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 […]
How IoT Could Make Returning to Work Safer
While many San Francisco-based companies like Google, Uber, and Airbnb have pushed their return-to-work date back to July 2021, there are companies and schools reopening much earlier around the U.S. To ensure the safety and protection of the returning students, customers, employees, and distributors, we need to implement strong, proven plans. Many businesses and schools […]
Apple’s New Watch Measures Your Blood Oxygen – Here’s What You Should Know
If you’re in the market for a smartwatch, you will notice that the newest feature across Fitbit and Apple devices is the blood oxygen saturation measurement. This metric helps your doctor get a confirmation that your heart and lungs are working at full and normal capacity. The pulse oximetry measurement is a timely addition to […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional Testimony That Actually Matter
The past few weeks have been dominated by headlines about privacy scandals surrounding Facebook. These troubles culminated in founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying before Congress last week in two separate hearings. It’s easy to assume that this Washington visit would be the final push to throw the social media giant into a tumultuous tailspin. […]
A Day in the Life of an AI-Fueled Future Society
Are we really ready for our inevitable future with artificial intelligence (AI)? It’s hard to say, mostly because nobody really knows what our society will actually look like with AI integrated into its every fiber. In a recent post for Smithsonian, journalist and author Stephan Talty dives into a few unique scenarios we could encounter […]
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 […]