Zebra Medical Vision, a machine and deep learning start-up, has raised $30 million (€25.47 million) in C round funding, bringing the total investment in the company to $50 million (€42.45 million). The company is also unveiling its Textray chest X-Ray research, which it claims is the most comprehensive AI research conducted on chest X-Rays to date, providing a glimpse into a future automated chest X-Ray analysis product being developed by the company. This round of investment is led by aMoon Ventures with the participation of strategic healthcare investors Aurum, Johnson & Johnson Innovation JJDC Inc. and Intermountain Healthcare and leading global AI experts Fei Fei Lee and Richard Socher. These new investors are joining a list of top existing investors Khosla Ventures, NVIDIA, Marc Benioff, OurCrowd and Dolby Ventures who also participated in this C round. The chest X-Ray AI analytics product was trained using nearly 2 million images to identify 40 different common clinical findings.

Fortnite's upcoming World Cup skins can be customized with your favorite teams from across the globe. Recently leaked Fortnite skins include a surprise for soccer/football fans: A whole bevy of World Cup skins that you can customize to your liking. You can see all the new, upcoming leaked Fortnite skins and other cosmetics here. It turns out that these skins are completely customizable with different jersey numbers and a whole bunch of different World Cup teams. The new'Edit Style' option under some skins that went live in the v4.4 update allows you to create just the player you want.

If you fancy a flutter on the World Cup, you may want to put your money on Brazil. According to more than a million simulations of the tournament, the five-time winners are the favourites to lift the coveted trophy on July 15th. The study, from experts at Goldman Sachs, also predicts England will make it to the quarterfinal stage where they will be knocked out by Germany. The financial firm made the predictions after feeding an AI data on team strategy, the strengths and weaknesses of individual players, and recent team results. Brazil are set to be crowned this year's Fifa World Cup winners, according to a prediction driven by more than one million simulations of the tournament.

A team of Waterloo researchers found that applying artificial intelligence to the right combination of data retrieved from wearable technology may detect whether your health is failing. The study, which involved researchers from Waterloo's Faculties of Applied Health Sciences and Engineering, found that the data from wearable sensors and artificial intelligence that assesses changes in aerobic responses could one day predict whether a person is experiencing the onset of a respiratory or cardiovascular disease. "The onset of a lot of chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, has a direct impact on our aerobic fitness," said Thomas Beltrame, who led the research while at the University of Waterloo, and is now at the Institute of Computing in University of Campinas in Brazil. "In the near future, we believe it will be possible to continuously check your health, even before you realize that you need medical help." The study monitored active, healthy men in their twenties who wore a shirt for four days that incorporated sensors for heart rate, breathing and acceleration.

From the spears hurled by Romans to the missiles launched by fighter pilots, the weapons humans use to kill each other have always been subject to improvement. Militaries seek to make each one ever-more lethal and, in doing so, better protect the soldier who wields it. But in the next evolution of combat, the U.S. Army is heading down a path that may lead humans off the battlefield entirely. Over the next few years, the Pentagon is poised to spend almost $1 billion for a range of robots designed to complement combat troops. Beyond scouting and explosives disposal, these new machines will sniff out hazardous chemicals or other agents, perform complex reconnaissance and even carry a soldier's gear.

Brazilian startup Cobli has specialized in technological solutions for vehicle fleet monitoring and management. It is currently focusing on safety and refining a tool to identify driver behavioral patterns by analyzing data collected by a solar-powered tracker. The project is based on machine learning, an application of artificial intelligence, and had the support from the São Paulo Research Foundation--FAPESP through its Innovative Research in Small Business Program (PIPE). "The algorithm uses the data collected to establish a driving profile with more than 90% accuracy," says engineer Rodrigo Mourad, a partner and co-founder of Cobli. According to Mourad, in one or two weeks of use, the system can glean a sufficient amount of data--on speed, acceleration, braking and curve angles--to produce a profile of the driver's vehicle handling habits. Directly linked to the question of traffic safety, these data also have an economic and financial impact on the fleet owner's business since aggressive driving increases fuel consumption and the cost of vehicle maintenance.

Goldman Sachs is giving another go at predicting which team will win this year's World Cup. After incorrectly predicting how the 2014 tournament would turn out, it's trying again and its calculations say that France, Brazil, Portugal and Germany will make it to the semi-finals with Brazil beating out Germany in the final game. The financial firm used machine learning to come up with these predictions, feeding team characteristics, individual player data and recent team performance information into four machine learning models, which then compared that data to the scores of all of the World Cup and European Cup matches since 2005. Goldman Sachs then ran one million simulations of World Cup outcomes to determine who would come out on top. Of course, you can't account for all of the variables that influence how a tournament will play out -- something made quite clear in 2014.

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The first batch of flamethrowers sold by Elon Musk's tunnel construction business The Boring Company have been handed out to customers - with some people traveling thousands of miles to pick one up. The Tesla entrepreneur had suggested the idea of selling a flamethrower at the end of 2017, with the project aiming to raise $10m for The Boring Company, which was founded with the intention of building a network of tunnels to help reduce traffic congestion across the US. Mr Musk claimed that the company had sold 20,000 of the $500 in four days in during January this year, with the first flamethrowers handed out at Boring's Hawthorne, California offices over the weekend. The event took place in a car park adjacent to another of Mr Musk's companies - SpaceX - with the tech billionaire announcing on Twitter that the first 1,000 flamethrowers were bring picked up. Mr Musk has called the item "Not-a-flamethrower" to get around any legal issues of shipping items called flamethrowers, but some customers could not wait to get it into their hands.

Monday, the 29th, marked the beginning of the EU Green Week, an event organized by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment to discuss environmental policies. This year, the focus is "Green jobs for a greener future." The organizers stressed how traditional specializations will be characterized by additional sets of new skills. Being able to deal with technology is certainly one of them, and many jobs in the environmental sciences are already adopting these innovative tools. People working in this sector are no longer restricted to field work and laboratory analyses.