You're probably familiar with the oft-quoted statistics from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations by now: Globally, about one-third of food is lost or wasted each year from the farm to the refrigerator, representing about 1.3 billion tons. The economic price tag is estimated at nearly $1 trillion annually. The refrain from the FAO goes even further: If we could reverse this trend, we would have enough food to feed the world's undernourished population, as well as help meet the nutritional needs of a planet estimated to reach nearly 10 billion people by 2050. Technology has long been helping to hack world hunger. These days most conversations about tech's impact on any sector of the economy inevitably involves artificial intelligence--sophisticated software that allows machines to make decisions and even predictions in ways similar to humans.

Although mobile devices were not designed to run compute-heavy AI models, in recent years AI-powered features like face detection, eye tracking, and voice recognition have all been added to smartphones. Much of the compute for such services is done on the cloud, but ideally these applications would be light enough to run directly on devices without an Internet connection. In this spirit of "smaller is better," Shanghai-based developer "Linzai" (GitHub user name @Linzaer) recently shared a new lightweight model that enables real-time face detection for smartphones. The project has garnered a whopping 3.3k Stars and over 600 forks on GitHub. Facial recognition technology is widely applied in security monitoring, surveillance, human-computer interaction, entertainment, etc. Detecting human faces in digital images is the first step in facial recognition, and an ideal face detection model can be evaluated by how quickly and accurately it performs.

NEW DELHI: India on Friday sought to add meat to its strategic partnership with Germany by wooing industries to invest in defence corridors of Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. At their biennial summit in New Delhi, India and Germany also sought to give momentum to revive stalled negotiations for free-trade agreement with the European Union. Proposed in 2007, the negotiations hit a roadblock in 2013 when the two sides arrived at an impasse on tariffs and market access. Disagreements on standards and practices exacerbated the situation and negotiations were shelved for five years. Germany has been an advocate of the deal and welcomed the resumption of negotiations last year.

"I am very interested in what is happening in Latin America and I think (in) Brazil there is an awful lot of quite smart investment," he added, noting that he thinks Europe is being a bit slow. The latest research report titled "Artificial Intelligence in Retail Market" published by Industry Research expects AI in the retail market to grow globally at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 35 percent from 2019 to 2024. The report also notes that the growing trend of rising technology adoption in the industry can be associated with the need for streamlining retail operations, minimising efforts, and increasing revenue mostly for e-commerce retailers. The application of artificial intelligence (AI), big data and analytics will enable businesses with a data-driven model by expanding the types of data that can be analysed and raise the level of sophistication of the resulting insight, according to the report. Owen Farrow, Leader Consumer Industry at IBM Middle East told Zawya on the sidelines of the event that the UAE particularly is becoming a more common place to talk to people about AI and stands out for leading with experience.

"I am very interested in what is happening in Latin America and I think (in) Brazil there is an awful lot of quite smart investment," he added, noting that he thinks Europe is being a bit slow. The latest research report titled "Artificial Intelligence in Retail Market" published by Industry Research expects AI in the retail market to grow globally at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 35 percent from 2019 to 2024. The report also notes that the growing trend of rising technology adoption in the industry can be associated with the need for streamlining retail operations, minimising efforts, and increasing revenue mostly for e-commerce retailers. The application of artificial intelligence (AI), big data and analytics will enable businesses with a data-driven model by expanding the types of data that can be analysed and raise the level of sophistication of the resulting insight, according to the report. Owen Farrow, Leader Consumer Industry at IBM Middle East told Zawya on the sidelines of the event that the UAE particularly is becoming a more common place to talk to people about AI and stands out for leading with experience.

The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), finished about two weeks ago in Cardiff, UK, is one of the top conferences in computer vision & pattern recognition with a competitive acceptance rate of 28%. Compared to others, it's a small event, so you have plenty of time to walk around posters and talk to presenters one-on-one, which I found really nice. I presented a poster on Image Classification with Hierarchical Multigraph Networks on which I mainly worked during my internship at SRI International under the supervision of Xiao Lin, Mohamed Amer (homepage) and my PhD advisor Graham Taylor. In the paper, we basically try to answer the question "Can we do better than Convolutional Neural Networks?". Here I discuss this question and support my arguments by results.

Police in Florida believe recordings from a murder suspect's Amazon Echo may contain crucial information as they investigate an alleged argument at the man's home that ended in his girlfriend's death. Adam Reechard Crespo, 43, is charged with murder in connection to the July death of Silvia Galva, who died after suffering a stab wound to the chest. The Broward County Sheriff's Office believes Crespo's Echo - a smart speaker that connects to the Amazon voice-activated personal assistant Alexa - may have been a witness to the crime and obtained search warrants for all the device's recordings. Hallandale Beach Police Department spokesman Sgt Pedro Abut told the Sun-Sentinel that the department has received the recordings and is "in the process of analysing the information that was sent to us". The police department did not immediately return NBC News' request for comment on Saturday.

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This car is all yours, with no one up front," the pop-up notification from the Waymo app reads. "This ride will be different. With no one else in the car, Waymo will do all the driving. Moments later, an empty Chrysler Pacifica minivan appears and navigates its way to my location near a park in Chandler, the Phoenix suburb where Waymo has been testing its autonomous vehicles since 2016. More than a dozen journalists experienced driverless rides in 2017 on a closed course at Waymo's testing facility in Castle; and Steve Mahan, who is legally blind, took a driverless ride in the company's Firefly prototype on Austin's city streets way back in 2015. But this driverless ride is different -- and not just because it involved an unprotected left-hand turn, busy city streets or that the Waymo One app was used to hail the ride.

Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently I discussed how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is helping analyse and diagnose everything from cancer and depression to dementia and PTSD, among many other things including even a person's personality and their intent to criminality using nothing more than a clever app. Now, in a next step, excusing the pun, a team of researchers have figured out how to categorise people's emotions using AI from the way they walk. And the tech could be used to gauge everything from the mood of shoppers, to the emotional state and mental health of an entire population. It's also not the only tech that can do this – you might be surprised to learn that AI can also turn your home Wi-Fi router into a radar spy that can analyse the state of your emotions and your health.