5 Healthcare Technologies That Are Helping Us Fight COVID-19 — Part 1
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost everyone on Earth, and we’ve been handling it with a multitude of high-tech and low-tech solutions. From masks and social distancing to contact tracing apps and telehealth, these precautions and technologies have helped many of us avoid catching the virus while allowing us to do necessary tasks. Recently, biotechnology […]
How to Take IoT Data from Problem Solution to Business Model
Most companies have become increasingly data-minded in the past decade. But they often report that they’re sitting on a huge pile of data. With various departments having differing workflows and tools creating disparate data located across isolated systems, in Excel files, in databases, and even on paper, it’s not hard to see how this could […]
Does AI’s Full Potential Depend on a Physical Body?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been expanding its skillset and improving its performance in a variety of industries. It’s become an integrated part of image processing and identification, healthcare diagnosing, automatic translation, autonomous cars, and speech analysis. But these advancements beg the question: when will AI reach its full potential? When it’s infiltrated every part of […]
Healthcare: When AI Biases Become Dangerous
Algorithms have done really well when they’re looking at a greyscale radiologic image that’s not connected to skin color. But more and more evidence points to the inherent biases that algorithms operate on. These biases are magnified when the algorithm is used in healthcare, where a patient’s life and livelihood could be at stake based […]
What Does IoT Development Look Like After the COVID-19 Pandemic?
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every industry and company around the world, creating major disruptions to business operations, purchasing habits, and logistics. Add to that travel restrictions and lockdowns, and it’s not difficult to see why every sector is struggling right now. Even companies who were streamlining their operations with an Internet of Things (IoT) […]
Adversarial Machine Learning: A Looming Threat to AI Security
Machine learning is great for niched-down problems that require an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to pay attention to very specific details. For that reason, it’s becoming a very popular technology. But machine learning applications used in essential fields like healthcare, transportation, and finance carry a lot of responsibility. If one of these algorithms were to […]
Do You Trust AI Doctors?
Emerging technologies like IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), and wearables are changing the patient and provider experience for the better. Ever since AI applications, like identifying cancer from medical images or predicting disease from a patient’s medical history, were introduced to healthcare, we’ve seen AI routinely match or beat providers’ performance. So where do we draw […]
The Top 5 Most Infamous and Damaging DDoS Attacks
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are getting bigger and more frequent, and they can reach any online service: websites, emails, and connected devices. A DDoS attack can slow down your device or completely stop it from working, and it doesn’t matter if your company is a small startup or if it’s an international corporation. […]
What’s an Algorithm? A Look at the Magic Behind Data-Driven Decisions
The term “algorithm” in computing is inescapable. Found everywhere, it can mean an artificial intelligence (AI) application used in the cloud, for quantum computing, in self-driving cars, on social media, or a host of other technologies. Like programming languages, algorithms are a set of instructions for a computer. Unlike programming languages which dole out very […]
The Role of Wearables In the Future of Work
Wearables have exploded in popularity in the past few years, and they’re great for tracking personal goals like steps, heart rate, and sleep. London-based GlobalData forecasts the wearable tech market to grow by 137% by 2024. And experts say that the next workplace disruption is going to be wearables, a possible contributing factor to the […]