Two employee at Coalfire, a cybersecurity company, conducted pen tests of the Iowa county courthouses. These breaches worried officials which led to the two cybersecurity employees being arrested. A letter was given explaining the partnership between the company and courthouse that explained that the pen tests were authorized. They were still taken into custody, despite giving the letter prior to their arrest.

The confusion lead to a struggle between both parties just trying to do their jobs. One side wanting to test the security measures while the other was enforcing security by arresting intruders. This week charges were dropped after a meeting took place between Coalfire and the Iowa county courthouse representatives. The CEO of Coalfire made comments saying that there is something to be learned through this misunderstanding. The company will not adopt more best practices when conducting pen tests when working with companies or law enforcement. Read More.

As we all know too well, healthcare costs have been a hot topic for conversation in the past years. Costs have skyrocketed, and multiple solutions have been offered but not all can seem to find grounds to agree on the controversial plans. Artificial intelligence can be used to help prevent and correct claims before they are filed and cause cost-related issues by using algorithms to detect the discrepancies before they are sent to the customer. Many people within the general population can be eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, and may not even be aware of this – with the use of AI, it can alert these people that they are eligible for the dual-enrollment of the programs and enroll them in both. AI in the healthcare industry can help to cut down on time and costly steps in processes with insurance and claims, leading to saving money in the long run, and on a very large scale.

Julia Riccio – jmr17e

https://www.changehealthcare.com/innovation/artificial-intelligence?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Artificial_Intelligence&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj7TUtsKz5wIVh5-zCh1VswfZEAAYASAAEgK8H_D_BwE

 

Social Media content moderators at a Texas facility called Accenture have been required to sign a contract called “Acknowledged” notifying them of the potential mental health warnings that come along with their specific job title. It has been now given to employees before accepting the job, and given to current employees also. This contract came into action because of the Verge investigation on employee PTSD. the contract stated, “It is possible that reviewing such content may impact my mental health, and it could even lead to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).”

YouTube is not the only brand facing these issues. Many of the thousands of the workers who moderate content for Facebook have reported harmful psychological effects from viewing graphic content on a daily basis, a September 2019 report from the Guardian found. In February, the Verge published one of the first behind-the-scenes reportsfrom a US Facebook contractor where employees reported “the conspiracy videos and memes that they see each day gradually led them to embrace fringe views”, and that a former moderator “now sleeps with a gun at his side”.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/24/youtube-moderators-contract-ptsd-mental-health

When Elon Musk got involved with Tesla, he had no intentions of becoming CEO. In fact, he said “I really didn’t want it at all.” As CEO of SpaceX, Musk was already working 80 hours a week and didn’t want to add more to his plate. Although, he was passionate about creating a electric car he was hoping to only put 20 hours or less into this “side project.” After a series of events with Tesla, and their loss of several CEOs due to financial mistakes, Musk came to terms with the fact that he was the only one with the skills to take on this job. Read more about how he took the world by storm and became one of the biggest leaders in tech today. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/elon-musk-i-really-didnt-want-to-be-ceo-of-tesla.html

While there are many different apps out there that allow you to use deepfake technology to swap your face with someone else’s Doblicat is the only one that limits its collection of your personal data. The company reports that photos you take are only stored on their servers for 24 hours and after that, the only copy available is on the one you have stored on your personal device.Read more about the ways Doublicat protects personal data.

You’re probably wondering.. Doctors? How can they be viral on TikTok? Well, believe it or not, they’re providing cool and interesting facts about health and sexual education and it is working. Doctors have been frequently posting videos about a variety of topics on the app and providing a lot of useful information for those who aren’t sexually educated. For example, Dr. Jones who owns a practice in College Station, Texas is a popular creator on TikTok and is seen as one of the pioneers of doctors on the app providing information.

With this rise in doctors on the app, we can potentially have more people who have unique and diverse careers post on the app. They can use TikTok to talk about their experiences and what they go through in their daily work tasks. This might encourage a new platform dedicated to those who have full time careers for content.

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Social media marketing is the basis of many companies success in today’s society. People spend so much of their time on platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn; just to name a few. Many benefits to using social media to market include: increase in brand awareness, generate leads and boosts conversations, forms relationships with customers, and learning from competitors.

Increasing brand awareness is one of the most important things when trying to grow a business especially when first starting. Engaging with customers through posts, stories, likes and comments are what drive customers to follow businesses and engage back with the account.

The people that follow your account want to engage and follow your content, they are interested in what your account has to offer them. And creating an account on these platforms is completely free which means free advertisement! What business would say no to that?

When it comes to running an account like this all it entails is being able to properly engage with your followers in a way that influences them. Research your target audience, create unique content and schedule your posts are all it takes to develop a successful social media account. If you do this and more your account will grow and so will your customer base. For more tips on social media marketing check out Social Media Marketing: The Ultimate Guide.

https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/social-media-marketing

The 5G network has some advantages over the previous generation. In transferring files, building networks to manage data, and remote patient monitoring, the 5G network is how all those are possible with better quality and faster service. 5G will eventually change how healthcare workers and patients interact with the data created throughout the patient’s journey.

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/5g-here-how-health-systems-can-capitalize-new-cellular-standard

The sports analytics field is one that is constantly growing and there is plenty of different careers in the field. Careers range from data collection, statistical consultation, and team statistician to name a few. In the article below it gives a great description for each position and the day to day duties that someone in the analytics field may experience. https://community.amstat.org/sis/careers

This is pretty impressive! Artificial Intelligence has created a new medicine to combat OCD. Not only is this a first but, these drugs typically take five years to get to trial, the AI drug did it in twelve months! The algorithm that they used to make this drug apparently can be used to make different types of drugs as well. This is a huge milestone for the medical and Artificial Intelligence communities, this could lead to many breakthroughs which would take less time than previous methods.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51315462