Members of Ukraine's 1st Separate Assault Battalion describe themselves as firemen. Their job is to rapidly deploy to areas along the front that are in danger of collapse. Lately, their service has been in high demand: the front is burning. A large-scale counter-offensive last year failed to achieve meaningful victories, and since then Russia has been on the attack. One of its priorities appears to be Kupyansk, a city in northeastern Ukraine, some twenty miles from the Russian border.

The Nanit baby monitor uses a high-tech camera and software to track an infant's sleep habits. It is like a $249 AI parent who stays up all night logging rollovers and breathing patterns, and doesn't need coffee the next morning. So imagine shoppers' surprise when they type a question into the Nanit website and get a response from a real person instead of a chatbot.

We have all heard the warnings that invading armies of robots are going to steal our jobs. Few industries are safe; legal clerks and translators are as vulnerable as supermarket cashiers and long-haul truckers. We have been told that mass technological unemployment will necessitate a universal basic income. We have also heard the opposing view: that humans have absorbed waves of automation before, and that we have used the time liberated by technology to generate new, more stimulating professions that have improved our standard of living. But what if neither of these scenarios is accurate? How do we thrive in this kind of hybrid environment?

That said, technologies--such as big data, cloud computing, supercomputers, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, 3D printing, thermal imaging and 5G--are being used to effectively complement the traditional methods of increased hygiene, self- and forced quarantines, and enforced global travel bans. Having enforced traditional measures in place, for instance, police officers in China now wear AI-powered helmets that can automatically record the temperatures of pedestrians. The high-tech headgear has an infrared camera, and sounds an alarm if anyone in a radius of 16ft has fever. Equipped with the facial-recognition technology, it can also display the pedestrian's personal information, such as their name on a virtual screen. Officials at railway stations, airports and in other public areas in India, too, are using smart thermal scanners to record temperatures from a distance, thus helping in identifying potential coronavirus carriers.

As of February 7 at 13:00 UTC, China's National Health and Health Commission had received a total of 31,261 confirmed cases of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCov) outbreak and 26,359 suspected cases, which was a leap of 4,833 from the day before. As of February 8 at 03:00 UTC the 2019-nCoV had killed 725 people, all but one of them in China. Like SARS, HIV, Ebola, and influenza, the 2019-nCoV is an RNA virus. Its single-strand structure makes it more susceptible to mutation and more difficult to develop vaccines for. In mid-January, Chinese scientists isolated the first 2019-nCoV strain and published its genetic sequence to aid in independent detection of the virus.

Artificial intelligence solutions are now essential weapons in the insurers' battle against fraud. FREMONT, CA: The insurance industry is held responsible for a mass of sensitive data concerning both its customers and employees. Any data breach in an insurance firm could compromise the personal information of multiple users in no time. But insurers now have the option of attaining better cybersecurity posture by utilizing groundbreaking technologies available to them. Artificial Intelligence (AI) among those, is truly reforming insurance systems by making it more secure and enhancing the interaction between humans and machines.

TORONTO - In a bid to stop "biopiracy," researchers are building a giant database to catalog genetic material from the world's largest rainforest. From the rubber in car tires to cosmetics and medicines, genetic material contained in the Amazon region has contributed to discoveries worth billions of dollars. Communities living there, however, have rarely benefited from the genetic wealth extracted from their land -- a form of theft that legal experts call "biopiracy." Instead, forest dwellers often remain impoverished, which can drive them to find other ways to make money, such as illegal logging, according to Dominic Waughray, who heads the Amazon Bank of Codes project for the World Economic Forum. "At the heart of the conservation debate is: How do you find a way for a person in the forest to get more cash in their hand right now from preserving that habitat rather than cutting it down?" said Waughray.