During an emergency call, it can be difficult for ambulance call-handlers to understand the severity of the caller's problem. But a new artificial intelligence system is helping ambulance call-handlers in Copenhagen to make more accurate diagnoses on the phone. Corti is an artificial intelligence platform that uses machine learning to make life-saving diagnoses, including heart attacks and strokes. During a live 999 call, the AI applies speech recognition and analysing audio to assess the language, dialect and background noise. It then uses this information to suggest if the caller is suffering from a critical issue.

Apple has joined the race to put a microphone in every home. The firm today announced that its £319 ($349) 'HomePad' smart speaker is finally set to go on sale on 9th February in the US, UK and Australia - just over a month later than initially planned. The wireless smart speaker uses spatial awareness technology to sense its place in a room and adjust audio output accordingly. The 7in speaker, first unveiled last year but whose release was delayed from December, will also house Apple's virtual assistant Siri, meaning it can be controlled using voice commands and also provide news and weather information when asked. It is fitted with six microphones to records owners' voice commands.

Previously, we talked about object detection, what it is and how it has been recently tackled using deep learning. If you haven't read our previous blog post, we suggest you take a look at it before continuing. Last year, we decided to get into Faster R-CNN, reading the original paper, and all the referenced papers (and so on and on) until we got a clear understanding of how it works and how to implement it. We ended up implementing Faster R-CNN in Luminoth, a computer vision toolkit based on TensorFlow which makes it easy to train, monitor and use these types of models. So far, Luminoth has raised an incredible amount of interest and we even talked about it at both ODSC Europe and ODSC West. Based on all the work developing Luminoth and based on the presentations we did, we thought it would be a good idea to have a blog post with all the details and links we gathered in our research as a future reference for anyone is interested in the topic. Faster R-CNN was originally published in NIPS 2015. After publication, it went through a couple of revisions which we'll later discuss.

The Apple HomePod was supposed to go on sale last month at the height of the holiday season, but Apple pushed back its release date to early 2018. Now, the tech giant has finally announced a HomePod release date. Apple announced in a press release today that the HomePod will be released Feb. 9. The company also confirmed customers will be able to pre-order the HomePod online starting Jan. 26. The Siri-powered smart speaker is also set to arrive in France and Germany this spring.

New artificial intelligence technology is helping dispatchers figure out if a patient is experiencing sudden cardiac arrest. Fast Company reported that Corti, an AI assistant, will be on the line with Copenhagen dispatchers to analyze the caller's words and background clues in order to determine if the caller is describing a patient suffering from cardiac arrest and alert the dispatcher in real time. "If you and I have a problem, we end up Googling or asking people," Andreas Cleve, CEO of the company that created the technology, said. "These people are handling more or less the worst days of our lives but they have no tools to do it." Although Copenhagen dispatchers can recognize cardiac arrest over the phone 73 percent of the time, the program has proven to have a 95 percent success rate, and also "trains itself" to analyze factors in the background such as yelling or sirens.

Rumors have been swirling as of late that Apple is getting ready to release its new Amazon Echo and Google Home rival very soon, and now we have an official launch date for the HomePod. Apple on Tuesday announced that the $349 HomePod will hit store shelves on Feb. 9. The Cupertino tech giant will start taking pre-orders on its website this Friday, Jan. 26, in the US, UK, and Australia. The Siri-backed smart speaker is slated to arrive in France and Germany this spring. Getting to this point has already been a long road for Apple, which unveiled the HomePod in June and planned to start selling it in December, in time for the holidays.

Company's delayed, £319 smart speaker pitched as music-first wireless speaker that can be voice-controlled via Siri Tue 23 Jan 2018 09.44 EST Last modified on Tue 23 Jan 2018 11.13 EST Apple's delayed £319 HomePod smart speaker will finally be available to buy on Friday in the UK, US and Australia. The 17.8cm tall HomePod is pitched as a music-first wireless speaker that can be controlled by voice using Apple's Siri assistant, which can also set timers, reminders, check the weather and control smart home devices. "It brings advanced audio technologies like beam-forming tweeters, a high-excursion woofer and automatic spatial awareness, together with the entire Apple Music catalogue and the latest Siri intelligence, in a simple, beautiful design that is so much fun to use," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing. The HomePod was announced in June to ship before the end of 2017, but Apple was forced to delay shipping in November as the product needed more work. Apple could only watch as Amazon got an over three-year head start with the Echo – while Google's Home is 14 months old – and it now has some catching up to do. Ben Wood, chief of research at CCS Insight, said: "This is a critically important device for Apple given the significant head start Amazon and Google have in this area.

Apple will release its brand new HomePod in just a couple of weeks, it has announced. The smart speaker will go on sale on 9 February. Pre-orders will open this Friday, 26 January, it said in a statement. The 7-inch speaker will cost £319 in the UK, as well as similar prices in the US and Australia when it goes on sale at the end of this week. It will go on sale in France and Germany in spring, Apple said – voice assistants often roll out slower than other products, since they rely on having local data and languages.

In the aftermath of the German U-boat campaign in the First World War, many in Europe and the United States argued that submarines were immoral and should be outlawed. The British Admiralty supported this view, and as Blair has described, even offered to abolish their submarine force if other nations followed suit. While British proposals to ban submarines in 1922 and 1930 were defeated, restrictions on their use where imposed that mandated that submarines could not attack a ship until such ships crews and passengers were placed in safety. This reaction to the development of a new means of war is illustrative of the type of ethical and legal challenges that must be addressed as military organizations adopt greater human-machine integration. This article is the final of three that examines the key aspects of human-machine teaming. In the first, I examined the rationale for human-machine teaming through seven'propositions'. The secondarticle examined three forms of human-machine teaming that military organizations might adopt in a closer integration of humans and machines.

The mystery of why a handful of cars were abandoned in a derelict car park in Edinburgh may have been solved. The £5m Autosafe SkyPark used robots to stack cars and was dubbed the "car park of the future" - but went into receivership in 2003. After lying empty for more than a decade, the building in Morrison Street is now being demolished. And the work has uncovered eight cars which were left behind when the doors were closed. Images of the abandoned vehicles has sparked a number of theories about why they were never removed.