Brits were today urged not to get behind the wheel after just one drink, with doctors warning booze has got stronger. The British Medical Association (BMA)'s president said the idea of'getting away' with two pints'has always been dangerous'. However, he cautioned that a 125ml glass of 9 per cent wine -- more common when current drink-driving laws were devised in the 1960s -- is now'virtually unheard of'. This would equate to just over one unit. As a basic guide, men are advised not to drink more than three units before driving, while women should stick to two at a maximum.

As three of the busiest modern cities around the world, it should come as no surprise that London, New York, and Paris are buzzing with traffic noise. Now, interactive maps have been developed by climate charity Possible as part of its Car Free Cities campaign, revealing just how intense this noise can be in parts of the three cities. Unsurprisingly, areas with busy roads and those near airports tend to have the highest levels of noise pollution, while areas with large parks tend to have the lowest levels. For example, in New York, noise pollution levels are highest around John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia airport, and lowest around Central Park. Speaking to MailOnline, Hirra Khan Adeogun, Head of the Car Free Cities campaign, said: 'It's well known how mass private car ownership damages the climate and contributes to toxic air.

Berlin, Germany: A global early warning centre in Berlin will use artificial intelligence to predict the next pandemic. But AI's already helped us fight COVID-19. If artificial intelligence is the future, then the future is now. This pandemic has shown us just how fast artificial intelligence (AI) works and what it can do in so many different ways. It may also help us predict the next pandemic.

A new website will help users stop unconsciously touching their faces by monitoring them through their web cams and playing a loud'NO!' whenever they reach for their faces, one of the most common ways of transmitting the Covid-19 virus. The site, simply called DoNotTouchYourFace.com, was built to run in the background as users go about their normal workdays. Before starting a session, it will ask for access to the web cam and then take a recording of the user sitting still for a few seconds as a baseline. The new website DoNotTouchYourFace.com will watch users through their computer web cams and play a loud'NO!' recording whenever it detects them reaching for their face Then users will be asked to touch their face in as many different ways as they can imagine--rubbing their eyes, cupping their chin, scratching their nose, and everything in between--according to a report in Vice. A machine learning tool built into the site, TensorFlow.js, will then analyze the footage to identify specific movements that will trigger its loud warning sound. Whenever it identifies a user reaching to touch their face, a recording of a loud'NO!' will automatically play, along with a popup notification saying, 'You touched your face.'

In a landmark discovery, a machine learning based AI has been used to uncover powerful new antibiotics that can kill resistant bacterial strains. Around 46,000 people dying each year in the UK alone from sepsis, with many cases being caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria that don't respond to treatment. The World Health Organisation has has identified several high-priority target pathogens that new antibiotics should target, but development of just one new drug can take years of research and millions of pounds in funding. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have now successfully used an AI to discover new antibiotic drugs for the first time. The team trained the AI on a data set of known antimicrobial molecules and then set it loose on a vast pharmaceutical database to assess the potential of each drug as an antibiotic. The process dramatically cuts the cost and time needed for drug discovery.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can improve various aspects of healthcare. It can help reduce annual expenditure,[1] allow early detection of diseases, provide round-the-clock monitoring for chronic disorders, and help limit the exposure of healthcare professionals in contagious environments. The use of AI in healthcare systems in Africa, in particular, can eliminate inefficiencies such as misdiagnosis, shortage in healthcare workers, and wait and recovery time. However, it is important to safeguard against issues such as privacy breaches, or lack of personalised care and accessibility. The central tenet for an AI framework must be ethics. This brief discusses the benefits and challenges of introducing AI in Africa's healthcare sector and suggests how policymakers can strike a balance between allowing innovation and protecting data. This paper is for ORF's Centre for New Economic Diplomacy (CNED). Other CNED research can be found here.

Humans' time may have run out and artificial intelligence could be about to take our place on Earth, according to James Lovelock. The leading environmental thinker, who became famous for Gaia theory and is soon to turn 100, said that the Earth was in dire trouble and could soon experience intense climate-related disasters. But he still believes himself to be an optimist and thinks that new kinds of life, in the form of AI, will be ready to take over from humans. Amid a flood in Islampur, Jamalpur, Bangladesh, a woman on a raft searches for somewhere dry to take shelter. Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable places in the world to sea level rise, which is expected to make tens of millions of people homeless by 2050.

Fortnite fans are willing to pay well over the odds for physical copies of the hugely-successful video game, with some discs selling for as much as £750 ($999) on eBay and Amazon. The popular shooter is now available as a free download on a slew of devices, including Sony PS4, Windows PC, Xbox One, iOS and Nintendo Switch. Unlike the physical copy sold in stores, the digital download is free-to-play. The physical copies include a'Save the World' mode which can be downloaded onto digital versions for £30 ($40). A limited number of physical copies of the game were released worldwide last year, and surviving discs are now selling for hundreds online.

There is no strong evidence to support fears that screen time is inherently bad for children, experts have warned, adding that the recognition of so-called gaming disorder by the World Health Organisation is premature. Time spent using devices ranging from computers to smartphones and televisions has been the subject of debate after the UK's culture secretary Matt Hancock called for parents to set boundaries for their children on the use of tech. "Unlimited and unsupervised access to smartphones can be a portal to some very serious risks. And the chief medical officer has highlighted growing concerns around the impact on children's mental health. This backs up every parent's instinct; that children must be protected," he said.

Parents may want to keep a closer eye on teenagers glued to their video games consoles. The World Health Organisation will include'gaming disorder' in its international list of illnesses for the first time next year. After a decade of monitoring computer gaming, the organisation has decided to classify some excessive players as having a mental health condition. The World Health Organisation will include'gaming disorder' in its international list of illnesses for the first time next year The draft wording of its diagnostic manual says someone has a gaming disorder if'gaming takes precedence over other life interests'. The unhealthy behaviour will have had to continue for at least a year before diagnosis is confirmed.