Metastasis detection is currently performed by pathologists reviewing large expanses of biological tissues… This process requires highly skilled pathologists and is fairly time-consuming and error-prone,

Want to know where all the wind and solar power supplies in the US are for some brilliant renewable-energy project? Or plot a round-the-world trip hitting every major soccer stadium along the way? It should be possible with a new tool that lets anyone scan the globe through AI "eyes" to instantly find satellite images of matching objects. Descartes Labs, a New Mexico startup that provides AI-driven analysis of satellite images to governments, academics and industry, on Tuesday released a public demo of its GeoVisual Search, a new type of search engine that combines satellite images of Earth with machine learning on a massive scale. The idea behind GeoVisual is pretty simple.

It works rather like the BB-8 robot from Star Wars, and could change the way we drive. Goodyear has revealed a radical new spherical tire powered by AI and linked to the car by magnetic force so it can rotate on any axis in any direction. The firm says it will be able to sense road conditions and adapt accordingly, turning itself into either a wet or dry weather configuration instantly. Working like human muscles, the smart tire can re-shape the individual sections of the tire's tread design, adding'dimples' for wet conditions (left) or smoothing the tread for dry conditions (right) Made of super-elastic polymer, the tire's bionic skin has a flexibility similar to that of human skin, allowing it to expand and contract. This outer layer covers a foam-like material that is strong enough to remain flexible despite the weight of a vehicle.

IBM Watson burst onto the world stage in 2011 when it participated in the trivia-based game show Jeopardy!. The supercomputer beat out two former champions to claim a victory for "artificial intelligence." Since then, Watson has embarked on a number of challenges across a variety of domains, from identifying the best cancer treatments to improving weather forecasting. Adding Watson's cognitive capabilities allows financial services companies to go beyond traditional rules-based policy and demographic views for a deeper understanding of customer profitability and preferences. In turn, this allows them to offer new, more personalized offerings and experiences.

Late last year, Google announced a breakthrough in translating. Dubbed Neural Machine Translation, it let Google's AI-powered engine tackle full sentences instead of just words, giving translations a more natural feel. Now Google is expanding it to a several more languages. Back when it launched, Google's new translator was available for English and just eight other languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Turkish. Now it is bringing it to Hindi, Russian, and Vietnamese, with more rolling out in the coming weeks.

Here's an interesting use of machine learning, using it to gauge the influence of a particular Twitter user.

LoopMe, a digital advertising firm that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize mobile video advertising, has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Impulse VC and Harbert European Growth Capital, with participation from Holzbrinck Ventures and Open Ocean Capital. Founded out of London in 2012, LoopMe unifies all the popular mobile video ad formats, covering pre-roll, HTML5, and the VAST ad-serving standard. In a nutshell, the platform replaces humans with algorithms that determine the placement of ads in real time, based on metrics such as purchase intent or offline sales. The technology "learns" how viewers are reacting to the ads and changes them based on how a user is responding. The company's platform has been used by a host of well-known brands, including Microsoft, Disney, Airbnb, and Honda.

ChainerRL is a deep reinforcement learning library that implements various state-of-the-art deep reinforcement algorithms in Python using Chainer, a flexible deep learning framework. ChainerRL is tested with Python 2.7 and 3.5.1 . For other requirements, see requirements.txt. ChainerRL contains atari_py as dependencies, and windows users may face error while installing it. This problem is discussed in OpenAI gym issues, and one possible counter measure is to enable "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" for Windows 10 users.

At Flickr, we understand that the value in our image corpus is only unlocked when our members can find photos and photographers that inspire them, so we strive to enable the discovery and appreciation of new photos. To further that effort, today we are introducing similarity search on Flickr. If you hover over a photo on a search result page, you will reveal a "…" button that exposes a menu that gives you the option to search for photos similar to the photo you are currently viewing. In many ways, photo search is very different from traditional web or text search. First, the goal of web search is usually to satisfy a particular information need, while with photo search the goal is often one of discovery; as such, it should be delightful as well as functional.

Digital banking and e-commerce channels are growing exponentially as more and more people use apps and mobile connectivity for transactions. For retailers, newer business models are evolving daily, from instant delivery of goods to digital downloads. Commerce is now operating in an omni-channel environment across multiple devices and touchpoints. Growth comes with a price, as it has led to a corresponding rise in fraud and resulting losses in online marketplaces that connect buyers and sellers. That is especially true in e-commerce, where it is harder and more complex to prevent fraud than in personal transactions.