Using machine learning to fight fraud may just be starting to see its day in the sun, but if industry trends are to be believed, it's fast becoming the soul of the global fraud fighting machine. From offering fraud protection to identity verification, machine learning is increasingly being used by companies small and large to build out their next generation of products. In the last month alone, the digital identity space has seen numerous players roll out upgrades to their tools and services, which are now being powered by deep learning algorithms. In Cyprus, for example, AU10TIX announced the launch of its new OCR reader that utilizes deep learning algorithms to decipher complicated language fonts and extract content from difficult-to-read ID documents. Back in the states, Calif.-based Sift Science debuted its account takeover (ATO) prevention tool.

"We are in the business of solving the really hard problems" So said Shanker Trevedi, SVP Enterprise Business for the tech giant NVIDIA when he opened a day of presentations hosted at Odgers Berndtson's London office recently. The event was a showcase of disruptive start-ups innovating through AI and deep learning to tackle problems in the healthcare sector. The event was part of a series that Odgers Berndtson is running in partnership with technology company NVIDIA as part of their Inception Program. The programme aims to take start-ups using NVIDIA technology and machine learning to the next level of their success. Odgers Berndtson's partnership on the events – known as'Inception Connect' – aims to expose this innovation to new audiences.

We are familiar with the famous saying "dog is a man's best friend," but no one could figure out exactly why this particular animal carries the capability of being so friendly toward humans. According to a study published Wednesday, the reason behind humans and dogs striking a common cord might be because the latter descended from wolves. The study found that hyper-social canines carry variants of the genes GTF2I and GTF2IRD1, the deletion of which, in humans, triggers the Williams-Beuren Syndrome, or more commonly known as the Williams syndrome. Bridgett vonHoldt of Princeton University and her colleagues studied a portion of DNA in dogs that included 29 genes. They noticed that deletion of part or all of this section due to prolonged domestication seemed to cause the overtly friendly nature in dogs.

Twitter says that its users are being abused much less than they were six months ago. The company has made the claim as it shared the results of new efforts to make the platform a more safe place to be. The site has often been criticised for adding cosmetic new features without paying attention to the various ways that it enables and allows abuse. It says that new efforts to cut down on that abuse has led to positive results, and it has become much better at filtering them out. 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.

OnePlus 5 users are being urged to download a new software update for the phone. A customer this week discovered a serious flaw on his handset, which restarted itself when he tried to call emergency services. He was able to replicate the issue and film it, with a video posted to Facebook showing the OnePlus 5 switch itself off and back on again after he dials 911. 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.

A new handset designed to take on the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy could be launched in the UK before 2017 is out. Essential, founded by Android inventor Andy Rubin, hopes to take on the industry leaders and has secured £230 million ($300 million) to make it happen. The technology firm has held talks with major network operators to secure a launch date for the minimalist mobile in the UK, Japan and western Europe. Customers in the US who pre-ordered the handset, however, are still waiting for theirs to arrive and there have been rumours of trouble at the startup. A new handset designed to take on the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy could be launched in a number of major markets before 2017 is out. Dubbed the'Essential Phone PH-1', the phone is based on the Android operating system and will be shipped without any apps A new handset designed to take on the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy could be launched in a number of major markets before 2017 is out.

If you've ever seen a tasty-looking meal and wanted to know the recipe to make it, then help could be at hand. Scientists have created an AI, dubbed Pic2Recipe, that can find a recipe for you based a single picture of the finished dish. The AI was trained by looking at more than a million different recipes collected from various recipe websites. Its image recognition software was then taught to identify the type of food in a photo and match it with a recipe and ingredients list. You can test the system for yourself by uploading an image of a dish below or on this demo page to see how to make it.

Ever eaten a dish you didn't know them name of and wished you had the recipe so you could recreate it at home? Soon you might only need a picture of it. Researchers have devised a machine learning algorithm that looks at photos of food and predicts the recipe that created the dish. Nick Hynes at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues trained the algorithm on one million recipes, each with an illustration of the finished result, from dozens of cooking websites. Given a fresh photo of a dish, the system picked the right recipe 65 per cent of the time.

In fact, there are already a huge number of technologies engaged within the cultural sector. Autonomous vehicles require detailed 3D maps to operate, and this tech in now being used to digitize and map historical buildings. CyArk, for example, is aiming to digitally preserve heritage sites, and entire cities, across the world before they are lost to natural disasters, armed conflicts, and neglect, using autonomous driving and mapping technologies. Take a look at this 3D map of New Orleans quarter. The company also mapped the Royal Tombs of Kasubi (Uganda) in 2009, a year before fire destroyed many of the site's structures.

Bank customers will soon be able to log in to their account just by looking at their phone. High street lender TSB has said it will introduce iris recognition on its mobile banking app in September. It will become the first bank in Europe to roll out this technology, in the latest attempt to crack down on bank fraud. To use the new way of accessing their TSB account, customers will need the latest Samsung Galaxy S8. To use the new way of accessing their TSB account, customers will need the latest Samsung Galaxy S8. Samsung added iris scanning to it security options, alongside face recognition and fingerprint scanning, when the phone was released earlier this year.