Psychologists say horses use a combination of facial expressions and voice tones to work out how people are feeling - and they can even do it with complete strangers. The study could help us develop a better relationship with the species, which humans have depended on for more than 5,500 years. According to the researchers, horses could even catch-up to dogs in terms of human emotional intelligence, if changes to training are made in response to the latest findings. It has been suggested that recognition of social signals such as emotions play an important role in how horses live and interact with humans. Unlike dogs, few studies have investigated horses' awareness of human emotions.

Dana Bowman, 56, expresses gratitude for fresh produce at least 10 times in the hour and a half we're having coffee on a frigid spring day in Lindsay, Ontario. Over the many years she scraped by on government disability payments, she tended to stick to frozen vegetables. She'd also save by visiting a food bank or buying marked-down items near or past their sell-by date. But since December, Bowman has felt secure enough to buy fresh fruit and vegetables. She's freer, she says, to "do what nanas do" for her grandchildren, like having all four of them over for turkey on Easter.

SAN MATEO, CA and COLUMBIA, SC – June 21, 2018 – SIOS Technology Corp., the industry pioneer in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to help enterprises lower costs and ensure resilience of their critical information technology infrastructures, today announced the opening of the SIOS R&D facility at the M. Bert Storey Engineering and Innovation Center at the University of South Carolina's College of Engineering and Computing in Columbia. The new facility will serve as the SIOS R&D center for product development and is strategically located at the University for the purpose of advancing collaborative research in AI and machine learning through collaboration with students and faculty. With the new R&D facility located on-campus, students will have an opportunity to work with the latest AI technologies on projects addressing real-world problems alongside senior research engineers at SIOS. In turn, SIOS has the unique opportunity to participate deeply in a vibrant and rich academic community, tapping into academic programs, intern programs, Capstone projects, and helping to design meaningful research projects. To support the fostering of leading-edge research in AI, SIOS has also awarded the University a $475,000 grant for the use of its SIOS iQ software.

Last year China unveiled their ambitious plan to become the world leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and deployment by 2030. In the roadmap the country's Central Government made it clear that not only did they want to expand their research and development capabilities but also find new ways to implement its use across every sector of their society, from industry, where it's being used to monitor the brain waves and emotional wellbeing of workers, to policing and defence, and even urban planning. Recently though it's been revealed that education is also a target and that several new AI innovations are already being tested in Chinese schools to "redefine how children are educated." While the broader deployment of AI and especially facial recognition software in many other countries is all too often mired in controversy, especially over concerns of accuracy, bias, and obviously personal privacy, the Chinese central government, which doesn't have to be beholden to anyone, has no such constraints. Now a report from People.cn, a state-run media news outlet, has revealed that a high school in Eastern China is testing a new facial recognition system that monitor students, and their levels of engagement, in real time.

The map of Damascus in the first Assassin's Creed was 0.13km². Since then, the map in each successive game has been bigger than the one before. Based on that history, we can expect the map for the upcoming AC: Odyssey to be bigger than last year's brilliant AC: Origins. Dimitras Galatas put together a short video comparing maps from several of the Assassin's Creed games. The map of Greece for Odyssey is shown at 130km², a substantial increase over the tiny map of Damascus and more than 2.5 times as large as AC: Origin's 80km² map of Egypt.

A woman in Copenhagen hears a loud crash in the next room and rushes in to discover her father sprawled on the floor, unresponsive. She quickly calls Denmark's health-emergency hotline, where a person answers the phone--but a computer is eavesdropping. As the operator runs through a series of questions--the patient's age, physical condition, what he was doing when he fell--the computer quickly determines the man's heart has stopped and issues an alert. "Those human dispatchers have an amazingly hard job," says Andreas Cleve Lohmann, co-founder of Corti SA, a Danish artificial intelligence software house that created the program. "This software can help them save lives."

Well, you can now look forward to a brave new world where all you'll need to enter the metro is your face. Chinese state media has reported that Beijing Metro officials are mulling over the possibilities of allowing passengers to enter the city's subway network by scanning either their faces or their hands. At this point, the proposal is still very much in the planning stage and it's unclear how exactly the system would work, but it further portends a Black Mirror-esque future in China where privacy is continually sacrificed for the sake of convenience. Of course, China already has quite a number of sophisticated facial recognition cams, using them to catch criminals at Jacky Cheung concerts and to track down BBC reporters. A Huawei rep called the tech underlying this proposed system "mature," while subway authorities said that they see it as a way to potentially improve efficiency and reduce costs on the world's busiest metro network -- with 3.78 billion trips delivered last year.

Artificial intelligence (AI) could be part of the solution. AI technologies could help to improve access to care, improve outcomes and make better use of physician time. But there are many barriers to adoption of AI in the healthcare industry. These include the difficulty of assembling the digital data AI needs, as well as a lack of AI workers right across the world. A lack of patient data in digital format is just one of the barriers to AI use in healthcare. Some AI technology sifts through data from groups of patients to determine the best approach for individual patient care.

Chinese artificial intelligence chip maker Cambricon Technologies Corp Ltd. has raised a series B round worth several hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars led by SDIC Venture Capital, a subsidiary of state-owned investment holding group China Reform Holdings Corp Ltd, China State-owned Capital Venture Investment Fund and its sub-fund Guoxin Qidi Fund. CICC Capital, CITIC Securities Goldstone Investment Fund, TCL Capital, a Chinese Academy of Sciences fund, as well as some existing investors including Alibaba Innovation Ventures, also participated in the round, according to Cambricon's announcement on its official WeChat account. Cambricon said its post-money valuation has reached US$2.5 billion. Cambricon was founded in 2016 by Chen Tianshi, a professor at the Institute Of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy Of Sciences. In 2016, the company launched a processor, named Cambricon-1A, which it claims to be the world's first commercial chip for deep learning.

An executive guide to the technology and market drivers behind the $135 billion robotics market. One of the more disruptive emerging technologies, robotic process automation (RPA), appears primed for significant growth, despite the fact that many organizations remain confused or concerned about the impact these tools might have on their operations. For some, RPA is seen as a technology designed to replace full-time human labor outright and therefore to be treated with caution. For others, it has the potential for huge cost savings and can enable enterprises to move people from mundane tasks such as data entry to more exciting endeavors. Recent research indicates that there's a growing demand for RPA, which involves the use of software robots to handle any rules-based repetitive tasks quickly and cost effectively.