San Francisco (CNN)The next time you go to the bathroom, a couple startups are hoping you'll snap a photo before you flush. Two companies -- Auggi, a gut-health startup that's building an app for people to track gastrointestinal issues, and Seed Health, which works on applying microbes to human health and sells probiotics -- are soliciting poop photos from anyone who wants to send them. The companies began collecting the photos online on Monday via a campaign cheekily called "Give a S--t" (you can imagine what the dashes stand for) with the goal of creating the first known data set of human poop images. These pictures -- the companies hope to collect 100,000 photos in total -- can then be used to build AI for research into gut-related diseases and to help people with such health conditions more easily track their own bowel movements. "We like to say it's basically a data dump that gets flushed away each day that could really inform science," Seed cofounder and co-CEO Ara Katz told CNN Business.

New York, Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) with thyroid ultrasound offers a quick and non-invasive approach to thyroid cancer screening, says a new study. The study, published in the journal PLOS Pathogens, suggests that automated machine learning shows promise as an additional diagnostic tool that could improve the efficiency of thyroid cancer diagnosis. "Machine learning is a low-cost and efficient tool that could help physicians arrive at a quicker decision as to how to approach an indeterminate nodule," said the study's lead author John Eisenbrey from Thomas Jefferson University in the US. According to the researchers, at present ultrasounds can tell if a nodule looks suspicious, and then the decision is made whether to do a needle biopsy, but fine-needle biopsies only act as a peephole, they don't reveal the whole picture. As a result, some biopsies return inconclusive results as to whether the nodule is malignant, or cancerous in other words.

HIMSS is joining forces with the Australia Digital Health Agency (ADHA) to compose the up and coming HIMSS Australia Digital Health Summit (ADHS) from 20-21 November this year, occurring in Sydney, Australia. The gathering is relied upon to unite delegates from ADHA, open and private medicinal services pioneers from Australia, just as from the APAC region. The primary topic of the Summit is "Interoperability and Connected Care, which is particularly pertinent with the execution of My Health Record (MHR) in the nation, and on the web, the electronic rundown of one's key wellbeing data. ADHA has been dynamically overhauling the MHR, for example, collaborating with programming merchants to have the option to share data securely crosswise over various programming items and improving its clinical work process abilities. The Data track will address the potential advantages of making a system of shared information crosswise over Australia and contextual investigations of how the utilization of information examination apparatuses can realize out better wellbeing results.

Are you addicted to your smartphone? Do you bring your mobile device with you wherever you go, including your bed at night? How long can you go without using or checking your phone? Smartphone addiction is rising with potential consequences on physical and mental health. One media mogul is making moves to help people form healthy habits.

The camera flies past a detachment of robot soldiers on a spaceship. Nearly half of all web traffic is from "bots." That statistic alone should grab your attention, but the one that should worry you more is that "bad" bots are growing in number and reach. Cutting right to the chase: the only way bad bots can be contained is with good or other bad bots. A bot … "is an automated program that is programmed for certain actions and executes them either regularly or reactively. The bot does this without needing human activation. It analyzes the environment and'decides' which actions to take depending on the situation."

An empty street, a row of parked cars at the side: nothing to indicate that you should be careful. But wait: Isn't there a side street up ahead, half covered by the parked cars? Maybe I better take my foot off the gas -- who knows if someone's coming from the side. We constantly encounter situations like these when driving. Interpreting them correctly and drawing the right conclusions requires a lot of experience. In contrast, self-driving cars sometimes behave like a learner driver in his first lesson.

The Pentagon is increasingly incorporating artificial intelligence, including for what the military calls "maneuver and fires," the part of fighting wars that involves targeting and shooting people. To help ensure that these machines behave ethically, the Pentagon is looking for an AI ethicist to join its new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. "We're thinking deeply about the safe and lawful use of AI," says Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, in the briefing where he announced the position. Navigating AI ethics for the Pentagon will require safeguarding human and civil rights while keeping pace with AI development in China and Russia, countries whose militaries appear less preoccupied with such rights. Even if the Pentagon develops computer algorithms that are always able to distinguish between enemy targets and noncombatants, there is a risk in developing capabilities that are too effective, says Patrick Lin, a philosophy professor at California Polytechnic State University.

It was the middle of the second world war, Europe was under siege and while the allied forces were able to intercept radio traffic communication, they could not make any sense of the information, since it was encrypted. Germany had developed an ingenious device, called the Enigma, which allowed for millions of possible encryption combinations. Being able to decrypt that communication would no doubt be of tremendous value to the allied forces. One day, a man stepped into the offices of Britain's code breaking centre at Bletchley park. He claimed he would be able to build a machine that could decrypt the enemy's communication.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will impact every single industry in the next ten years, according to Peter DeBenedictus, CMO - Middle East and Africa, Microsoft. DeBenedictus was part of a panel discussion at the Arabian Business forum Success 2020 entitled: 'Embracing new technological innovations to deliver success'. He said: "There's not one single job or industry that will not be impacted by AI." He revealed that the jobs under threat include lawyers and radiologists as well as the more typical example of call centre operators. "Any job or task that is routine, repeatable and learnable by a machine, will disappear in the next five to ten years. "Think about accounting and audit.

From space settlements to airplanes and homes on Earth --scientists have developed a new category of robots that could change the way we build high-performance structures. The V-shaped machines, called Bipedal Isotropic Lattice Locomoting Explorers (or BILL-E), have two miniature arms that erect structures piece by piece. These appendages allow robots to move around like inchworms, opening and closing their bodies in order to travel from one spot to the next. The BILL-E robots were developed by a team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which foresee these tiny robots designing everything from space settlements on Mars to airplanes and homes on Earth. Professor Neil Gershenfeld in MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms said'What's at the heart of this is a new kind of robotics, that we call relative robots.'