How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Make Babies
In the past year, we’ve seen healthcare and medicine blossom into more technologically-informed fields. Now, a woman-founded Israeli startup has created an artificial intelligence (AI) application that can be used to increase the chances of successful in-vitro fertilization (IVF). IVF was first used to conceive a baby in 1978 in the U.K., and it’s become […]
Can AI Predict Mental Illness?
Artificial intelligence (AI) may one day be able to detect mental illness by reading just a few of your private messages or public posts. In early December, a group of researchers used Facebook data to predict psychiatric illnesses. The data included personal messages sent up to 18 months before an official diagnosis in 223 volunteers. […]
How to Leverage Edge Computing With the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) encompasses a lot of devices, sensors, software, and cloud technology. It’s the perfect way to boost your business’s revenues and gain insight into your customers and their habits using accurate data. Companies who utilize IoT and other emerging technologies to operate their businesses differently, more competitively, and smarter than before […]
The Internet of Things Is Leading the Way to a More Sustainable Future
The Internet of Things (IoT) is all about optimizing business and internal processes in the short-term. But IoT is a great technology for longer-term goals too: machine maintenance over repair, catching small but possibly impactful anomalies, and even sustainability on planet Earth. IoT is poised to solve many of the 17 goals that the New […]
How AI Algorithms Are Taking Over Employee Management
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a major part of our daily lives. We interact with algorithms on social media, we get emails and ads depending on our purchases and browsing behavior, and we even get matched with a driver for Uber or Lyft through this smart technology. Though, whether or not algorithms are good for […]
Can Surveillance Tech Help Schools Combat COVID-19?
There has been a lot of debate on whether schools should open and whether children contribute to the spread of the coronavirus. Some schools aren’t taking any chances; they’ve decided to stay remote in spite of the fall season starting. But others are employing a novel approach to this conundrum. Fayette County Public Schools (FCPS) […]
Does Facial Recognition Mean the End of Anonymous Protest?
Ever since the Minneapolis protests began a few weeks ago, the rest of the country and the entire world have joined in to support the #BlackLivesMatter movement and protest the police brutality against George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless other victims of color. But as we know with the Hong Kong protests, police […]
COVID-19 Is Changing Our Behavior – and Messing Up Machine Learning Models
When the U.S. began locking down to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Amazon, grocery stores, and wholesale stores like Costco saw an enormous uptick in consumers wanting to buy a few select items. On Amazon, during the week of April 12th to 18th, the top ten search queries were face masks and N95 masks, […]
Take Care of Yourself: 5 Amazing Health & Wellness Apps You Can Try Right Now
Our smartphones are amazing. With the tap of a button, we can order an Uber ride, takeout food, and even toilet paper if needed! But mobile technology has taken things even further. Whether you want to stay hydrated, manage your sleep cycle, or lose weight, an assortment of health and wellness apps can help you […]
A Look at the Latest Trends in Wearable Health Tech
Wearable technology is swiftly moving beyond the mainstream. More people than ever before use a wearable device daily — adoption of this technology has more than tripled in the past four years; an Accenture report showed that American consumers using wearables jumped from 9% to 33% in 2018. Not only that, but more than 80% […]