Countries that can harness the current wave of innovation, mitigate its potential disruptions, and capitalize on its transformative power will gain economic and military advantages over potential rivals,

FirstWord MedTech's Digital Ten is a fortnightly round-up of the 10 most read and noteworthy headlines related to digital health, including industry deals, alliances, collaborations, innovations and R&D news. The biggest M&A deal inked this year so far comes from the telemedicine field with Teladoc Health agreeing to fork out $600 million to acquire InTouch Health, a provider of cloud-based telemedicine software and physician services for hospitals and health systems. Teladoc's existing telehealth service platform targets consumers and with this deal, it will gain a complementary business that is expected to generate revenue of $80 million in 2019, representing 35% year-over year growth, and a new facility-based virtual care platform. Mojo Vision's smart contact lens receives FDA breakthrough device designation In yet another first for 2020, Mojo Vision's Mojo smart contact lens is the first ophthalmic product to get FDA breakthrough device designation this year. The lens incorporates what the company describes as the "smallest and densest dynamic display ever made," along with a power-efficient image sensor optimised for computer vision, a custom wireless radio, and motion sensors for eye-tracking and image stabilisation.

Global Artificial Intelligence (Chipsets) Market Research Report 2019 to 2025 provides a unique tool for evaluating the market, highlighting opportunities, and supporting strategic and tactical decision-making. This report recognizes that in this rapidly-evolving and competitive environment, up-to-date marketing information is essential to monitor performance and make critical decisions for growth and profitability. Production Analysis – Production of the Artificial Intelligence (Chipsets) is analyzed with respect to different regions, types, and applications. Here, price analysis of various Artificial Intelligence (Chipsets) Market key players is also covered. Sales and Revenue Analysis – Both, sales and revenue are studied for the different regions of the Artificial Intelligence (Chipsets) Market.

The conventional tools to ensure cybersecurity are not sufficient in today's world especially in 2020 where using just anti-malware software or login audits will not work at par with rising threats. Organisations need more resources and powerful infrastructure to resist any type of data breach. To enable such strength, they need to embrace AI/ML and automation to fortify their company and company data against malicious intentions. In an interview to Tech Republic, Greg Martin, general manager of the Security Business Unit at Sumo Logic, said, "AI/ML and automation greatly enhance endpoint protection, but where we see the most benefit in the technology is guiding security operations in what exactly to do with those threats once they hit the enterprise. The ever-increasing sophistication and persistence of cybercriminal activity is requiring security operations teams to rethink how they use people, processes, and technology."

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The concept of the circular economy is designed to replace the end-of-life economic system with restoration, use of renewable energy, and the elimination of waste through the better design of materials, products, systems and business models. Most leading organizations worldwide have begun identifying feasible opportunities in adopting sustainable business practices, embracing circular business models and leveraging disruptive technologies. For city planners, businesses and policymakers, a smart city transformation from the current economic model, knows as linear economy, to a circular economy encompasses high complexity. They need to consider material and energy, product design, business models, manufacturing, service and distribution processes and data management and more. However, embracing artificial intelligence in a circular economy can expedite the efforts of a smart city project needs, creating ways to accomplish sustainable development goals.

TEHRAN – An Iranian lawmaker on Tuesday offered a $3 million reward to "anyone who kills" U.S. President Donald Trump to avenge the assassination of a top general, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported. Ahmad Hamzeh, a little-known member of the Majlis, made the offer on behalf of the people of Kerman, the hometown and final resting place of storied commander, Qassem Soleimani. "We will give $3 million to anyone who kills Trump," Hamzeh, who represents Kahnouj county near the southeastern city of Kerman, was quoted as saying by ISNA. He did not say who would pay the bounty offer, which comes a month ahead of a parliamentary election. Soleimani, one of the most popular public figures in Iran, was killed on Jan. 3 in a U.S. drone strike outside Baghdad airport.

Experts say Iran may retaliate for the killing of Qassem Soleimani, its top military leader, with cyber attacks on American companies. Experts say Iran may retaliate for the killing of Qassem Soleimani, its top military leader, with cyber attacks on American companies. Cybersecurity researchers and U.S. government officials said hackers linked to Iran are probing American companies for vulnerabilities. The warnings suggest that the next phase of hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, following the Jan. 3 killing of a top Iranian general in an American drone strike, is likely to play out in cyberspace. The Iranian regime is accused of being behind some high-profile online operations against American targets in recent years. Between 2011 and 2013, hackers targeted big American banks including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Capital One.

This past fall, diplomats from around the globe gathered in Geneva to do something about killer robots. In a result that surprised nobody, they failed. The formal debate over lethal autonomous weapons systems--machines that can select and fire at targets on their own--began in earnest about half a decade ago under the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the international community's principal mechanism for banning systems and devices deemed too hellish for use in war. But despite yearly meetings, the CCW has yet to agree what "lethal autonomous weapons" even are, let alone set a blueprint for how to rein them in. Meanwhile, the technology is advancing ferociously; militaries aren't going to wait for delegates to pin down the exact meaning of slippery terms such as "meaningful human control" before sending advanced warbots to battle.

Although astronauts are trained physically and psychologically to deal with extreme space situations, living in a confined space with no gravity could sometimes be stressful and could hamper their decision-making processes. This is where artificial intelligence is coming into the picture. Several years after the first moon landing, experts are now looking at emerging technologies to understand the space exploration a little better. With recent breakthroughs and discoveries, AI has been showing immense potential in space exploration, such as global navigation, earth observation, and communications to and fro. Historically, machine learning algorithms have been used in monitoring the spacecraft, autonomous navigation of the spacecraft, controlling systems, and intelligently detecting objects in the route.