A U.S. activist investor called on Japanese clothing company Sanyo Shokai Ltd. to sell itself, saying a new owner would help turn around the firm. RMB Capital sent a letter in December to the company's board, urging it to seek a strategic buyer, according to Masakazu Hosomizu, a Chicago-based portfolio manager for the investment firm. Sanyo Shokai should seek a partner with more capital because its own efforts to revive the company haven't been successful and it doesn't have enough scale to reorganize its business on its own, he said. RMB, which owns about 5 percent of Sanyo Shokai, decided to go public about the letter because it wasn't satisfied with the company's noncommittal response, Hosomizu said in an interview. A spokesperson for Sanyo Shokai wasn't immediately available to comment.

Lawmaker Yasuhiko Funago has a neurological disease that means he cannot speak and communicates by blinking to his carer or operating a computer system with his mouth. But he is demanding to be heard as he fights to improve the lives of people with disabilities in Japan, where many in the community complain of feeling "invisible." "I was a corporate soldier before I had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and had hardly any opportunities to have contact with people with disabilities," Funago told a committee in November. "I had no idea how people with disabilities or illness were living," he said in the remarks read by his parliamentary aide. Such "ignorance" leads to "prejudice and discrimination," the 62-year-old warned.

Sometimes it just takes a simple, provocative statement to kick-off the innovation process – to remove an everyday given like driving a car or possessing a landline phone or centralizing all of your data in the cloud – to fuel the innovation process. Henrik Christensen, director of University San Diego's Contractual Robotics Institute, issued such a provocative statement: "My own prediction is that kids born today will never get to drive a car." I have recently been promoted to Chief Innovation Officer at Hitachi Vantara. I am very excited about the opportunity to build upon my work to interweave data science, design thinking, value engineering and economics to create a "Pathway to Analytics-driven Innovation" map that helps organizations derive and drive new sources of customer, product and operational value. Think of the "Pathway to Analytics-driven Innovation" as a maturity model that measures how effective organizations are at leveraging analytics to deliver innovative products and services to the market.

Today our lives are governed by technology. From the moment we wake up in the morning to the last thing we do before we go to bed revolves around technology in one way or another. If you thought this was too much to handle and were going on digital detox sprees, then brace yourself for the future. It is only going to become even more pervasive and deeply rooted in our everyday lives. At ServiceNow's annual Future of Work event, which took place in Dubai recently, Ian Khan, Technology Futurist and CEO & Founder, Futuracy, reiterated the ubiquitous role technology will have and explained the different trends that will dominate the way we work and live in the future.

The maritime and scientific communities have set themselves the ambitious target of 2030 to map Earth's entire ocean floor. You can argue about the numbers but it's in the region of 80% of the global seafloor that's either completely unknown or has had no modern measurement applied to it. The international GEBCO 2030 project was set up to close the data gap and has announced a number of initiatives to get it done. What's clear, however, is that much of this work will have to leverage new technologies or at the very least max the existing ones. Which makes the news from Ocean Infinity - that it's creating a fleet of ocean-going robots - all the more interesting. US-based OI is a relatively new exploration and survey company.

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In a world first, a medicine developed by artificial intelligence may be used to treat patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The news is remarkable and hints that in the future, AI may help drug development become faster and more efficiently than ever before. The first non-man made drug molecule, DSP-1181, has now entered Phase 1 clinical trials, European Pharmaceutical Review reported. The molecule is a long-acting potent serotonin 5-HT1A receptor agonist and was developed using AI that was the product of a partnership between Japan's Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma and Exscientia in the UK. The compound was developed in a remarkable time, with AI able to complete in 12 months what typically takes five years.

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A group of experts wants to study the brain waves and eye movements of people playing a video game in order to build an advanced AI that could coordinate the actions of military robots. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, awarded a team from the University of Buffalo's Artificial Intelligence Institute a $316,000 grant for the study. Although swarm robotics is inspired by many things, including ant colonies, researchers believe that humans have a lot of potential to improve AI learning systems. The study of 25 video game players will include real-time strategy games such as StarCraft, Stellaris and Company of Heroes. "The idea is to eventually scale up to 250 aerial and ground robots, working in highly complex situations. For example, there may be a sudden loss of visibility due to smoke during an emergency. The robots need to be able to effectively communicate and adapt to challenges like that," the grant's principal investigator, Souma Chowdhury, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, told UBNow.