3 Ways IoT Can Enhance and Expedite Your Retail Business
If there’s one thing we know the Internet of Things (IoT) can accomplish, it’s automation, expedition, and optimization. For businesses that have begun utilizing IoT applications in the past few years, many have seen a strong return on investment, improved business operations for employees, and more data about real-time business processes. Although we haven’t seen […]
How Researchers Are Preparing for the AI-Fueled Deepfake Deluge
Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting better — after all, it continuously trains itself to meet and exceed expectations — but could it be getting too good? AI applications are being used to detect and warn officials and journalists about AI-generated videos called “deepfake”. These videos show a prominent political leader or celebrity saying and doing things […]
A Look at Amazon’s Many Ventures Into Medicine — Part 2
With Amazon’s recent announcement of opening the doors to a digital pharmacy with lower costs for prescriptions, there’s a feeling of anticipation and mystery around what the company will do next in the medical and healthcare industries. Amazon has made its interest in healthcare and pharmacy well-known with the acquisition of PillPack and the roll-out […]
A Look at Amazon’s Many Ventures Into Medicine — Part 1
Amazon is an international tech juggernaut with large investments in many industries like cloud computing, logistics, and, of course, e-commerce. The Seattle-headquartered company is responsible for one-fifth of America’s gross domestic product, and its medical products line is expanding quickly, too. Is Amazon on the cusp of transforming the American healthcare system and how patients […]
What COVID-19 Can Teach Us About Healthcare Digitization
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated innovation and progress in many industries, but one of the industries that have historically been lagging behind in digitization is healthcare. Unfortunately, the pandemic hit healthcare hardest, as hospitals and medical staff struggle to keep up with the increasing spread of the virus. It’s imperative that we digitize as much […]
Machine Learning Can’t Fix Algorithmic Bias — but Humans Can
Original article featured in Quartz at Work. The fact that tech has a long way to go when it comes to its lack of diversity shouldn’t be news to anyone at this point. The technology sector is the third biggest contributor to the US economy. And the people behind it—from founders to hiring managers to […]
IoT in Manufacturing: What’s Fact, and What’s Fiction?
We often hear about how the Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing enormous industries like manufacturing. After years of optimization and the addition of many more sensors and devices, this digital transformation has cemented its place in these industries. Executives can easily keep an eye on all operational processes, and employees are freed up to […]
Mobile Location Data: An Indispensable Tool in Our Fight Against COVID-19?
It’s rare for Apple and Google to team up on a project, but the two companies recently announced a new plan to use signals from their combined 3 billion smartphones to track the COVID-19 pandemic. The technology would make a record in the system when two people come in close contact (without including their identity […]
The Current State of IoT Security: How We Got Here and What’s at Risk
What’s in store for the future of the Internet of Things (IoT)? Once reserved for industrial applications and smart security systems, IoT development has become ubiquitous today. For example, you can now walk into numerous retail outlets and purchase a toaster with Wi-Fi connection capability. But as IoT expands to include almost every type of […]
A New AI Milestone: Passing an 8th Grade Science Exam
In 2015, 700 artificial intelligence (AI) developers competed to win $80,000 in prize money. Their objective? To build an AI system capable of passing an eighth-grade science exam. Unfortunately, all submitted systems failed to accomplish this, with the best contender answering only 60% of questions on the test correctly. At the time, AI was no […]