Digitate announced that it has achieved significant annual growth in both customer acquisition and revenue. The growth is due to increase in adoption of its award-winning cognitive automation product, ignio, helping enterprises dealing with IT to rapidly identify and remediate outages in minutes. According to the Economic Times of India post, the ignio, AI platform delivered $31M to TCS. According to the press release, CEO, and MD, Tata Consultancy Services, Rajesh Gopinathan, said, "Rapid breakthroughs in digital technologies – such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation – are reshaping businesses and fostering creative disruptions. The revenue and customer growth for ignio has been over 100% y-o-y. The success and growth of ignio reaffirms TCS' Business 4.0 strategy, helping customers leverage technology to innovate and gain a competitive advantage," Digitate is a venture of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

Petaling Jaya – Children today are more attuned to technology than ever before, but there's more to it than just smartphones, games and movies! From 18 August – 16 September, KidZania Kuala Lumpur brings the future of technology to life with KidZ & Tech 3.0, a month-long programme that allows kids to interact with tools and programmes that utilise Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics, which will greatly influence the way people play, learn and work in the years to come. "Technology runs the modern world, and this will become even more prevalent as artificial intelligence- and robotics-based careers and industries become commonplace. As a parent, I'm motivated to ensure that my children are educated and prepared for a future where different forms of technology are seamlessly woven into the fabric of daily life. Virtual and robotic assistants, smart homes and self-driving cars already exist and there is so much more to come. Living and working with technology is inevitable and I hope that children experiencing KidZ & Tech 3.0 will be inspired by the infinite possibilities it brings," Shahrul Nizar Ahmad, Mayor of KidZania Kuala Lumpur.

SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to invest from $500 million to $750 million in Zume Inc., a startup that makes and delivers fresh pizzas with the help of robots, according to people familiar with the conversations. Zume owns a patent for delivery trucks capable of cooking food while en route to customers. The startup's proprietary trucks are loaded in part by robots, and have ovens that fire up on demand via a remote cloud signal. The technology allows Zume to operate legally despite some laws preventing food truck companies from preparing food while a delivery vehicle is in motion. In addition to delivering pizza, Zume creates technology to manage perishable supply chain logistics and sees an opportunity to partner with companies that wish to provide freshly cooked menu items to customers.

The term machine learning and artificial intelligence are closely related and it's not wrong to say that the abstraction level between these two words is the very thin line and they can be interchangeably used.But when I say machine learning or artificial intelligence, what most of the people think is the same old terminator movie.You think that there is gonna be some tx900 machine, that is gonna come up from the future is going to destroy entire humanity. Hey, hold down there.This is not actually a fictional movie if this could have been true, so we should start testing about with the gamma rays because it can generate a HULK and we should stop looking into space because we may find aliens and that may invade into the earth,there may be a THOR coming up to save all of you and there might be a SPIDERMAN roaming around and who knows there might be a BATMAN too.. Just hold your horses, we need to talk a lot about machine learning and what actually it is.so Now machine learning(ML) and artificial intelligence all there are branches of computer science which almost who are doing their masters and Ph.D. might have studied in their curriculum as well.They are closely related but according to me, machine learning is closely related to Data mining rather than artificial intelligence(AI).AI is completely a different thing but what you think of ML is closely related to data mining and you have been already using it quite a lot. Now, you might be asking hey, where we are already using ML? Now, although you have just heard the term ML you might already be aware of the term known as data mining.Data Mining has been there since the evolution of data and computers, which has been into the world quite a lot and all the things that you see simple example would be SPAM EMAIL.You see that some of their emails are in your inbox and some of them are into spam.

One year ago, we wrote about the world's first robot lawyer. It is a website with a chatbot that started off with a single and free legal service: helping to appeal unfair parking tickets. When the article was published, the services was available in the UK, and in New York and Seattle. At the time, it had helped overturn traffic tickets to the value of 4 million dollars. Apart from appealing parking tickets, the website could already assist you, too, in claiming compensation if your flight was delayed.

I recently had the opportunity to travel to South Korea to look over LG's work in both the AI and robotics fields, including some detailed time with its LG CLOi Airport Guide Robot. That's a design that LG has iterated on over time, and I had the chance to sit down for an interview (via a translator) with Hyungjn Choi, LG's Leader of Life support Robot Biz. That's a fancy title to say that he's in charge (in his own words) "of robot business development and product planning" at LG. Robots in industry are nothing new, but people-centric robots are a tough challenge. Mr Choi is quite clear that the first robot was the toughest. "Technically speaking, the most difficult one is the first one that you can see when you arrive (at Seoul's Incheon International Airport), the Airport guide robot. Because we have to deal with a spacious indoor area, the environment is very noisy. There are a lot of people travelling around. The robot needs to autonomously drive around and move around these high traffic areas. Also it needs to interpret and understand different and diverse pronunciations and ways to respond to customers' needs. That was the most technologically challenging area, and in order to take on that challenge, we've specifically taken on airports. But that doesn't mean that other robots were easy, technologically! So for example, the lawnmower robot is different from other lawnmower robots you might see. Our one moves around in a specific pattern, so it can move around in a zig zag motion, so even if your ground is bumpy, it can make a very calculated movement to ensure that every part of your lawn is well managed."

