While we don't know everything about COVID-19, we know it hits older populations harder than younger ones. "How can we take care of seniors while keeping them safe?" asks Stanford HAI Denning Family co-director Fei-Fei Li. "Nowhere is safer than home if one doesn't need to be in a hospital." One solution could help protect seniors against COVID-19 while managing chronic illness: in-home sensors and cameras combined with AI-assisted technologies that can gather and analyze information as varied as fevers and sleep patterns. The privacy-protected information can then be shared with clinicians and family, keeping seniors safe while maintaining their independence. Of course, ethics, privacy, and security are paramount in this system; the research process needs to be HIPAA-compliant and approved by the Institutional Review Board for human subjects.

Organisations are looking to AI to revolutionise more than just their technology: it is redefining business processes, says Adi Pendyala, Sr Director at Aspen Technology. AI means different things in different situations and as such it can be tricky to define. Whilst most people think of AI as a technology in its own right, it is more of a general term used to refer to several different technologies that enable systems to act intelligently. When it comes to business applications, AI can support intelligent functionality by helping the system sense, understand, perform and learn. By using machine learning or deep learning to train a system, the system can assess how to act in each situation by analysing data, rather than relying on prescriptive, hard-coded actions.

Fall Armyworm is spreading fast across sub-Saharan Africa, devastating crops and farmers' livelihoods. Experts fear the pest could eventually spread to the Middle East and Europe. But a new mobile phone app'Nuru', which uses machine learning and artificial intelligence, offers some hope in tackling the pest problem. Allan Hruska is the Principal Technical Coordinator on the Fall Armyworm response at the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).

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In less than two months, covid-19 created arguably the world's largest collective shift in social activity and working practices. Research firm Global Workplace Analytics estimated in a 2018 report that 4.3 million people in the US worked remotely, representing just 3.2% of the country's workforce. In a March 2020 poll of 375 executives by MIT Technology Review Insights, over two-thirds reported that more than 80% of their workforce is now working remotely. As business leaders have sought to safeguard not only the health of staff, but the health and productivity of their companies, the pandemic has thrown up many questions--some that require immediate answers, others that need a longer-term plan. This report explores a new data set, developed by future-of-work software company Faethm, to examine the degree to which "business critical" jobs across industries are "remoteable," and to what extent those jobs could be supported with artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies in the future.

As the coronavirus began to creep into our lives--but before it came to define them entirely--e-mails from across the world included the cheery phrase "Crazy times!" Messages from friends here in Los Angeles tended to favor something locally sourced, courtesy of Jim Morrison and the Doors: "Strange Days." Strange days, indeed, as we waited for the result of my wife's test, hoping that it would be positive. Can you think of any other illness for which a positive result might be eagerly anticipated? Unable to do anything but lie in bed, she experienced symptoms that were severe by any usual standard but most welcome by the newly enhanced metrics of affliction ushered in by the virus.

Researchers have developed a machine learning method that can predict battery health with ten times higher accuracy than current industry standard, which could aid in the development of safer and more reliable batteries for electric vehicles and consumer electronics. The researchers, from Cambridge and Newcastle Universities, have designed a new way to monitor batteries by sending electrical pulses into them and measuring the response. The measurements are then processed by a machine learning algorithm to predict the battery's health and useful lifespan. Their method is non-invasive and is a simple add-on to any existing battery system. The results are reported here.

Intelligent tutoring systems have been shown to be effective in helping to teach certain subjects, such as algebra or grammar, but creating these computerized systems is difficult and laborious. Now, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown they can rapidly build them by, in effect, teaching the computer to teach. Using a new method that employs artificial intelligence, a teacher can teach the computer by demonstrating several ways to solve problems in a topic, such as multicolumn addition, and correcting the computer if it responds incorrectly. Notably, the computer system learns to not only solve the problems in the ways it was taught, but also to generalize to solve all other problems in the topic, and do so in ways that might differ from those of the teacher, said Daniel Weitekamp III, a Ph.D. student in CMU's Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII). "A student might learn one way to do a problem and that would be sufficient," Weitekamp explained.

A drone company that had to abandon its fast-food delivery tests has partnered with Ireland's health authority to deliver prescriptions instead. Manna Aero is working with the Health Service Executive to prescribe and deliver medicines and other essential supplies to vulnerable people in the small rural town of Moneygall. The company's trial uses autonomous drones made in Wales. And it is looking at the possibility of testing in the UK within weeks. The UK has already announced a test of drones to carry supplies to the Isle of Wight during the pandemic. Also, in Florida, care home residents will soon be able to have their prescriptions delivered.

Following yesterday's Photoshop teaser, Ubisoft has shared the first cinematic trailer for Assassin's Creed Valhalla. When the game comes out this holiday season, you'll be able to play it on both current-generation -- PlayStation 4 and Xbox One -- and next-generation consoles -- Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 -- as well as Windows PC and Google Stadia. In Assassin's Creed Valhalla, the player will assume the role of Eivor, the leader of a Viking clan. You'll be able to play as either a male or female Eivor. What's more, you'll have the ability to customize your character's hair, tattoos and war paint.