Humanity uses a lot of energy, and while solar power here on Earth is doing a reasonable job of contributing to the power mix, scientists have long hypothesized that solar power gathered from space itself would be an altogether more effective scenario. And now China says it's going to be the first to do exactly that, announcing plans to build a solar power station that will orbit the Earth at 36,000 kilometers. According to China's state-backed Science and Technology Daily, Chinese scientists plan to build and launch small power stations into the stratosphere between 2021 and 2025, with a megawatt-level station planned for 2030 and a gigawatt-level facility before 2050. Without interference from the atmosphere or seasonal and night time loss of sunlight, these space-based solar farms could provide an inexhaustible source of clean energy, with the China Academy of Space Technology Corporation claiming such a set-up could reliably supply 99 percent of time at six times the intensity of solar plants on Earth. There are, of course, numerous challenges associated with this sci-fi-sounding plan.

The cute Japanese robots keep coming. Sony's adorable Aibo pups are already on to their sixth litter and now Sharp is upgrading its RoBoHon line, too. In case you need reminding, that's the robot smartphone that -- like all good droids -- can sing and dance. Along with pricey LTE and WiFi-only models, the second-gen RoBoHon range includes a cheaper "seated" bot that costs 79,000 yen plus tax (around $715). Of course, that means it can't walk, but it will still be able to bust-a-move to certain songs using the top half of its body. Users can also manually move its legs to make it stand upright.

Two decades ago, retail was the most untapped market in India and today, it is the fastest growing! Indian retail sector that boasts of employing 8 per cent of the total workforce, currently a billion-dollar market expected to become a trillion-dollar market by 2020, is on a roll and it is getting more expansive and robust one year after another. Mr Ambud Sharma, Founder and CEO of Escaro Royale feels, "Indian retail industry is growing at its fastest pace ever thriving to become the world's largest retail industry. The continually churning wheels of development and advancements in product delivery have led to a huge transformation in the retail segment." He also adds that India is poised to become the world's largest e-commerce market and 2019 is going to witness a lot many changes in the retail sector.

The only way to win at technological change like artificial intelligence is to stay ahead of it. And Ireland is doing just that, writes John Kennedy. Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), we are in the midst of the biggest technological upheaval humanity has ever seen. It is both seminal and frightening. If you really want a metaphor for the storm of change that is coming, check out this recent Bloomberg documentary Inside China's High-Tech Dystopia which shows thousands of workers in Shenzhen assembling the latest smartphones.

Online disinformation is only going to get more sophisticated, the chair of the committee investigating disinformation and fake news, Damian Collins, has warned. In a report released on Monday, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee said Facebook had in effect put democracy at risk by allowing voters to be targeted with disinformation and personalised "dark adverts" from anonymous actors. It called for the company to be regulated. "Where we can see lies being spread, particularly in election periods, we should have the ability to say to the tech companies: we want you to act against that content," Collins told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme. It's being spread maliciously and you should stop it." After an 18-month investigation, the DCMS found that British election laws were not fit for purpose and were vulnerable to interference by hostile foreign actors. Although he stopped short of saying that companies such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were breaking the law, Collins said the legislation was not robust enough and needed to be made clearer. Citing evidence of agencies working from Russia, as well as an unidentifiable organisation called the Mainstream Network that urged voters to lobby their MP to support a no-deal Brexit, Collins criticised the fact that the law did not require such actors to identify themselves. "No one knows who this organisation is, and I think in a democracy, citizens need to be informed … and the law doesn't require that." He predicted false information would become more convincing, saying that "deepfake films" featuring politicians giving inflammatory speeches they never gave could circulate social media in the near future. The interviewer, John Humphrys, interjected: "So it looks like you're saying, 'sack Theresa May', but in fact it's somebody else with your face superimposed?" Collins said: "In a situation like that we are going to want to be able to go to companies like Facebook and say this is clearly fake, its being released maliciously to try to influence people's opinion to spread anger and hate and it should be taken down because its not true.

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Summary: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Market Overview: Artificial intelligence (AI) can be defined as the science and engineering adopted to design intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. AI is an intelligent system that applies various human intelligence based functions such as reasoning, learning, and problem-solving skills on different disciplines such as biology, computer science, mathematics, linguistics, psychology, and engineering. AI is widely applicable in medication management, treatment plans, and drug discovery. The global AI in healthcare market was valued at $1,441 million in 2016, and is estimated to reach at $22,790 million by 2023, registering a CAGR of 48.7% from 2017 to 2023. The growth of the global AI in healthcare market is driven by the ability of AI to improve patient outcomes, need to increase coordination between healthcare workforce & patients, increase in adoption of precision medicine, and a notable rise in venture capital investments.

And The Guardian was able to feed it the opening line of George Orwell's "1984" – just 14 words, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

Nasa engineers said goodbye to the Opportunity rover with a touching final message. The little robot spent 15 years exploring the surface of Mars, sending back unprecedented amounts of information to engineers back on Earth. But months ago the signals it was sending back started to look worrying. It told Nasa its batteries were running low and it was getting dark – before it was swallowed by a dust storm that took over the entire planet. Since then, Nasa has been sending messages to the rover in the hope of waking it up and bringing it back to life.

Humans pricked by info-hunger pangs used to hunt and peck for scraps of trivia on the savanna of the internet. Now we sit in screen-glow-flooded caves and grunt, "Alexa!" Virtual assistants do the dirty work for us. Problem is, computers can't really speak the language. Many of our densest, most reliable troves of knowledge, from Wikipedia to (ahem) the pages of WIRED, are encoded in an ancient technology largely opaque to machines--prose.