Hello again! Associate Wimbledon with tennis? Marlo the dog from Wimbledon prefers golf. He has collected 6,000 golf balls around the famous town from golf clubs. His finds are being used to help charities across the world. Never mind the birdie, three cheers for the doggie!

Among other items of note in this issue; AI’s rural-urban divide, a new era for AI-powered robotics, and are researchers are moving toward open data?

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Hello! What do you get when you cross a crab-catching pot with glitzy lights? An all-night scallop disco. UK scientists have discovered that adding lights to crab-catching pot attracts scallops in droves. It’s good for the marine environment as no more dredging to catch scallops. Who knew scallops had the John Travolta gene?

Among other items of note in this issue; the multi-billion-dollar potential of synthetic data, an exoskeleton that uses AI to help people walk faster, and can we tell if a picture is fake.

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Hello again! With Halloween just around the corner, the 49th annual world championship pumpkin weigh-off took place in Half Moon Bay, California. It was won by a 2560-pound rhinoceros-sized mega-gourd that set a new North American record. We are just hoping the winner can carve it in time!

Among items of note in this issue; ask a deep learning model 'what makes a champagne vintage great', 3 data management challenges—and 4 ways to respond, and what is medical AI.

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Hello! Politicians are often accused of giving robotic answers - but politicians in the UK may just have been shown how it’s really done. In a groundbreaking hearing, a robot “gave evidence” to a House of Lords committee. However Ai-Da, described as the ‘world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist’, struggled at times to answer peers’ questions. During the proceedings, the robot needed to be reset, with sunglasses put on her face as "when we reset her, she can sometimes pull quite interesting faces". So that’s why politicians always have a pair of aviators in their pockets!

Among items of note in this issue of Verse; Google reveals what’s next for Cloud AI, an app that could soon diagnose cancer by your voice and volunteers undergo brain scans while being given mind-bending drugs to alter their consciousness.

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Hello again! The irony! COP27 climate summit will be sponsored by none other than Coca-Cola. The drinks giant recently revealed it produces about three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year – that’s 200,000 bottles a minute. We may have a solution though, as scientists recently reported that saliva from the Wax worm can break down tough plastic.  So, will Coke, just like tequila, start adding Wax worms to bottles??

Among items of note in this issue of Verse; how a grocery chain used AI to slash food waste, an international project to create the most detailed map of the brain and Chicago scientists build 'unhackable' quantum internet in their university basement closet – Is this the World Wide Web 4.0?

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Hello! While ‘keeping up’ with crypto trends, news broke of Kim Kardashian’s $1.26m fine for her part in a crypto 'pump and dump' scheme - advertising a cryptocurrency, without disclosing she had been paid to do so! Having recently passed the 'baby bar' law exam, we thought she may be a bit more legally astute!

Among items of note in this issue of Verse; Machine learning for the Metaverse. Why Meta’s AI Lab is so random!, study finds dogs can detect when humans experience acute stress and Meta‘s text-to-video AI platform – generates 5-second videos from a line of text!

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Hello! We start with movie news; James Earl Jones steps back from voicing Darth Vader and signs over rights to his voice. Vader’s voice will be recreated with A.I. using archived recordings for future appearances on the big and small screen. Rumor has it that as part of the recordings, he references Verse and says "the force is strong with this one." Thanks, James!

Now back to Verse. Among items of note in this issue; the White House has a plan for Big Tech, drones that can 3D print structures while in flight and AI, APIs, and how to detect live deepfakes in video calls.

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Hello! As world leaders arrive in London for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, these facts stood out. When she ascended the throne in 1952, Harry Truman was president; Winston Churchill was prime minister and The Today Show premieres on NBC. She ruled during the span of 15 UK prime ministers, 14 US presidents, and nearly 30% of American history.

Among items of note in this issue of Verse; can machine learning help us talk to pets? A startup using an AI agricultural robot to lower greenhouse gas emissions and the 100 best pizzerias in the world! Here at the DLA, we would love to have traveled the planet to help compile this data – still we offer an open invitation for the authors to put the dataset on the DLA platform.

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Hello there! We were surprised by an announcement made by Japan's digital minister who "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech used by the country's bureaucrats. Despite its reputation for innovative high-tech gadgetry, Japan is notorious for clinging to outmoded technology through its office culture. Around 1,900 government procedures still require businesses to use the storage devices, plus CDs and mini-discs. The minister also noted that "I'm looking to get rid of the fax machine, and I still plan to do that". What ‘outdated’ technology can’t you do without?
Among items of note in this issue of Verse; a novel AI algorithm that may be the key to a breakthrough epilepsy treatment, an AI start up erasing call center worker accents and the top 10 emerging AI and ML trends.

