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A startup at a village in Kochi has developed an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ( UAV) drone supported with artificial intelligence that can help combat COVID-19 by monitoring body temperature, supplying essential commodities and spraying disinfectants. The unmanned'Garud' has been designed and engineered by AI Aerial Dynamics at the Maker village, which is India's largest electronic hardware incubator. The indigenously made drone can monitor roads and bylanes, besides residential pockets and aerodromes that have been locked down across the country since March 25 in an effort to check the spread of the deadly coronavirus. Also, the aerial vehicle can collect thermal data by using an array of IR sensors and advanced digital technology called EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution), thus working as a means to combating the pandemic. The vehicle can collect swabs and samples of people for COVID-19 test. It has the capacity to carry weight up to 60 kg, thus facilitating distribution of even essential commodities if there is an exigency.

Have you ever wanted to talk to a loved one after they died? It used to be that only those calling themselves necromancers and mediums could claim to contact the dead, but soon digital versions of the deceased could be living just a few clicks away. From South Korea to the US, tech start-ups are looking at ways to keep the dead alive in a digital afterlife that data experts say poses myriad legal and ethical questions the world is yet to properly address. "Technically, we can recreate anyone online given enough data," said Faheem Hussain, a clinical assistant professor at Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society. "That opens up a Pandora's box of ethical implications."

Archaeologists have applied the principals of AI to distinguish between ancient human and dog poo, cleaning up a storm of scientific confusion over the matter. Looking deep into the future, in October 2019 Elon Musk posted a tweet using Starlink, a satellite constellation of thousands of orbiting mirrors constructed by his American company SpaceX, to provide satellite Internet access everywhere in the world. What's more, Amazon continue to apply advanced AI programs to predict what you and I might buy next; but looking backwards in time, archaeologists have now use artificial intelligence to distinguish whether a sample of ancient poo has human or canine origins. In a New Scientist article, Maxime Borry of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany discusses his new paper, which says ancient poo, or " coprolites", provides a valuable source of information about the identity, diet, and health of people who lived thousands of years ago. But the researcher explained that dogs lived alongside ancient hunters and canine feces are also commonly found at archaeological sites, "It is challenging to tell them apart," said Dr. Borry.

DUBAI: Four months into the battle against the latest strain of the coronavirus, it is clear that humanity must deploy all medical and technological tools at its disposal. Roughly half the global population has been placed on lockdown and billions of dollars are being poured into vaccine research, yet the total number of confirmed cases worldwide has hit the two million mark. With no sign of an imminent breakthrough, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to speed up the search for an antidote to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19 is a no-brainer. In fact, scientific institutions and governments have already been harnessing AI to generate possible solutions to the global public-health emergency. Shameer Thaha, CSO at Accubits, a UAE-based AI and blockchain focused solutions and development company, says AI is playing a key role since day one of the fight against humanity's common foe.

Kabul – On most mornings, Somaya Farooqi and four other teenage girls pile into her dad's car and head to a mechanic's workshop. They use back roads to skirt police checkpoints set up to enforce a lockdown in their city of Herat, one of Afghanistan's hot spots of the coronavirus pandemic. The members of Afghanistan's prize-winning girls' robotics team say they're on a life-saving mission -- to build a ventilator from used car parts and help their war-stricken country battle the virus. "If we even save one life with our device, we will be proud," said Farooqi, 17. Their pursuit of a low-cost breathing machine is particularly remarkable in conservative Afghanistan.

The technology sector is in an interesting place today. On the one hand, technology has historically tended to be cyclical, with technology demand fluctuating with GDP growth. On the other hand, technology is achieving more extraordinary feats by the day, and is helping to solve a lot of the problems caused by coronavirus. That may actually lead to a surge in demand for some tech products and services due to the stay-at-home economy. These cross-currents came into focus in the first quarter earnings release of technology bell-weather Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM).

"Data is quickly emerging as the greatest asset of the healthcare industry. The trend in our industry is to drive many decisions supported by data. The authors have done a great job put- ting together the issues, challenges and benefits of adopting a long view of Big Data. It is a walk of maturity with the real gold nuggets coming in Analytics 3.0 and beyond. This will not be solved with a product or purchased off the shelf. Big Data needs to be part of the DNA of an organization. "Intelligent decisions are best made with data that gives us rich context and a fuller view of all parameters and possibilities.

Health care workers are not the only unwilling essential services frontline workers at increased risk of COVID-19. According to the Washington Post on April 12, "At least 41 grocery workers have died of the coronavirus and thousands more have tested positive in recent weeks". At the same time, grocery stores are seeing a surge in demand and are currently hiring. The food industry is also seeing increasing adoption of robots in both the back end supply chain and in the food retail and food service sectors. "Grocery workers are risking their safety, often for poverty-level wages, so the rest of us can shelter in place," said John Logan, director of labor and employment studies at San Francisco State University. "The only way the rest of us are able to stay home is because they're willing to go to work."

MindsDB today announced it has raised $3 million to grow its automated machine learning platform made for data scientists and developers to quickly train and deploy models. The open source platform has been downloaded more than 250,000 times through Python pip installs or software with a graphic user interface and has been used by 20,000 developers. Explainability tools are also built in under the hood due to the work of cofounder and CEO Jorge Torres. "That's extremely important for us and extremely important for the industry to take on, because without explainability, you don't get the buy-in from the non-technical individuals," cofounder and COO Adam Carrigan told VentureBeat in a phone interview. The $3 million funding round is led by OpenOcean, whose general partner Patrik Backman cofounded and was a product lead at popular open source projects MariaDB and MySQL, respectively.