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A disgruntled Minecraft gamer is believed to be behind a bomb hoax email sent to more than 400 schools and colleges. Some students were evacuated from school and college buildings across the country on Monday after an email threatening to detonate a bomb if they refused to hand over cash was sent out. The email appeared to come from gaming network VeltPvP – a server which allows users to compete in the game Minecraft – but the US company said that the account had been "spoofed". Carson Kallen, the US firm's 17-year-old CEO, told the BBC he suspected the hoax emails had been sent by a disgruntled Minecraft player in a bid to damage VeltPvP's reputation. He said: "Everyone who plays it is between the ages of eight and 18 years old - it's all kids playing. "Every now and then we have a little rebel who will try to do something bad like this.

Artificial intelligence is a fascinating but not particularly accessible technology. Project DataREACH, currently in trial mode in Cameroon, wants to change that by giving doctors in all corners of the globe access to advanced AI to help diagnose illnesses and spot troubling health trends. "Our goal is to bridge the gap between the medical data now being gathered on the ground in developing nations, and the cutting-edge [AI] research and application...from the West," Project DataREACH founder and CEO Vikash Singh told PCMag. Singh's app allows clinicians to collect patient data like height, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, family history, and location. That data is then analyzed via machine learning to assist physicians in evaluating the risk of noncommunicable diseases, including diabetes and cardiovascular issues.

Diamond Bank has leveraged technology to reach more customers with an enhanced service in Nigeria by launching an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot. According to the bank in a statement, the Chatbot named'Ada' uses the AI technology to provide a human-like interaction and personalised experience for its customers. It said Ada would be able to learn from past interactions, enabling it to offer more relevant and timely solutions to new and existing customers on Facebook Messenger and other messaging platforms in the coming months. The banks said Ada, which would enable transactions such as airtime purchase, bill payments, stock trading, and money transfers via a social network platform, was a response to preferences for mobile and digitally delivered services. The Chief Executive Officer, Diamond Bank, Uzoma Dozie, said, "I believe data and technology have the power to transform Nigeria's economy. So, I am excited to announce the launch of Diamond's Artificial Intelligence-powered Chatbot named Ada. "Ada will allow us to further digitalise the mobile banking process and create an increasingly customised mobile banking experience for our millions of customers, Ada also presents another opportunity to deepen financial literacy and build trust and transparency in our ecosystem." He also said, "I am passionate about how Diamond can leverage technology to tap into Nigeria's huge market, whereby a large segment of the population is under-banked or unbanked.

IBM today unveiled a new cloud offering called Cloud Private Data that's designed to help organizations utilize data science and machine learning techniques to generate insight from data, and then engineer AI products that put those insights into use. Separately, Big Blue announced the creation of a new consulting group dubbed the Data Science Elite Team. IBM describes its new Cloud Private for Data offering as an "integrated data science, data engineering, and app building platform" that will eventually be available across all clouds. The offering is designed to help users with a broad swath of data science activities, from collecting, cleaning, and cataloging data, to using machine learning algorithms to build models, and finally to putting them into production. The Cloud Private for Data borrows technology from various other IBM products, most prominently Data Science Experience, the Apache-Spark-based offering it launched in 2016 that allows data scientists to develop and iterate on models using R, Python, and Scale within a Jupyter notebook environment.

Because nothing says "fun for kids" like barbed wire and hypodermic needles, here's an interactive real-world game that everyone can enjoy. Think of it as a kinder, gentler version of Robot Wars, where the object of the game is to pop the balloon on the other player's robot before yours get popped. Sounds simple, but the simple games are often the most engaging, and that sure seems to be the case here. The current incarnation of "Bubble Blast" stems from a project [Niklas Roy] undertook for a festival in Tunisia in 2017. That first version used heavily hacked toy RC cars controlled with arcade joysticks.

Bio: Ahmed Gad received his B.Sc. degree with excellent with honors in information technology from the Faculty of Computers and Information (FCI), Menoufia University, Egypt, in July 2015. For being ranked first in his faculty, he was recommended to work as a teaching assistant in one of the Egyptian institutes in 2015 and then in 2016 to work as a teaching assistant and a researcher in his faculty. His current research interests include deep learning, machine learning, artificial intelligence, digital signal processing, and computer vision.

Water balance models (WBMs) are often employed to understand regional hydrologic cycles over various time scales. Most WBMs, however, are physically-based, and few employ state-of-the-art statistical methods to reconcile independent input measurement uncertainty and bias. Further, few WBMs exist for large lakes, and most large lake WBMs perform additive accounting, with minimal consideration towards input data uncertainty. Here, we introduce a framework for improving a previously developed large lake statistical water balance model (L2SWBM). Focusing on the water balances of Lakes Superior and Michigan-Huron, we demonstrate our new analytical framework, identifying L2SWBMs from 26 alternatives that adequately close the water balance of the lakes with satisfactory computation times compared with the prototype model. We expect our new framework will be used to develop water balance models for other lakes around the world.

We encourage everyone who is interested to apply. Application is open to all, including students, post-doctoral candidates, research staff, industries, startups: to people from across Africa and the world. We are particularly looking for people with a passion for machine learning and who are committed to our mission of strengthening machine learning in Africa. What is the Deep Learning Indaba? The Deep Learning Indaba 2018 will be held over 6 days, from the 9th to the 14th of September at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

CREATIVITY: IT'S AT THE HEART OF WHO WE HUMANS ARE… WE HUMANS ARE SPECIAL, RIGHT? Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece? OVER SOME 40,000 YEARS, HUMAN CREATIVITY HAS EXPLODED – FROM DRAWINGS ON CAVE WALLS THROUGH THE GREAT ART OF CENTURIES TO COME…. NOW, SCIENTISTS -- AND ARTISTS –ARE ASKING CAN A ROBOT TRULY IMAGINE AN ORIGINAL MASTERWORK? COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY IS LEADING US TO ASK NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT HUMAN CREATIVITY. IS THIS ESSENTIAL HUMAN TRAIT TRULY UNIQUE? WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BE A COMPETITOR? OR CAN IT BE A COLLABORATOR, HELPING US TOWARD STILL UNIMAGINED CREATIONS? SCHAEFER: My first guest is a member of Google Brain's Magenta team. He is currently working on neural network models of sound and music and recently produced a synthesizer that designed its own sounds. SCHAEFER: Also with us, is an Assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He focuses on several surprising creative domains including the culinary arts and fashion and the theoretical foundations of creativity. SCHAEFER: Also with us is an Associate Professor of psychological and brain science at Dartmouth College. He's interested in the neural basis of imagination and in the evolution of human creativity. A former research fellow at MIT's Media lab and artist in residence at Google, please welcome Sougwen Chung.