The connected revolution is well underway!! With a plethora of technological innovations, enterprises are now digitally transforming and setting new benchmarks. From innovating and evolving to scaling; they must juggle many elements in their quest for successful digital business transformation. Kellton Tech is exhibiting at ConnecTechAsia Singapore Summit 2018, which brings together over 2,000 exhibitors from across the industry. These three days are fortified with keynote sessions that will unearth discussions around AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain Technology Applications, Cybersecurity and Defence, Enterprise IoT, Smart Cities & Connected Industries, Cloud and Big Data, AR/ VR, Immersive Realities, and much more.

Eastern China's Anhui province plans to strengthen research and development into artificial intelligence to value the regional sector at over CNY15 billion (USD2.3 billion) by 2020. The program will center around an industry park specialized in speech recognition, China Speech Valley, in the provincial capital Hefei, state-owned news agency Xinhua reported. The scheme will support companies, universities and research institutes to broaden applications in agriculture, manufacturing, education, medicine and urban management. "China Speech Valley will provide the scientific and education resources," said Qi Dongfeng, head of operations at the park. "The program will focus on industrial applications up and down the supply chain, with research directed at chips, algorithms, smart voice products and intelligent sensors."

The European Parliament is about to vote on a new law that campaigners claim could completely change "the free and open internet as we know it." It would potentially mean that tech companies would be forced to scan every single thing posted to their sites – and take down anything they think might be stolen. Prominent figures from the tech industry wrote an open letter to the President of the European Parliament warning that Article 13 represented an "imminent threat" to the future of the internet. "Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users," the open letter warns. "We support the consideration of measures that would improve the ability for creators to receive fair remuneration for the use of their works online. For the sake of the internet's future, we urge you to vote for the deletion of this proposal."

Space Invaders, perhaps the most classic game ever made, is turning 40. The game was released in 1978, and in the years since has gone on to influence the entirety of culture. Its consequences were felt not only in games, but across various media, but across science fiction. It changed the way games worked. It was the first major game to depict its own world, rather than simulating something that already exists; it introduced central concepts, like the high score and multiple lives.

IBM presents its Project Debater on stage as a black obelisk with a screen for a face. A passive blue oval shows when it's idling, but animated blue circles move around as it's processing speeches or listening to a debate opponent. We saw computers beat humans at chess in 1997, beat humans at Jeopardy in 2011 and vanquish the world's best human players of the ancient game of Go in 2017. On Monday, a computer edged out a victory over people in a far more nuanced competition: debate. IBM created a system called Project Debater that competes in what the company calls computational argumentation -- knowing a subject, presenting a position and defending it against opposition.

As governments around the world follow China, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) technology for massive surveillance infrastructure and real-time facial recognition, chipmaker NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) is set to gain on an additional $5 billion sales opportunity by 2020, according to one team of bulls on the Street. In a note to clients Monday, analysts at UBS lifted their price target on NVDA stock from $266 to $285, reflecting an 8.4% upside from Monday morning, as reported by CNBC. Trading down about 0.9% at $262.94, NVIDIA shares have gained 36.1% year-to-date (YTD) and returned 73.4% over the most recent 12 months, compared to the S&P 500's 3.4% growth and 13.5% increase over the same respective periods. UBS cited the Santa Clara, California-based semiconductor manufacturer's leadership in the machine learning chip and software markets. In particular, the analysts are upbeat on NVIDIA's Metropolis platform, which enables governments to use AI-powered software to analyze video feeds for traffic monitoring, law enforcement and public safety services.

Google Translate has become the internet's go-to resource for short, quick translations from foreign languages. The service was first launched in April 2006, seeing off early competition from the likes of Babel Fish. It now boasts more than 500m users daily worldwide, offering 103 languages. But how exactly does it work? How does Google News actually work?

Google recently announced it would be pulling out of a high profile DARPA Artificial Intelligence (AI) program called MAVEN citing ethics concerns and a petition from 4,000 of its employees. This decision came just before The Economist ran a cover story detailing the Chinese government's brutal oppression of the Uyghur population in the Zinjang province of western China. Uyghurs are a Muslim Turkic minority, ethnically and religiously distinct from the ruling Han Chinese. The Chinese government has turned the province into a technologically enabled police state, with invasive monitoring of all forms of communication, biometric identity controls, and novel applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence. In December, Google announced it would be opening a new AI research center in China, expanding its existing presence in the country.

An expansive third-person action game set on foreign planets, Anthem rides the coattails of Destiny, The Division and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands, and promises wide multiplayer support that will continue long after it launches . At first glance it looks a lot like Destiny, with four players in mech exosuits blasting away at space creatures with rifles, pulse cannons, grenades and missiles. In combat, Anthem recalls Titanfall, as you transition from hovering, to dodging, landing, sprinting and swimming, experimenting with the weighty arsenal of weapons. Developer BioWare is known for great stories: we've seen none of that aspect of Anthem yet, but it feels great to play. The trailer suggests a fun, colourful, 1980s-inspired take on cyberpunk, but in reality Cyberpunk 2077 is gritty, featuring a lot of nudity, violence, swearing and drugs.

Mars and the Earth are nestling closer than they have for 15 years. The phenomenon – known as a Mars approach – should allow people to see the Red Planet with the naked eye. For Nasa, it is also a perfect opportunity to take advantage of the relatively short distance and send off missions to explore Mars. That is why Mars missions tend to launch roughly every two years – since that is how often the close approaches happen. From the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Terry W. Virts took this photograph of the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. Gulf Coast at sunset This image of an area on the surface of Mars, approximately 1.5 by 3 kilometers in size, shows frosted gullies on a south-facing slope within a crater.