Google Wants to Predict Your Medical Outcome at the Hospital

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already making an enormous impact in the global healthcare community. But Google has more ambitious goals in store for the future of MedTech development — it wants to accurately predict your health outcome at the time of your admittance to a hospital. Connecting the Dots On January 24th, 34 Google AI researchers […]

AI Is Now Deciding Bail for Suspected Criminals

In our previous news segments, we’ve discussed how artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting healthcare, education, and finance. Now, we can add the law to that list. AI-powered algorithms are helping judges in courtrooms across the country make bail decisions. A Need for Reform Cash bail, a policy that has been part of the U.S. courts […]

Is Our Brain the Secret to Better AI?

The human brain is the crowning achievement of humanity’s evolution. Literally. Without our brains, modern society and all of its bells and whistles would never exist. You wouldn’t be reading Dogtown Media’s news on your phone or your computer. And I wouldn’t be writing articles about researchers taking a page out of biology’s book to improve AI. Yet, that’s exactly where we find ourselves right now. […]

Google Is Making AI Available for Everyone

Artificial intelligence (AI) is experiencing a renaissance; it’s no longer a hot buzzword — it’s getting integrated into our favorite apps, powering our productivity tools, and leading the vision of the future for tech giants like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon. In 2017, after its rebranding as an “AI-first” company, Google followed up with an announcement […]

A Glimpse Into China’s New Tech Empire

China’s reaching for the stars; the country is hedging its bets on artificial intelligence (AI), automation, big data, and cloud computing to turn Beijing into a smart city of the future. This wasn’t by coincidence, though. China has been working on improving its standing in the tech scene by attracting top talent to its growing […]

Is AI Really So Sure of Itself?

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t refined enough yet to become a seamless part of our society. The human brain is incredibly complex — couple it with emotions, hormones, and external influences, and you’ve got a very difficult task to create a human-like AI. Researchers at Google and Uber are working on adding a signature, essential human […]

What Is the State of AI in 2018?

It feels like artificial intelligence (AI) was everywhere in 2017. How many times did you see headlines composed of buzzwords like ‘machine learning’ or ‘neural network’ this past year? But as oversaturated as some of these AI terms have become in mainstream media, 2017 actually served as more of a precursor to 2018. The momentum […]

China Goes All-In On AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t working to optimize every part of our daily lives… yet. When AI applications do reach your home and car, it’ll be in droves. You’ll have more options than you could ever look through, just like the current state of mobile apps. As a result of the impending cash influx from AI, […]

AI Can Now Diagnose Heart Disease and Lung Cancer

Artificial intelligence (AI) has already made a multitude of contributions to MedTech in its short lifespan so far. Recently, Dogtown Media News explored how AI development is helping doctors with diagnoses as well as detecting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Now, AI is becoming capable of diagnosing heart disease and lung cancer from scans. And it may start […]

What’s Next for Mobile Apps in 2018?

With 2017 wrapping up, it’s hard to recollect all of the changes and disruptions that have occurred in mobile app development over the entire year. However, the fast-approaching future doesn’t allow any time to dwell on the past — 2018 will be a prime time of transformation for the app economy and developing technologies. The new […]