AI has continued to rapidly advance. With intelligent tools now available to businesses, how can enterprises transform their processes and insights using the latest AI techniques? If your business doesn't have an AI roadmap, it will suffer significant losses and damage your ability to compete. This is the stark message that many industry watchers are defining, as we enter a new era of AI. The headlines in the technology press that shout that AI is the next seismic shift in how your business will operate, need to be tempered with a reality check.

The intensive fires in the Amazon, the rapid melting of glaciers and ice sheets, and continued loss of biodiversity all illustrate that our planet is changing at a dangerous pace. At the same time, we are entering a period of unprecedented technological change. Artificial intelligence (AI) in combination with sensor technology and robotics are likely to change the way we all perceive and respond to social and environmental changes. How can we ensure that applications of artificial intelligence help us address these urgent challenges? On Oct. 15, Princeton University joined representatives from U.S. and Swedish academia, Swedish government, Google, Ericsson, USAID, U.N. Development Programme and U.N. Global Pulse, to launch a project that will explore how applications of artificial intelligence can help accelerate innovations in line with targets set by the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.

A spherical, cargo robot that carries up to 40 pounds while trailing behind its owner can be yours for just $3,250. Vespa scooter maker has unveiled a redesign of its personal robot called Gita, which aims to free its human's hands so they can engage with others and enjoy activities. The ball-like machine stands about 26 inches and uses vision sensors to follow you -- and it will be available to the public next month. A spherical, cargo robot that carries up to 40 pounds while trailing behind its owner can be yours for just $3,250. Vespa scooter maker has unveiled a redesign of its personal robot called Gita, which aims to free its human's hands so they can engage with others and enjoy activities Instead of deciding to use an automobile or truck to transport to lug packages and other goods, Piaggio Fast Forward, the creating firm, wants to help people walk, run, pedal and skate through life with the assistance of a family of vehicles like Gita.

Imagine a scene, set in the future, where a child in Burning Man–style punk clothing is standing in front of a yurt powered by solar panels. There weren't many books with scenes like that in 2014, when Sarena Ulibarri, an editor, first grew interested in a genre of science fiction that imagines a renewable and sustainable future. Welcome to solarpunk, a new genre within science fiction that is a reaction against the perceived pessimism of present-day sci-fi and hopes to bring optimistic stories about the future with the aim of encouraging people to change the present. The first book that explicitly identified as solarpunk was Solarpunk: Histórias ecológicas e fantásticas em um mundo sustentável (Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastic Stories in a Sustainable World), a Brazilian book published in 2012. In 2014, author Adam Flynn wrote Solarpunk: Notes Toward a Manifesto.

The University of California, San Francisco is employing Nvidia technology to help develop artificial intelligence tools for clinical radiology. WHY IT MATTERS The two organizations will work together on several AI projects, including brain tumor segmentation, liver segmentation and clinical deployment, leveraging Nvidia's Clara healthcare toolkit and the tech giant's DGX-2 AI system. Clara Medical Imaging provides developers with the tools to build, manage and deploy intelligent imaging workflows and instruments, while Clara Genomics addresses the growing size and complexity of genomics sequencing and analysis with accelerated and intelligent computing. Powered by DGX software and the scalable architecture of Nvidia NVSwitch, the DGX-2 is a 2 petaFLOPS system combining 16 interconnected graphical processing units – the system could help UCSF researchers significantly cut the time to train AI models. The number of images acquired during common studies such as MRI and CT scans has swelled in recent years corresponding with the growing number of patients being imaged.

Researchers at TU Delft have developed a new supercompressible but strong material without conducting any experimental tests at all, using only artificial intelligence (AI). "AI gives you a treasure map, and the scientist needs to find the treasure," says Miguel Bessa, first author of a publication on this subject in Advanced Materials on 14 October. Miguel Bessa, assistant professor in materials science and engineering at TU Delft, got the inspiration for this research project during his time at the California Institute of Technology. At a corner of the Space Structures Lab, he noticed a satellite structure that could open long solar sails from a very small package. He wondered if it would be possible to design a highly compressible yet strong material that could be compressed into a small fraction of its volume. "If this was possible, everyday objects such as bicycles, dinner tables and umbrellas could be folded into your pocket."

The intensive fires in the Amazon, the rapid melting of glaciers and ice sheets, and continued loss of biodiversity all illustrate that our planet is changing at a dangerous pace. At the same time, we are entering a period of unprecedented technological change. Artificial intelligence (AI) in combination with sensor technology and robotics are likely to change the way we all perceive and respond to social and environmental changes. How can we ensure that applications of artificial intelligence help us address these urgent challenges? On Oct. 15, Princeton University joined representatives from U.S. and Swedish academia, Swedish government, Google, Ericsson, USAID, U.N. Development Programme, and U.N. Global Pulse, to launch a project that will explore how applications of artificial intelligence can help accelerate innovations in line with targets set by the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the hottest sectors in recent years, with its technology promising to revolutionize and automate every industry imaginable. We have been covering this trend, showing a massive increase in AI startup funding. As you can see in the graphic below, AI funding more than doubled from 2016 to 2017. Its funding more than tripled from 2016 to 2018. This phenomenon then begs the question – what caused this explosive growth in AI funding?

Today at its Google hardware event, Google introduced new mesh routers called Nest Wifi. This is a successor tot he Google Wifi product it introduced a couple of years ago, but with a number of improvements. The new Nest Wifi consists of two types of devices, one a router that plugs into your modem, and one'point' amplifies the signal and extends the network, and it's more powerful so you only need these two things. It's available to pre-order, and will ship on November 4. It comes in a 2-pack or a 3-pack variant, for $249 or $349 respectively, and will be available in eight countries at launch. Google says that Nest Wifi offers 2x better speed than Google Wifi, with up to 25% better coverage.

In India, during the festive season, online retail witnesses a great jump in the number of consumers each year around August to January, with an expected 40 percent rise in consumer traffic. This also implies serious competition between e-commerce players. Their marketing and sales team do everything to ensure that their deals and campaigns are better than the others. Due to aggressive marketing campaigns, offers and discounts by brands, 2018's festive season saw a 71 percent rise in the number of online customers. Amid this, the question arises, what method is applied by these companies to stay ahead in the competition?