LONDON – Warning: the Kremlin is trying to split the West by spreading "altered facts," conducting blackmail and setting up front organizations, the U.S. State Department said -- in 1981. So-called active measures were common during the Cold War, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union sought to unify and divide Europe with equal urgency. Now those tactics appear to be back, retooled for the digital age as President Vladimir Putin embraces the even older Russian foreign policy tradition of "derzhavnost," or "great powerness." Fears of Russian interference are rampant across the continent. Already reeling from Brexit, the European Union faces a string of key elections starting next month in the Netherlands, then in France and Germany.

Last year, it was reported that supercomputer IBM Watson diagnosed a rare form of leukaemia in a patient at a University of Tokyo-affiliated hospital whose case had baffled her medical team. The cloud-based, artificial intelligence-powered supercomputer is capable of cross-referencing and analysing data from tens of millions of oncology papers from research institutes all over the world. From vast volumes of data, it can instantly pull out the information it needs, much faster than humans can. The University of Tokyo reported that the 60-year-old Japanese woman was correctly diagnosed in just 10 minutes by Watson, after her genetic data was cross-referenced with the computer's own database. More and more, health technologies originally viewed as futuristic – like virtual avatars and chatbots – have become reality.

From January 2005 through February 2015, shares of Apple Inc. closed at a record 264 times. But that run could end this week. Lee Jae-yong will be questioned based on findings uncovered in the past few weeks, the special prosecutor's office said. Verizon Communications will start selling unlimited data plans on Monday, the first time it has offered such a service since 2011 and a sign that intense competition is forcing the nation's largest carrier to respond. In a crowded and broadly successful weekend box office, "The Lego Batman Movie" beat out the sequels "Fifty Shades Darker" and "John Wick: Chapter 2." .

SEOUL (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Group 005380.KS has hired a former General Motors GM.N researcher to oversee its center to develop fully autonomous vehicles, joining other automakers and Silicon Valley giants in accelerating efforts on the fast-growing technology. Lee Jin-woo, 47, who has previously led autonomous driving technology development at General Motors (GM) for more than a decade, will head the newly established Intelligent Safety Technology Center - a combined research body for Hyundai Motor and its affiliate Kia Motors 000270.KS - starting on Monday. "The new centre will not only enhance existing Advanced Drive Assistance System technologies but also conduct research into artificial intelligence related self-driving car technologies with the aim of commercializing those technologies," Hyundai Motor said in a statement on Monday. Hyundai Motor and Kia, together the world's fifth-largest automaker, aim to develop highly automated vehicles by 2020 and fully autonomous vehicles by 2030. However, experts say Hyundai needs to do more to catch up with rivals in the self-driving car race.

In an expanded edition published in 1988, they responded to claims that their 1969 conclusions significantly reduced funding for neural network research: "Our version is that progress had already come to a virtual halt because of the lack of adequate basic theories… by the mid-1960s there had been a great many experiments with perceptrons, but no one had been able to explain why they were able to recognize certain kinds of patterns and not others."

Our learning task: Given a training set S {(x1 , y1), (x2 , y2), . . . The simplest case: y { 1, 1} called binary classification problem If y is a real number it becomes a regression problem More general case, y can be a vector and each element is drawn from a finite set.

As a Venture Capital firm for Artificial Intelligence we follow the growing AI market closely. For the German AI Landscape Map, we created a list of over 600 European AI startups based on internal research mainly deriving from our network and Crunchbase. Not every company that lists AI as a part of their product has AI in it. We have therefore taken the freedom to clean the raw data. We've ended up with 81 German Artificial Intelligence startups, which made it onto our map.

Try typing "the machines" into Google and chances are that one of the top results the artificial intelligence-powered search engine will return is the phrase: "The Machines are Coming". After a 2016 filled with high-profile advances in artificial intelligence (AI), leading technologists say this could be a breakout year in the development of intelligent machines that emulate humans. Asia, until now lagging Silicon Valley in AI, will play a bigger role as the field cements itself at the pinnacle of the technology world in 2017, the experts say. Pascale Fung, an AI researcher at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), said several milestones have been reached in developing computers that are similar to the human brain. Speech and emotional recognition were among the areas "reaching new milestones", Fung said.

Your medical records contain hidden insights about your health risks, and if they can be found, the information could save your life. An Israeli big-data analytics startup is doing just that, using machine learning and artificial intelligence to help providers plan more individualized care for each patient. One of four Israeli companies named in the 2016 Digital Health Global 100, Medial EarlySign's software analyzes hundreds of parameters, trends and interrelationships in existing electronic medical record data such as blood test results. It automatically alerts a designated healthcare provider to high-risk findings. The company's first commercial product, ColonFlag, identifies and flags individuals with an increased probability of colorectal cancer -- sometimes many months before clinical signs appear, potentially improving care and saving lives.

CHICAGO – With the rise of enterprise viewers and high-powered networks, many doctors are reading diagnostic images on their own, and bypassing the radiologists. Moreover, machine learning is being applied to radiology, and threatens to automate much of what radiologists now do. So the question many radiology leaders are asking is, How does radiology stay relevant and important as a medical specialty? "Radiologists were instrumental in the past. How do we ensure this is the case in the future," asked Dr. Richard Baron, president of the Radiological Society of North America during his address at the annual RSNA conference here in November.