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Music and dance are so deeply embedded in the human experience that we almost take them for granted. They're distinct from one another, but intimately related: Music -- arrangements of sound over time -- causes us to move our bodies in space. Without knowing it, we track pulse, tempo and rhythm, and we move in response. But only recently have scientists developed the tools, and the inclination, to quantitatively study the human response to music in its many forms. It's a research program that relies on a wide array of approaches, employing techniques from the study of perception and cognition to those of neurobiology and neuroimaging, with additional insights from psychophysics, evolutionary psychology and animal studies.

THE THAMES seems to draw people who work on intelligence-gathering. The spooks of MI6 are housed in a funky-looking building overlooking the river. Two miles downstream, in a shared office space near Blackfriars Bridge, lives Arkera, a firm that uses machine-learning technology to sort intelligence from newspapers, websites and other public sources for emerging-market investors. London has the right time zone, between the Americas and Asia. It is a nice place to live.

Researchers at University of Texas Southwestern have developed a software tool that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to recognize cancer cells from digital pathology images – giving clinicians a powerful way of predicting patient outcomes. The spatial distribution of different types of cells can reveal a cancer's growth pattern, its relationship with the surrounding microenvironment, and the body's immune response. But the process of manually identifying all the cells in a pathology slide is extremely labor intensive and error-prone. "To make a diagnosis, pathologists usually only examine several'representative' regions in detail, rather than the whole slide. However, some important details could be missed by this approach," said Dr. Guanghua "Andy" Xiao, corresponding author of a study published in EbioMedicine.

If you're in California and see a dog outfitted in a snazzy vest with an electronic tablet, Spot, Fido or Lassie just might be participating in a Mayo Clinic epilepsy trial. Mayo Clinic and Medtronic are developing a next-generation epilepsy therapeutics platform that integrates brain implants with local and distributing computing environments to continuously chronicle brain activity and deliver electrical brain stimulation guided by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. This research is part of the National Institutes of Health's Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, which aims to revolutionize understanding of the human brain. Mayo Clinic has partnered with Medtronic, the University of Minnesota, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Davis, to create this epilepsy-management platform. The research is focused on drug-resistant epilepsy and has been studied in dogs with naturally occurring epilepsy in a laboratory kennel setting for several years.

Technology followers continue to count the days for the CES 2020 technology fair. Samsung will introduce its Neon artificial intelligence at the CES 2020, but the first images and features of Neon have already been revealed. Let's examine the details of the news together. The countdown has begun for the biggest technology fair of the year CES 2020. One of the focus of interest at the fair in Las Vegas will be Samsung's new artificial intelligence technology called Neon.

BAGHDAD – Iraq's Parliament called for the expulsion of U.S. forces from the country in reaction to the American drone attack that killed a top Iranian general, raising the prospect of a troop withdrawal that could cripple the battle against the Islamic State group and allow a resurgence of the extremists. Lawmakers approved a resolution asking the Iraqi government to end the agreement under which Washington sent troops more than four years ago to help fight ISIS. The bill is nonbinding and subject to approval by the Iraqi government but has the backing of the outgoing prime minister. But the vote was another sign of the blowback from the U.S. airstrike Friday that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and a number of top Iraqi officials at the Baghdad airport. Soleimani was the architect of Iran's proxy wars across the Mideast and was blamed for the deaths of hundreds of Americans in roadside bombings and other attacks.

Ambarella AMBA recently announced a collaboration with Amazon's AMZN cloud computing arm, AWS, enabling customers to use Amazon SageMaker Neo cloud service to run ML models on devices based on Ambarella's CVflow-powered AI vision SoC (system on chip). Reportedly, this collaboration eliminates the need for developers to manually optimize ML models for devices based on Ambarella AI vision SoCs, preventing delays and errors in application development. The company will exhibit the collaboration with Amazon SageMaker Neo during CES 2020, to be held on Jan 7-10. Ambarella also named IP surveillance solution provider, VIVOTEK, as the first joint customer to leverage the single-click ML solution for edge applications. The company's CVflow suit of SoCs runs on an advanced 10-nanometer process, which enables the development of compact, high-performance vision systems with ultra-low-power operation.

The findings of the study, developed with Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) DeepMind AI unit, which merged with Google Health in September, represent a major advance in the potential for the early detection of breast cancer, Mozziyar Etemadi, one of its co-authors from Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, said.

Horizon asked a selection of scientists featured in the magazine last year for their opinion on priorities for 2020. READ: Prosperity is about more than money. But what else should count? '2020 is a super-year for international policy action,' said Sandrine Dixson-Declève, co-president of global think tank the Club of Rome and chair of an expert EU group on the economic and societal impact of research (ESIR). An oceans treaty will be agreed, biodiversity targets announced, it's the first opportunity for nations to increase their climate goals, and the start of the decade to scale action for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, she says.