DeepMind Health's inaugural collaboration with the U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS), initially focused on building an app for helping early detection of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), was relaunched earlier today -- under a new information-sharing agreement with the Royal Free NHS Trust, and a broader scope for the collaboration. Under the arrangement, patient identifiable data (PID, aka people's medical records) continues to be shared across a wide range of data types for some 1.6 million individuals who are being treated or have been treated at the Royal Free's three London hospitals (five years of historical in-patient data is also made accessible under the arrangement). The types of data being shared under ISA 1 and 2 (aka the legal contracts that set out how the data can be used) are described as "similar" by DeepMind -- and a spokesman confirmed that patient data shared under the original arrangement has therefore not been deleted (given that they view it as a continuation of the same arrangement). The relevant section of ISA 2, detailing the data types being shared, can be found at the bottom of this post. There are some notable additions to the project at this point -- such as a plan to create a technical audit infrastructure to track and log individual access to patient data, and an explicit commitment in the ISA that Google will not use the PID for any other purpose, nor combine it with other data, nor sell data to third parties.

Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, announced yesterday that the MXNet deep learning framework would become "[Amazon's] deep learning framework of choice." Amazon Web Services is expected to announce a new version of its PostgreSQL database for its cloud customers during its AWS re:Invent conference next week, according to a Fortune report. Democratizing Machine Learning has always been BigML's founding mission, so we are continually searching for new opportunities. As such, when a company is interested in our technology and is willing to help us further our cause of "Machine Learning for everyone", we feel the urge to collaborate. This is exactly what happened with our new education partner.

'Data is not about insights, it's about generating money,' says Rubikloud's chief product officer Ever since the financial crash of 2008, businesses around the world have struggled to grow at the same levels they once enjoyed – but big data and machine learning could help turn things around, and help companies reconnect with customers. "The reality now is this plateaued, zero-growth type of world, where you're in the 0.5-1 per cent [range]," Ayoub said, speaking at WIRED Retail 2016. There's a lot of companies that do more small scale retail that are seeing enormous amounts of growth but in general, this is the kind of climate we're living in." Ayoub isn't concerned so much with why this is happening, but rather how retailers are reacting to the change. One way businesses have tried to keep their costs down is by consolidating, then leveraging greater purchasing power to buy stock at lower prices. "Big fish buy big fish, then bigger fish buy them," said Ayoub. "That allows them to pressure vendors to push down prices.

Like a university student taking a gap year to recharge their batteries after a particularly gruelling exam period, the mainline Assassin's Creed series gets a much-needed rest this year. Having spectacularly failed their French A level and scraped a pass in the mandatory post-Brexit Victorian English GCSE, here Ubisoft offer up some old past papers for assessment. Comprising Assassin's Creed II, Brotherhood, and Revelations, this remastered Ezio collection arrives in timely fashion before the franchise hits the big screen next year. The titular Assassins are apparently the good guys, despite their deadly name and the fact that they plug our modern day hero Desmond Miles into a Matrix-esque machine called the Animus and make him kill cartloads of people, using only the genetic memories of his ancestors and an alluring array of daggers and swords. Both the Assassins and their Templar opponents are obsessed with finding the Apples of Eden, which are basically Golden Delicious on steroids, full of knowledge and almost certainly worth getting chucked out of any garden for.

A new bill will ban huge swathes of sex acts from UK porn. The Digital Economy Bill looks to ban anything that wouldn't be allowed on a commercially-available DVD. That seems to limit adult content in a number of ways, banning things including female ejaculation and the sight of menstrual blood from all pornographic videos. While there are no strict guidelines as to what acts and images can't be shown on commercial DVDs, adult film producers have found that they have had to cut almost all kinds of non-conventional videos from their films. Such restrictions include the "four-finger rule", for instance, which limits the number of digits that can be placed into any orifice while on video. 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.

Intelligent robots could do all of the hard work for novel writers in the future. Author and technology expert Robin Sloan claims it is only a matter of time until AI are tasked with writing the bulk of our emails, documents, and even writers' novels. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore', showcased an AI he taught to write a dystopian science fiction novel. Mr Sloan created fed the writing bot a back catalogue of science-fiction magazines from the 1960s and 1970s. The programme digested the material and and learned the style of the old stories within.

Russia has showed off its latest weapon in the arms race with NATO - a remotely controlled robot tank, which will be deployed on the border with Poland. A Russian Ministry of Defence video on Youtube shows troops from the Strategic Missile Forces using the new technology in the Kaliningrad enclave, where Vladimir Putin recently sited several nuclear-capable Iskander missiles. The Russian Ministry of Defence said it had the'ability to direct weapons, accompany and hit targets in automatic and semi-automatic modes as it is equipped with electro-optical and radar reconnaissance'. The Russian Defence Ministry have been showing off the robot tank on Youtube. The unmanned tank has four rocket launchers and a 7.62mm gun and can work 24/7 without the need to rest The weapon station can be guided, it can carry out supportive tasks and it can destroy targets in automatic or semiautomatic control systems. Platforma-M is equipped with optical-electronic and radio reconnaissance locators, which enable the Russian robot to perform combat tasks during the night without unmasking itself.

Democratizing Machine Learning has always been BigML's founding mission, so we are continually searching for new opportunities. As such, when a company is interested in our technology and is willing to help us further our cause of "Machine Learning for everyone", we feel the urge to collaborate. This is exactly what happened with our new education partner. Today we are happy to announce our educational collaboration with CICE, the Leading School in New Technologies Training in Madrid, Spain. CICE, the only Official Training Center in Spain for more than 20 multinational companies, is already a community of 70,000 students from 30 different countries.

"Algorithm" might be one of the most popular terms that almost no one understands. Not many people have PhDs in data science, and even those experts don't always know what's happening. "It's not clear even from a technical perspective that every aspect of AI algorithms can be understood by humans," says Guruduth Banavar, IBM's chief science officer for cognitive computing, which is what IBM calls AI. Artificial intelligence is making decisions by reviewing people's medical tests in hospitals, credit histories in banking, job applications in some HR systems, even criminal risk factors in the justice system. Yet it's not always clear how the computers are thinking.

Death by selfie sounds like a scene from one of the Final Destination movies but, apparently, it's actually a thing. In 2014, 15 people died while snapping a selfie, followed by 39 people in 2015, and 73 in the first eight months of 2016. So what, if anything, can be done about this escalating trend? That's what a new research project carried out by researchers in India wants to find out. "There was a news article that was circulated in my research group about a death by selfie during summer 2016," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, a professor at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology in Delhi, told Digital Trends.