For centuries, the three faces of the Ashura Buddha have looked out from inside the Kofukuji Temple in the ancient Japanese city of Nara. But when devotees and scholars gaze back, what do they see? Or, at least, what do they think they see? Long and thin with six arms and three heads, the 1,200-year-old masterpiece is both revered as an object of faith and admired as a work of art. It's even been officially classified as a national treasure.

Samsung Electronics will introduce its new products and solutions to its business partners around the world at Samsung Forum 2019. During the two-month event, strategic products including the 2019 QLED TV lineup as well as customized products for regional markets will be showcased. Based on'New Bixby,' Samsung's intelligence platform, Connected Solution will also be exhibited where global business partners can interact with various Samsung products. Starting with the European Forum, Samsung will invite media and partners from Europe, Southwest Asia and Latin America to Porto of Portugal from February 12th to 22nd. From March 7th to 11th, Samsung will host the Middle East and CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) Forum in Antalya of Turkey.

"Scientific research has changed the world. Now it needs to change itself. There has been a growing concern about the validity of scientific findings. A multitude of journals, papers and reports have recognized the ever smaller number of replicable scientific studies. In 2016, one of the giants of scientific publishing, Nature, surveyed about 1,500 researchers across many different disciplines, asking for their stand on the status of reproducibility in their area of research. One of the many takeaways to the worrisome results of this survey is the following: 90% of the respondents agreed that there is a reproducibility crisis, and the overall top answer to boosting reproducibility was "better understanding of statistics". Indeed, many factors contributing to the explosion of irreproducible research stem from the neglect of the fact that statistics is no longer as static as it was in the first half of the 20th century, when statistical hypothesis testing came into prominence as a ...

The American military wants to expand its use of artificial intelligence, or AI, for war. But it says the technology will be deployed in respect to the nation's values. The United States Defense Department released its first AI strategy this week. The strategy calls for increasing the use of AI systems throughout the military, from decision-making to predicting problems in planes or ships. It urges the military to provide AI training to change "its culture, skills and approaches."

You may have heard the news already: the AI bubble is getting ready to burst. You can find recent articles about it on the Financial Times, Popular Science, TNW, CapX, HackerNews and plenty of other sites. In fact, you only have to google AI winter or AI bubble for the evidence to start leaping off the screen. You might wonder why I'm so enthusiastic. After all, the rise of AI has been hugely beneficial for technologists who understand the tech driving the boom.

Whether through chatbots or voice assistants, bank customers are beginning to experience Banking AI and are responding favourably. Initially, the focus of these interfaces is similar to the task-oriented nature of channels that banks already provide. Though conversational interfaces have yet to attain the level of adoption expected in the banking space and has not yet matured as mobile has, there are already a variety of approaches for establishing a conversational banking capability. Going forward, I believe there will be at least four distinct banking models supported by apps and conversational interfaces. The majority of banks will begin their journey in the conversational banking space by implementing a conversational interface as an additional channel with a task-based focus.

Login details for Fortnite, Netflix and Uber accounts are selling for as little as £8 on illicit online markets, according to dark web researchers. The latest figures come from the first annual update of the Dark Web Market Price Index, compiled by researchers at VPN site Top10VPN.com. A series of high-profile data breaches has contributed to a thriving online black market, with high profile data breaches involving the likes of British Airways and Mariott Hotels seeing logins inundate the dark web – a hidden section of the internet that is only accessible using specialist software. "This is a highly – and understandably – worrying situation for customers who might have been caught in hacks," said Simon Migliano, head of research at Top10VPN.com. "Storing payment information across a whole range of online accounts – even social media – is now par for the course for the majority of consumers as it's simply so convenient. The downside is that if a fraudster gains access to one account they then, essentially, have the keys to the kingdom."

Industry 4.0 is disrupting manufacturing on multiple fronts – from production throughput, predictive maintenance and quality, to supply chain and inventory management. While this wave of innovation is being greeted with much enthusiasm by a traditionally conservative industry, a clear strategy for deployment and ongoing management is required to successfully adopt Industry 4.0 technologies. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a lean manufacturing approach developed in Japan in 1971. The approach includes a number of methodologies still widely used today such as the Six Big Losses, and is well suited to the smart factory and its IoT use cases. In a nutshell, Total Productive Maintenance is a system for optimizing maintenance and reaching a state of perfect efficiency in production.

Europe healthcare artificial intelligence market witnessed 41.8% growth throughout the analysis period. Adoption of artificial intelligence in research areas and advancement in technology with respect to electronic health records (EHR) and eHealth should drive healthcare artificial intelligence market in Europe. Moreover, European Union undertakes several efforts to stimulate use of healthcare artificial systems to make eHealth stronger. European Union also introduced an innovative technology to develop EHR across Europe named as the European Health Records Organization (EHRO). Global Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Market is expected to surpass USD 13 billion By 2025; according to a new research report by Global Market Insights, Inc.

In September of 2018, iFlytek, a Chinese technology company and world leader in A.I. -- particularly in voice recognition software -- was accused of disguising human translation as machine translation during a tech conference in Shanghai. The whistleblower was an interpreter, Bell Wang, who was doing live translation at the conference. He noticed that iFlytek was using his translations as live subtitles on a screen next to the company's brand logo. This gave the appearance that the translated output was produced by their A.I. system, rather than by Wang. The company was also broadcasting the translations live online using a computer-synthesized voice, instead of the original human interpreters' voices.