Hello there! Scorching, global drought has uncovered lost artifacts around the world including historic relics as water levels recede. These include; rare dinosaur tracks in Texas' Dinosaur Valley State Park, a Spanish 'Stonehenge' (from 5000 BC), over a dozen Nazi ships surfacing on the drying Danube River in Serbia, and a trio of 600 year old Buddhist statues on a formerly submerged island on China's Yangtze River. Then there’s Lake Mead, where officials have so far found five sets of human remains! Has anything interesting been revealed in your local reservoirs?
Among items of note in this issue of Verse; an AI model that detects Parkinson’s from breathing patterns, engineers present a new chip that ramps up AI computing efficiency and a humanoid robot gets an upgrade!

Hello! We came across a study in the journal Nature Food while getting this issue together. It found that five billion people would die in a modern nuclear war between the US and Russia (over half of humanity). It gets better—the vast majority of us wouldn’t die instantly from the blasts. No, we’d perish from a global famine. The last time this seemed a possibility for us, we were watching Knight Rider, trying to master Trivial Pursuit and Ghostbusters was at the movies!

Among items of note in this issue of Verse; what AI still doesn’t know how to do, scientists create a robot made of magnetic slime and how AI is helping to keep music alive.

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Hey! We recently saw various reports that Earth recorded its shortest ever day as 1.59 milliseconds was shaved off the usual 24-hour spin. While we have to admit we didn’t actually notice, it did make us wonder if this will take off a leap second at the end of the year and could potentially create problems for IT systems (think ‘Y2K bug’!). I guess we will have to wait until the end of December to see if we pop our Champagne corks 1.59 milliseconds earlier!

Among items of note in this issue of Verse, a biotech startup wants to copy you into an embryo for organ harvesting, scientists begin a study to see if AI smartwatch data can predict Parkinson’s disease progression and Engineers develop a super-adhesive that maintains its gluing properties across temperatures ranging from -320 degrees to + 400 degrees.

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As we were putting the final touches on this edition of Verse, Warner Bros. blew up the internet when it made a drastic move that quite literally shocked the entire industry: it canceled Batgirl! It reminded us of when they pulled the plug on Gore Verbinski’s Bioshock. So, which canceled movies are you still dying to see?

Among items of note in this issue of Verse, researchers use AI to predict the structure of nearly all known proteins - some 214 million molecules, scientists discover that when cats chew catnip, it repels mosquitoes, and Japan shattered the internet speed record at 319 terabits per second!

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Hello! As we put this edition of Verse together, we had an eye on the breaking news that the upcoming Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake is on indefinite hold following the recent firings of two key directors. I suppose we’ll just have to find other suitable shows to binge watch while we wait. Any suggestions??
Among items of note in this issue of Verse, deep learning to predict cerebral palsy in infants, why we sleep with a blanket when it is hot, and a fascinating look at what's happening in neuroimaging using deep learning. Before we sign off *Ahem* we would like to draw your attention to our tweet from last week!

Hello there! Well… as many places in the world are suffering from excessive heat, we’re sitting here pretty “chill” at our desks ….. wherever that may be. 

Among items of note in this issue of Verse, An AI model more accurate and 1,000 times faster in identifying molecules for new drug development, a photonic quantum computer that took just 36 microseconds to complete a calculation, 'Flying' ferries! And the end to binge eating - scientists discover mechanism in the brain linked to controlling food intake. Will holiday dinners ever be the same?

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Hello there. Who knew it was Christmas in June? Well not quite, scientists just discovered glue in the berries of mistletoe for use in biomedical applications; a single berry can produce up to 6 feet of a glue-like substance known as viscin. Among other items of note in this issue of Verse, using AI to prevent sports injuries and Quick Draw – like Pictionary except AI guesses your sketch. 

We have some exciting news of our own, the Data Licensing Alliance marketplace is open for FREE beta testing, see more and how to get your access code in the FUTURE OF DATA section 👇.

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P.S. We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. It’s a sad day in the U.S. and you’re probably sick of hearing about it, but take note our dear readers, this decision is WAY MORE than just about a woman’s legal right to abortion. This will throw many more privacy rights into question and will definitely overly impact Millenials, Gen Z and future age groups in the U.S.

Hello there. Among items of note in this issue of Verse, are top tips to make your AI spend count, the hot trend in text-to-image generators and our favorite, an AI system for solving crossword puzzles!
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Just coming off a much needed few days off for U.S. Memorial Day, we are now back at it. Among many items of note below, one that just came off the wires is that Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier facility was qualified as the first true exascale computing platform, capable of performing a billion billion operations per second (and we’re happy to finally report that Elon Musk had NOTHING to do with this!). Other than that, there is much more going on in the world; Global inflation is still going north! Is Monkeypox the new Covid? Oil is the new oil!