PlayStation players might finally be able to change their embarrassing PSN names, according to a series of leaks. Many gamers have found themselves lumbered with old and shameful usernames that they have to carry around with them through games and while playing people. On the PlayStation, there's no way to change them, leaving people stuck with the IDs – and since PlayStation Network began in 2006, some of those IDs are very embarrassing indeed. But Sony might be working on a way for people to finally get rid of those embarrassing names, according to a series of leaks. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph.

DeepMind is furthering its cancer research efforts with a newly announced partnership. Today, the London-based Google subsidiary said it has been given access to mammograms from roughly 30,000 women that were taken at Jikei University Hospital in Tokyo, Japan between 2007 and 2018. It'll use that data to refine its artificially intelligent (AI) breast cancer detection algorithms. Over the course of the next five years, DeepMind researchers will review the 30,000 images, along with 3,500 images from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and historical mammograms provided by the U.K.'s Optimam (an image database of over 80,000 scans extracted from the NHS' National Breast Screening System), to investigate whether its AI systems can accurately spot signs of cancerous tissue. The collaboration builds on DeepMind's work with the Cancer Research UK Imperial Center at Imperial College London, where it has already analyzed roughly 7,500 mammograms.

A staff member displays a DJI Phantom 3 4K drone during CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, Nevada. It may come as a surprising fact that there are now 14 Chinese AI companies valued at $1 billion or more. These unicorns are worth a combined $40.5 billion, according to a report China Money Network recently released during the World Economic Forum's Summer Davos gathering in Beijing. Just to put these numbers in perspective. Google bought DeepMind for over $500 million in 2014. Chinese voice recognition giant iFlytek Co. has a market capitalization of 63 billion yuan ($9.2 billion). Chinese AI startups raised $27.7 billion via 369 VC deals in 2017, according to a recent report from Tsinghua University. So naturally, it raises questions on if there is a bubble waiting to pop in the Chinese AI space. How could these companies, with an average age of less than five years, be worth so much money?

When Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg promised Congress that AI would help solve the problem of fake news, he revealed little in the way of how. New research brings us one step closer to figuring that out. In an extensive study that will be presented at a conference later this month, researchers from MIT, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), and Sofia University in Bulgaria tested over 900 possible variables for predicting a media outlet's trustworthiness--probably the largest set ever proposed. The researchers then trained a machine-learning model on different combinations of the variables to see which would produce the most accurate results. The best model accurately labeled news outlets with "low," "medium," or "high" factuality just 65% of the time.

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – High above Yemen's rebel-held city of Hodeida, a drone controlled by Emirati forces hovered as an SUV carrying a top Shiite Houthi rebel official turned onto a small street and stopped, waiting for another vehicle in its convoy to catch up. Seconds later, the SUV exploded in flames, killing Saleh al-Samad, a top political figure. The drone that fired that missile in April was not one of the many American aircraft that have been buzzing across the skies of Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001. Across the Middle East, countries locked out of purchasing U.S.-made drones due to rules over excessive civilian casualties are being wooed by Chinese arms dealers, the world's main distributor of armed drones. "The Chinese product now doesn't lack technology, it only lacks market share," said Song Zhongping, a Chinese military analyst and former lecturer at the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force University of Engineering.

NEW DELHI – Indian flyers will soon be able to leave their identification cards and boarding passes at home after the government announced plans Thursday to introduce facial recognition technology at airports. The plan will be rolled out early next year in a bid to help congested airports deal with rapidly rising passenger numbers, the ministry of civil aviation said. Passengers on domestic flights will be able to choose whether they want to use the biometric authentication system and go paperless, ministry secretary Rajiv Nayan Choubey said in a statement. "Security will benefit from the ability of the technology to verify the passenger at every checkpoint in a non-intrusive way," Choubey said. The scheme is similar to plans that Delta Air Lines announced last month when it said it would launch its first biometric terminal in Atlanta. British Airways also recently installed biometric technology to identify customers at airports in New York, Orlando, and Miami.

Haruki Atarashi never thought his company's flagship software, Recog, which fosters communication between employees within companies, would ever evolve beyond just an internal project. A cross between an internal communication service and a video game where points and rewards are earned, the software began as a way to improve the work environment at Atarashi's own company, Cinqsmile Inc., an operator of beauty care websites. However, Atarashi, the 46-year-old CEO of the company, soon realized he was on to something when his employees started using Recog, with staff earning points the more they praised and messaged each other, making communication more enjoyable and helping employees see eye-to-eye and recognize each other's hard work. That gave him the idea other companies might be interested in buying his software. "Many managers and CEOs tell their employees to do this task or that task, and try to inspire them. But many fail to praise their employees" Atarashi told the The Japan Times in an interview.

Because big data gives feedback untainted by human agenda, it allows companies to identify an audience, mistakes and opportunities as accurately as possible. And it is also enabling companies to provide consumers with precise beauty services and products. Of courcse, large brands are no stranger to utilising insight gathered from analysing data. The Tmall Innovation Centre (TMIC), by the Alibaba Group, is dedicated to reverse engineer the process of developing products. By analysing data from Alibaba's massive e-commerce ecosystem, TMIC identifies new product opportunities for very specific Chinese demographics, letting the customer data determine the product should be developed.

At the Apec CEO Summit in Manila in November, 2015, Ma shared LQ in a conversation with Benigno Aquino III, then-president of the Philippines. Convinced of its competitive advantage in business for his own country, the president quipped, "The love quotient enables the Filipino to go really to the needs of the client that he is talking to, which is not available elsewhere."

Shanghai will be the cradle for artificial intelligence and healthcare industry integration, a city health official said yesterday. Wu Jinglei, director of Shanghai Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission made these comments yesterday at a themed sub-forum of the 2018 World Artificial Intelligence Conference underway in the city from Sept. 17 to today. "The significance of developing AI in Shanghai has three facets. First, the platform advantage, since Shanghai boasts China's largest scale of healthcare services, has a strong scientific research basis, and has amassed a comprehensive and consummated system of healthcare data which offers a sound foundation for AI services," Wu Said. "Second, Shanghai enjoys a high level of internationalization with an innovation service foundation which gathers mainstream medical information and internet companies, has large sums of cash and numerous talents, and has technological strength in imaging, micro-invasive surgery, information, medicine and other areas," he added.