BENGALURU: pi Ventures, an early stage venture fund focused on startups leveraging AI and IoT, has closed its maiden fund with a corpus of Rs 225 crore, higher than its initial target of Rs 195 crore. UK's development finance institution CDC Group has also invested Rs 40 crore in pi Ventures. CDC has a portfolio of $5.3 billion, and has financed 715 and 338 businesses in Africa and South Asia respectively. Its objective is to invest in startups with deep-tech capabilities that have the potential to change the business landscape. A number of funds have been raised in recent times with the objective of investing mainly in India based ventures and in areas related to new age digital tech.

Search giant Google is celebrating its own 20th birthday today with a trademark Doodle. Replacing its logo with an occasional animation paying tribute to eminent figures from the worlds of science, the arts and history on their anniversaries is just one of the ways in which the site's programmers can express themselves. Their quirky sense of humour is actually embedded within the software's DNA. If you tell Google to "do a barrel roll", the whole page will spin clockwise at 90 degrees before juddering to a stop. If you search for "the answer to life the universe and everything", you'll be presented with Google's calculator displaying the number 42, an in-joke alluding to Douglas Adams' cult science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978).

WARNING: You may find some images in his report disturbing. The UN is warning that millions of Yemenis are at risk of famine. The UAE has promised to help create a humanitarian corridor between Saana and Hodeidah. But aid is arriving too late for many of Yemen's most vulnerable as malnutrition and disease continue to claim lives in the war-torn nation and among its refugees. Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports from neighbouring Djibouti, where starving families are struggling to get to the few clinics available.

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The fourth industrial revolution is firmly upon us and it is one that will provide customers with a greater range of customized products and a better service experience, while allowing manufacturers to transition towards predictive and adaptive processes and machinery. Artificial intelligence (AI) is not a peripheral component of this industry change; it is at the heart of the fourth industrial revolution, a key enabler to take the step from automation to autonomy, creating growth and competitive advantage. Together with Industry of Things World, Europe's leading Industrial IoT conference, HPE surveyed 858 predominantly European professionals and executives from various industrial verticals to find out what effect AI has in the industrial sector today and is expected to have by 2030.[1] Their responses show that the European industrial sector has clearly understood and embraced the strategic power of AI--but it also reveals that there are some key challenges that have to be overcome to fully unleash its potential. Let's start with the really good news.

In March 2004, when René Koiter was 19, his twin brother Michel came down with a fever. René and Michel were students in the Netherlands--Michel at the Utrecht School of the Arts, René at the University of Utrecht--and they were doing freelance design work for Blizzard Entertainment, a video game developer about to launch its marquee franchise: World of Warcraft. Michel's fever wasn't supposed to be fatal. Michel was young and healthy--he and René were regulars at their local Taekwondo center. But a few days later, Michel's heart started failing, and René and their father rushed to the hospital to save him.

I recently met a young woman named Wild Rose on an online chat forum. We struck up a conversation and within the first five minutes, Wild Rose – who is married, has a daughter, and lives in Texas with her in-laws – started telling me about her lover, a man called Saeran. Saeran, she told me, is the illegitimate son of a politician who had grown up with an abusive mother. He is handsome, has white blond hair, golden eyes, a large tattoo on his shoulder. Wild Rose said that when she first met him, her "heart literally ached" and her cheeks "flooded with blood". She then paused and added: "But I don't think Saeran loves me the way I love him. I'll never know his true feelings."

Roughly 2 million farms dot the continental U.S., and the decisions their proprietors make impact the entire food supply chain. According to one study, if just 5 percent of the U.S. broccoli production isn't harvested, over 90 million pounds of broccoli go uneaten. To help stabilize a market often fraught with unpredictability, IBM today launched the Watson Decision Platform for Agriculture, a new platform comprising artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things, and cloud solutions that together generate "evidence-based" insights. It's available as a managed service offering and part of IBM's new collection of prepackaged tools pretrained for customer service, human resources, manufacturing, and marketing use cases. "Farming has always been a complex undertaking that requires growers to manage an interconnected web of pre-season and in-season decisions while at the mercy of mother nature," the Armonk company wrote in a press release.

Fei Fang has saved lives. At MIT Technology Review's EmTech conference on Wednesday, Fang outlined recent work across academia that applies AI to protect critical national infrastructure, reduce homelessness, and even prevent suicides. Fang explained how a system she developed in 2013, while doing her PhD at the University of Southern California, is used every day to protect 60,000 passengers on the Staten Island Ferry in New York City. There are more ferries traveling between Staten Island and Manhattan than US Coast Guard patrol boats in the same territory. Previously, one patrol boat would follow one ferry for the whole journey, leaving the other ferries unprotected.

In a business where shaving off a mile per day per driver can result in savings of up to $50 million per year, UPS has plenty of incentive to incorporate technology to drive efficiencies in every area of its operations. Here are just a few of the ways UPS uses big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to prepare for the 4th Industrial Revolution. UPS was founded in 1907 and has a history of embracing change and evolving as new technologies arise. It's the use of big data and artificial intelligence that allows the company to operate its global logistics network in more than 220 countries and territories. On an average day, there are typically 96,000 UPS vehicles on the road handling 19 million packages.