Health FX is a company that intends to become the standard of the future of healthcare when blockchain technology is applied to it. By using machine learning, AI and the blockchain, this company plans to empower the users with their own medical data, which can lead to a simplification process of taking care of your health. This company might be only a start-up at the moment, but it has already received the Best Practices and Growth Excellence Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan. The creators of the company decided to create Health FX because the industry needed modern solutions for problems like optimization of records management, patient-practitioner matching and insurance claims in the health industry. With the help of smart contracts and a vast network of medical professionals, the team intends to diminish the health care costs, improve the quality of the patient treatment and the security and efficiency of the treatments in this whole field.

Monday, the 29th, marked the beginning of the EU Green Week, an event organized by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment to discuss environmental policies. This year, the focus is "Green jobs for a greener future." The organizers stressed how traditional specializations will be characterized by additional sets of new skills. Being able to deal with technology is certainly one of them, and many jobs in the environmental sciences are already adopting these innovative tools. People working in this sector are no longer restricted to field work and laboratory analyses.

IBM on Friday unveiled its next-generation Power Systems Servers that includes its new processor that will work for artificial intelligence systems that require heavy computing capability. "Built specifically for compute-intensive AI workloads, the new POWER9 systems are capable of improving the training times of deep learning frameworks by nearly four times, allowing enterprises to build more accurate AI applications, faster," IBM said in a statement. With a focus on AI and machine learning, it can do a lot of tasks with greater efficiency. As a result of using this new, high-powered system, data scientists can build applications faster, ranging from deep learning insights in scientific research, real-time fraud detection and credit risk analysis. "IT infrastructure needs to be re-designed for the AI era, which lets companies analyse data in milliseconds and make decisions driven by data. AI workloads demand new hardware and software paradigms and the infrastructure to deliver data-driven workloads," said Viswanath Ramaswamy, Director – Systems, India/South Asia.

It is a terrifying vision of the future - a robot police officer with dark eyes and no discernible mouth that can identify criminals and collect evidence. The robocop, complete with police hat to give it that eerie uncanny valley feel, was shown off outside the world's tallest tower, Burj Khalifa, in Dubai, last June. But since then what has it done? And is Dubai's love affair with robotics any more than just PR for a country desperate to be at the cutting edge of technology? PAL Robotics, the company behind the robot, threw some light on its duties, which seemed more tourist guide than police officer.

Why economists and futurists disagree about the future of the labor market. Some in Silicon Valley are even calling for a basic minimum income provided by the government for everyone, under the assumption that work will become scarce. But many economists are skeptical of these claims, because the notion that the the economy offers a fixed amount of work has been debunked time and time again over the centuries and current economic data show no signs of a productivity boom. Fortunately, we don't need to divine the future of the labor market in order to prepare for it. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE

The concept of self-driving cars has always intrigued many people. We've seen it on television shows like Knight Rider and in films including Batman, Minority Report, and Total Recall. But within the last couple years, the idea is quickly turning into reality. The reason for this is the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the connectivity of multiple devices through the Internet.

Donald Trump's chief technology advisor, Michael Kratsios, said that the US government would release any data that might help fuel AI research in the United States, although he didn't specify immediately what kind of data would be released, nor who would be eligible to receive the information. Speaking at EmTech Next, a conference held at MIT this week, Kratsios, deputy assistant to the President and deputy US chief technology officer, said that the government is looking for ways to open up federal data to AI researchers. "Anything that we can do to unlock government data we're committed to," Kratsios told MIT Technology Review. "We'd love to hear from any academic that has any insights." Data has been a key factor behind recent advances in artificial intelligence.

This is the era of advanced technologies and particularly artificial intelligence. On such note, Axis Bank launched an AI-powered chatbot -- Axis Aha! This chatbot is designed to help customers execute transactions and answer their banking-related queries. "This unique chatbot provides relevant and contextual responses to customer queries and even helps make transactions on the chat window itself," the bank said in a statement. "Customers can initiate transactions either through voice or chat."

In doing so, they utilise artificial intelligence or AI to increase their business value and create barriers for new entry to beat the competition. "We have to transform our business to create a barrier for new entry by using AI BIM – artificial intelligence building information modelling – for our design, construction process and even our after-sales service to customers. We set up our application to serve all of our customers' demands," said AP (Thailand) Plc's chief business group officer for condominiums, Vittakarn Chandavimol, in a recent interview with The Nation. AP (Thailand) set up its design and construction standards by collaborating with its building partners to ensure they know how to meet the company's AI BIM requirements.. The system reduces paperwork by communicating through an iCloud system. "We make changes to the design and regarding most of our raw materials through the iCloud, and integrate our information until the design is finalised and we can start construction.

An AI system developed by a team from Germany, France and the US can diagnose skin cancer more accurately than dermatologists. In the study, the software was able to accurately detect cancer in 95% of images of cancerous moles and benign spots, whereas a team of 58 dermatologists was accurate 87% of the time. Chinese researchers have developed an algorithm that can diagnose prostate cancer as accurately as a pathologist. Research leader Hongqian Guo of Nanjing University said: "[This] will help pathologists make better, faster diagnoses, as well as eliminating the day-to-day variation in judgment that can creep into human evaluations." Researchers at the University of Texas, Houston, have developed software to accurately contour the shape of head and neck cancer tumours.