Ida Tin is the co-founder and CEO of Clue, the world's fastest growing female health app. Clue helps you understand your cycle so you can discover how to live a full and healthy life. Clue has more than twelve million active users in over 190 countries, and is one of the most popular apps in the "Health & Fitness" category in the United States, Germany, the UK, Brazil, France, Mexico and many others. Clue's mission is to help people all around the world benefit from insights into female health. A lifelong entrepreneur and a modern feminist, Ida is convinced that technology will profoundly change the future of family planning.

Artificial intelligence in business is a rapidly developing field, plugged directly into academic research. For all the talk of democratization of AI tools, it is safe to assume that cutting edge machine learning innovation – the kind that makes you eat up market share – will remain the domain of experts and professionals. So it comes as no surprise that major professional services firms have started to assemble new practices dedicated to AI. McKinsey acquired its data science flagship, London-based QuantumBlack in 2015. Atos is currently adding more staff at zData, an American data science startup it purchased in 2017. Boston Consulting Group launched GAMMA in 2016 to focus on data science and advanced analytics projects.

Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. As a grad student, I'm one of the many people who unexpectedly went from in-person to virtual classes in the face of COVID-19. This is a big adjustment for those of us who usually like to work from libraries and cafes--but the good news is, pretty much any home can turn into a productive workspace with just a few adjustments. Maybe you're where I was a few months ago, stacking cardboard boxes to make a structurally questionable standing desk, or blasting white noise through raggedy earbuds to drown out your roommate watching The Circle. Luckily, HP is here to help. HP is one of our favorite sources for computers, software, and tech accessories, and they're making both working and studying from home that much smoother.

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed all of our lives -- from how we work, to how we teach our children, to how we grocery shop. As we yearn to return to normal, we're also called on to do what we can to protect ourselves, our loved ones and our communities. Los Alamos National Laboratory is no different. We have responsibilities to the nation and to the communities where we live, and we take them very seriously. As one of the largest employers in Northern New Mexico, we're doing what we can to answer the call to use our vast scientific and technical resources to help fight this disease, and protect our employees and the communities we call home. To slow the spread of the virus, we took early and aggressive measures to get as much of our workforce as possible offsite, working from home. More than 85 percent of the laboratory's workforce is teleworking. The remaining employees are onsite because they are needed to assure the safety and security of our facilities or to perform essential national security work. For those onsite, measures are in place to keep them as safe as possible following CDC guidelines.

Sony announced it will release the highly-anticipated video game The Last of Us Part II in June after development studio Naughty Dog confirmed parts of the game were leaked online. In a statement Tuesday, Sony said the video game, which takes place in the US following a pandemic outbreak, will launch on June 19 for PlayStation 4. Earlier this month, Sony postponed the game's release indefinitely due to the coronavirus outbreak. Hermen Hulst, head of worldwide studios at Sony Interactive Entertainment, noted an "ease in the global distribution environment" linked to the coronavirus pandemic. Sony also revealed the upcoming action game Ghost of Tsushima, developed by studio Sucker Punch Productions, will release July 17. "Both teams have worked hard to deliver world-class experiences, and we can't wait to see what you think of them when they release in just a few short months," said Hulst in a statement. Not long after Monday's announcement, Naughty Dog confirmed in a statement portions of The Last of Us Part II leaked online.

Today's guest Barbara Martin Coppola is the Chief Digital Officer for Ingka Group, the strategic partner in the IKEA franchise system, operating IKEA Retail in 30 countries. She is part of the process of moving a very physical brand to one that naturally integrates highly digital and data-driven experiences for its customers. IKEA will have a more in-depth focus than just becoming digital its processes. Barbara talks about the need to deliver digital and data as smooth and natural extensions of the experiences that consumers want now and will expect to want in ten years. Not only will stores have the ability to simulate your own home in the store with virtual rooms, but you will also be able to place items in the store virtually inside your home.

Researchers from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a product image recognition method with guidance learning and noisy supervision. The study was published in Computer Vision and Image Understanding. Instead of collecting product images by laborious and time-intensive image capturing, the team introduced a novel large-scale dataset called Product-90. Consisting of more than 140K images with 90 categories, the dataset was related to Clothing1M (a large-scale public dataset designed for learning from noisy data with human supervision), but contained many more categories. Images were collected from reviews on e-commerce websites.

One of the consequences of people being told to stay home to slow the spread of coronavirus is loneliness. And a collection of 13 robotics experts from around the world have a suggestion for how to solve that: a robot pal. The innovation is just one of many mentioned in an open letter by the global contingent of robotics experts who suggest that the coronavirus pandemic should serve as a catalyst for the increased use and development of robots. "Now the impact of COVID-19 may drive further research in robotics to address risks of infectious diseases," says the statement, published March 25 in Science Robotics magazine. The statement aims to inspire more funding to develop these varieties of robots, many of which it became clear were needed during the 2015 Ebola crisis.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon (NasdaqGS:AMZN), has announced the general availability of Amazon Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A2I), described as "a fully managed service that makes it easy to add human review to machine learning predictions to improve model and application accuracy by continuously identifying and improving low confidence predictions." "Today, we're excited to help our customers remove another obstacle to building machine learning applications with the launch of Amazon A2I, which makes it significantly easier and faster to incorporate human judgment into machine learning applications in order to ensure higher quality predictions over a sustained period of time." Accenture Federal Services, a subsidiary of Accenture (NYSE:ACN), has won a $96 million contract from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help the latter to automate manual workflows and introduce applied intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities. Shawn Roman, a managing director at AFS who leads the company's work with VA, commented: "Accenture Federal Services is proud to help VA seamlessly transition its existing service management tools to both improve the user experience and increase the business value of solutions. Working with the Service Management Office, we will use human-centered design thinking methods to put the Veteran, clinician, and VA employees at the center of how services are designed and created."

The Defense Department is seeking tech experts to help manage its Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), the cornerstone of the department's efforts to develop A.I. technologies and share them with other defense agencies. The JAIC is seeking "highly technical" contract personnel from up to two small businesses to provide software architecture, operations and systems analysis, technical writing, and subject matter expertise, according to an April 23 request for information. The turnaround time on this opportunity is short: small businesses have only until April 30 to submit a response. There is an immediate need for 18-40 contract personnel in fiscal year 2020, all of whom will be required to hold a Top Secret security clearance. Interim security clearances are available.