Ada's Sisters podcast

Ada's Sisters podcast


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Episode 66: Retention of women in tech, supporting mom students, bizarre app to pray for women seeking abortion
July 19, 2017

Last week’s #DayofAction kind of went by without much fanfare, but we’ll talk about net neutrality because it’s an important subject. As is this story in the NY Times about sexual harassment in Silicon Valley and this CBC story about...

Episode 65: Tanmay Bakshi, Google pay fail, Wonder Woman and the Nancy Podcast
June 21, 2017

We’re back to regular programming this week, and wow, some stuff happened while we were on our Bob Mob cruise! Like Google announcing that it would be too expensive to actually equalize salaries across genders, and that panel at the Hall of Femme...

Episode 64: The Bob Mob cruise in Kingston
June 07, 2017

A special episode of the Ada's Sisters Podcast recorded while Eden, Angela and special guest Connie Crosby drove back to Toronto from Kingston where they had attended the Bob Mob cruise celebrating the life of Bob Goyetche.

Episode 63: AI, google, Instagram, the value of online communities
May 24, 2017

Who knew that Instagram was such a competitive social network? Insta-star Sara Melotti in the Daily Mail it turns out. And the Globe and Mail has an interesting story about the online community and if it's even worth saving. The 11 richest...

Episode 62: A Hackathon solution, Wired’s tech visionaries, NewCO Shift, and 1000 names
May 10, 2017

The Dallas Morning News had a pile of tech issues they weren’t getting to, so they had a creative solution - they held a hackathon And WIRED released their list of 20 Tech Visionaries You Should Have Heard of by Now. We’ll tell you all about them....

Episode 61: What a surgeon looks like, GAP win, Ladies storm hackathon and a good subreddit
April 26, 2017

We’re all consumers, and one of the benefits of social media is that we get direct access to give feedback to businesses. Just this week I tweeted about battery issues to Apple, and got a solution through tweets. And the CEO of GAP just took a...

Episode 60: A mechanical reproductive system, #hackathon, AI research moving to Canada and Kaya Thomas's new app
April 12, 2017

We have to tell you about this working model of a female reproductive system, her name is Evatar. And it had its first period. We'll get the chocolate and heating blanket, and maybe we’ll get it to download this new app by Kaya Thomas that...

Episode 59: Ashley Jane Lewis, Knitting for math, We-Vibe, Instagram, Mayim Bialik
March 29, 2017

I say this way too much as I get older, but my mother was right… again… Turns out knitting and crocheting can help you be better at math. We’re pretty impressed by Ashley Jane Lewis. And we’ll tell you why. We-Vibe was sharing personal...

Episode 58: Peanut App, NASA Lego women, Google fortune-telling and comparing Feminism to Cancer
March 15, 2017

We have to tell you about PEANUT - a new app that connects lonely mothers. And we're so impressed with Lego's career women figurines for women of NASA. We're less impressed by the Wildrose on Campus email comparing feminism to cancer. This...

Episode 57: HonkMobile, Snap Sunglasses, trolls beware and trying to stay anonymous
March 01, 2017

Do you have a parking spot you don’t use? Well, it could be a new source of revenue if you use the new HONKmobile app. It’s like an Air BnB for a parking spot — you can rent yours out, or find one to rent. And SnapChat has released new...