By 2029, it has been predicted that AI, IoT, Blockchain and 5G will generate $721bn in revenue per year to 60 of the largest cities in the world. A new report released by data centre giants Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) revealed that through new jobs, businesses, industries, and improved public services, 10 cities including New York City, Los Angeles and Tokyo are predicted to be the world's leading digital capitals by 2029. Other cities on the company's prediction list include, San Francisco, Singapore, London, Chicago, Toronto, Paris, and Hong Kong. "We wanted to build on previous reports and uncover the role cities will play in the future data economy," said Chris Sharp, CTO of Digital Realty. "It's no surprise that cities like New York, Tokyo and London occupy a lofty position in the report.

It's no secret that big tech companies like Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), and Alphabet (GOOG), the parent company of Google, are investing in digital healthcare. The market opportunity is pretty enticing when you consider that the U.S. alone spent $3.65 trillion on healthcare just last year. Google made the latest headline-grabbing move when it announced that it would buy wearables maker Fitbit (FIT) in a deal valued at $2.1 billion. Analysts have noted that the acquisition is part of the company's overall strategy to build an ambient intelligent system where Google is omnipresent. Another motive behind the purchase – pending regulatory approvals – is that Fitbit gives Google access to a treasure trove of healthcare data that it can feed to its London-based AI lab DeepMind or its life sciences subsidiary Verily, which is already collaborating on at least one AI healthcare device for remote patient monitoring.

Speaking at BlockShow Asia 2019, Todalarity CEO Toufi Saliba posed a hypothetical question to the audience: "How many people would take a pill that made you smarter, knowing they can be controlled by a social entity?". "Now imagine at the same time the pill has autonomous decentralized governance so that no one can control or repurpose that pill but the host – yourself." . "It is when we are at a point of centralizing data that you can begin to think about decentralization

Artificial intelligence in recent time has proved that it can do wonders. Today, AI is not only in our phones, cars, or in devices that follow our commands, but it has also become the new Picasso of this tech-driven era. In this article, we are going to take a look at some of the most amazing paintings and artworks created by AI in recent times. Recently, there were reports that two paintings by the French art collective Obvious are going to be up for auction in Sotheby's in New York this month. But the best part of this entire event is the fact that the paintings are made by artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Neural Networks … most of know these words. They're banded about as the'next big things' that promise to revolutionize the way you do business. This might well be true, but there are still many people that aren't aware of exactly what these technologies are, how they're already impacting our lives and how they have the potential to transform the way we do business. We know Siri and Alexa, the personal assistants by Apple (Siri) and Amazon (Alexa) to help us out in an increasing number of ways. Most of us know that these are AI-powered assistants, but few of us know about the thousands of algorithms, neural networks, random forests and gradient boosting that help make these assistants what they are and contribute to their growing sophistication and usefulness. Julia Medvid, Senior Client Partner at ITMAGINATION and Łukasz Dylewski, Head of Data Science, have extensive experience in introducing ITMAGINATION clients to AI and helping them to benefit from this game-changing technology.

SAN FRANCISCO – Ever-expanding Google will become a gaming company Tuesday with the launch of its Stadia cloud service, which lets people play console-quality video games in a web browser or on a smartphone. The internet giant hopes to break into the global video game industry -- expected to top $150 billion this year -- with cloud technology that could broaden audiences attracted by rich new features as well as ease of access with no more need for consoles. But analysts say Stadia's outlook is uncertain as its faces rivals such as PlayStation Now in an emerging and highly competitive market. Stadia plays into a trend in which content -- ranging from blockbuster films to work projects -- lives in the cloud and is accessible from any device. "All of these new services are merely pointing out that we don't need sophisticated hardware in the home to access entertainment," said Wedbush Securities equity research managing director Michael Pachter.

Stanislav Petrov is not a famous name in the computer science space, like Ada Lovelace or Grace Hopper, but his story serves as a critical lesson for developers of AI systems. Petrov, who passed away on May 19, 2017, was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Union's Air Defense Forces. On September 26, 1983, an alarm announced that the U.S. had launched five nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). His job, as the human in the loop of this technical detection system, was to escalate to leadership to launch Soviet missiles in retaliation, ensuring mutually assured destruction. As the sirens blared, he took a moment to pause and think critically. Why would the U.S. send only five missiles?

The possibility of man-made machines turning against their creators has become a trendy topic these days. Undoubtedly, Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are no longer fit for purpose. For the sake of the global public good, we need something serious and more specific to safeguard our limitless ambitions - and humanity itself. Today, the internet connects more than half the world's population. And although the internet provides us with convenience and efficiency, it also brings threats. This is especially true in an age in which a good deal of our daily life is driven by big data and artificial intelligence.

Microsoft said on Wednesday that Harry Shum, the executive vice president in charge of its artificial intelligence and research group, is leaving the company in early 2020. Kevin Scott, the company's chief technology officer and formerly a LinkedIn executive, is taking on Shum's responsibilities in addition to his own. It's not clear what Shum will do next. Shum has been a figurehead in the more integrated approach to research that has taken hold at Microsoft during the tenure of CEO Satya Nadella, who replaced Steve Ballmer in 2014. His group has been one of the most prominent technology research institutions outside academia, alongside the likes of Google parent-company Alphabet and Facebook.

Volvo has created a new business unit for its growing range of autonomous transport solutions. The new business area, Volvo Autonomous Solutions, will accelerate the development, commercialization and sales of autonomous transport solutions. Volvo says this will enable the company to meet "a growing demand" and to offer "the best possible solutions" to customers in such segments as mining, ports and transport between logistics centers, as a complement to today's products and services. With global developments that are characterized by higher demand for transportation, increasingly congested roads and major environmental challenges, the industry needs to provide transport solutions that are safer, have a lower environmental impact and are more efficient. Autonomous transport solutions, based on self-driving and connectivity technologies are well-suited for applications where there is a need to move large volumes of goods and material on pre-defined routes, in repetitive flows.