Head of SK Telecom----s Corporate R&D Center Choi Jin-sung (left in the picture) and Intel Korea----s Chief Executive Officer Kwon Myung-sook [Photo provided by SK Telecom Co.] South Korea----s top wireless carrier SK Telecom Co. said it will work with the world----s biggest chipmaker Intel Corp. to develop connected car system piloted by artificial intelligence. SK Telecom last Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding with Intel to cooperate on developing Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication and deep-learning based video recognition technologies, the telecommunication company said on Monday. The V2X communication refers to wireless technology transferring information from a vehicle to everything that may affect the vehicle. The Korean telecom company will provide vehicular communications and video recognition technologies while Intel contribute its expertise in 5G networks and deep-learning, or data-based machine learning, system to develop a platform for automated connected car. The two firms aim to demonstrate the new connected car technology as early as next year.

According to Yoshiyuki Matsumoto, who heads up the automaker's research division, the move is expected to happen next year. Matsumoto said in an interview that it is hoped bringing the teams together will allow closer co-operation between Honda's scientists and engineers, leading to new AI-enabled products being made available to the public. AI is crucial in the development of autonomous cars, Matsumoto said, acting as the brain that combines elements of robotics, sensing, navigation, and connectivity. Japan has a strong track record developing new hardware, but has arguably lagged behind in software. Matsumoto feels basing its efforts in Japan will allow Honda to progress quicker.

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Apple is trying to introduce wireless charging into the next iPhone, according to reports. Rumours have long swirled around the iPhone 8 – even before the iPhone 7 was released this year. Reports have suggested that Apple is planning a major redesign for the new handset, which will mark the tenth anniversary of the iPhone, which might include an entirely glass body and a screen that takes up all of the front of the phone. And new reports suggest that Apple is currently exploring the possibility of adding wireless charging modules to the next phone, too. That would mean that it would just need to be set down on a special surface to charge it – in keeping with Apple's commitment to keep moving towards a wireless future, which it stressed when it dropped the headphone jack from the iPhone.

It's too late to prevent global warming; let's not go the same way with AI. There's been much discussion over what the rise of artificial intelligence could mean for society, including how AI impacts on jobs, how government might eventually be forced to step in to fix it, and what's going to happen when it sits inside our driverless cars or even in our homes. Both the White House and the UK's House of Commons have recently released reports into the future of AI. These include recommendations on how to handle current uses of the technology, but government, business, and academia need to start thinking further ahead in order to answer questions about what the future of AI might lead to. Professor Luciano Floridi, director of research and professor of philosophy and ethics of information at Oxford University's Internet Institute, likens it to a game of chess: you don't just take it one step at a time, but aim to plan many steps ahead.

While others are trying to distill information from images in general terms, RestB says it aims to be much more specific. Last month, Facebook had to apologize after guns, drugs, snakes, and baby hedgehogs were listed for sale on its new Marketplace section. RestB reckons it could have avoided that situation. The Barcelona based B2B startup has developed an algorithm to determine in near real time what is in a particular image, thus solving a number of potential business problems posed through the automated interpretation of imagery. On the face of it, RestB's commercial proposition available through a simple HTTP RESTful API call appears to be quite similar to computer-vision services offered by big firms such as Microsoft, IBM, and Google, which has just published two datasets of captioned images to help train computer-vision systems.

Apple revealed its fourth quarter financial results during a conference call with investors on Tuesday, but perhaps the most interesting narrative -- aside from the company's first annual revenue decline since 2001 -- was the tech giants avowed focus on machine learning. "Today, machine learning drives improvement in countless features across our products," Apple CEO Tim Cook boasted during his initial remarks. Cook then offered a state of machine learning at Apple, by running down areas where machine learning is already helping to improve the iPhone user experience, noting that machine learning "enables the proactive features in iOS 10, and that cameras employ it in face recognizing software. Machine learning is also a key aspect of Apple's fitness offerings. "Machine learning continually helps Siri get smarter in areas, including understanding natural language," Cook added.

"SAS has morphed from a pure tools-based analytics company to solutions-based company. That is driving SAS to get more involved with other technologies and ecosystems." SAS is the latest long-time analytics firm to enter the era of'open' and'cloud-based' analytics. SAS Viya, revealed last spring and rolling out now, aims to take businesses into the new-gen of analytics offering full list of lifecycle support features and capabilities, SAS' chief customer officer Fritz Lehman told IDN. "With SAS Viya, we have a complete rewrite [of the popular SAS analytics platform] for today's new business challenges. New ways to access and build analytics apps are key for so many workers inside businesses today," Lehman said.

Who within organizations should be responsible for robotics security? Today's security threats have expanded in scope and seriousness. There can now be millions -- or even billions -- of dollars at risk when information security isn't handled properly. As robotics becomes increasingly intertwined with other facets of IT such as the cloud, mobile devices, data analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT), concerns about the risk of data theft and other negative impacts are legitimate. But the security issue goes beyond traditional risks such as the loss or theft of information or the interruption of services.

Like many technology companies, Microsoft is pinning a lot on AI -- including the areas of speech and image recognition. To help speed up development, and to enable others to start working on their own projects, the company has released an updated, open source version of the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit. This is a deep learning toolkit, previously known as the Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK), and it's available for anyone to use completely free of charge. The toolkit has applications far beyond speech recognition, and it has already been used in Bing, and the latest version includes support for Python and C . Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research has already used the toolkit to develop technology capable of recognizing words in a sentence just as a well as human beings.