5 AI & Data Science Predictions for 2020
2019 was a tremendous year for artificial intelligence (AI) development. Not only were 100 research papers published every single day, but the past year also became a record-breaker for AI funding. All of this begs the question: What’s in store for AI and data science in 2020? Let’s find out with five predictions! 1) AI […]
What Are Google’s AI and Machine Learning Research Priorities?
Interested in seeing what AI can do for your business? Read our Free Machine Learning Whitepaper right now! 2018 was a huge year for artificial intelligence (AI) development. Innovations in AI and its subsets like machine learning (ML) and deep learning grew by leaps and bounds. For anyone involved in tech, the impact was simply too big […]
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 […]
How Can We Prepare for the Coming Era of Automation?
How do we prepare for the upcoming age of automation? It’s a question that’s difficult to answer, and frankly, one that economists Andy Sumner and Lukas Schlogl think we haven’t spent enough time pondering. In a recently published paper from the pair, they discuss the potential effects that artificial intelligence (AI) could have on the global […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
Samsung and Apple Put an End to Their Smartphone Patent Battle
For almost a decade now, Apple and Samsung have been the two smartphone companies with the largest share of American customers. During a majority of that time (about seven years), the two companies have been embroiled in a lawsuit over smartphone design and patents. Although the two companies reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016, […]
If Apple Loses Its App Store Antitrust Case, What Happens Next?
Apple’s notorious for strict regulations; the company only allows its iPhone and iPad customers to access apps from one store (the App Store) that pre-approves apps before publishing them. But this practice is creating an anti-competitive monopoly, says a lawsuit by Apple customers against Apple. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take over the case […]
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 […]
Apple Restricts Developers from Selling User Contact Data
Apple’s trying to avoid a data abuse probe, similar to what happened with Facebook’s recent data scandal. Facebook’s data abuse scandal happened because the company was too lax in what permissions and information it allowed developers to access. Consequently, when a Facebook app developer sold the data he’d mined from a quiz he’d built, Facebook […]