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AI technology will help homes and companies improve the chances of surviving events intact or helping them to adopt safety in a more effective and quick manner. FREMONT, CA: By 2025, the world is expected to be wireless, interconnected, and smart. The coming years will witness a new level of innovation and advanced artificial intelligence that manages enterprises and homes as well. We will soon be able to see a day where we would be waking up by a smart bed heater. Also, it will not be unusual when alert lighting will guide us to the bathroom, where the electric brush would be ready to help us start our day.

Understanding the workings and behaviors of a city requires knowledge of the different processes that allow people and other biological organisms to live and thrive, as well as understanding of their interrelationships--many of which are complicated and have yet to be deeply explored. "Cities are immensely complex, with many facets and interactions within them," said Pete Beckman, a computer scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. "For instance, weather influences human movement; air quality affects long-term health; and availability to transportation helps determine opportunities ranging from employment to social interaction. What we need is a new generation of methods and tools that can help us find relationships hidden within the growing volume and diversity of data that are being collected about cities." Central to these methods is machine learning--the increasingly potent process by which computers train to make predictions or determinations from large quantities of data. Machine learning has revolutionized many parts of our lives, from the game of chess to facial recognition systems, and it is now coming to our cities.

Tuberculosis (TB) can now be identified in less than an hour thanks to a new blood test. The test procedure -- developed by The University of Queensland's Emeritus Professor Ian Riley in collaboration with researchers in Tanzania, India, Mexico and the Philippines -- is hoped to positively impact TB diagnosis in adults living in remote areas. "TB has been difficult to control because its symptoms are similar to many other diseases," Prof Riley said. "Other challenges include drug resistance to the disease and the high burden of HIV-positive cases in developing countries." Prof Riley explained that the discovery of the testing procedure came from using machine learning techniques to study three groups of adults who had a persistent cough for more than three weeks.

"Learn to crawl and walk before you try to run" is something we frequently advise our retail clients. That advice is particularly helpful when we are working with them on roadmaps for harnessing the RFID data produced in their stores and supply chains. This report will outline some smart tactics at each stage of the progression from decision making processes that rely heavily on human input to those that capitalize on advances in automation and artificial intelligence. It has long been established that RFID provides retailers with significant operational benefits. Our retail clients are moving beyond the core foundational capabilities and are eager to fully capitalize on the new forms of data their RFID systems are generating.

RIYADH: The Global Artificial Intelligence Summit 2020 will be held in Saudi Arabia, according to Saudi Press Agency (SPA). The summit -- held under the patronage of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman -- will take place in Riyadh on 30-31 March next year. The event is the leading international forum to advance AI understanding and knowledge sharing among global AI experts. The summit is part of Saudi Arabia's plan to become a leader in AI technology and drive discussions and partnerships between local and international stakeholders in the AI field. The event will be a focus for discussion on AI, its importance, applications and impact on societies, economies and politics.

We are Square Off, disrupting the rapidly growing on-screen industry which rekindled interest in traditional gaming by introducing new age connected board-gaming platforms to engage, entertain & teach users across all age groups, around the world. Take your chess prowess to the next level with this affordable, automated, and state-of-the-art device. No other chessboard comes close. The Swap gives you the power of choice and the convenience of switching between games in a matter of moments. Compact, faster, and so much smarter, Square Off Neo combines state-of-the-art technology that's taking chess to the future.

The AI, called Pluribus, defeated poker professional Darren Elias, who holds the record for most World Poker Tour titles, and Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, winner of six World Series of Poker events. Each pro separately played 5,000 hands of poker against five copies of Pluribus. In another experiment involving 13 pros, all of whom have won more than $1 million playing poker, Pluribus played five pros at a time for a total of 10,000 hands and again emerged victorious. "Pluribus achieved superhuman performance at multi-player poker, which is a recognized milestone in artificial intelligence and in game theory that has been open for decades," said Tuomas Sandholm, Angel Jordan Professor of Computer Science, who developed Pluribus with Noam Brown, who is finishing his Ph.D. in Carnegie Mellon's Computer Science Department as a research scientist at Facebook AI. "Thus far, superhuman AI milestones in strategic reasoning have been limited to two-party competition. The ability to beat five other players in such a complicated game opens up new opportunities to use AI to solve a wide variety of real-world problems."

Former Democrat congressional aide Jackson Cosko is sentenced for posting the private information of five Republican senators on Wikipedia during the Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings; Griff Jenkins reports. A second aide to Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., has been sentenced in a scheme to break into Hassan's office to obtain and publicly post the personal information of several Republican politicians amid contentious confirmation hearings for Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The 24-year-old former aide, Samantha Deforest Davis, was sentenced to two years of supervised probation with 200 hours of community service, with a suspended sentence of 180 days in prison. She was ordered to "stay away from [Hassan's] office to include current and former staff, and to not use Tor or anonymized computer applications," the Justice Department said in a statement. Davis was a staff assistant in Hassan's office from August 2017 until last December.

Alibaba's chip subsidiary Pingtouge (平头哥) has become the first Chinese company to open-source its Microcontroller (MCU) design platform. Alibaba made the announcement at the Wuzhen Internet Conference on October 21. An MCU (Micro Controller Unit, aka microcontroller) is a chip-scale computer that integrates a CPU, RAM, ROM, timer, counter, and various I/O interfaces into a single chip. As a core component of embedded devices, MCUs are widely used in communications, consumer electronics, automotive electronics, and industrial control, and are the most in-demand chip type on the market. Most IoT (Internet of things) devices need to be equipped with next-generation MCU chips to perform complex tasks such as sensing, communication, information processing, calculation, and release of control commands.