If your business uses third parties to support core operations (and most do, from SMEs to corporates), you'll know they need to access essential data. Without this, they can't deliver the services you require Therefore, alongside this new relationship between you and your third party suppliers, comes a new responsibility for you. You now have an ethical and legal onus to protect the customer information entrusted to you. The devastation that a data breach leaves in its wake is obvious. And the media reports that accompany data breaches leave no doubt as to the financial and human consequences. At the same time, ongoing research into risk management, auditing, information security and supply-chain risk management hasn't stemmed the data breach tide.

Fox News contributor tells Laura Ingraham that Vladimir Putin is sitting back laughing at the Biden administration. As Russia enters week three of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many are already calling this the Second Cold War. Others are saying the first never ended. But what we are seeing today is entirely different: a new war for a new era, and one that is unlikely to end anytime soon. Much like we never imagined hijackers flying planes into buildings in New York, or that the Taliban could seize Kabul in a week, most people never imagined that a major world power would embark on the largest invasion since World War II to take over a sovereign nation just because its autocratic leader felt like it.

Climate change and global migration are at the centre of policymakers' efforts. The World Bank has dedicated an entire report to the topic of water, climate change, and development [1]. Together with the World Bank colleagues we have assembled a new dataset to make climate-induced migration visible with the use of explainable machine learning techniques. We showcase how social data science can help policy to make more informed decisions on some of the largest challenges of our times. Severe storms, rising sea levels, and prolonged droughts; the impact of climate change is real and it is increasingly impacting our life.

Quantum Computing is a relatively new industry with much of what is known about the industry being theoretical. This hasn't stopped the individuals and companies on this list from driving the application of quantum computing in their various industries in order to solve problems, as well as to drive innovation and industry growth. Amira Abbas had always loved mathematics, but one YouTube video comparing stock market movement to particle movement in space and time via the core equation of quantum mechanics fascinated Abbas so much, that she spiraled into thinking about quantum physics all the time. After quitting her role in the financial services industry, Amia went back to school for a master's degree in Physics. Today, she works as a research advocate on IBM's Quantum Machine Learning (QML) Team where she conducts research with the rest of the IBM QML team on applying the potential of quantum computing to boost the performance of machine learning systems.

Over the last few years, companies across industries from retail to manufacturing have started using digital twins to weather the worst of the world's ongoing supply-chain disruptions. "We wanted to step back and look at a country's whole health care network," says Heidi Albert, head of FIND South Africa. "That's what led us to supply-chain thinking." FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics) is a nonprofit based in Switzerland. Testing is one of the weakest links in global health care, says Albert: "Our aim is to make sure that everyone who needs a test has access to one."

Democratizing data access is key to bolstering data inclusion and equity but requires sophisticated data organization and sharing that doesn't compromise privacy. Rights management governance and high levels of end-to-end security can help ensure that data is being shared without security risks, says Zdankus. Ultimately, improving digital inclusion and equity comes down to company culture. "It can't just be a P&L [profit and loss] decision. It has to be around thought leadership and innovation and how you can engage your employees in a way that's meaningful in a way to build relevance for your company," says Zdankus. Solutions need to be value-based to foster goodwill and trust among employees, other organizations, and consumers. "If innovation for equity and inclusion were that easy, it would've been done already," says Zdankus. The push for greater inclusion and equity is a long-term and full-fledged commitment. Companies need to prioritize inclusion within their workforce and offer greater visibility to marginalized voices, develop interest in technology among young people, and implement systems thinking that focuses on how to bring individual strengths together towards a common outcome. This episode of Business Lab is produced in association with Hewlett Packard Enterprises.

Take a walk in French Guiana's tropical rainforests, and you'll encounter giant spiderwebs longer than a school bus. Inside, thousands of tiny, quarter-inch-long spiders wait for their prey to be trapped, allowing the predators to rush to overwhelm their victims. "In groups, they can capture prey up to 700 times [heavier] than each individual spider," such as moths and grasshoppers, says Raphaël Jeanson, an ethologist who studies the behavior of animals in their natural environment at the Center for Integrative Biology in Toulouse, France. Anelosimus eximius is a so-called "social" spider that lives in large, cooperative colonies--an extremely rare lifestyle for spiders. Each amber-colored South American spider is smaller than a ladybug, and even when they're hunting together, they pose no threat to people.

I am regularly asked to summarize my many posts. I thought it would be a good idea to publish on this blog, every Monday, some of the most relevant articles that I have already shared with you on my social networks. Today I will share some of the most relevant articles about Artificial Intelligence and in what form you can find it in today's life. I will also comment on the articles. Artificial Intelligence: The future is data capture, not machine learning.

The start of the Democratizing AI Newsletter which focuses in the first edition on "Artificial Intelligence a Key Exponential Technology in the Smart Technology Era" coincides with the launch of BiCstreet's "AI World Series" Live event, which kicks off both virtually and in-person (limited) from 10 March 2022, where this theme, amongst others, will be discussed in more detail over a 10-week AI World Series programme. The event is an excellent opportunity for companies, startups, governments, organisations and white collar professionals all over the world, to understand why Artificial Intelligence is critical towards strategic growth for any department or genre. See the 10 Weekly Program here: https://www.BiCstreet.com)). We live in tremendously exciting times where we already experience the disruptive and far-reaching impact of a smart technology revolution that seems to be on track to comprehensively change how we live, work, play, interact, and relate to one another.

A global audience of a half-billion gamers have gotten to know the axolotl, which largely cluster in the canals around Mexico City and look like little dragons with a goofy smile. The videogame "Fortnite" trotted out axolotl characters in 2020, and "Minecraft" followed suit last summer. Roblox, a platform with millions of user-made games, has dozens of axolotl-centric ones, including "Axolotl Tycoon" and "Axolotl Paradise." Axolotls appear in "Adopt Me!," one of the most-played games on Roblox. All of the exposure has spawned axolotl memes, YouTube videos, coloring books and nonfungible tokens.