Let’s Shine a Light on Shadow IoT Devices in Corporate Networks
As the Internet of Things (IoT) applications grow in each industry to encompass a variety of applications and business types, we are seeing the cybersecurity implications of this expansion become more amplified and apparent. More and more employees are purchasing and connecting new IoT devices every year, and you might be surprised to learn that […]
AI & Alcohol: How Machine Learning Helped Make Hops-Free Beer
The worlds of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology are becoming increasingly intertwined. We’ve seen some pretty remarkable things grow out of synthetic biology: lab-grown meat, recyclable biofuel, and super-powered yeast cells that create life-saving drugs like insulin. A subfield of biology, synthetic biology, often gets down and dirty with genomics and gene editing to develop […]
Benefits and Challenges of Big Data in Healthcare
New advancements in data science, machine learning, and big data may be just what the doctor ordered for the healthcare industry. According to Global Market Insights, the market share of healthcare analytics is predicted to grow by 12.6% by 2025. Increased access to medical databases has opened up more possibilities for predictive analytics, focusing on […]
Can We Stop AI-Generated Deepfakes from Rewriting History? — Part 2
Welcome to the second and final chapter in our series that examines one of the bleakest possibilities for the future of artificial intelligence (AI) development: Could deepfakes rewrite human history? For our first post, we explored how synthetic media could cause us to spiral into a digital dark age if left unchecked. Potential events included […]
Can We Stop AI-Generated Deepfakes from Rewriting History? — Part 1
Since deepfakes became viable a few years ago, these digital alterations have caused concern for the potential catastrophic damage they could wreak on society. Using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, deepfake creators are able to craft increasingly convincing counterfeits of video, images, and audio. Soon, this synthetic media could start sowing doubt about the authenticity of […]
AI: The Answer to Road Rage?
When we think of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cars, most of us jump straight to self-driving cars that take away the most difficult parts of driving: the anxiety, the constant attention required, and avoiding a collision. But an AI application in the form of a road rage chatbot may end up having the most profound effect […]
Facebook’s Smart Home Robots: The Next Step in IoT?
Smart homes are getting more helpful with the addition of new technologies and constantly improving AI assistants. We can now use our voice to control our lights, music, car charging, door locks, and much more. We can even have a set type of APIs connected together to form a voice-enabled assistant that informs us about […]
IoT Cybersecurity: Common Hacks and Effective Countermeasures
The Internet of Things (IoT) is vast and constantly evolving. To secure such a complex system of devices, software, cloud platforms, and private customer information, businesses around the world spent $1.5 billion on IoT security in 2019 alone. This may sound like a lot, but for companies that have skipped out on securing and strengthening […]
How to Create a Functional IoT Value Proposition and Business Model
The Internet of Things (IoT) involves connecting sensors and devices to the Internet so that the data they generate can be aggregated and analyzed. This effort can inform how businesses run their operations, optimize their product lifecycles, and improve their equipment maintenance and repair schedules. Because IoT technology can be applied to any device or […]
Can Wearables Detect Early Warning Signs of COVID-19?
Wearables have quickly grown from being simple step trackers to full-on health tracking devices equipped with EKG monitoring, sleep tracking, and stress indicators. Many of us either own one of these technological marvels or know someone who does. Not only do wearables include smartwatches, but there are now smart rings, shoes, clothing, and eyeglasses. With […]