Artificial intelligence has made some great developments toward speeding up cancer diagnosis so far in 2017. Last month it was announced that AI from Sophia Genetics was helping to accelerate patient diagnosis across Latin America. Earlier this year researchers at Stanford University developed a deep learning algorithm that can analyse skin cancer as accurately as a human doctor. Now, Israel-based company, Medical EarlySign has announced the ability of its AI tool to identify the top 1% at highest risk of undiagnosed colorectal cancer (CRC). The machine learning developer announced the first-year results of its implementation with Maccabi Healthcare Services (MHS), for ColonFlag, a tool developed in collaboration with MHS to identify individuals with a high probability of having CRC.

If a tree falls in Peru's rainforest, Greg Asner can tell you what kind it was. Asner, an ecologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science and Stanford University, uses artificial intelligence and a powerful spectral imaging method to map the rainforest in unprecedented detail. By identifying each tree species by its chemical composition, he has shown the rainforest is more diverse than anyone thought. Asner's map takes the guesswork out of protecting one of the most biodiverse places on Earth and pinpointing new areas for conservation. "It's really advancing our ability to save forests and curb climate change," he said.

We can roughly divide the year into two halves: September through February is the "Release" bit, and March through August the "Hype" bit. Sure, there are exceptions--games get released all year long at this point. The Game Developer's Conference, which took place this week in San Francisco and where we start to see news about the year's most-anticipated games. Another solid Humble Bundle this week, this time focused on the Arma series. The tiers are a bit complicated but basically $1 gets you the original Arma, beating the average gets you Arma 2, and paying $15 or more gets you Arma 3. If you're looking for a hellishly complicated but ultra-rewarding military sim, Arma's a damn good choice--or if you just want to play the original DayZ, before it fell into Early Access hell.

Bolivia may be one of the cocaine capitals of the world – but don't you dare call it a narco state. The Bolivian government complained to France after a French video game publisher, Ubisoft, developed a game that highly offended the South American nation. The popular game, "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands," revolves around a Mexican drug cartel that controls Bolivia and has turned the country into a violent narco-state. The game is set to be officially launched next week, but the game's beta version has already been downloaded by 6.8 million users. Bolivian Interior Minister Carlos Romero said the Andean nation delivered a letter to the French ambassador earlier this week and asked French officials to intervene.

For all the mishegas about self-driving cars in the sunny, techie Silicon Valley, the future of the automobile may still live in a colder clime. At least, the Wolverine State hasn't loosened its grip on the future of traffic. Ann Arbor plays home to the University of Michigan, and with the football games, Kid Rock concerts, and daily commuters comes traffic, and lots of it. On the average weekday, the 125,000-person town swells to hold 200,000 people, most of whom travel in by personal car. The city is exploring buses, commuter rail, and carpool options to clear up its roads, but knows it can't drive the car out of its home state anytime soon.

Ghost Recon: Wildlands comes out next week. I know, I almost forgot about it too. But if an open world filled with guns, high-speed chases and sniping over huge distances in Bolivia is more your speed than robotic dinosaurs or some random game with a princess, you might be interested to know what Wildlands has in store after launch. You know, for when you've long since finished its campaign and dominated the competition on the packed-in multiplayer maps. First up: there's a season pass because this is a modern video game being released by a major publisher.

Researchers are looking at the vast opportunities presented by artificial intelligence (AI) to the Philippines to improve different local industries amid fears that the technology may soon replace the human workforce. UP Computer Science Department Chairman Dr. Pros Naval said AI as a "transformative technology" can create more jobs for Filipinos. "AI is not going to completely replace human beings. AI is a transformative technology. Sometimes it could be disruptive but the way I see it is that it could transform the lives of people, not only the lives but also the workplace," Naval said.

A worker picks substrate-grown strawberries at the Driscoll's Inc. facility on the McGrath Ranch in Watsonville, Calif., on Sept. 19, 2016. Buoyed by an inexpensive migrant workforce, California has been the United States' agricultural mainstay for nearly a century, currently producing about 60 percent of the nation's fresh produce. But as the state's minimum wage approaches $15 an hour and competition from a growing Mexican economy mounts, producers face unprecedented operating costs and a workforce that has dropped by 60 percent since the 1990s. Add to this President Trump's moves to restrict immigration, which threatens to significantly curtail the sector's already depressed labor supply. Leading California-based growers like Driscoll's Berries and Taylor Farms are feeling the immediacy of Trump's executive orders, as millions of dollars of specialty crops are growing right now that will require a workforce to pick them at the end of the season. Together they spend over a billion dollars on labor each year.

The adoption and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to accelerate at an exponential rate in modern businesses. As referenced in the 2017 Tech Trend Report, AI is nearing completion of the next layer in technological advancement, integrated into everything individuals and organizations do. This trajectory is predicted to drive cumulative worldwide spending of $40.6 billion on AI projects by 2024 – according to Raconteur. This is expected to create mass opportunity for the pioneering businesses currently investing in AI development. Moving beyond the hype in existing media coverage, this post will uncover the reality behind what AI means for businesses today, in the near future, and beyond 2017.

A robot with a history of running away from its creators may seem like an odd choice to welcome travellers on Russia's transport network. But Moscow's Metro bosses have decided to employ the services of Metrosha, a quirky machine who will greet people arriving at the city's main subway station. The unusual android is based on the promobot, or promotional robot, which hit headlines last summer when it made a break for freedom from its testing laboratory. Moscow's Metro bosses are employing the services of Metrosha, a quirky robot who will greet people arriving at the city's main subway station on special occasions and public holidays Metrosha is based on promobot - short for Promotional Robot - a unique robot created by Russian scientists and is designed to work in customer relations. Promobot was designed for companies to use it to attract new customers.