Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft flagship action-adventure video game series, is celebrating 10 years since it first hit stores. Altair, Ezio and their assassin friends -- the game characters -- have taken us through important focal points in history like the Italian Renaissance and American Revolution. The latest installment, Assassin's Creed Origins, marks the nineteenth game of this franchise including all spin-off series. A new live-action trailer for this much-awaited game was released Monday, along with a live-action trailer launch for another action behemoth, Call of Duty: WW2. The game hits the shelves after a one-year break between titles and this gap has heightened expectations among hard-core Assassin's Creed fans.

KAMPALA – As the toll rises above 300 from one of the world's deadliest attacks in years, the al-Shabab extremist group has sent a powerful signal that the international focus on extremism can't afford to overlook the African continent. Saturday's truck bombing on a crowded Mogadishu street showed that al-Shabab, targeted for years by U.S. airstrikes and tens of thousands of African Union forces, has once again made a deadly comeback. Pushed from Somalia's capital in recent years, al-Shabab has retreated mostly to rural areas of the country's south, where the fragile central government can't assert its authority and local fiefdoms are in charge. From there, Africa's deadliest Islamic extremist group has continued to plan guerrilla-style attacks like Saturday's truck bombing in the capital, Mogadishu. While demonstrating al-Shabab's resilience in the face of new military offensives by the U.S. and Somalia in recent months, the attack also highlights the shortcomings of U.S. drone strikes in a politically fraught country with a weak military and even weaker police, analysts told The Associated Press.

THE disruption of the financial services industry, which began as a trickle, is quickly turning into a flood as start-ups introduce innovative products and services designed for a new generation of consumers, and the established providers are forced to reinvent themselves. Robo-advice and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, which use algorithms and machine learning to do the job of financial advisers, analysts and active fund managers, are expected to grow significantly in the coming decade. It is forecast that robo-advisers could manage about 10% of total global assets under management by 2020, according to a study by BI Intelligence. Gavin Smith, the head of Africa for deVere Acuma, an independent financial advisory firm, says: "Algorithmic trading automatically and immediately adjusts to new developments. Theoretically, robo-advisers should be able to constantly act to perform according to an investment mandate. "There are many advantages to the introduction of robo-advisers and AI into the financial services sector," Smith says. "It brings down fees, speeds up administration and saves time." However, what automated systems lack, he says, is the ability to liaise with you and understand the nuances of your requirements and changing circumstances. "When it comes to understanding your goals, specific circumstances, and blending these with your retirement, tax and estate planning, robo-advisers are nowhere near to replacing good financial advice," Smith says. As a result, some financial services providers are trying to marry the automated and personal approaches in an effort to get the best of both worlds. Last week, Personal Finance highlighted OUTsurance's new investment product, OUTvest, which relies on semi-automated investment advice. Below are four more recent innovations that are likely to contribute to the shake-up of the industry. NMRQL Research, the fintech company co-founded by Michael Jordaan, the former chief executive of First National Bank, this week launched South Africa's first unit trust fund powered by machine learning. The NMRQL SCI Balanced Fund, administered by the Sanlam Collective Investments platform, is a regulation 28-compliant collective investment scheme that invests in a diversified portfolio of domestic and international assets, where the asset allocation and stock selection are systematically managed using machine learning algorithms. The process looks for hidden patterns in underlying big data. These patterns can be exploited to forecast returns across asset classes and markets. Jordaan says: "As humans, we suffer from various cognitive biases.

Fujitsu today announces the addition of nVidia Volta Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) to accelerate advances in artificial intelligence and support deep learning processing on its latest Primergy x86 servers. Available to customers in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa beginning December 2017, select Primegy models are certified for the new-generation of nVidia Tesla V100 GPU accelerators. AI and deep learning computing involves large amounts of raw data and highly demanding compute environments. Fujitsu is rising to this challenge by introducing native deep learning processing capabilities to select Fujitsu Primergy CX and RX server models. To achieve the highest possible levels of system performance, Fujitsu is introducing native support for NVIDIA GPUs via direct connection to the mainboard.

After an intense two-day search, local military forces Friday recovered the body of a U.S. Army commando who was inadvertently left behind after a daylight ambush by militants killed three other Green Berets in a rugged border region in Niger. Pentagon officials had not previously announced that a Green Beret was missing in action after the surprise attack on a joint patrol of U.S. commandos and Nigerien troops Wednesday. Six of the 12 Americans on the patrol were killed or wounded. Officials hoped the missing U.S. Army Special Forces operative might still be hiding in the dense brush, rather than taken captive, and launched a massive search-and-rescue mission with aerial drones and other aircraft, as well as Nigerien ground forces. The death of four Green Berets in remote West Africa marks the worst single loss of U.S. forces under fire since President Trump took office.

Built on NLP and ML, Artificial Intelligence chatbots are based on the human capability of learning and absorbing information, but imbued with more efficiency. These efficient machines can process 1,000 times faster than humans and will come up with more subtle results. Artificial Intelligence chatbots (if they're artificial intelligence powered at all) are superior to any Artificial Intelligence interface. In Uganda, a startup – mFeyti is developing an Artificial intelligence powered platform that enables people to detect counterfeit drugs. The developers collect information from regulators, importers and manufacturers and then use special identification characteristics to identify drugs well.

Some cassava farmers may not be able to tell one plant's debilitating brown streak from another's troubling brown leaf spot--but a smartphone-friendly AI can. Wired reports that researchers have developed a lightweight image-recognition AI that can identify diseases in the cassava plant based on pictures of its leaves. That could be useful, because cassava is one of the most commonly eaten tubers on the planet, but is grown predominantly in developing countries where access to expertise to diagnose unusual crop problems may be limited. In a paper published on the arXiv, the researchers behind the new AI explain how they've used a technique known as transfer learning to retrain an existing image-recognition neural network using just a small number of new images. With just 2,756 pictures of cassava leaves captured from plants in Tanzania, the team was able to build software based on Google's TensorFlow AI library that could reliably identify three crop diseases and two types of pest damage. It could, for instance, discern brown leaf spot with 98 percent accuracy.

Two other Special Forces soldiers were also wounded in the Niger ambush; Lucas Tomlinson has the story for'Special Report.' There was no U.S. surveillance drone overhead at the time of the ambush in Niger which killed three U.S. Army Green Berets and wounded two others Wednesday, multiple officials familiar with the matter tell Fox News. In addition, Fox News has learned the dead and injured soldiers were taken from the firefight by French Puma helicopters. Only one U.S. helicopter was available to pick up the Green Berets. It is not clear why it wasn't used.

Assassin's Creed Origins is due out later this month, taking players to Cleopatra's Egypt and revisiting one of the most fascinating and mysterious times in the history of the human race. Developer Ubisoft, having spent time exploring and researching this period of history realised that there is still much we don't know or understand about it, including the mysteries of one of humanities oldest written languages – hieroglyphics. That's why, with the aid of Google's TensorFlow technology, Ubisoft has set up The Hieroglyphics Initiative. The idea is, with the collaboration with Google, that machine learning could help to look through the imagery and research from history and using object identification to identify all the individual differences in each hieroglyph. To do that, however, Ubisoft and google need help.