UK manufacturing firms will need to see their public and private investment in artificial intelligence increase, in order to remain competitive against rising economies focusing on the technology and to escape the cold shadow cast by the US and China. Although China and the US will likely be the key power players in AI-driven economies of the future, ascendant countries such as Singapore, Israel, Ireland and Finland pose significant competition for British firms, who are among other "traditional champions" of the technology like their Canadian, French and German counterparts. The data, which assessed the research performance, start-up funding and supercomputing prowess of 54 countries, is derived from the Global AI Index. It suggests a coming and radical power shift from economies that are "no longer defined by gross domestic product (GDP) or geography…[but] according to their capacity to take part in a global system shaped by artificial intelligence." The report looks at the impact of private investment in artificial intelligence, while also considering the critical role public, or state, finance can have on a country's global ranking.

Imagine you're a 59-year old man, and you go to your doctor with chest pains. The doctor thinks it might be a heart attack and orders further tests. Now, imagine you're a 59-year old woman with the same symptoms. The doctor tells you that you're probably having a panic attack. These strikingly different suggestions, however, didn't come from a doctor, but from a popular health care app called GP at Hand, which uses artificial intelligence to tell you what might be wrong with you based on your symptoms.

One of my favorite Talend customer success stories is the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). I love this story not only because they transformed investigation journalism with data, won the Pulitzer prize for the Panama papers, and helped the public to recover billions of dollars lost to illegal tax evasion. The story is also fascinating because they managed to decipher intelligence out of highly disparate and unknown data that they got from some of the history's largest data leaks. By retro-engineering massive amounts of raw data using Talend and other innovative data management tools, they revealed some of the most important stories in the world. This is the power of data intelligence.

You can't miss The Commodore. Dressed in black, from his hat to his shoes, he stands out in any crowd. But he is no fashion celebrity. His real name is Tokologo Phetla, and he is a rare breed in South Africa: an entrepreneur in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). He has developed an artificial intelligence software system, which he named Christopher, in honour of the machine developed by legendary computer scientist Alan Turing during the Second World War to crack the German encryption machine, Enigma.

In order to help build increasingly effective care pathways in healthcare, modern artificial intelligence technologies must be adopted and embraced. Events such as the AI & Machine Learning Convention are essential in providing medical experts around the UK access to the latest technologies, products and services that are revolutionising the future of care pathways in the healthcare industry. AI has the potential to save the lives of current and future patients and is something that is starting to be seen across healthcare services across the UK. Looking at diagnostics alone, there have been large scale developments in rapid image recognition, symptom checking and risk stratification. AI can also be used to personalise health screening and treatments for cancer, not only benefiting the patient but clinicians too – enabling them to make the best use of their skills, informing decisions and saving time.

A new study introduces a reproducible graph neural network (GNN) benchmarking framework to study and quantify the impact of theoretical developments for GNNs. In the field of analyzing and learning from data on graphs, GNNs have become an essential tool. With promising applications in different domains such as chemistry, physics, social sciences, knowledge graphs, recommendation, and neuroscience, how to study and build more powerful GNNs is a hot topic. Without a standardized benchmark, it's hard even to define what constitutes a "powerful" GNN. In the paper Benchmarking Graph Neural Networks, researchers propose a flexible GNN benchmarking framework that can also accommodate the needs of researchers to add new datasets and models.

Love is evidence that we are recognised as individuals, as significant. Love is what we are asked to set aside in the name of progress under a revolutionary regime. Love, too, is imperilled by automation, given how it minimises human contact. Two great loves sit at the heart of Cao Fei's feature-length film Nova from last year: a romance between two computer scientists – one Russian, one Chinese – and the relationship between the latter and his son. Both loves fall foul of Sino-Soviet progress.

US vehicle manufacturer Ford has announced an electric version of its famous Transit van, a favourite with tradesman worldwide. The Ford Transit, which is the world's best-selling cargo van, will be available in an all-electric version for the US and Canadian markets from 2022. It will include smart technology to'help the driver's judgement' while providing a 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot with connectivity for up to 10 devices. Data will also help to improve fleet efficiency and driver behaviour, as well as reduce waste, the company said. The van will help businesses achieve sustainability goals and lower the cost of ownership, while helping improve air quality and lower noise levels.

A video shows an incredible bionic arm moving'like a human hand' controlled by the patient's thoughts. The modern prosthetic, designed by engineers, gives hope to amputees who have to rely on plastic moulds with barely any dexterity. Scientists created a so-called'nerve interface' which picks up tiny electrical signals coming from the remaining nerves of an amputee's upper arm. It has allowed patients to use just their thoughts to precisely move the fingers and thumbs of their artificial hand, even enabling them to play rock, paper, scissors. The Mobius Bionics LUKE arm, developed by a medical device company in the US, has been tested on four patients. Amputee Joe Hamilton said using the prosthetic is like'having a hand again' after he was able to place tiny building blocks on top of each other.

NASA's Curiosity rover has shared a stunning panorama of its home. Composed of more than 1,000 images of Mars' landscape taken during the 2019 Thanksgiving holiday, the contains 1.8 billion pixels – deeming it the highest-resolution picture of the Martian planet yet. The rover used its Mast Camera to capture the photos of the Red Planet to produce the high-resolution panorama and relied on its medium-angle lens to for a lower-resolution -nearly 650-million-pixel panorama that includes the rover's deck and robotic arm. NASA's Curiosity rover has shared a stunning panorama of its home. Composed of more than 1,000 images of Mars' landscape taken during the 2019 Thanksgiving holiday, the contains 1.8 billion pixels – deeming it the highest-resolution picture of the Martian planet yet Both panoramas showcase'Glen Torridon,' a region on the side of Mount Sharp that Curiosity is exploring. The images were snapped between November 24 and December 1, but before NASA staff left for the holiday, the programmed the rover with certain tasks such as what angles of the planet to capture and to ensure the pictures were in focus.