Lisa KerberBig data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) undoubtedly have begun disrupting how the business of healthcare is done. As a result, information is available in near real-time as are the business insights derived from it. For pharmaceutical organizations, this means they can now depend on real-time and forward-looking data versus historical data in decision-making, informing timely actions to benefit the patient. Today, the pharma industry can take advantage of new clinical data sources such as diagnostics, or lab data, combined with AI to deliver on the promise of improving outcomes. With these new tools, pharma can tailor its efforts to deliver the right therapy to the right patient at the right time.

Scientists have discovered that the range of emotions humans experience is much wider than previously thought. While it was originally thought we feel just six emotions, researchers at UC Berkeley found 27 distinct human emotions and have displayed them on an interactive map. In addition to happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, and, disgust, they also determined confusion, romance, nostalgia, sexual desire, and others to be distinct emotions. The emotion map the researchers created: In addition to happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, and, disgust, they also determined confusion, romance, nostalgia, sexual desire, and others to be distinct emotions. 'We wanted to shed light on the full palette of emotions that color our inner world,' lead author Alan Cowen said of the study, which was published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

As digital giants swallow a growing share of shoppers' spending, thousands of stores have closed and tens of thousands of workers have lost their jobs. Belinda Duperre, who sold jewelry at Sam's Club in Fall River, Mass., was one. In early 2016, the struggling store closed. But Ms. Duperre, a lifelong resident of the once-thriving factory town an hour south of Boston, went from victim of the digital revolution to beneficiary. Inc. announced plans to hire 500 full-time workers for a new 1.2-million square foot fulfillment center on the outskirts of town.

A computer program can tell if someone is gay or not with a high level of accuracy by looking at a photograph, a study claims. But critics say that the software could be used to'out' men and women currently in the closet. To'train' their computer, the researchers downloaded 130,741 different images of 36,630 individual men's faces, and 170,360 images of 38,593 women from a US dating website. The users had all declared their sexuality on their profiles. Removing images which were not clear enough, they were left with even numbers of 35,326 pictures of 14,776 people, gay and straight, male and female.

What concrete benefits are organizations really seeing from AI today? Our comprehensive research provides insights direct from the market on the real-life benefits, the best use cases, and where to invest – a successful AI implementers' toolkit. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot and trending topic and the perception is that many organizations are looking at AI as a technology with immense potential – but in the future. Capgemini wanted to find out more. We analyzed more than 50 AI use cases regarding their adoption, complexity and benefits.

Amazon has announced plans for a new machine learning-focused research and development (R&D) hub in Barcelona and expects to hire more than 100 engineers and scientists when it opens in early 2018. Located in the urban renewal startup area known as 22@, the R&D center will be housed in the very same building as the company's recently announced Amazon Seller Support Hub, which is scheduled to open around the same time and which will help small online companies from Southern Europe sell on Amazon Marketplace. "We want to work closely with Spain's scientific community and universities to advance state of the art research in machine learning," noted Ralf Herbrich, Amazon's director of machine learning. Amazon has been on something of a hiring spree of late, having recently revealed plans to increase its headcount by 55 percent to 280,000 in the U.S. alone over 18 months. Just yesterday, the company announced that its first fulfillment center in New York state will be landing in Staten Island, while a few months ago Amazon posted 50,000 warehouse jobs in the U.S. Over in Europe, the company has been hiring across multiple disciplines, including machine learning.

Key Points: – It's critical for many businesses to get a unified "single pane of glass" view of private business data alongside publicly accessible data. Contrasting these with open data is invaluable. The digital age has enabled greater visibility and access to data and content than ever before. Students, research professionals and businesses benefit from data democratization in ways that would have seemed impossible even a decade ago. Though some businesses are still striving to eliminate departmental silos within their enterprise, leading organizations are adopting technology to compare and contrast their private business data with third party and open data from the digital realm.

Expectations aside, the gap between ambition and execution is large at most companies. Three-quarters of executives believe that AI will enable their companies to move into new businesses. And almost 85% believe AI will allow their companies to obtain or sustain a competitive advantage. But while more than 60% of respondents said that a strategy for AI is urgent for their organizations, only half of those said that their organizations have a strategy in place. The largest companies (those with more than 100,000 employees) are the most likely to have an AI strategy, but only half have one.

A computer is being developed that rates how much pain someone is in by detecting small changes to their facial expressions. Such a system could help doctors determine how to treat patients and may save the prescription of painkillers. Study author Dr Jeffrey Cohn from the University of Pittsburgh, said: 'These metrics might be useful in determining real pain from faked pain.' People experience and express pain differently, which makes it difficult for doctors to gauge the extent patients are suffering based on self-reported scores. The researchers hope the system could one day be available as an app that doctors have on their smartphones.

Optimus, a drone manufactured by Airobotics, the Israeli drone maker that says it has recently been granted the first certificate in the world to fly a fully automated drone, with no human operator, is seen during a demonstration for Reuters near their offices in Petah Tikva, Israel March 20, 2017. Picture taken March 20, 2017.