Together with The Heart Fund, 42.cx wants to solve public health challenges by modelizing diseases patterns through applied artificial intelligence to support THF doctors during their medical tasks. The generated prediction system will run on portable devices to disrupt healthcare in developing countries and to fight cardiovascular disease. "The Heart Fund combats cardiovascular diseases by offering access to care to millions of children in developing countries. For the first time in history with this partnership, artificial intelligence scientists have access to thousands of electrocardiograms (ECG), blood panels, evaluations and resulting diagnosis. This allows us to build more accurate models than ever before. With our technology a highly qualified diagnosis can be performed at thousands of different locations at the same time, around the clock anywhere in the world. It's practically like having the know-how and knowledge of the best cardiologic surgeons combined and being present at the same time anywhere.,"

Today, only 25% of rare diseases are accurately diagnosed1. With SOPHiA's applications for exome analysis, this is set to change. The exome is the protein-coding region of the human genome, which represents just 1% of the genome but contains approximately 85% of known disease-causing genetic variants2. SOPHiA takes exome sequencing to new heights, allowing for unmatched analytical performances to detect, annotate and pre-classify disease-related genetic variants over all protein-coding regions of the human genome. Exome sequencing generates large amounts of sequenced data.

EY announces the appointment of machine learning and AI authority Nigel Duffy as EY Global Innovation Artificial Intelligence Leader. As part of the EY Global Innovation Team, Dr. Duffy will lead the application of AI throughout EY, helping it to be effectively leveraged across the organization. Based in Palo Alto, California, Dr. Duffy will also be responsible for expanding and further strengthening EY's relationships with start-ups and academic and business communities worldwide. "Nigel is considered one of the world's foremost thought leaders in AI, with demonstrated leadership in applying the technology to drive real commercial value. With Nigel joining the EY Global Innovation Team, we look forward to working together to turn ideas leveraging AI into realities that help EY and our clients innovate."

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Artificial intelligence and additive manufacturing or 3D printing are emerging technologies that have a huge potential in a variety of industries and applications. Despite both technologies being fairly new, particularly 3D printing, procurement market intelligence experts at SpendEdge state that these technologies have several applications in the supply chain for addressing procurement challenges, and will very soon become an integral part due to its improved and sophisticated functionalities. Rapid prototyping is one of the most common uses of additive manufacturing. Since designing a successful product can be very expensive and time-consuming, 3D printed prototyping makes it quite simple at the same time shortens the manufacturing cycle. The impact of AM on supply chain is massive, some of which include increased manufacturing flexibility, reduced material waste, and the ability to employ decentralized manufacturing strategies.

Qualcomm was ordered to pay BlackBerry $815 million in an arbitration settlement last April. BlackBerry announced today that the two companies have reached a final agreement amount of $940 miillion, which includes the original arbitration amount along with interst and attorneys' fees. The release says that Qualcomm will pay the full amount before the end of May. It brought in $286 million in revenue last quarter, making this $940 million settlement a much needed infusion of cash to can help the beleaguered company pivot towards self-driving cars.

WASHINGTON – Launched today, the American College of Radiology (ACR) Data Science Institute (DSI) will work with government, industry and others to guide and facilitate the appropriate development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help radiologists improve medical imaging care. "Patients will benefit most from artificial intelligence if radiologists serve a leading role in guiding the technologies that best enhance medical imaging diagnosis and treatment," said James A. Brink, MD, FACR, chair of the ACR Board of Chancellors. "The ACR Data Science Institute will create, gather, manage and integrate AI knowledge as these tools emerge to improve patient care." The ACR DSI will benefit from decades of ACR experience in modality accreditation, appropriateness criteria, practice standards and radiology workflow standardization. "ACR's pioneering role in creating DICOM standards promoted the adoption of digital modalities, filmless radiology, advanced visualization, PACs and now AI," Brink said in launching the College's DSI today at the ACR 2017: The Crossroads of Radiology annual meeting in Washington, DC.

While Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX may have ambitions to set up a colony on Mars, Jeff Bezos, CEO of rival, Amazon, is setting his sights slightly closer to home. In a talk this week, Bezos has revealed that wants to colonise the moon. And his plans don't just involve sending a handful of people to live on the lunar surface, as he has said that he'want(s) to see millions of people living and working in space.' In March, Bezos announced plans to ship packages to the moon by 2020 to help set up a human settlement. He has already reserved a parking spot near the Shackleton Crater on the south pole.

BEIJING, May 25, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gridsum Holding Inc. ("Gridsum" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:GSUM), a leading provider of cloud-based big-data analytics, machine learning and AI solutions in China, today announced that, as a part of its strategic evolution, it has consolidated all of its artificial intelligence ("AI") activities strategically, technically and organizationally into a new division called the Gridsum Prophet. Gridsum is a first mover in China in big data intelligence. Since 2005, the Company has utilized a distributed big-data computing architecture, developed and implemented sophisticated natural language processing ("NLP"), and leveraged machine learning directed toward large enterprise clients. During that time, from serving large enterprise customers, the Company has accumulated deep domain knowledge and expertise as well as a massive amount of data that fuels its machine learning algorithms. Since this early inception, the Company has continued to stay at the forefront through focus and investment, hiring and training extraordinary engineers and architects and, importantly, playing an active and leading role in the AI academic and developer communities.

NVIDIA Volta Architecture – Volta is the world's most powerful GPU computing architecture, created to drive the next wave of advancement in AI and high performance computing. The first Volta-based processor is the Tesla V100 data center GPU, which brings extraordinary speed and scalability for AI inferencing and training, as well as for accelerating HPC and graphics workloads. New Volta-Based DGX Systems -- The company announced a new lineup of NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputers with unmatched computing performance. Using NVIDIA Tesla V100 data center GPUs based on the new Volta architecture and a fully optimized AI software package, the systems deliver groundbreaking AI computing power three times faster than the prior DGX generation, providing the performance of up to 800 CPUs in a single system. NVIDIA GPU Cloud Platform – NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) is a cloud-based platform that will give developers convenient access -- via their PC, DGX system or the cloud -- to a comprehensive software suite for harnessing the transformative powers of AI.

China's biggest online retailer, JD.com Inc., announced plans Monday to develop drone aircraft capable of carrying a ton or more for long-distance deliveries. The company said it will test the drones on a network it is developing to cover the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi. It said they will carry consumer goods to remote areas and farm produce to cities. China's biggest online retailer, JD.com Inc., announced plans Monday to develop drone aircraft capable of carrying a ton or more for long-distance deliveries. China's biggest online retailer, JD.com Inc., has announced plans to develop drone aircraft capable of carrying a ton or more for long-distance deliveries. The craft will be tested on a network it is developing to cover the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi.