Is FinTech the Future of Ride-hailing?
As FinTech develops, online- and cloud-based firms are some of the first companies that integrate the newest technology into payment processors and payroll. Uber’s recent merger with Southeast Asian ride-hailing company Grab brought about some updates to Grab’s interface and operations. This type of innovation is rarely seen in companies who have been recently taken over. […]
Google Fined $5 Billion by the EU over Android Antitrust Violations
The European Commission (EC) recently fined Google a record amount: $5 billion. That record beat the last record high also previously set by Google at a price of $2.8 billion. The EU slammed down the fine because it says the San Francisco-based developer abused Android’s market share in three ways: (1) The company bundles the […]
Has China Taken It Too Far With Surveillance Tech?
Facial recognition has come a long way in the past few years. But there’s still progress to be made in terms of eliminating biases and other flaws. Regardless of this fact, China is already employing the technology to track its own citizens. This police-state type of surveillance has managed to cook up quite a bit […]
Dogtown Media Supports FCC’s Connected Care Pilot Program
MedTech and mHealth development have demonstrated their merit through many avenues already. But to expand these innovations from the tech hubs, like San Francisco, where they’re created, to the rural U.S. heartland, where they’re needed, the most requires an effort from all. Together with ACT | The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CHI), Dogtown Media is […]
mHealth Games Are Helping Post-ICU Patients Recover Cognitive Skills
Some of the coolest mHealth developments aren’t coming out of San Francisco or New York; for example, one’s being produced in Nashville, Tennessee. Researchers at Vanderbilt University built a mobile health platform for patients being released from the intensive care unit (ICU). This platform helps patients “exercise” their mind within the comfort and privacy of their own […]
‘Human Third Parties’ May Be Reading Your Gmail Messages
Well, it didn’t take long after Facebook’s data scandal for Google to get some data privacy flack. This privacy issue affects 1.4 billion users, many who use Gmail for daily email activities. Similar to the Facebook scandal, this involves the permissions that the product’s company gave to third-party app developers. The Power in Permissions Google says […]
AI Is Already Having a Huge Impact on Jobs in the U.S. Heartland
Across the United States, disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are already having profound effects on the economies of towns and cities. Nowhere is this more evident than in the U.S. heartland. Once stimulated by older industries, many of these communities are now turning their attention and hope of reinvigorating their economies with disruptive tech. […]
Docker Removes Malicious Containers from its Hub
If you’re a web, operating system, or mobile developer, you’re probably familiar with Docker already. If you’re a tech enthusiast, there’s a chance you’ve heard of this wildly popular platform used to deploy software to a sandbox for testing in a real-world environment. If you’re one of the many people who has never heard of […]
Google Is Training AI to Predict Patient Time of Death
Nobody knows when they’ll die. But artificial intelligence (AI) may. At least, that’s the idea behind the latest MedTech development from the ‘Medical Brain’ team at Google. Deep Learning & Death Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning which centers around learning data representations instead of just task-specific algorithms. In a new paper published […]
The Latest of Tesla’s Troubles: A Rogue Agent
Tesla and one of its most famous co-founders, Elon Musk, are in the news at least once a day (or hour). Whether it’s reports of factory conditions or a revelation of its failure to ramp up manufacturing of more Model 3s, Tesla isn’t looking like a saint right now. But the company, headquartered in San […]