Think your kid is addicted to video games? There could be something to it. The World Health Organization has made video game addiction an official mental health disorder. The Geneva, Switzerland-headquartered organization has added "Gaming disorder" to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems or "ICD-11," which goes into effect in January 2022. The condition has been included in the global medical guide within a section detailing disorders due to substance use or addictive behaviors along with "Gambling disorder." The ICD-11 describes "Gaming disorder" as recurrent video game playing that leads to "impaired control over gaming" and an "increasing priority given to gaming to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities," despite "the occurrence of negative consequences."

Not all voice assistants can handle the same requests. We put Siri, Alexa and Google to the test. LOS ANGELES – When you pose the simplest of questions to Siri and it can't answer "what's 1% of $1 million," yet Amazon Alexa and the Google Assistant can, you know just how far behind Apple's assistant has fallen to rivals. Siri was the first voice assistant, announced in 2011 for the iPhone 4S, but over the past several years, Amazon and Google have rolled over it, by investing heavily and introducing many new features, while Siri "hasn't moved forward much," says Bret Kinsella, who runs the Voicebot.ai Apple traditionally takes center stage at its Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) to unveil new software features to whet app makers' appetites, and often they involve Siri.

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A two-person team from the UNICEF's Office of Innovation in New York recently joined DSTI in Sierra Leone to collaborate on a Machine Learning "Hackathon" As part of efforts to develop the technology and innovation ecosystem to support development of Sierra Leone, UNICEF is collaborating with the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI) in the Office of the President, on a knowledge exchange partnership, around innovative Machine Learning techniques which, it is hoped, will add value to Government's work around data for decision making in the country. A two-person team from the UNICEF's Office of Innovation in New York recently joined DSTI in Sierra Leone to collaborate on a Machine Learning "Hackathon" to work on data from the education sector in support of the Government's Free Quality School Education initiative. Officials from different Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies joined the team to enhance their knowledge of Machine Learning and advanced data analysis techniques, for use in their own areas of government. Shane O'Connor, Technology for Development Specialist at UNICEF Sierra Leone, stated that the opportunity afforded by this collaboration is huge. "With the President's establishment of the DSTI and with UNICEF's collaboration, there really is great potential for a step change in how Technology and Innovation can be leveraged to deliver for Sierra Leone," he said.

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The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries, and have been recognizing product excellence for over 30 years. I spoke recently with Martin Vauthier, Head of Artificial Intelligence Analytics at Enablon. Here are Martin's answers to five questions, which give you a great idea of what's happening with AI, especially regarding the use of AI in workplace safety. Artificial Intelligence is another buzzword we hear often. Sometimes there's a disconnect between how much we hear about a technological innovation, and how much it is actually used.

The age of artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics is here, and these technologies will continue to shape our lives in the future. But the people working in these fields still don't reflect the society they are bound to change. Women make up only 22% of AI professionals worldwide, according to analysis done by LinkedIn and the World Economic Forum for its 2018 Global Gender Gap Report. In the more specialized area of machine learning, only 12% are women, based on a study done by Wired in partnership with Montreal startup Element AI. Artificial intelligence and machine learning continue to be male-dominated fields.

In the last few years, many asset-intensive organizations, particularly in the mining, power and utilities, oil and gas, and chemicals industries, have turned to industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and cognitive technologies to help improve a critical area of their business: equipment reliability.1 Asset performance management (APM) programs, which connect data and trigger actions via systems across the business, can play a major part in driving these improvements. According to a 2018 Deloitte survey, oil and gas leaders rated the big data derived from programs such as APM as the most likely to provide the greatest business value.2 However, when asked about how digital technology can be used most effectively within their companies, those same executives ranked APM below both cost reduction in maintenance and operations as well as improvements in safety.3 This seems to reveal a pervasive and narrow view of APM that may miss the connection between asset performance, broader maintenance and operations improvements, and safety. Merely implementing APM software and digitizing existing processes is not likely to improve core operations and obtain the financial results that executive leaders desire (and investors demand).

Will AI replace your job? Artificial intelligence is more dangerous than nuclear weapons. That's according to Elon Musk, who warned against the dangers of this technology at South by Southwest in 2018. Zeb Evans is the founder and CEO of ClickUp, a company that offers project management solutions for businesses. Evans is based in San Francisco and founded ClickUp in 2017.

Whatever makes you tick, you will find it in Connected Data London 2019. Knowledge Graphs, Machine Learning and AI, Linked Data and Semantic Technology and Graph Databases are redefining how data works. Data is redefining how everything works. And Connected Data London is the go-to event for the latest developments in these key technologies. We are picking up from where we left off in 2018, connecting technologies, data, and people.