Whether you see red, feel blue, or go green with envy may depend on what country you call home, a new study suggests. And when given data on how a person associated colors with emotions, researchers could correctly predict where they were from 80% of the time. The scientists surveyed 711 people from China, Germany, Greece, and the United Kingdom. Volunteers read the word for 12 colors, such as "green" and "turquoise." They then indicated which of 20 emotions the colors brought to mind, and how strongly the color was tied to the feeling.

More than a decade ago leading UK investigative journalist Nick Davies published Flat Earth News, an exposé of how the mass media had abdicated its responsibility to the truth. Newsroom pressure to publish more stories, faster than their competitors had, Davies argued, led to journalists becoming mere "churnalists", rushing out articles so fast that they could never check on the truth of what they were reporting. Shocking as Davies' revelations seemed back in 2008, they seem pretty tame by today's standards. We now live in a post-truth world of Fake News and'alternative facts'; where activists don't just seek to manipulate the news agenda with PR but now use advanced technology to fake images and footage. A particularly troubling aspect of these'deepfake' videos is their use of artificial intelligence to fabricate people saying or doing things with almost undetectable accuracy.

But, as we close in on 2020, serious forecasts for the year 2030 are starting to emerge, with two dropping only this week. The first, from the National Restaurant Association in America, is a report on the projected state of the US restaurant industry. The second, from global market research firm Mintel, is a look at predicted consumer trends across the globe. In our recent Food Trends 2020 whitepaper, we highlighted three key macro trends ripe for evolution, with plant-based developments, cuisines from the Asia-Pacific region and healthy eating/nutritional focus all expected to progress in the UK next year. In 2030, aside from the expected advances in AI, VR and other abbreviated futurisms, some of the most interesting predictions stem from the likes of wellbeing and veganism, with farming, delivery and the very definition of a'restaurant' all cropping up.

Artificial intelligence is touching almost every industry in the ongoing era of digital transformation. But what does it mean? Put simply, AI and machine learning -- a closely related idea -- are computer programs that emulate and learn human behavior to then make autonomous decisions. AI can be especially transformative in retail, helping almost every aspect of a retailer's business -- from utilizing data to drive sales, to automating the supply chain, or to hyper-personalize the customer experience. While AI can sound like some far-off idea, it's closer than you may think.

In recent years, data-driven decision making has become critical to the success of corporations. There are many benefits of using technology for data-driven practices including the optimization of production and manufacturing, reductions in customer attrition, reductions in data redundancy, increased profitability, and the creation of competitive advantage. So data science has become popular as organizations embrace data-driven decision-making approaches. Data scientists need a wide range of skills including mathematics and statistics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), databases and cloud computing, and data visualization. However, it is difficult to recruit enough data scientists, particularly with sufficient domain knowledge, such as banking, healthcare, human resources, manufacturing, and telco, for the tasks to be performed and decisions to be made.

In its Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century report, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) identifies six distinct "Aims for Improvement" addressing the divide between good health care and the health care that people actually receive. Patient-centered service is a leading focus. Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, former president and chief executive officer of IHI and former administrator of CMS said, "We are guests in our patients' lives instead of hosts in our healthcare organizations." Being guests in the lives of patients means being welcomed in, not waited for. This requires that we prioritize patient convenience–something artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare can help deliver.

More than 3,000 potential students applied to join Abu Dhabi's artificial intelligence (AI) focused university in the first week that applications were open. Most of the applications to Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) came from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Egypt, India, and China. MBZUAI, based in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, aims to enable students, businesses and governments to increase the use of AI technology. It is the first university focused only on AI. The current applications are for the academic year 2021-2022, with the first students expected to start in September 2020.

Can we get a fanfare of trumpets, please? The time has come to introduce you to our TC Top Picks for Disrupt Berlin 2019. The ingenuity and creativity reflected in the international startup community can't be overstated, and narrowing the field from the hundreds of applications we received was no easy task. Challenging as it was, TechCrunch editors had a (wicked fun) job to do -- select up to five early-stage startups they felt represent the best of their specific tech category. This remarkable cadre of early-stage startups knocked our proverbial socks off.

The world is divided into two kinds of people – those who think the massive strides we've made in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is cool, and those, like me, who think we need to prepare for the robot apocalypse. Whichever side of the fence you're on, you probably aren't fully aware of exactly how far we've come. AI is increasingly becoming part of our everyday lives, in small but significant ways. Forbes put together a list of the unsettling (or awesome, depending on how you see it) skills that AI has already mastered and how these skills are used. The artificial intelligence-powered SummarizeBot can read, comprehend, and summarise anything from books to news articles, by identifying and isolating the essential information.

Quality healthcare is one of the most important factors, how individuals perceive their quality of life. In most countries, alongside the economy, it is one of the major political issues. In some countries, the healthcare delivery organization is a part of the national identity. Currently, the healthcare industry is going through a transformation, and to succeed in the increasingly competitive environment, organizations need to make significant investments in processes and technologies to cut down costs, increase access to care delivery, and improve medical care. Globally, majority of economies are facing similar challenges such as rising healthcare costs, changing demographics, resource gap (i.e. even the demand is increasing, there is a global shortage of clinicians), increasing focus on quality, etc. Driving current healthcare trends are the costs of providing care and the outcome of this care.