Auto supplier Delphi Automotive has acquired self-driving software start-up NuTonomy Inc. for $450 million to speed the development of autonomous vehicles. Boston-based NuTonomy was founded in 2013. It has been testing autonomous taxis in Singapore and Boston since last fall. Delphi Chief Technology Officer Glen DeVos says Delphi wants its autonomous system to be used on commercial vehicles in limited areas by 2019. DeVos says NuTonomy brings advanced software and fleet management experience to Delphi.

Apple's chief operating officer Jeff Williams attended the 30th anniversary celebrations of A-series chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, and took the opportunity to say a few words about the importance of AI in general – and the phone as an AI tool in particular. I think we're at an inflection point, with on-device computing, coupled with the potential of AI, to really change the world. Reuters reports that he said that AI could be used to transform the healthcare sector, an industry he described as'ripe' for change. He said that the phone was a major AI platform. We think that the frameworks that we've got, the'neural engines' we've put in the phone, in the watch … we do view that as a huge piece of the future, we believe these frameworks will allow developers to create apps that will do more and more in this space, so we think the phone is a major platform.

Travel tech is a well-established category but startups are still bringing innovation to the space and attracting financing. Deals are on track to hit an all-time high this year as a broad range of VCs invest in the sector. Using CB Insights data, we ranked the most active investors into unique travel tech startups since 2013, including venture capital and corporate venture investors. We define travel tech as tech-enabled companies offering services and products focused on travel and tourism, including booking services, search and planning platforms, on-demand travel, and recommendation sites. From new booking engines to events/activities to person-to-person platforms like Airbnb, there is innovation all over in travel.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) sees its mobile devices as a major platform for artificial intelligence in the future, Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams said on Monday. Later this week, Apple is set to begin taking pre-orders for its new smartphone, the iPhone X – which starts at $999 and uses artificial intelligence (AI) features embedded in the company's latest A11 chips. The phone promises new facial recognition features such as Face ID that uses a mathematical model of a person's face to allow the user to sign on to their phones or pay for goods with a steady glance at their phones. "We think that the frameworks that we've got, the'neural engines' we've put in the phone, in the watch ... we do view that as a huge piece of the future, we believe these frameworks will allow developers to create apps that will do more and more in this space, so we think the phone is a major platform," Williams said. He was speaking at top chip manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (2330.TW) 30th anniversary celebration in Taipei, which was attended by global tech executives.

Facebook has apologised after an error in its machine-translation service saw Israeli police arrest a Palestinian man for posting "good morning" on his social media profile. The man, a construction worker in the West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit, near Jerusalem, posted a picture of himself leaning against a bulldozer with the caption "يصبحهم", or "yusbihuhum", which translates as "good morning". But Facebook's artificial intelligence-powered translation service, which it built after parting ways with Microsoft's Bing translation in 2016, instead translated the word into "hurt them" in English or "attack them" in Hebrew. Police officers arrested the man later that day, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, after they were notified of the post. They questioned him for several hours, suspicious he was planning to use the pictured bulldozer in a vehicle attack, before realising their mistake.

In today's game industry, titles like "Clash Royale" and "Pokemon Go" are free for most people to enjoy because there's a small number of players who pay for extras, like special weapons or more lives. Game developers have to strike a delicate balance in this free-to-play model between drawing the masses and encouraging big spenders -- and they need both for a successful title. Silicon Studio Corp. is trying to help by providing game makers with deep-learning algorithms to create what amounts to a psychological profile of each player. The Tokyo-based company's software predicts how long people will play, what levels they might achieve, how much money they might spend and on what. Even more important, the technology lets game creators mold player behavior to keep them hooked.

Facebook disclosed last month it had found ads linked to fake accounts -- likely run from Russia -- that sought to influence the U.S. election. Facebook said the ads focused on divisive political issues such as immigration and gun rights in an apparent attempt to sow discord among the U.S. population.

Apple sees its mobile devices as a major platform for artificial intelligence in the future, the company's chief operating officer Jeff Williams said on Monday. Later this week, Apple is set to begin taking pre-orders for its new smartphone, the iPhone X – which starts at US$$999 and uses artificial intelligence (AI) features embedded in the company's latest A11 chips. The phone promises new facial recognition features such as Face ID, which uses a mathematical model of a person's face to allow the user to sign on to their phones or pay for goods with a steady glance at their phones. "We think that the frameworks that we've got, the'neural engines' we've put in the phone, in the watch ... we do view that as a huge piece of the future," Williams said. "We believe these frameworks will allow developers to create apps that will do more and more in this space, so we think the phone is a major platform."

Two days after K.S. Sunil Kumar received a promotion, Human Resources phoned him up and asked him to resign. This happened in April, just as Kumar was beginning his ninth year at Tech Mahindra, one of the giants in India's IT services industry. He worked in engineering services, where he designed components and tools for aerospace firms in North America and Europe. They'd send over specs--the materials available to construct a hinge, and the kind of load it had to bear, and the cost at which it had to be manufactured--and he mocked up options with the help of software. He was a foot soldier in the army of Indian engineers to whom work is outsourced from the West, so that it can be finished at a fraction of the expense. Sometimes he left his base, Tech Mahindra's Bangalore campus, to serve stints at clients' offices abroad: in Montreal, Belfast, or Stockholm.

Distributed, in-memory database enables correlation of customer profile, buying behaviour, sentiment and shopping trends based on cross-industry data sources in sub-seconds JAKARTA, Oct 24, 2017 - (ACN Newswire) - OVO, a member of Lippo Group Digital, has chosen Kinetica, provider of the world's fastest GPU-accelerated analytics database, and NVIDIA to spur innovation in big data and analytics that fully utilize a 360-degree customer view and derive real-time analytics and insights on shopping trends and the digital lifestyle. Lippo Group is a prominent conglomerate with significant investments in digital technologies, education, financial services, healthcare, hospitality, media, IT, telecommunications, real estate, entertainment and retail. Aggressively investing in big data and analytics technology, OVO is Lippo Group Digital's concierge platform, integrating mobile payment, loyalty points, and exclusive priority deals. With the support from Kinetica and NVIDIA, Lippo Group Digital will be the first enterprise to integrate an AI, in-memory, GPU database in Indonesia. Lippo Group Digital's investment in big data and analytics technology aims to consolidate all their customer data that are being generated by all transactional systems from various subsidiaries into a centralized analytics platform.