Free users of Spotify could soon benefit from premium account features thanks to an updated version of the app. Sources say the update is designed to make the service easier to use in a bid to boost subscribers after launching on the stock market last week. Mobile users with free plans will be able to access playlists faster and have greater control over how they listen to music on playlists, sources say. Free users of Spotify will soon benefit from premium account features, thanks to an updated version of the app, sources say. At the moment, the free plan prevents users from selecting tracks within a playlist.

In the constantly changing landscape of today's global digital workspace, AI's presence grows in almost every industry. Retail giants like Amazon and Alibaba are using algorithms written by machine learning software to add value to the customer experience. Machine learning is also prevalent in the new Service Robotics world as robots transition from blind, dumb and caged to mobile and perceptive. Competition is particularly focused between the US and China even though other countries and global corporations have large AI programs as well. The competition is real, fierce and dramatic.

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Our memories leave a clear and unique genetic mark on our brains. That's the remarkable discovery of scientists in Israel who say these genetic markers could be used to unlock memories after people die. The technology opens the door to strange scenarios, similar to those portrayed in the series'Black Mirror', where investigators can record and playback the memories of suspected criminals. It could even lead to a future in which police are able to read and replay memories of murder victims to help them piece together the events leading up to their death. Our memories leave a clear and unique genetic mark on our brains.

Artificial intelligence will solve Facebook's most vexing problems, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg insists. He just can't say when, or how. Zuckerberg referred to AI technology about 23 times during his five-hour testimony before a joint Senate committee hearing Tuesday, saying that it would one day be smart, sophisticated and eagle-eyed enough to fight against a vast variety of platform-spoiling misbehavior, including fake news, hate speech, discriminatory ads and terrorist propaganda. Over the next five to 10 years, he said, artificial intelligence would prove a champion for the world's largest social network in resolving its most pressing crises on a global scale -- while also helping the company dodge pesky questions about censorship, fairness and human moderation. "We started off in my dorm room with not a lot of resources and not having the AI technology to be able to proactively identify a lot of this stuff," Zuckerberg told the lawmakers, referring to Facebook's famous origin story.

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society. From 1449–74, an association of market towns and cities along the Baltic coast in Europe known as the Hanseatic League waged an on-again, off-again war with England over maritime trading privileges. Hanseatic man-of-war ships, including the feared Peter von Danzig, raided the English coast. The Anglo-Hanseatic War ended with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1474, which gave the Hanseatic League access to many British ports and ownership of the London Steelyard until it sold the property in 1853. At its zenith in the 15th century, the Hanseatic League boasted about 200 cities across seven countries, flexing its economic might across Europe, imposing blockages to promote its interests, and even waging wars.

The world of autonomous cars is coming. Maybe it's a utopian future where all the vehicles drive themselves, while traffic jams and road rage are made a thing of the past. Or maybe it's just a bunch of fancy robo-taxis (and hopefully buses) that ensure city commuting is less of a pain. No matter how it plays out, it's coming and BMW wants to be prepare, establishing its own autonomous driving campus. In Unterschleißheim (near Munich, Germany) the automaker opened the facility that it says will help with the "systematic development of highly- and fully-automated driving at the BMW Group."

AI that could thwart illegal activity by identifying criminals before they act is set to be rolled out in India. The aim of the Minority Report-style CCTV surveillance system is to prevent offences such as sexual assault by looking at the body language of people to predict what they are about to do. An Israeli security and AI research company will soon use AI to analyse the terabytes of data streamed from CCTV cameras in public areas in India. Crime-predicting AI that could thwart illegal activity by identifying it before it happens is rolling out in India. The partnership has been formed between Tel Aviv-based company Cortica Best Group in India, according to Digital Trends.