Yet, accessibility for all is still an issue. The'digital revolution' has not fully democratised access to online resources. One-tenth of the UK adult population is still affected by digital exclusion, according to a report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). A recent survey of UK council websites published by Better Connected also found that 40% of local authority gov.uk website pages are not accessible to people with disabilities. This needs to be addressed by September 2019, when an EU Directive on the accessibility of public sector websites and mobile applications comes into force. AI is a fantastic opportunity for the public sector to address accessibility challenges.

For an astronaut looking out of the International Space Station windows, city lights are brighter than the stars. To tackle light pollution citizen scientists are urged to help map out the problem on their smartphones by identifying images of cities taken from space. Astronaut pictures are the highest-resolution, colour images of night available from orbit. "The International Space Station is the best observation point humankind has for monitoring Earth at night," says Kevin Gaston, project leader of the Lost at Night project that raises awareness of light pollution. There are half a million high-resolution pictures of Earth at night in NASA's Astronaut Photography of Earth archives.

WIRE)--General Micro Systems (GMS), the rugged C4ISR mobile systems and servers company, today announced the industry's smallest, lightest and most SWaP-C-optimized workstation, display and general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and video processor. At only seven pounds and 9.8 inches x 5.4 inches x 2.3 inches, the ultra-rugged S1202-XVE Peacock III enables the near real-time video processing of large amounts of high-quality images, video or sensor data for immediate and accurate analysis--right on the battlefield. This powerful processing performance makes the system ideal for military applications in harsh environments such as airborne reconnaissance, autonomous vehicles, wide-body C4ISR platforms, multi-console displays and other areas of modern warfare. When equipped with third-party software algorithms, the S1202-XVE compresses, trans-codes, transmits and stores live video and sensor data over IP-based terrestrial or satellite networks with up to 2:1 HEVC compression (compared with AVC) while retaining resolution. The S1202-XVE supports three independent outputs of 4K UHD video, with an additional Nvidia Quadro Pascal GPGPU providing up to eight TFLOPS for algorithm, vector or AI processing in near real time.

The artificial intelligence race has kept the world watching in rapt attention. Will the People's Republic of China beat the United States of America? If so, what are the implications? Kai-fu Lee, a former executive at Apple, SGI, Microsoft, and Google, argues in his novel AI Superpowers that China will outpace America in terms of AI development thanks to abundant data, eager entrepreneurs, well-educated and trained scientists, and a supportive policy landscape. However, the debate must be reframed: it's not a battle between the United States and China, but it instead appears to be a tug-of-war between seven technology companies--Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft on the American team and Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent on the Chinese side.

Security officers keep watch in front of an AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign at the annual Huawei Connect event in Shanghai, China September 18, 2019. Rapid advances in digital technologies amplify the potential for data acquisition from and influence over other states. One state aggressively pursuing digital advantage globally is China, especially in its leveraging of artificial intelligence (AI). This memo presents recent data from multiple sources and initial analysis to set the stage for discussion about the profound implications of imminent digital power by China. A leading concern for those states not presently engaged in AI and related technologies is that they will fall behind those that are already heavily innovating and investing.

BAE Systems originally won the contract for the Hallmark Tools, Capabilities, and Evaluation Methodology program in November 2017. WASHINGTON -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded BAE Systems the second phase of an existing $12.8 million contract to develop digital tools to test and evaluate technologies for space command and control. The second phase focuses on the use of machine learning for space and situational awareness, the company announced Aug. 13. BAE Systems originally won the contract for the Hallmark Tools, Capabilities, and Evaluation Methodology (Hallmark-TCEM) program in November 2017. The program is to help operators improve their understanding of space events and their ability to take actions in response to situations that might affect U.S. satellites in space.

The lighter your skin, the better AI-powered facial recognition systems work for you. The UK Home Office knows this, because the government's been briefed several times on the problem. And a recent report shows that it knew it was developing a passport program built on biased, racist AI. The UK's passport program went live in 2016. It uses an AI-powered facial recognition feature to determine whether user-uploaded photos meet the requirements and standards for use as a passport photo.

The US Commerce Department added them to a trade blacklist this week, saying the companies had been implicated in human rights violations against Uyghurs and other members of Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang. Twenty government and security bureaus in China's Xinjiang region were also included in the ban. Chinese authorities dismissed the human rights allegations, and threatened retaliation against US companies. "The US accusations against China are groundless and senseless. They only expose the evil motives of the United States to interfere with counterterrorism efforts in Xinjiang and thwart China's development," China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said on Tuesday, telling reporters to "stay tuned" for retaliation.

Currently leading healthcare security strategy at Cylera, a biomedical HIoT security startup, Richard Staynings has more than two decades of experience in both cybersecurity leadership and client consulting in healthcare. Last year, he served on the Committee of Inquiry into the SingHealth breach in Singapore as an expert witness. He recently spoke to Healthcare IT News on some of the current developments in healthcare cybersecurity. Q. Artificial intelligence (AI) applications in healthcare are all the rage now, and so are cybersecurity threats, given the frequency and intensity of healthcare-related incidents. In particular, some of the cyberattacks have become more sophisticated through the use of AI to get past cyber defenses.

Biofourmis, a fast-growing global leader in digital therapeutics, has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its machine-learning and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Biovitals Analytics Engine as a medical device for ambulatory physiological monitoring. This regulatory approval of the Biovitals Analytics Engine is part of FDA's growing recognition of machine-learning and AI in the Software as a Medical Device category. "This milestone approval is foundational to the Biovitals ecosystem, which includes not only our most advanced solution, BiovitalsHF for heart failure--but also our range of solutions across therapeutic areas, such as pain, oncology, sleep disorders and others in development," said Kuldeep Singh Rajput, CEO and founder of Biofourmis. "Receiving this important regulatory approval will only accelerate the development and commercialization of these innovative digital therapeutic solutions." This FDA approval is the second market authorization for Biofourmis, having earned the agency's approval in May 2019 for its Biovitals RhythmAnalytics platform, which is cloud-based software for automated interpretation of more than 15 types of cardiac arrhythmias.