Can Edge Computing Address IoT Security Concerns?
Edge computing is a new buzzword used to describe a powerful paradigm of processing that’s incredibly flexible, seamless, and fast. Can it solve security issues by acting as an additional layer of protection between the devices that interface with a corporate network and the rest of the devices in an IoT system? Vintage = Vulnerable […]
Machine Learning Can Predict Your Personality From Your Eye Movement
Machine learning can now identify five personality traits from the blink of your eye… well, not just one blink. Make that many blinks. Move over San Francisco, Beijing, and other AI hubs. The University of South Australia and the University of Stuttgart in Germany have developed an AI system capable of predicting personality traits by tracking […]
Alibaba Is Doubling Down on AI Chips and Quantum Computing
At Alibaba’s 2018 computing conference, the company showed off their Tmall app, an AI mobile app developed to identify the variations between different kinds of tea leaves and their roasting quality level. While this use case was subtle, it foreshadowed an announcement later on in the four-day conference. Alibaba revealed its plans to invest in and […]
France Bans Smartphones in Schools – But Will It Actually Help?
Keeping smartphones away from students helps them to pay more attention in class and focus on interacting with one another. It’s these reasons why France decided to ban smartphones from students in the first to ninth grades. The country’s education ministry set the rule to start at the beginning of September. A Message to Society […]
California Wants to Stop Hackers from Controlling IoT Gadgets
Democratic California governor Jerry Brown is making history by signing a bill into law that sets cybersecurity standards for Internet-connected devices. This includes all Internet-connected devices: your smart refrigerator, thermostat, car, computer, and everything in between. His signature would make California the first state to pass a law surrounding cybersecurity of the Internet of Things […]
Soon, Doctors Will Be Able to Track Your Health – Without Any Wearables
Dina Katabi is a renowned professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT in Boston. She’s built a box in her research lab that can live in your home; it tracks physiological signals while you move: breathing, gait, sleeping, heart rate, and much more. She hopes this box will become the non-invasive standard for measuring biological […]
AI Is Taking Flight in the Aerospace Industry
Boeing is a major longtime player in the airplane and aerospace industry. But it’s not letting its historic past get in the way of embracing the future. According to Boeing’s CTO, Greg Hyslop, the company is using artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify the cockpit for pilots. Because there is a shortage of pilots that is expected […]
The British Airways Breach: 22 Lines of Code Stole the Data of 380,000 People
Whether you’re a mobile app developer or user, cybersecurity is serious business. Hackers are becoming more cunning and conniving with each day that passes. The data of approximately 380,000 British Airways customers could have been jeopardized recently. And it only took 22 lines of code to do it. Telltale Signs of a Common Culprit On September […]
Researchers Receive Funding to Grow Neural Networks in Petri Dishes
To find inspiration for innovation, sometimes, you have to look elsewhere than hardware and software. Many of the best advancements in technology have come from examining the natural processes we find in animals and the environment around us. Petri dish cultures are known to use the path of least resistance to create a connected network to share […]
Amazon Is Streamlining the Set Up of Your New Internet of Things Gadgets
Amazon is making a play for almost every appliance in your house. The Seattle-based developer and e-commerce giant announced it’s making the set up of your smart device as simple as it can be: just plug it in. The technology, dubbed “Wi-Fi Simple Setup“, uses Amazon’s Wi-Fi Lockers to save Wi-Fi credentials and utilize them […]