It wasn't that long ago that Sophia Withers was travelling around Australia and Asia after her undergraduate degree. After a stint working on farms and in brunch cafes, she moved to Melbourne and joined KPMG Australia. While working as a coordinator for their audit division, she began studying the University of Birmingham's part-time Online MSc International Business, in 2018. It was during the program that she deep dived into her passion for blockchain and emerging technology. Her degree research project--How will Blockchain 3.0 facilitate social and economic impact?

Data science is aiming to be the biggest tool nowadays for multiple industries to diversify their business and stimulate it at a very high rate. Data science is responsible for the exponential growth of the business and increasing its effectiveness at compound rates. It is a multidisciplinary field which includes detailed study of ample data in various structured, semi-structured and unstructured form. Data science helps in enriching the data and execute it better for further use by the company. Data science is working in the same way as the fuel works for the vehicle. Therefore, every industry is striving to incorporate this technology as quickly as possible.

The Nuvo-6108GC GPU computer from Neousys was presented to the customer as a suitable solution for their needs, reported to be the world's first'Industrial-grade edge AI GPU computer supporting high-end NVIDIA RTX 2080 graphics card'. The Nuvo-6108GC GPU computer is able to support the heavy power consumption requirements in order to offer reliable GPU computing performance in industrial environments, and has a patented airflow design and multiple storage drives in a compact form factor. To meet the customer's requirements, Neousys provided a bespoke card cage assembly for the specialised graphics card to secure it in place and protect against the shock and vibration that is commonplace with in-vehicle applications. The fact that all this was incorporated in to an in-vehicle box PC made the Nuvo-6108GC from Neousys the perfect all-in-one GPU computing solution for this innovative autonomous vehicle project. To find out more about WMG, University of Warwick's autonomous vehicle project click here.

Police chief calls Tlaib's comments racist; Democratic strategist Monique Pressley and Blexit Movement founder Candace Owens react. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., last week responded to backlash after she told Detroit police to hire only black facial recognition analysts, writing in a scathing op-ed that her comments were neither "racist" nor "inappropriate" and pushed further for a total ban of the technology used to identify criminal suspects. "I'm going to call out every injustice I see. It's probably what makes most people uncomfortable when I speak the truth," Tlaib wrote in an op-ed in The Detroit News. It is inappropriate to implement a broken, flawed and racist technology that doesn't recognize black and brown faces in a city that is over 80% black." "I was elected to serve my residents, and I cannot in good conscience sit by while inaccurate facial recognition technology is deployed in ways that run the risk of false arrests and over-policing," she continued. "Facial recognition technology will have racist results and relying on human analysts for intervention is inadequate.

Data science is one of the fastest growing segments of the tech industry, and Alteryx, Inc. is front and center in the data revolution. The Alteryx Platform provides a collaborative, governed platform to quickly and efficiently search, analyze and use pertinent data. To continue accelerating innovation, Alteryx announced it has purchased a startup with roots in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Feature Labs "automates feature engineering for machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) applications." Combining the two companies' platforms and engineering will result in faster time-to-insight and time-to-value for data scientists and analysts.

FRISS, a provider of AI-powered fraud and risk solutions for the property and casualty market, has announced that it has extended its partnership with Munich Re to support insurers worldwide in the fight against fraud risk. The extension of the agreement comes after FRISS and Munich Re successfully cooperated in Latin America and Iberia to mitigate fraud risk at P&C insurers. FRISS provides a combination of AI, predictive models, network analysis and text mining for more than 600 risk and fraud indicators that are used by insurers for real-time risk assessment in underwriting, fraud detection during claims and investigations at the special investigation unit. "Many of our insurance clients see the need to increase efficiencies, reduce claims costs and improve their competitive edge by an increased use of automation," said Joachim Mathe, head of Munich Re's global consulting. "To take full advantage of these new opportunities, insurers must arm themselves with relevant digital and data-analytics competency, including a modern IT system supporting such competencies. The combination of our strategy expertise and global player know-how with AI-powered fraud and risk solutions provided by FRISS will help our clients make effective big-picture decisions."

Just the mention of AI and the brain invokes pictures of Terminator machines destroying the world. Thankfully, the present picture is significantly more positive. So, let's explore how AI is helping our planet and at last benefiting humankind. In this blog on Artificial Intelligence applications, I'll be discussing how AI has impacted various fields like healthcare, finance, agriculture, and so on. Marketing is a way to sugar coat your products to attract more customers.

Marc Carrel-Billiard is the Global Senior Managing Director of Accenture Labs, the company's dedicated R&D organization. In his role, he also directs Accenture's annual Technology Vision research, which looks at the future of enterprise technology. Marc has been with Accenture for nearly 20 years and has worked across all the five industries we serve. Before taking on leadership of Technology R&D, Marc was the global lead for Emerging Technology in Accenture. He has held several global leadership roles within Accenture's technology group, including within Application Portfolio Optimization and SOA/Integration Architecture.

Eddy Travels was accepted into the Intelak startup incubator program led by the Emirates Group, GE, and Dubai Tourism! We will get a chance to work closely with program partners to develop a pilot travel project for Dubai. With Eddy Travels we will promote Dubai to younger audiences in Europe and elsewhere. Intelak provides AED 50,000 in funding and expert mentorship during the two-month incubation program. Eddy Travels was selected as one of the four startups from more than 200 applicants!

As Facebook prepares to launch its new cryptocurrency Libra in 2020, it's putting the pieces in place to help it run. In one of the latest developments, it has acquired Servicefriend, a startup that built bots -- chat clients for messaging apps based on artificial intelligence -- to help customer service teams, TechCrunch has confirmed. The news was first reported in Israel, where Servicefriend is based, after one of its investors, Roberto Singler, alerted local publication The Marker about the deal. We reached out to Ido Arad, one of the co-founders of the company, who referred our questions to a team at Facebook. "We acquire smaller tech companies from time to time. We don't always discuss our plans," a Facebook spokesperson said.