The UAE Artificial Intelligence camp has hosted more than 600 Emirati pupils and university students in its first month. The camp is part of the UAE Strategy for Artificial Intelligence, which launched in October 2017, and includes programmes to develop the skills of government employees and young people. More than 5,000 people will participate directly or in partnership programmes organised through the camp, the state-news agency Wam has reported. "We, in the UAE, are pioneering the use of AI technologies and applications to build a better future for all and ensuring that we, as a country, assume a global leadership position across all sectors," said Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Omar Al Olama. "The UAE AI Camp is an educational platform that contributes to the development of youth. It reflects the successful partnership between government, private and education sectors to achieve the objectives of the UAE Strategy for Artificial Intelligence and supports the strategic direction of the UAE in this field."

Digital transformation is driving a new breed of retail that will take consumers where they've never been before, writes Microsoft's Christi Olson. The following is a guest post by Christi Olson, head of evangelism for search at Microsoft. The views are the author's own. Like many industries today, retail is in an extreme state of disruption. In five years, 25% of malls will be gone.

On this episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Kara sits downs with Sunil Paul, the co-founder of Sidecar who recently penned a popular post for this site, "The scooter wars will be a bloodbath, and Uber will win." In this podcast, he elaborates on why that is and shares his thoughts about the broader transportation industry, including self-driving cars, bike-sharing and vertical lift and take-off vehicles like Larry Page's Kitty Hawk "flying car." Now primarily an investor, Paul also talks about why Sidecar couldn't compete with Uber and Lyft -- even though it created ride-hailing features that are now popular parts of their products. You can listen to Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Overcast or wherever you listen to podcasts. Below, we've shared a lightly edited transcript of Kara's full conversation with Paul. Sunil Paul: Great to be here. Let's do a little background. You and I have known each other for ... A dog's age, as they say, like since D.C., in the early 90s. Can you explain how you were lucky enough to meet me then? Well, I think I first met you when I was AOL's internet product manager. And then, I started a company. I think you were the demo boy. That's what I think you were, weren't you? You showed me some demos. I think I was a demo boy. I recall demo boy-ing for Steve Case. You were working at AOL. What products did you work on there? How did you get there? What were you doing in D.C.? I came to D.C. to work on a space station. My early career I was an engineer. I helped do the early design for a space station. Then I got really interested in policy because Congress kept mucking around with the space station. I went, spent several years as a policy analyst on the Hill for [the] Office of Technology Assessment. While I was there, I started mucking around with this new thing, that was the early '90s, I started mucking around with this new thing called the internet and that ... Why did you pick AOL?

On this episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Kara sits downs with Sunil Paul, the co-founder of Sidecar who recently penned a popular post for this site, "The scooter wars will be a bloodbath, and Uber will win." In this podcast, he elaborates on why that is and shares his thoughts about the broader transportation industry, including self-driving cars, bike-sharing and vertical lift and take-off vehicles like Larry Page's Kitty Hawk "flying car." Now primarily an investor, Paul also talks about why Sidecar couldn't compete with Uber and Lyft -- even though it created ride-hailing features that are now popular parts of their products. You can listen to Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Overcast or wherever you listen to podcasts. Below, we've shared a lightly edited transcript of Kara's full conversation with Paul. Sunil Paul: Great to be here. Let's do a little background. You and I have known each other for ... A dog's age, as they say, like since D.C., in the early 90s. Can you explain how you were lucky enough to meet me then? Well, I think I first met you when I was AOL's internet product manager. And then, I started a company. I think you were the demo boy. That's what I think you were, weren't you? You showed me some demos. I think I was a demo boy. I recall demo boy-ing for Steve Case. You were working at AOL. What products did you work on there? How did you get there? What were you doing in D.C.? I came to D.C. to work on a space station. My early career I was an engineer. I helped do the early design for a space station. Then I got really interested in policy because Congress kept mucking around with the space station. I went, spent several years as a policy analyst on the Hill for [the] Office of Technology Assessment. While I was there, I started mucking around with this new thing, that was the early '90s, I started mucking around with this new thing called the internet and that ... Why did you pick AOL?