IMAGE: This is a screenshot of the Gero Lifespan app. Moscow, March 29, 2018 - Researchers from the longevity biotech company GERO and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have shown that physical activity data acquired from wearables can be used to produce digital biomarkers of aging and frailty. Many physiological parameters demonstrate tight correlations with age. Various biomarkers of age, such as DNA methylation, gene expression or circulating blood factor levels could be used to build accurate «biological clocks» to obtain individual biological age and the rate of aging estimations. Yet large-scale biochemical or genomic profiling is still logistically difficult and expensive for any practical applications beyond academic research.

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during the'Artificial Intelligence for Humanity' event in Paris on March 29, 2018. The French president is to unveil on March 29 a bold plan to make France a centre of reference for artificial intelligence research, aimed at drawing homegrown and foreign talent in a field dominated by US and Chinese players. Businesses have been falling over themselves to show their investments in artificial intelligence. France wants to be in the AI game too, and President Emmanuel Macron believes that being on the forefront of the next big technology wave will help make his economy, which has experienced an uptick in growth and investment thanks to recent reforms, more competitive. Macron announced Thursday that his government would spend $1.5 billion on a number of initiatives to boost AI research in France, part of an effort to help the country plug a talent and research gap that exists between Europe, and both the U.S. and China.

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with researchers during a visit concerning artificial intelligence at the Institut Curie Hospital in Paris, March 29, 2018. RM7.14 billion) of public money into artificial intelligence research by 2022 in a bid to catch up with the United States and China and reverse a brain drain. The investment is part of an AI strategy laid out by President Emmanuel Macron at the elite College de France research institute in Paris, the French presidency said. The goal is to make better use of the French higher education system that trains computer engineers and mathematicians only to see them leave for jobs at top US tech companies. Some of them have secured high-level positions at Alphabet, the parent company of search engine Google, and Facebook, which opened an AI research centre in Paris in 2015.

Emmanuel Macron and his government are launching a big initiative around artificial intelligence today. They want to turn France into one of the leading countries when it comes to artificial intelligence. "[Artificial intelligence] is a technological, economical, social and obviously ethical revolution," Macron said in a speech. "This revolution won't happen in 50 or 60 years, it's happening right now. There are new opportunities and we can choose to follow some innovations or not." Some of the best mathematics and engineering schools are in France, and some of the best data scientists and AI researchers come from France.

The HIMSS UK Executive Leadership Summit last week brought together healthcare professionals to discuss data's role in health systems. The conference provided the opportunities for health and care professionals to learn, network and share best practice around delivering improved patient outcomes and efficiencies through technology and data. Panellists and attendees included chief information officers (CIOs) and chief clinical information officers (CCIOs) in the NHS, leaders from NHS England and NHS Digital and health IT innovators from industry. HIMSS UK is an organisation focused on transforming healthcare through IT and data engaging with healthcare professionals in more than 30 countries. Artificial intelligence (AI) could be used by NHS to target treatment by predicting which individuals or groups might be at risk of illness, sending patients to the most appropriate services and then delivering better outcomes for them.

Predicting death has long been a fascination for mankind, and now a new app promises to narrow the end of your life down to the nearest 36.5 days. Experts in Russia designed a free app dubbed Gero, which uses AI to analyse activity data from your phone accelerometer to estimate your lifespan within a tenth of a year. When combined with information recorded by wearable fitness monitors, this prediction becomes even more precise. The estimate will even be revised downwards if you don't keep up with your healthy living routines, hopefully adding an incentive to stick to them. Exactly when we shuffle off this mortal coil has long been a fascination for mankind and a new app promises to narrow this down to the nearest 36.5 days.

In exactly 12 months, Britain will leave the European Union. It's a troubling time for the island state as politicians squabble over exit conditions and citizens grapple with a deep divide in their economic, societal and cultural values. For many, the future seems bleak, but it shouldn't compare to the one found in Not Tonight, an upcoming video game by Tiki Taka Soccer developer Panic Barn. In this alternate version of Britain, one ruled by an extreme right-wing government, you're forced to work as a bouncer that gets paid for identifying and turning away European citizens. It's a horrific job, but one that's necessary to pay the bills and keep your British citizenship.

In a sign Macron's efforts to woo top scientists and businesses may be starting to bear fruit, Samsung Electronics, Japan's Fujitsu and London-based Google-owned Deepmind announced plans to beef up their operations in Paris earlier.

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss engineering company ABB (ABBN.S) is considering acquisitions to increase its capabilities in artificial intelligence, Chief Executive Ulrich Spiesshofer said on Thursday. "We will continually further expand the portfolio of ABB," he said, speaking on the sidelines of the company's annual general meeting in Zurich. This would include investment in organic growth in artificial intelligence (AI), and partnerships with other companies to accelerate areas such as linking AI to industrial robots. ABB, whose products also include charging stations for electric cars and massive converters for continent-spanning transmission systems, would also invest selectively in start-up companies, Spiesshofer said. He was speaking after ABB gave a slightly more upbeat assessment about the development of its markets for 2018, saying conditions had brightened.

I'm sure you've probably heard about the 2018 FIFA Football World Cup in Russia everywhere during the last few months. And, if you are a techy too, I guess you also have realized that Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are buzzwords too. So, what better way to get ready for the World Cup than by practicing in a project that combines these two hot topics? In order to do that, we're going to leverage a dataset of the Fifa 2018 video game. My goal is to show you how to create a predictive model that is able to forecast how good a soccer player is based on their game statistics (using Python in a Jupyter Notebook).