April 13th 2015, Forrester came out with a report where they forecast that by 2020, One Million B2B Sales jobs (this is in the US only) will go. The suggestion being that certain (I'm not saying all) processes can be automated and with the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI), this automation seems only to increase. As Jill Rowley pointed out at the time, the introduction of AI is already happening as the first place people go to make a purchase is Google, which is Artificial Intelligence (AI) after all. OK before we start, you are already using AI and maybe you don't know it. So how can AI help us in Marketing and Sales?

U.S. officials have told airlines to "be prepared" for an expanded ban on carry-on electronic devices allowed on airplanes. Homeland Security spokesman David Lapan confirmed to reporters Tuesday that the administration is considering expanding the ban on laptops, which currently applies to U.S.-bound flights from eight countries in the Middle East and North Africa. An expanded ban on devices larger than cellphones could potentially include "more than a couple" other regions, including flights from Western Europe. Lapan reminded reporters that DHS Secretary John Kelly has alluded to the ban "likely" being expanded. DHS officials, however, are still deciding where and how the new restrictions will be implemented.

The next Assassin's Creed game is called Assassin's Creed Origins and it takes place at the very beginning, when the Assassins were first crawling from the sea to walk on two legs. The new game is set in ancient Egypt, and is being developed by the team behind Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, one of my personal favorites in the video game franchise. That's all according to various leaks, including the latest on Reddit, in which someone associated with the game posted some new information, while also confirming that "most of that 4chan info that was leaked a few months ago is real, although some things have changed since then." I suspect heads will roll at Ubisoft before the day is done. Eurogamer reports that its sources at Ubisoft have confirmed that the leak is real.

Automation and machine learning are set to disrupt our workforce in massive ways in coming years, according to delegates at this year's World Economic Forum on Africa. The so-called'fourth industrial revolution' is set to displace many career fields, introducing what could be the best of times and worst of times for workers, according to Dr. Roze Phillips, Managing Director for Accenture Consulting. However, this situation also presents new opportunities in the world of work, especially when it comes to more analytical jobs, as Phillips explains in this podcast with BizNews. This podcast is brought to you by RMB. I'm at the World Economic Forum for Africa, where I'm speaking to Dr Roze Phillips, who is the Managing Director for Accenture Consulting.

Columnist Jennifer Jolly shows you the coolest tech for Mother's Day. From unicorn roses to selfie drones, here are unusual gadget gifts for mom. Hey! Mother's Day is right around the corner (May 14th). From Unicorn roses to selfie drones, here are all the gadget gifts no one else would ever think of -- except a mom who covers tech for a living. Moms like me love to capture every moment of our family's lives.

This article originally appeared in Buzz Business for TIME. Last October, the Mirai botnet took advantage of hacked IoT devices to take high profile websites, such as Twitter, Reddit, Netflix, Airbnb--and, it was rumored (incorrectly), the entire nation of Liberia. How do you secure a world of dizzying interconnectivity? If innovation is generating this unprecedented security challenge, it's only fair for innovation to help solve it--AI to the rescue. Look to the evolution of our telephone system.

A hypnotic new video reveals the unearthly beauty of life up-close. Using different colored ink in water, the team at the Macro Room has created a breathtaking short film that could rival the effects of CGI. A hypnotic new video reveals the unearthly beauty of life up-close. Ink In Motion, shared on YouTube by the Macro Room, gives a close-up look at'the hypnotising beauty of colored ink in water and the interaction of this substance with different elements.' It begins with just a tank filled with water, and 3D planet models submerged in the center.

Welcome to our series "How I Became a …," where we're digging into the stories of accomplished and influential people and finding out how they got to where they are in their careers. We're finding out what their biggest challenges, their biggest passions and their biggest pieces of wisdom are -- for you. Working in the world of video games is a true dream job, and Bugi Kaigwa, a technical artist at Visual Concepts, is living the dream as a video game designer. Kaigwa, who works on developing the immensely popular NBA 2K basketball games, including this year's NBA 2K17 game, chatted with USA TODAY College about vanilla lattes, hard work and, well, of course video games. Usually, being from Kenya, I am a tea guy -- usually just a ginger tea.

The new technology has been launched as part of a cervical cancer prevention campaign across six African countries. The company behind the platform is the nonprofit Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon, and the organization has been working with local health clinics on special screening as well as education events. The new platform consists of an optical accessory that fits onto a Android smartphone and optimizes the device's camera. The clip-on attachment is called the EVA (enhanced visual assessment) Scope. The enhanced optics can be used by healthcare professionals for examining women for early signs of cervical cancer.

A group of maize farmers stands huddled around an agronomist and his computer on the side of an irrigation pivot in central South Africa. The agronomist has just flown over the pivot with a hybrid UAV that takes off and lands using propellers yet maintains distance and speed for scanning vast hectares of land through the use of its fixed wings. The UAV is fitted with a four spectral band precision sensor that conducts onboard processing immediately after the flight, allowing farmers and field staff to address, almost immediately, any crop anomalies that the sensor may have recorded, making the data collection truly real-time. In this instance, the farmers and agronomist are looking to specialized software to give them an accurate plant population count. It's been 10 days since the maize emerged and the farmer wants to determine if there are any parts of the field that require replanting due to a lack of emergence or wind damage, which can be severe in the early stages of the summer rainy season.