The Mapbox Vision SDK provides augmented reality (AR) navigation, driver alerts for speed limits, pedestrians, vehicles and other event-based triggers for responsive apps. The integration with Azure IoT Hub will provide developers with a holistic solution that aggregates cloud data using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning technologies to send reports. Mapbox plans to integrate the open-sourced Azure IoT Edge runtime, which provides custom logic, management and communications functions for edge devices. Events detected from the Vision SDK integrated with Azure IoT Edge will enable developers to build responsive applications that both provide immediate feedback to the driver as well as stream semantic event data into Microsoft Cognitive Services for additional analysis. Reports include sending collision incidents to an insurance platform, providing information about heavy traffic or blocked roadway alerts to a dispatch network, or activity about a crossing intersection to a business intelligence platform analyzing route paths.

Moscow-based search giant Yandex has revealed a Russian speaking smart speaker to take on Amazon. The $160 device will work with its digital assistant'Alice', becoming the latest challenger to take on the leading voice-activated home helpers from Silicon Valley. Yandex is targeting the Russian-speaking market with its Yandex.Station speaker, as well as a platform on which third-party developers can programme Alice to order pizza, check mobile phone bills or buy plane tickets. The $160 device will work with its digital assistant'Alice', becoming the latest challenger to take on the leading voice-activated home helpers from Silicon Valley. The Yandex Station has Bluetooth capabilities and an HDMI port for streaming television on connected displays, and has including two 10W audio drivers and a 30W woofer.

The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the developmental challenges are the same: People, Process and Platform. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Craig Sproule, CEO of Metavine, demonstrated how to move beyond today's coding paradigm and shared the must-have mindsets for removing complexity from the development process, accelerating application delivery times, and ensuring that developers will become heroes (not bottlenecks) in the IoT revolution. Speaker Bio Craig Sproule is the CEO of Metavine where he is responsible for the company's vision, product development and customer success.

There is a war a-brewin', but this war will be fought with wits and not brute strength. Ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin's declaration that "the nation that leads in AI (Artificial Intelligence) will be the ruler of the world," the press and analysts have created hysteria regarding the ramifications of artificial intelligence on everything from public education to unemployment to healthcare to Skynet. Note: artificial intelligence (AI) endows applications with the ability to automatically learn and adapt from experience via interacting with the surroundings / environment. See the blog "Artificial Intelligence is not Fake Intelligence" for a more detailed explanation on artificial intelligence and machine learning. The Fast Company article "How to Stop Worrying and Love the Great AI War of 2018," projected that the AI battle would ultimately boil down between the "AI Big 6": Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft.

Montreal: Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, has visited the headquarters of "Element AI", a Canadian artificial intelligence company, within the framework of his official visit to Canada. Shaikh Abdullah also visited the headquarters of CAE Inc, a Canadian manufacturer of simulation technologies, modelling technologies and training services. He was briefed on the mission of "Element AI" and its most prominent programmes, and lauded its work in AI research and development. Element AI was founded in 2016 by leading AI researchers in Montreal, and is pioneering an'AI-First World' by turning the world's most important AI research into transformative business applications. While touring CAE Inc facilities and was briefed about its most prominent programmes that it offers as well as its simulation systems provided to customers, which will contribute to preparing qualified human resources to work in the aviation sector.

It might be a triumph of global capitalism that you can order a Coke in London, Tokyo or Ulaanbaatar and, a few minor recipe tweaks aside, it'll taste pretty much the same. But Jason Cohen, the chief executive of Analytical Flavor Systems, an artificial intelligence platform for food and beverage producers, believes it could soon feel old-fashioned, not to mention unappealing, to consume food and drinks designed for a mass market rather than your specific demographic or – in time – you. One day you might be able to hold your smartphone up to a vending machine and order a unique Coca-Cola, with a recipe formulated to appeal to your particular palate, and continually tweaked according to your feedback. Cohen's company uses AI to help food and drink producers appeal to target groups and predict what people might like in the future. I met Cohen, 27, in a Japanese-style tea shop in downtown Manhattan.

A Nintendo Switch game console is displayed at an electronics store in Tokyo, Japan March 3, 2017. The Switch already enjoys a healthy collection of Nintendo first-party games, but last night the first Pokemon game was announced for the system. What's more, it's already available to download and play! The game is called Pokemon Quest, but it's very different from the core Pokemon games we are used to seeing on Nintendo's handhelds. This is Pokemon-lite, and it's a free-to-start game that's also heading to Android and iOS platforms.

Will AI become so intelligent that we don't need government any more? That's the suggestion from Taiwan's digital chief, who notes that "We can replace the entire government by AI in 500 years". That seems unlikely to affect many GovInsider readers – unless modern medicine dramatically increases the average human life expectancy. But already we are seeing this technology improve public service delivery. And far from making government become colder and more mechanised, this ancient institution is getting closer to citizens than ever before.

The first ever brain surgery to completely use robotics was conducted at Ankara University's Medical Faculty Brains and Nerve Surgery Department. Dr. Ümit Eroğlu conducted the operation on the female patient, 50, using only the Da Vinci robot to remove a skull base tumor starting from the mouth.He said that a big tumor on a bone of the patient, who was discharged from the hospital in April, bonding the skull and backbone was discovered and it caused erosion on bone and the skull base. The surgeon said that there are varying attitudes about robotic surgery in the world. But, he added, there is no other example of this operation, which was carried out completely with robotics surgery. Dr. Eroğlu explained that the area where the tumor was located was deep, narrow and hard to reach and the success of an operation like that with today's methods is low.

The greatest threat to the American workforce is not automation. It is not the digital revolution. It is the stagnation of innovation. If the U.S. continues on its current trajectory it will be surpassed by China and Russia before the next generation. As of now, this is a threat, but if we do not act soon, it will mark the extinction of the American workforce as we know it.