Egyptian company AvidBeam won the award for best emerging company in the field of artificial intelligence in the world during the CES Exhibition and Conference held in Las Vegas, USA. During the first day of the exhibition, the Egyptian company won a competition organised by Trend Forward Capital, one of the world's largest financiers of start-ups. AvidBeam is partaking in CES Conference as part of the Egyptian delegation of eight companies. Founding Partner of AvidBeam, Hossam Samy, said that the company is working in the field of innovative solutions, analysing video to automatically find the important commercial and security information they contain. It also outputs simple reports on commercial and security operations to achieve maximum efficiency.

Google is adding a multitude of languages to its speech recognition capabilities. The expansion will cover 30 international languages and local dialects, including India and Africa's emerging regions. This will increase the total number of supported languages to 119. The update will include eight additional Indian languages and two African languages, Amharic and Swahili. The expanded speech recognition will provide more voice-based search opportunities, whether searching the web or typing using one's voice.

The internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet of things (IIoT) will breakout in 2018, with organizations ramping up deployments and incorporating IoT technologies into their products, processes and workflows. Research firm Gartner predicts there will be nearly 20 billion devices connected to the IoT by 2020, and IoT product and service suppliers will generate more than $300 billion in revenue. We spoke with a number of IT leaders and industry experts about what to expect from IoT deployments in the coming year. Following are six IoT trends to watch in 2018. Scott Gnau, CTO of Hortonworks, predicts 2018 will be the year of consumer IoT.

The price of oil has hit $70 a barrel for the first time since 2014. Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, jumped after the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said it would continue to limit supplies.

The Future Digital Economy is ERP3 In technology or at least the application and security areas I sit within, acronyms are everywhere,... As cloud computing progresses forward, an ages-old problem for IT is resurfacing--how to integrate and secure data stores that are disbursed geographically and across a growing diversity of applications. SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DeepBrain Chain is an Artificial Intelligence Computing Platform driven by blockchain. Sir, Your editorial "The paradox in ceding powers of decision to AI" (FT Weekend, December 30) makes the correct observation that "without care, … The IT infrastructure landscape is evolving rapidly. What will it look like in 2020?

– This article is only meant for discussion and healthy arguments, its not a conclusion by any means this is just an assumption and current picture focused on African & few other markets. Today payment industry can be compared with either payment war, payment jungle or even just payment storm. On the other hand how Mobile Financial Services have brought FinClusion (financial inclusion) to millions of people that have no access to traditional methods of banking. In many parts of Africa, there simply exists no bank infrastructure for people to be able to bank in the traditional way. Even where they do exist, people do not dare to enter into the big bank halls due to killing charges, KYC requirement equivalent to climbing the mount everest and time to travel miles to go or even time to stand in long queues or have the patience to go through the bank's processes.

I was invited as a keynote speaker in Khartoum – Sudan on November 27 and November 28 2017 by Lutfi Self Development Centre (Lutfi SDC Sudan) It was big event in Khartoum and opening speech was done by Sudan central bank officials. It was amazing experience and lot of learning came out. The event was attended by MTN, Oracle, GSMA and many big names of the industry. I presented my topic of AI in FinTech focused on my area of advocacy on how AI is reinventing FinTech by disrupting and non disrupting methodologies. Bringing Artificial intelligence to make FinTech better, demystified and simple.

Next time a trip to the doctor seems daunting, consider this: in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, patients must travel long distances to access treatment. Even once they see a practitioner, there is still concern about receiving the medicine and treatments they need. In developed countries, healthcare challenges are different -- often revolving around improving quality, outcomes and costs -- but they are challenges nonetheless. Startups and more experienced organizations alike look to mobile healthcare innovation to address these challenges across the globe, helping provide better access to care, improving quality and driving better outcomes. These innovations are built on top of standard mobile technologies, such as SMS messaging and Bluetooth, and through emerging technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), natural language processing, voice assistants (VA) and the IoT.

Fintech and automation are critical to growing transaction-banking services in the era of Big Data. Faced with more-demanding corporate clients in a multibank environment, transaction banks have invested millions of dollars in creating a seamless technological experience by integrating their banking platforms with those of their corporate and institutional clients. Treasurers want real-time visibility and control over their cash and liquidity, to minimize external borrowings, effectively manage working capital and maximize returns, according to Chet Kamat, CEO of Oracle Financial Services Software. "It is critical to have systems that not only effectively manage and monitor transaction-based liquidity but also help corporates project their positions based on future cash flows," he says. "Treasurers are looking for an integrated system that makes it simple to monitor positions across multiple geographies, with multiple banks, and that eases reconciliation between bank systems and corporate systems."

In tropical regions, populations continue to suffer morbidity and mortality from malaria and arboviral diseases. In Kedougou (Senegal), these illnesses are all endemic due to the climate and its geographical position. The co-circulation of malaria parasites and arboviruses can explain the observation of coinfected cases. Indeed there is strong resemblance in symptoms between these diseases making problematic targeted medical care of coinfected cases. This is due to the fact that the origin of illness is not obviously known. Some cases could be immunized against one or the other of the pathogens, immunity typically acquired with factors like age and exposure as usual for endemic area. Then, coinfection needs to be better diagnosed. Using data collected from patients in Kedougou region, from 2009 to 2013, we adjusted a multinomial logistic model and selected relevant variables in explaining coinfection status. We observed specific sets of variables explaining each of the diseases exclusively and the coinfection. We tested the independence between arboviral and malaria infections and derived coinfection probabilities from the model fitting. In case of a coinfection probability greater than a threshold value to be calibrated on the data, duration of illness above 3 days and age above 10 years-old are mostly indicative of arboviral disease while body temperature higher than 40{\textdegree}C and presence of nausea or vomiting symptoms during the rainy season are mostly indicative of malaria disease.