In the insideBIGDATA Research Highlights column we take a look at new and upcoming results from the research community for data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. Our readers need to get a glimpse for technology coming down the pipeline that will make their efforts more strategic and competitive. In this installment we review MIDAS – Real-time Anomaly/Fake News/Intrusion Detection developed by Ph.D. candidate Siddharth Bhatia and his team at the National University of Singapore.