At a roundtable dinner at CMS's London headquarters in spring 2019, we brought together industry leaders from the automotive and technology (autotech) world and key members of the CMS Autotech Group to discuss the commercial potential of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). We also discussed the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on this growing sector. In this report, we capture expert views on the current status and future outlook for the industry, and on the key catalysts that are needed for CAVs to deliver their full potential. Vehicle automation and connectivity are currently being driven forwards at an ever-quickening pace, spurred on by AI-powered technologies. Cars are increasingly becoming digital content platforms in their own right. The roll-out of new communications networks and technologies will play a major role in underpinning this mobile'internet of things'.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid impacts, scientific research and using robots to explore the cosmos over sending humans back to the moon or on to Mars, a poll shows. The poll by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, released Thursday, one month before the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, lists asteroid and comet monitoring as the No. 1 desired objective for the U.S. space program. About two-thirds of Americans call that very or extremely important, and about a combined 9 in 10 call it at least moderately important. The poll comes as the White House pushes to get astronauts back on the moon, but only about a quarter of Americans said moon or Mars exploration by astronauts should be among the space program's highest priorities. About another third called each of those moderately important.

A New Jersey woman is alive because her Apple Watch alerted her to an elevated heart rate. It turned out she had fluid around her heart from a viral infection. Medical alert systems have been around for some time. Often, they're wearable devices that can detect when you fall, and alert emergency personnel if it senses you aren't responding. But what happens if you aren't wearing a device, or if you aren't experiencing any triggering signs or symptoms of a medical emergency at all?

A Commons committee was left baffled as video game executives appeared to deny making money from their own games, admit to ignoring regulations governing data protection and age restrictions, and claim ignorance over how much time their own users were spending on games. Representatives from Epic Games, makers of Fortnite: Battle Royale, and EA Games, the publisher of the Fifa series of football games, appeared as witnesses in front of the Commons Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee as part of its inquiry into immersive and addictive technologies. Both games have been the subject of intense scrutiny after reports of children spending an unhealthy amount of time and money on them, with Prince Harry making an unusual public attack on Fortnite in April: "That game shouldn't be allowed," he said. "It's created to addict, an addiction to keep you in front of a computer for as long as possible. But rather than address the concerns directly, both companies flatly denied that there was a problem, even while admitting that they did not collect the data required to answer many of the committee's questions. When presented with Harry's remarks, Epic's general counsel, Canon Pence, said they "couldn't be further from the truth about our ethics and design philosophy". He added: "It's always been our effort and intent to create a fun, fair, flexible, engaging and generous form of interactive entertainment.

With populations growing, health systems are quickly becoming overburdened, under-resourced and not equipped for the challenges they face in today's fast-paced world. In the U.K., 24% of emergency admissions can be avoided through effective community care and case management solutions. And 58% of these are respiratory conditions alone, costing up to £165 billion. Delayed diagnosis can be both life-threatening and life-changing, but how can this be solved? U.K.-based technology startup Feebris thinks it's found the answer.

The Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge supports new programme that uses artificial intelligence to tackle major NHS challenges. The Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School and the Eastern Academic Health Science Network (Eastern AHSN) are sponsoring a new programme that brings together the health sector, universities and the tech industry to use artificial intelligence to tackle major challenges in the National Health Service. Applications are now open for the programme, called MedTechBOOST, which has been launched by business network Central Working and innovation specialists Studio Zao. The five day, free-to-enter programme starts on 2 September 2019 at The Bradfield Centre, the tech hub at Cambridge Science Park. It is open to startups, technologists, researchers, PhDs, consultants and other clinicians who would like the opportunity to come together with supporters and partners to co-create solutions that address two of the biggest challenges facing the NHS today – mental health and healthy ageing.

On professional sites, eggheads are discussing how technology such as machine learning or ML has impacted businesses and the prospects of career growth in India. Some others are racking their brains, trying to dissect how machine learning is going to shape the employment scenario in India. The point is that it will certainly impact the employment scenario; the only debate is about just how much and to what extent? Not unnaturally, machine learning is currently a topic of discussion among industry leaders, students, and in academia. The impact is such that ML is consistently in the list of LinkedIn's top emerging jobs every year.

"The big difference," says Stephen Schwarzman, the impossibly rich boss of the private equity group Blackstone (personally worth an estimated $13bn), "is speed." He's talking about industrial revolutions, the latest of which is widely held to be driven by the ever-growing capability and decision-making power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Unlike the social transformations wrought by steam, or steel, or the internal combustion engine, he says, we only have a single blink-and-you've-missed-it opportunity to direct AI for good. By contrast "it took a long time to have an industrial revolution in the 19th century." He is speaking on the day it is announced that he has donated £150m to Oxford University...

You go around a curve, and suddenly see something in the middle of the road ahead. Of course, the answer depends on what that'something' is. A torn paper bag, a lost shoe, or a tumbleweed? You can drive right over it without a second thought, but you'll definitely swerve around a pile of broken glass. You'll probably stop for a dog standing in the road but move straight into a flock of pigeons, knowing that the birds will fly out of the way.

Business today is more than simply matching traditional competitors, it's about exploiting digital technologies to create new opportunities, and being able to repeat this. The economy is quickly going digital and Australian businesses must evolve into Modern Digital Businesses (MDBs) which strategically use intelligence assets to improve operations and deploy new products and services, in order to stay competitive and create value for their customers. A group of digital business leaders recently gathered at ThoughtWorks Live in Sydney and Melbourne, to share their insights into how organisations can take advantage of data to adapt and thrive in the digital economy. This report includes strategic and practical advice taken from the event for any business leader – regardless of their organisation's digital maturity – on best practices for taking advantage of data and driving change. A Continuous Intelligence (CI) framework starts with the process of acquiring data and, with the help of analytics and machine learning, derive insights from it to be able to make confident decisions and actions – which are in turn reviewed and validated, to ensure the organisation continuously improves its decision-making capabilities. Steps organisations can take to apply CI to building an MDB, which is agile and technology-driven are also covered.