Love Lost's AI photo-matching technology helped locate Louie, an indoor cat who escaped through a window, connecting his owner Sharon with a helpful neighbor.

A seven-year-old boy born without a right hand is now beaming with joy as he tried out his new'robot arm'. Louie Morgan-Kemp, of Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, had just started fundraising for the prosthetic when a kind-hearted businessman saw his story in the news and offered to pay the full £13,000 cost. The youngster collected the Ironman-themed Hero Arm this week and can move its mechanical fingers by using muscles in his arm to press buttons inside the sleeve. Louie said the gadget, made by Bristol-based Open Bionics, helps him with picking things up, cutting food and pouring drinks. He said it was'exciting' to get the arm and he was'happy' that businessman Billy Dixon had paid for him to get it.

For decades, the US government has let the private sector and the free market do their thing, betting this is the surest way to spur innovation and conjure up the advances needed to keep the American economy on top of the world. Now, with China ascendant, the approach is starting to change. Washington is taking baby steps towards something closer to central planning--seeking to inspire, guide, and protect advances in key areas like artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and quantum computing. The latest evidence of a shift in thinking is the final report of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). The commission was created by the Pentagon in 2018 to study the national security implications of AI and related technologies, and outline a plan to keep the US ahead.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) includes development efforts aimed at AI hardware components needed to provide the computational horsepower for accelerating the movement of big data used in emerging machine learning applications. "U.S. leadership in microelectronics is essential to U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence," Gilman Louie, a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), told this week's virtual ERI conference. Maintaining the lead in AI hardware requires "technical feats only DARPA would attempt." In a series of reports to Congress, the commission has emphasized continued U.S. leadership in microelectronics as a way to "get AI right," said Louie, founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the U.S. intelligence community. NSCAI, which is led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, was created last year with a three-year mandate to advance AI, machine learning and associated technologies for U.S. national security.

Tina: "The mom in me wants me to say Supervised Machine Learning. Because you don't want machines looking at porn of other machines."

Machine-learning system determines the fewest, smallest doses that could still shrink brain tumors In an effort to improve the quality of life for patients by reducing toxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy dosing for glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer, MIT researchers are employing novel machine-learning techniques. According to the team, glioblastoma is a malignant tumor that appears in the brain or spinal cord, with a prognosis for adults of no more than five years. Patients must endure a combination of radiation therapy and multiple drugs taken every month whereby medical professionals generally administer maximum safe drug doses to shrink the tumor as much as possible but these strong pharmaceuticals still cause debilitating side effects in patients. MIT researchers aim to improve the quality of life for patients suffering from glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer, with a machine-learning model that makes chemotherapy and radiotherapy dosing regimens less toxic but still as effective as human-designed regimens. In a paper being presented at the 2018 Machine Learning for Healthcare conference at Stanford University, MIT Media Lab researchers detail a model that could make dosing regimens less toxic but still effective.

So why hasn't there been a great American television show or movie set within the scene? EDM – and all the raptures, perils and outsize personalities that come with it – would seem a natural setting for film. Its exaggerated stage productions are science fiction in scope, and its egos are Shakespearean. There have been fun and savvy movies set within the world of club-music culture – "24 Hour Party People," "Go" and, more recently, the crime thriller "Victoria." But the first major attempt to make a large-scale feature film explicitly about today's EDM scene, 2015's "We Are Your Friends" starring Zac Efron as a rising DJ, was an unprecedented brick, one of the worst box office debuts in history for a widely released film.