"Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday." As we enter a new decade, let's look at top technology trends and new developments that will transform the global economy, shape the jobs landscape, and lead the next industrial revolution. The Toolbox team spoke to leading industry experts who weighed in on the technology trends that will have the biggest impact on enterprises in 2020. From artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing, automation, 5G, cybersecurity, to the Internet of Things (IoT), a host of tech trends is poised for greater adoption in 2020. As we welcome 2020, C-suite executives across the globe need to watch out for these technologies and make sound business decisions.

"Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday." As we enter a new decade, let's look at top technology trends and new developments that will transform the global economy, shape the jobs landscape, and lead the next industrial revolution. The Toolbox team spoke to leading industry experts who weighed in on the technology trends that will have the biggest impact on enterprises in 2020. From artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing, automation, 5G, cybersecurity, to the Internet of Things (IoT), a host of tech trends is poised for greater adoption in 2020. As we welcome 2020, C-suite executives across the globe need to watch out for these technologies and make sound business decisions.

Health products powered by artificial intelligence are streaming into our lives, from virtual doctor apps to wearable sensors and drugstore chatbots. IBM boasted that its AI could "outthink cancer." Others say computer systems that read X-rays will make radiologists obsolete. AI can help doctors interpret MRIs of the heart, CT scans of the head and photographs of the back of the eye, and could potentially take over many mundane medical chores, freeing doctors to spend more time talking to patients, said Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist and executive vice president of Scripps Research in La Jolla. "There's nothing that I've seen in my 30-plus years studying medicine that could be as impactful and transformative" as AI, Topol said.

Fox Business reporter Jackie DeAngelis on how the U.S. strike will impact oil prices and the economy. The threat Friday by a top Iranian military leader to attack "vital American targets" in or near the Strait of Hormuz – the waterway through which about 20 percent of the world's oil is transported – illustrates why President Trump's pro-American energy policies are critical to our national security. Iranian leaders have promised military action to retaliate for the killing of terrorist Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. drone strike this week that was ordered by President Trump. Soleimani commanded the elite Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and was killed because he was planning deadly new attacks against Americans and others, President Trump and other U.S. officials have said. Senior Revolutionary Guards commander Gen. Gholamali Abuhamzeh said Friday that "the Strait of Hormuz is a vital point for the West and a large number of American destroyers and warships cross there."

WhiteFox Defense Strategic Advisor and drone expert Brett Velicovich discusses the operation and mission of the airstrike that hit General Qassem Soleimani. You only get "one shot" while taking down a target like Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, drone expert Brett Velicovich said Saturday. Appearing on "America's News HQ: Weekend" with host Ed Henry, Velicovich -- who once tracked Soleimani's movements -- said that the drone strike on Soleimani was a " forceful reminder that the Iranians can no longer attack Americans with impunity, [as well as] that the U.S. government can retaliate with a wide variety of options that are both devastating actions that are short of war." "Thanks to President Trump's decisive action, we are able to use one of the tools within the government's arsenal to strike and to strike Soleimani with precision," he added. The MQ-9 Reaper drone was used to strike Soleimani early Friday at the Baghdad International Airport. With a range of 1,150 miles and the ability to fly at altitudes of 50,000 feet, the Reaper weighs almost 5,000 pounds.

A new machine learning (ML) platform can identify patients with colorectal cancer and helps predict their disease severity and survival, finds a new study. The non-invasive method adds to recent advances in technologies that analyse circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) and could help spot colorectal cancers in at-risk patients at earlier stages. Like many other malignancies, colorectal cancers are most treatable if they are detected before they have metastasized to other tissues. Colonoscopies are the'gold standard' for diagnosis, but they are uncomfortable and invasive and can lead to complications, which leaves patients less willing to undergo screening. For the study, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, lead researcher Huiyan Luo from University Cancer Center in China and colleagues leveraged machine learning techniques to develop a less invasive diagnostic method that can detect colorectal cancer in at-risk patients. Their technology works by screening for methylation markers, which are DNA modifications that are frequently found in tumors.

Unlike tech pundits who issue bleak warnings about AI, Baidu's founder and CEO Robin Li is a self-described "optimist" in regards to AI technologies. Last October, Li told the South China Morning Post that AI "will not destroy human beings but will give people eternal life," since "everything every person has said and done, even people's memories, emotions and consciousness" can be stored on the cloud. Li claims that accumulating all that data would enable machines to "learn people's way of thinking" and allow generations to communicate "across time and space" to solve problems. Li also doesn't seem concerned about privacy issues. At the China Development Forum in early 2018, Li predicted that most Chinese citizens would be willing to "exchange privacy for safety, convenience, or efficiency."

It's been another great year for robots. We didn't quite figure out how to imbue them with human-level intelligence, but we gave it the old college try and came up with GPT-2 (the text generator so scary it gives Freddy Krueger nightmares) and the AI magic responsible for these adorable robo-cheetahs: Early birds are even cooler. But it's time to let the past go and point our bows toward the future. It's no longer possible to estimate how much the machine learning and AI markets are worth, because the line between what's an AI-based technology and what isn't has become so blurred that Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all "AI companies" that also do other stuff. Your local electricity provider uses AI and so does the person who takes those goofy real-estate agent pictures you see on park benches.

An artificial intelligence system developed by the NHS and Google could dramatically speed up diagnosis times for women with breast cancer, a study suggests. The "deep learning" system outperformed human experts in detecting breast cancer from x-rays. Integrating the system into Britain's breast cancer screening process -- in which a mammogram is read by two NHS radiologists -- could reduce the second reader's workload by nearly 90 per cent, according to the study. Women between the ages of 50 and 71 are invited to receive a mammogram on the NHS every three years. An x-ray of the breast tissue is used to look for abnormal growths or changes that may be cancerous.

Contributor and SMX speaker, Duane Brown, explains in this video why 2020 is the year to get a handle on your mobile experience as well as find the platforms your customers are on and experiment if they're new to you. I run an agency up in Montreal, Canada. We focus on kind of two areas, paid ads, PPC, Google, Facebook, stuff like that. We also do CRO for clients, we'll often have to figure out how do their websites convert more. And a lot of our clients are in e-commerce.