Josuhe Pagliery grew up playing video games on consoles he says were not common in Cuba. Those games helped inspire him to develop Savior, Cuba's first independent video game. Josuhe Pagliery grew up playing video games on consoles he says were not common in Cuba. Those games helped inspire him to develop Savior, Cuba's first independent video game. Between Fidel Castro's death and the new American president, it's hard to know what's next for U.S.-Cuba relations. But partnerships are already underway, including one involving Cuba's first independent video game design company and a U.S. foundation that helped it get started.

Intel doesn't want to get left behind in the next evolution of the mobile business. The chipmaking giant said on Wednesday it's launching a 5G modem chip, codenamed "Goldridge." Intel is emphasizing the modem's applications in areas outside of phones too, such as autonomous vehicles, drones and smart city sensors. "5G will enable billions of'things' to become smart through seamless connectivity, massive computing power and access to rich data and analytics stored at the edge of the cloud," wrote Aicha Evans, the head of Intel's communications and devices group, in a blog post about the 5G modem. Intel is expecting to sample the modem to customers in the second half of 2017 and go into production soon afterwards, an Intel spokeswoman said. Intel isn't the first company to announce a 5G modem.

For too long the thrust of AI has been to replace humans. For the last 30 years the media has loved to portray AI as meaning'Machines are better than Humans'; whether it's Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator or Alicia Vikander in Ex Machina. We think this has incorrectly framed the adoption of AI within businesses. It has set unrealistic expectations for how AI will perform, as well as created scaremongering about the large scale loss of jobs. A better framing is realizing that Machines and Humans have complementary capabilities.

The UK's National Health Service will soon begin a trial testing whether or not a chatbot can effectively replace a call center for non-emergency medical triage, according to a report from the Financial Times. Babylon, a UK-based telemedicine startup, will power the six-month trial in north-central London, which will include 1.2 million covered citizens. Babylon is a major telemedicine provider in its native England. The company's direct-to-consumer offering starts with an AI-powered chatbot which can escalate up to a video visit if necessary. Triage via Babylon requires about 12 text messages and takes about a minute and a half.

LG unveiled its own competitor to Amazon Echo and Google Home on Wednesday – a home assistant that can play music and tell you the weather but also order your vacuum cleaner to start cleaning the house and turn on your oven. The Hub Robot, which LG said will go on sale in 2017, was shown for the first time in Las Vegas ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show, which opens to the public on Thursday. The device – a little white machine that has two glowing blue "eyes" on the front – appears to be a direct competitor to Amazon Echo and Google Home. Introducing the Hub Robot, David VanderWaal, vice-president of marketing, home appliances & consumer at LG, described it as "your intelligent home assistant". It can also play music, tell you the about the weather and traffic – all things that Amazon Echo and Google Home can do.

In video game development, why are video game ideas worth nothing? I've worked at EA along with 10,000 other people. The average experience level was probably around eight years. I worked at Ubisoft, also along with 10,000 other people. My particular game studio was more around fourteen years of experience.

Companies invested billions of dollars in AI research and development. Machines ingested trillions upon trillions of pieces of data to train themselves to be experts in fields such as healthcare, financial services and customer service. 1 By all accounts, 2016 proved to be a major year for artificial intelligence. We asked AI experts to weigh in … 4. 3 What advances in AI do you predict will happen in 2017? 5. "From the hardware side of things, we will start seeing embedded devices with specialized architectures for running neural nets. Those things will pop out in self-driving cars, vacuum cleaners, maintenance robots, smart cameras, etc. Yann LeCunn Founding Director of NYU Center of Data Science Director of AI Research, Facebook 4 More Information 6. "5% of all new enterprise apps will have some form of AI in 2017 and 50% by the year of 2021." Patrick Moorhead Founder, President and Principal Analyst Moor Insights and Strategy 5 More Information Powerful partnerships are already in place to accelerate AI in the enterprise. Over the last several decades, nations have competed on speed, intent to build the world's fastest supercomputer. In 2017, the race will shift. Nations of the world will compete on who has the smartest supercomputer, not solely the fastest."

A technically niche start up operating in 4 continents successfully raised capital and is now expending. They are looking for new talents in Data Science in order to implement data mining algorithms to enhance and improve the company's platform. This is a technically advanced role for a DATA SCIENTIST. You will be part a global team and the working language is English. THE ROLE Giving answers to problems found in the financial industry, you will be delivering projects to the customer's environment and working toward creating the new and improved version of the company's marketed product.

Finally a new year is here after the most politically divisive 12 months in a very long time. In the UK, Brexit shattered dreams and friendships. In the US, the polarisation was already huge, but a bitter election campaign made the divisions even deeper. A researcher from King's College London explains how we start with fairly small opinions about an issue to being fully entrenched, as many may not have been for one side during Brexit but were completely sure their opinions were in fact right How is it possible that people come to hold such widely different views of reality? And what can we do (if anything) to break out of the cycle of increasingly hostile feelings towards people who seem to be on'the other side' from us?

Petty criminals had better watch out. A computer vision system has been developed that detects suspicious behaviour in CCTV footage as it happens. The system can then alert CCTV operators to intervene, and save the footage in case it is needed for evidence. Researchers involved in the P-REACT project, which is the work of a consortium of European companies and organisations and is partly funded by a grant from the European Commission, say the surveillance technology could help catch criminals in the act and relieve police of "digital evidence overload" by highlighting video clips most likely to be relevant to investigations. "If a camera at a gas station picks up suspicious activity, the video footage will be sent to the cloud, people at the gas station will be alerted, and nearby cameras will be told to look out for the criminals too," says project coordinator Juan Irujo at Vicomtech, a research foundation in San Sebastian, Spain.