The research project OpenLicht was launched in September 2016 and stands for the design of smart, customized light solutions based on open source and new materials. OpenLicht was funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), with the goal of enabling new forms of collaboration between science, business, maker and startup community. Infineon Technologies AG is supervising the project in close cooperation with Bernitz Electronics GmbH, Deggendorf Institute of Technology and the Technical University of Dresden. The results are now being made public and include the prototype of a smart lighting system based on artificial intelligence. It automatically adjusts the light in the room to the user's position and activity, such as reading or watching TV, learns the person's preferences and can even respond to a certain degree to circumstances it has not learned previously.

Today NVIDIA announced that the company has become a shareholder in DFKI, one of world's largest research centers dedicated to AI. The commitment is a further step in the long-standing successful cooperation between NVIDIA, the leader in accelerated computing, AI and high performance computing, and DFKI in the area of machine learning and deep learning. The partnership between DFKI and NVIDIA combines our sophisticated models and procedures with their high-performance platforms designed specifically for AI," said Professor Dr. Andreas Dengel, site head of DFKI Kaiserslautern and scientific director for the research department of smart data and knowledge services. "Joining as a shareholder is a further building block of our successful cooperation and opens up new perspectives for application-oriented neural network research." By combining DFKI technologies with NVIDIA's leading AI platforms, DFKI researchers and scientists have achieved remarkable results in the application, explainability and optimization of neural networks and deep learning methods in recent years. NVIDIA and DFKI are working together to provide powerful tools so that scientists can solve the most complex AI challenges," said Ian Buck, vice president and general manager of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA.

Google is blocking more than 18million hoax emails a day as criminals try to snare victims with coronavirus scam messages. The tech giant has more than 1.5 billion users of its Gmail platform and has revealed it is currently blocking more than 100 million phishing emails a day. Almost a fifth of these are using the coronavirus pandemic to try and trick innocent people. Google also says it is seeing an additional 240 million COVID-related daily spam messages. Google has announced it is blocking more than 18million hoax emails a day as criminals try to snare victims with coronavirus scam messages.

Security researchers say a misconfigured server owned by the controversial facial recognition company, Clearview AI, exposed its software's source code as well as internal credentials and keys. According to TechCrunch, which first reported on the flaw, Mossab Hussein, the chief security officer at SpiderSilk, a security firm based in Dubai, uncovered a flawed Clearview server storing sensitive data, allowing users to bypass its password protection. Specifically, Hussein found that a misconfiguration allowed anyone to register as a new user and access the database containing Clearview's code regardless of whether they had entered password. TechCrunch reports that, in addition to source code that would allow anyone to use Clearview's software, the database also contained passwords and other keys that would allow one to access the company's cloud storage buckets. Finished versions of Clearview's apps for iOS and Android as well as pre-developer beta versions were contained in those buckets, TechCrunch reports.

Every day for the past few weeks, charts and graphs plotting the projected apex of COVID-19 infections have been splashed across newspapers and cable news. Many of these models have been built using data from studies on previous outbreaks like SARS or MERS. Now, a team of engineers at MIT has developed a model that uses data from the COVID-19 pandemic in conjunction with a neural network to determine the efficacy of quarantine measures and better predict the spread of the virus. "Our model is the first which uses data from the coronavirus itself and integrates two fields: machine learning and standard epidemiology," explains Raj Dandekar, a Ph.D. candidate studying civil and environmental engineering. Together with George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical engineering, Dandekar has spent the past few months developing the model as part of the final project in class 2.168 (Learning Machines).

Microsoft chief technology officer Kevin Scott grew up fascinated by the 1960s Apollo space program and then-President John F. Kennedy's vision of a moon shot. Now, he envisions just as ambitious a project taking shape as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic. Just as the U.S. government significantly invested to put Neil Armstrong and others on the moon by 1969 – $200 billion in today's dollars by his estimate – Scott said similar funding in artificial intelligence technology could be a difference-maker for our nation's battered health care system. Scott, 48, whose new book about AI will be released Tuesday, said using the technology to detect underlying health conditions could not only help treat patients and prevent the spread of future pandemics, but also reduce care costs for Americans, tens of millions of which are uninsured. "Instead of a'moon shot,' our moon shot should be something like radically transforming health care for the public good,'' Scott said. "We all know the cost of delivering ubiquitous, high-quality health care is very high and growing faster than [gross domestic product].

By John Spooner, Head of Artificial Intelligence, EMEA, H2O.ai Artificial Intelligence (AI) has evolved significantly from being a mere technology buzzword, to the commercial reality it is today. The technology is making a positive impact across many industries, including the financial sector. The financial services industry has a reputation of constantly innovating and advancing new technologies, in the pursuit of strengthening the customer base, and finding new revenue opportunities. This is happening across all segments including capital markets, commercial banking, consumer finance and insurance. The use of AI in the financial services is rapidly changing the business landscape, even in traditionally conservative areas.

A U.S. Department of Energy initiative could refurbish existing supercomputers, turning them into high-performance artificial intelligence machines. WASHINGTON, D.C.--The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is planning a major initiative to use artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up scientific discoveries. At a meeting here last week, DOE officials said they will likely ask Congress for between $3 billion and $4 billion over 10 years, roughly the amount the agency is spending to build next-generation "exascale" supercomputers. "That's a good starting point," says Earl Joseph, CEO of Hyperion Research, a high-performance computing analysis firm in St. Paul that tracks AI research funding. He notes, though, that DOE's planned spending is modest compared with the feverish investment in AI by China and industry.

Smartphones are commonly used for storing and analyzing data obtained from wearable devices. The rapid growth of the smartphone industry has increased the production of android & IoT-enabled responsive and user-friendly applications for wearable devices. Other factors that drive market growth include rapid urbanization and increasing disposable incomes in developing economies, which determine future trends in wearable technology.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have a massive impact on the global economy and Romania has huge potential in this field, fuelled by its talent pool in fields like robotics, technology, and IT. We've been hearing it constantly over the last few years, but what does the beginning of the year look like for AI in Romania? Artificial Intelligence represents an opportunity that Romania cannot afford to miss in terms of its economic development. As a general context, the European Union is pursuing a digital strategy that builds on technology, innovation, and ingenuity, projecting European values onto the international stage. The recently presented White Paper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the European data strategy show that Europe can set global standards on technological development while putting people first.