A record number of NFL players tested positive for COVID-19 last week, leading to postponed games. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – Football fans got double the action Monday night and will again Tuesday night. That's because the NFL rearranged its Week 15 schedule as COVID-19 cases surge among the players, 100 of whom tested positive over three days last week. For the second year in a row, professional sports teams aren't just worried about their opponent -- they're worried about whether there are enough players to play the game. "Just like anywhere else, you have to think about can you operate your business if everybody is sick?" said Brian Labus, infectious disease epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

Apposite Capital invests in Mirada Medical London, UK – 8th April 2019. Apposite Capital, the private equity firm with an exclusive focus on healthcare, today announces that it has invested £6m in preferred equity in Mirada Medical, a world leading medical imaging software company. The investment will support Mirada's development of artificial intelligence (#AI) based software for increasing the speed and accuracy of #cancer treatment planning applications, while delivering a more personalised level of care to patients. Apposite has invested alongside Mirada's founding investor, AlbionVC, and other private investors. Skymind raises $11.5M Skymind (*), a Y Combinator-incubated AI platform that aims to make deep learning more accessible to enterprises, today announced that it has raised an $11.5 million Series A round led by TransLink Capital, with participation from ServiceNow, Sumitomo's Presidio Ventures, UpHonest Capital and GovTech Fund.

News about Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related research areas. IBM believes that blockchains can help reduce carbon emissions by turning carbon credits into crypto-tokens. The world moving towards a "token-driven economy" is supposedly part of a scheme to create a massive marketplace of novel digital assets. IBM hopes to build software platforms for trading these tokens. And one of the first things it plans to help digitize has a bonus feature: it benefits the environment.