What do the International Space Station (ISS) and the Belgian police force have in common? If you said integrated approaches to machine learning, you'd be correct! Artificial intelligence (AI) systems that were developed to prepare astronauts for space are now being employed to solve crimes. European law enforcement agents believe the technology has the potential to help them more efficiently sift through data, recreate crime scenes, and identify leads.

The Swedish researcher warned that the increased reliance on gadgets significantly hinders children's development. Another factor that contributes to this tendency is that nowadays children spend less and less time playing, which has a detrimental effect on the thinking process. John Ratey: I think it's happening all over the world, we're seeing so much more time spent -- especially with the young, although now it's everywhere -- on screens, and when you spend time on screens you take in information but you're not putting out much. I think this has a big impact on our brains, how we learn, how we use our brains to think and ponder things and come up with new ideas and be creative. I think Sweden is a good country to show this, because they keep great data on everyone.

Forecasts suggest that by 2022 there's an outside chance we'll experience temperatures that exceed a target of the Paris climate agreement. Warming as usual: The Met Office, the UK's weather and climate forecasting organization, says its latest forecasts suggest that annual global average temperatures are likely to exceed 1 C above preindustrial levels over the next five years. A troubling outlier: The forecasts also give a 10 percent chance at least one of the next five years will see a global average temperature 1.5 C above preindustrial levels. Such an occurrence is likely to coincide with an El Niño weather event. Why it matters: The Paris agreement aims to limit average global temperature rises to less than 2 C, or ideally 1.5 C, above preindustrial levels.

There has been little innovation in the analysis of male fertility since the 1950s. Why? Tobias Boecker, Paris-based medtech entrepreneur is co-founder of Nanovare – a system that uses AI to help medical professionals to improve and speed up male fertility analysis – explores the current crisis in this field and what can be done to change things Birth rates are dropping, notably in the Western world. Between 1960 and 2015, the birth rate per woman in Germany decreased from 2.4 to 1.5, in the UK from 2.7 to 1.8 and in the US from 3.7 to 1.8. There are many external factors that influence this trend such as the increased age of marriage, the focus on professional careers, or the modernisation of social systems which eliminate parents' need to have many children to help support them in old age. Another factor that is becoming increasingly important is our own reproductive health, which depends on our lifestyle choices (eg smoking), environmental influences (eg pollution), and medical factors (eg genetic preconditions).

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It is easy to confuse the current geopolitical situation with that of the 1980s. The United States and Russia each accuse the other of interfering in domestic affairs. Russia has annexed territory over U.S. objections, raising concerns about military conflict. As during the Cold War after World War II, nations are developing and building weapons based on advanced technology. During the Cold War, the weapon of choice was nuclear missiles; today it's software, whether its used for attacking computer systems or targets in the real world.

The UK's population is ageing, and one of the outcomes of this is that more men are developing prostate cancer. In fact the number of deaths it causes among men has overtaken the number of deaths caused among women by breast cancer. And the latest available figures, from 2015, show that, overall, it killed 11,819 people - almost 400 more than breast cancer. However, the mortality rates for both diseases have fallen. But Angela Culhane, chief executive of the charity Prostate Cancer UK, says research on prostate cancer gets half the funding of that for breast cancer.

The Voynich Manuscript, a small unassuming book stored in a Yale University vault, is one of the most mysterious books in the world. The precious document containing elegant writing and strange drawings is believed to have been written six centuries ago in an unknown or coded language that has never been cracked. A pair of Canadian codebreakers may have deciphered a 600-year-old book that has been baffling cryptologists for centuries. In a study published in the journal Transactions of the Association of Computational Linguistics, computing scientists from the University of Alberta used an algorithm to try to decode parts of the Voynich Manuscript, a medieval book written in an undecipherable code with an unknown language. But other scholars are skeptical, and the manuscript remains a document very much shrouded in mystery.

Market research group, Global Market Insights, looks at the projection of the artificial intelligence market within healthcare and where major investments are coming from within the sector. In a major development that can positively impact Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Market growth, Babylon Health, a UK based digital health firm has raised nearly USD 60 million in April 2017 to diagnose patient illness by creating an AI chatbot on their smartphones. High investments made by various industry players to build more robust machine learning algorithms and big data analytics applications to deliver more effective healthcare services will completely change the medical diagnosing & treatment phase of the industry. This will help in grooming the healthcare artificial intelligence business reach greater heights. Global Market Insights, reports that healthcare artificial intelligence industry value, worth USD 750 million in 2016, is predicted to hit USD 10 billion by 2024.

DeepBrain Chain (DBC), has announced that it is now the world's first blockchain-driven AICP (Artificial Intelligence Computing Platform). DBC project serves as a global resource scheduling and resource sharing for AI computing. It allows small businesses without big GPU budgets to leverage the large number of idle GPUs of larger organizations. Increasing the efficiency of utilization and scheduling of resources globally lead to a positive impact on the cost reduction of AI business computing. The aim of DBC is to offer a decentralized AICP which is safe, flexible, private, and low cost.