An artificial intelligence (AI) system defeated a team of 15 doctors, 2-0, in two rounds of a competition that looked at the ability to diagnose brain tumors and predict the expansion of brain hematomas. The AI system, BioMind, displayed 87 percent accuracy in diagnosing brain tumors in 15 minutes, according to a report from China Daily. The doctors, from various hospitals located throughout China, displayed 66 percent accuracy in 30 minutes. Paul Parizel, MD, PhD, chair of the radiology department at Antwerp University Hospital in Belgium, said in the China Daily coverage that he sees a lot of potential in what AI can do for healthcare. "It will be like a GPS guiding a car. It will make proposals to a doctor and help the doctor diagnose," he said.

THE application of artificial intelligence has certainly come a long way, especially in the past year. Despite attempts to sensationalise AI, we have witnessed unprecedented gains in our understanding of the impact of AI-driven technologies in everyday life. Building on this progress, AI is poised to journey into the mainstream through 2018 and beyond. In June, Minister for Communications and Information, S Iswaran, announced that the Singapore government will be setting up an advisory council on the ethical use of AI and data, supported by a five-year research programme. Sharing how "innovative technologies bring economic and societal benefits, as well as attendant ethical issues", the minister underscored the need for solid regulatory frameworks to build public trust in emerging technology.

Traditional webcams have been around for a while, and they make it easier for people to talk to their friends across the miles or attend conferences even though they're not at the in-person event. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has made it even easier for people to use webcams in the ways that work best for them. Even if you aren't familiar with their capabilities yet, you might soon agree they have extremely practical uses. An AI-powered webcam called the Huddly GO wants to increase meeting productivity with a device that has built-in computer vision to detect things about the room or the number of attendees. By accessing Huddly's API, developers can then go into one of the three video streams the camera provides and add features like automatic capturing of the writing on a whiteboard or an auto-crop functionality. Microsoft no longer makes its Kinect accessory, which brought motion-sensing to the Xbox platform.

Fortnite's Playground mode is finally available – more than a week after it first arrived. In an update last Wednesday, developers Epic rolled out what they call Limited Time Mode. That allows players to drop into a mostly empty map and practise playing the game without the threat of being killed straight away. The feature was intended to be helpful to players in a game that tends to be fast-paced and where dying once means dying forever. It can be difficult to get up to speed in battle royale games, but the Playground mode was intended to fix that.

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A computer virus has spread among tens of thousands of Fortnite players, as hackers seek to take advantage of the vast numbers playing the popular video game. Security researchers at game-streaming platform Rainway uncovered the issue, which originates from a YouTube video claiming to offer free units V-Bucks – a virtual in-game currency. After receiving thousands of error reports on their platform, the researchers began looking for what those experiencing problems had in common. After noticing that all users affected appeared to be playing Fortnite, they found themselves trawling through hundreds of YouTube videos about the game that contained malicious links. "We finally found a match in a hack claiming to allow players to generate free V-Bucks and use an aimbot, two birds with one stone, how could someone resist?" states a blog that details their findings.

One of those companies is Return Path Inc., which collects data for marketers by scanning the inboxes of more than two million people who have signed up for one of the free apps in Return Path's partner network using a Gmail, Microsoft Corp. or Yahoo email address. Computers normally do the scanning, analyzing about 100 million emails a day. At one point about two years ago, Return Path employees read about 8,000 unredacted emails to help train the company's software, people familiar with the episode say. In another case, employees of Edison Software, another Gmail developer that makes a mobile app for reading and organizing email, personally reviewed the emails of hundreds of users to build a new feature, says Mikael Berner, the company's CEO. Letting employees read user emails has become "common practice" for companies that collect this type of data, says Thede Loder, the former chief technology officer at eDataSource Inc., a rival to Return Path. He says engineers at eDataSource occasionally reviewed emails when building and improving software algorithms.

The use of artificial intelligence in our everyday lives is on the increase, and it now covers many fields of activity. Something as seemingly banal as avoiding a traffic jam through the use of a smart navigation system, or receiving targeted offers from a trusted retailer is the result of big data analysis that AI systems may use

The UK government pledged in May to use artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent more than 20,000 cancer-related deaths a year by 2033, with the prime minister's plans being welcomed by health charities and industry alike. But with the world still reeling from social media data breaches, will the public be open to sharing the most private of information on the scale needed for Theresa May's vision to become a reality? And even if they are, will the information be in any fit state to be shared? On the face of it, the NHS is the perfect place for AI and big data to come together to revolutionise the way diseases are diagnosed and treated. Every day, the health service has access to reams of the 21st century's most precious commodity – data.

Facebook un-blocked users that had been blocked by hundreds of thousands of people. The vast hack could have exposed Facebook users to danger from people they thought had been banned from seeing their posts. Facebook's blocking tools allow people to stop a user from seeing things on your profile, messaging you on Messenger or adding you as a friend. But a bug meant that stopped working, allowing blocked users to see people's posts and get in touch with them on Messenger. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.