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Wired Wednesday: Indoor Airport Maps, Boxed and Seeing AI

ByJohn

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I spoke about these tech topics for Wired Wednesday with Ben Wilson:

  • Apple Maps now include indoor maps of some Canadian Airports (source)
  • Boxed: Augmented reality helps you visiualize that case of toilet paper in your small apartment (source)
  • Seeing AI app gets big update to help visually impaired see the world with artificial intelligence (source)

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