Google has chosen India as a major battleground to take on rivals Amazon and Microsoft in its bid to dominate cloud computing services, said Rick Harshman, MD-Asia Pacific for Google Cloud, in an interview. He said the company had made big strides in the country in terms of enterprises adopting its technologies such as cloud services, security, artificial intelligence and machine learning. How are Indian enterprises adopting your technologies, especially cloud and artificial intelligence? How large is the opportunity? Globally... only about 5%-10% of all workloads in IT run on the cloud. I think the estimates are quite conservative.

We are going to probably be seeing E3 leaks every hour on the hour until the show is over, and the trend continues with Assassin's Creed Odyssey today. It was leaked via a promotional keychain (a keychain!) that Assassin's Creed Odyssey was Ubisoft's next game in the series last week, but today we have a fresh Odyssey leak courtesy of the PlayStation store. We already knew the game focuses on Greece and Spartans (that much was clear from the helmet on the keychain and Ubisoft's follow-up teaser), but this description is noteworthy for a couple reasons. "Take control of your destiny and write your own epic odyssey as you journey to become a legendary Spartan hero. Rejected by your family, you must embark on an adventure from outcast mercenary to legendary Spartan hero to uncover the truth about your past.

AI has the ability to gather tons of data and learn from it. Creating the more predictive models AI is booming the stakes. All of this ability of AI has the potential of changing the healthcare industry. Big data and well trained AI system can improve the patient diagnosis, precision medicine, patient data security, clinical decision support and many more. When it comes to AI, we always talk about the rise of intelligent robots and taking our jobs.

Land Rover builds cars with two principles in mind: off-road capability and in-car comfiness. When you buy a Range Rover or Discovery, you're paying for a vehicle that can clamber over boulder-strewn trails and give you a back massage at the same time. So it shouldn't be surprising that last week the automaker announced it is developing the ultimate combination of these qualities: self-driving cars that can go off-road. The $5 million project, called Cortex, will give customers "autonomous cars capable of all-terrain, off-road driving in any weather condition." Now, these won't be Robo Rovers that can plow through streams and scramble over hulking tree roots--at least not anytime soon.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is best known for its ability to see (as in driverless cars) and listen (as in Alexa and other home assistants). My colleagues and I are developing an AI system that can smell human breath and learn how to identify a range of illness-revealing substances that we might breathe out. The sense of smell is used by animals and even plants to identify hundreds of different substances that float in the air. But compared to that of other animals, the human sense of smell is far less developed and certainly not used to carry out daily activities. For this reason, humans aren't particularly aware of the richness of information that can be transmitted through the air, and can be perceived by a highly sensitive olfactory system.

Fully autonomous cars will make Britain's roads safer, according to a pioneer of driverless vehicles. Professor Paul Newman, who was behind the UK's first and only self-driving car on public roads, said that the ability to share data between robots was a powerful tool that should be embraced. Over the last five years autonomous technology has developed rapidly, with the likes of Google and traditional motor manufacturers designing driverless cars. Last year Ocado trialled in London the delivery of food to customers with a self-driving truck, which was developed by Oxford-based Oxbotica, a company co-founded by Prof Newman. Other semi-autonomous technology is being pioneered in cars with features such as Tesla's Autopilot and BMW's traffic jam assistant.

Fully autonomous cars will make Britain's roads safer, according to a pioneer of driverless vehicles. Professor Paul Newman, who was behind the UK's first and only self-driving car on public roads, said that the ability to share data between robots was a powerful tool that should be embraced. Over the last five years autonomous technology has developed rapidly, with the likes of Google and traditional motor manufacturers designing driverless cars. Last year Ocado trialled in London the delivery of food to customers with a self-driving truck, which was developed by Oxford-based Oxbotica, a company co-founded by Prof Newman. Other semi-autonomous technology is being pioneered in cars with features such as Tesla's Autopilot and BMW's traffic jam assistant.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used both to monitor and prevent crimes in many countries. AI is used in such areas as bomb detection and deactivation, surveillance, prediction, social media scanning and interviewing suspects. However, for all the hype and hoopla around AI, there is scope for growth of its role in crime management. Currently, a few issues are proving problematic. AI is not uniformly engaged across countries in crime management. There is fierce debate on the ethical boundaries of AI, compelling law enforcement authorities to tread carefully.

"The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance, adoption, and spread of technology than many of us are willing to acknowledge." Humanities degrees are needed in technology. They give context to the world we operate in day to day. Critical thinking skills, deeper understanding of the world around us, philosophy, ethics, communication, and creativity offer different approaches to problems posed by technology.

Stena Line has partnered with Hitachi Europe to implement artificial intelligence technology (AI) to reduce fuel consumption costs, which will become an important tool in the company--s efforts to minimise environmental impact. The partnership will see a team of Hitachi experts from across its business units review the existing digital architecture in close collaboration with Stena Line, and advise the ferry company. Hitachi said by leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies, it will be able to identify the key factors causing high fuel consumption and, critically, advise how to make operations more efficient. Hitachi Global Digital Holdings Corporation chief executive officer Hicham Abdessamad said --Digitalisation plays a key role in helping industries such as shipping optimise their operations for both financial performance and environmental impact. We are engaged with Stena Line on a number of strategic co-creation initiatives and we see this as an important next step in providing digital expertise to help them achieve positive business and societal outcomes.--