[NEWS] Four science and technology links: Quayside, Wattpad, disasters, transhumanism

[rfmcdonald]

• We've got more data on the impending Google investments in the emergent Toronto neighbourhood of Quayside. The Toronto Star reports.


• Tencent has just invested $C 40 million in Toronto online fiction startup Wattpad. The Globe and Mail reports.


• Canadian cities are starting to integrate nature into their defense planning against natural disasters. The Globe and Mail reports.


• Tim Adams visits a transhumanist fair in Texas and considers what the future bodes for the modification of humanity. HIs article is in the Observer.