with an array of sensors and cameras designed to address ...

Toronto, Canada’s largest city, was named `Intelligent Community of the Year’ last week at the annual Intelligent Community Forum. This was the third try for the Toronto mega-region, home to 175,000 ...

Sidewalk Toronto was an ambitious, high-tech, Alphabet-backed neighborhood that never happened. Photo: Picture Plane Can you speak first to the ambition of the project? The most powerful company in ...

Two years ago, a plan to create a smart city project along Toronto’s waterfront was unveiled with great fanfare. Since then, the proposal, spearheaded by Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Alphabet ...

Google’s parent Alphabet is trying to make the case for its smart city plans on a 12-acre lot on Toronto’s waterfront. Alphabet has promised to commit $1.3 billion to the project, dubbed Quayside, if ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Alphabet's proposed "smart" city development in Toronto is facing fresh questions over the project's data-gathering technology from a panel advising the Canadian ...

The concept of a "smart city" — one that uses technology to run more efficiently — is nothing new and has been around for about two decades. The cities embrace the use of digital tools, such as ...