New iOS 12 Design Features
Whether you’re an Apple user or iOS app developer, you’ve probably heard about the newest operating system upgrade coming to over 22 devices, Apple’s iOS 12. This is the broadest update Apple’s rolled out, and it’s coming with tons of design updates, functionality upgrades, and security enhancements. A New Era for iOS At our iPhone […]
Is FinTech the Future of Ride-hailing?
As FinTech develops, online- and cloud-based firms are some of the first companies that integrate the newest technology into payment processors and payroll. Uber’s recent merger with Southeast Asian ride-hailing company Grab brought about some updates to Grab’s interface and operations. This type of innovation is rarely seen in companies who have been recently taken over. […]
DeepMind Founders and Other AI Leaders Pledge to Not Develop Lethal Weapon Systems
A few days ago, London-based developer DeepMind (an Alphabet company) and thousands of other tech leaders in artificial intelligence (AI) signed a pledge vowing to never develop any “lethal autonomous weapon.” The group, which included Elon Musk, Skype founder Jaan Tallinn, and AI researchers Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, and Jürgen Schmidhuber, wrote in their letter that “We […]
This New 3D X-Ray Scanner Can Spot Deadly Diseases Without Surgery
Across the world from our Los Angeles studio, New Zealand researchers have developed MedTech that maps a 3D image of x-ray scans. Most of us are used to seeing x-rays in greyscale. Taking inspiration from the Large Hadron Collider (the famous European particle accelerator facility), this technology adds color into the mix. And it could change how doctors […]
Google Fined $5 Billion by the EU over Android Antitrust Violations
The European Commission (EC) recently fined Google a record amount: $5 billion. That record beat the last record high also previously set by Google at a price of $2.8 billion. The EU slammed down the fine because it says the San Francisco-based developer abused Android’s market share in three ways: (1) The company bundles the […]
Amazon Web Services Boosts Its Cloud Computing With Machine Learning
At Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Services) Summit in New York City this past week, machine learning was a big focus for the Seattle-based tech giant, especially in regard to recently released cloud features for commerce and payments. The Rise of ML in Every Industry Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) development are booming, especially […]
Academics Investigate the Age-Old Question: Is Your Phone Secretly Spying on You?
It’s a common belief, especially after the National Security Administration’s scandal with Edward Snowden, that the U.S. Government is spying on its citizens. Tech companies don’t do much to help this case, either. For example, many people have claimed that Facebook showed them ads for dog kennels when they have no dogs — but they […]
Has China Taken It Too Far With Surveillance Tech?
Facial recognition has come a long way in the past few years. But there’s still progress to be made in terms of eliminating biases and other flaws. Regardless of this fact, China is already employing the technology to track its own citizens. This police-state type of surveillance has managed to cook up quite a bit […]
Nvidia Uses Machine Learning to Magically Fix Flaws in Photos
New technology from Nvidia can help professional photo retouchers save some time and studio equipment. But it may also upset photographers who painstakingly put watermarks on their photos to stop the theft of their work. AI-Powered Picture Cleaning The company developed machine learning algorithms using over 50,000 before-and-after photos to remove graininess, text, watermarks, and […]
Can We Live to 150? This Scientist Said So, but Now He’s Not so Sure
Alex Zhavoronkov is a computer scientist, MedTech developer, and researcher. When he was younger, Zhavoronkov publicly announced that he expected to live to be 150 years old. But as he’s grown older and seen the way politics influence technology growth, he’s not so sure if he will make it to 150 anymore. Zhavoronkov does think we’ll reach […]