Bringing new meaning to the phrase "killer app," the monster movie "Bedeviled" imagines a malevolent version of Siri coming to life to scare teenagers to death. What ensues is a competently made take on the slasher picture, but never as cutting-edge as the premise promises. Brothers Abel and Burlee Vang wrote and directed "Bedeviled," combining the technophobia of '90s Japanese ghost stories with the "attractive youngsters get murdered" dynamic of '80s scream-fests. The movie also has a sprinkle of Stephen King's "It," in that the villain often appears in clown makeup. Jordan Essoe provides the voice and occasionally the face of Mr. Bedevil, the bow-tie wearing mascot of a voice-activated helper application, providing recommendations based on detailed personal knowledge of the user's preferences.

Finance is so important in modern life and it can't go ignored. Even a priest needs to finance the building of a church. And considering the breathtaking rise of countries such as India and China with their incredible GDP, it is also reasonable to conclude that finance plays a pivotal role in developing a country. But this era is different. It is not like the Silk Road era when Far East empires could only trade in silk and gold.

We arrive a few minutes late, thanks to a traffic jam that is now routine on the Outer Ring Road in Bengaluru. In the lobby of a hotel in Cessna Business Park, which houses Cisco, Flipkart and InMobi, D J Patil settles into a chat with my colleague Sriram Sharma. Patil comes across as an easygoing guy for a scientist. He was the first chief data scientist at the White House, handpicked by then US president Barack Obama. Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher coined the term "data scientist" in 2008.

A resident of the Silver Wing Social Care elderly care home in Tokyo's Chuo Ward chats happily to a staff member in the facility's communal area, while in a nearby room another senior is being helped by a rehabilitation specialist to walk again after a fall last month. These workers never take a day off, never complain and don't need to be paid, for they are robots. Silver Wing Social Care provides a glimpse into the future of Japan and indeed other industrialised nations as they follow its path to ageing societies and labour shortages. The company's flagship care facility began using robots to help care for residents four years ago after being selected by the city government as a test project. Japan is entering uncharted territory for a modern economy. A consistently low birth rate has shrunk the working-age population by around 10 million since its mid-1990s peak, with another 20 million set to disappear from workplaces in the coming decades.

Supply chain functions are moving towards automation and integration. For instance, take the use of cloud computing, robotics and artificial intelligence in improving productivity and customer service. In fact, not a single day goes by when we don't come across headlines about the shipping and logistics industry, like Clearpath or DHL, developing drones and warehouse robots or Uber's efforts to create autonomous vehicles. We could not have fantasized such technological advancements last century. But for all of the pervasiveness and advantages attached to the Internet of Things (IoT), it is observed that IoT actually makes supply chain systems more vulnerable to cyber-attacks and other exploits.

An alleged ISIS plot involving a drone attack on Turkey's Incirlik air base -- which is used by the U.S. Air Force -- was foiled Thursday when Turkish authorities arrested a Russian national suspected of being an Islamist militant. Renad Bakiev, who previously traveled to Syria, was detained in the southern city of Adana for planning the drone attack, police said in a statement. Officials said he admitted to surveying the Incirlik air base to plan out his strike, and attempted to attack Americans -- but he was unsuccessful. Adana police said Bakiev had ties to ISIS and also intended to assault the local Alevi community -- a religious minority ISIS regards as heretics. The religious group is also the largest one in Turkey and is an offshoot of Shia Islam.

CHICAGO – August 10, 2017 – Seyfarth Shaw LLP in connection with its subsidiary SeyfarthLean Consulting announced today that it is one of the first law firms to select iManage Extract. Seyfarth will use the Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform to perform document review and comparison across all practice areas. Seyfarth will utilize an enhanced feature of the product to train and have complete control of the robot. Using the self-service portal will allow the firm to speed up the data extraction process, increasing productivity within the organization. To read more, visit the full press release here.

A pair of chatbots have been taken offline in China after failing to show enough patriotism, reports the Financial Times. The two bots were removed from the popular messaging app Tencent QQ after users shared screenshots of their conversations online. One of the bots, named BabyQ, made by the Beijing-based company Turing Robot, was asked, "Do you love the Communist Party?" To which it replied simply, "No." Another bot named XiaoBing, which is developed by Microsoft, told users, "My China dream is to go to America."

We're working to put the world's fastest GPU into the hands of the world's smartest AI researchers. Last month in Honolulu, NVIDIA shocked top AI researchers, giving them the world's first NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU accelerators. Last night, in Sydney, we struck again, handing out 15 NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU accelerators. "I think it's fantastic," said Sergey Levine, an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who is known for his work at the intersection of deep learning and robotics. Given out at a meetup for participants in our NVIDIA AI Labs program at the International Conference on Machine Learning, and signed by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, the V100s are the world's most powerful GPUs, offering more than 100 teraflops of deep learning performance.

You've probably seen the Watson commercials, where what looks like a sentient box interacts with celebrities like Bob Dylan, Carrie Fisher, and Serena Williams; or doctors; or a young cancer survivor. Maybe you caught the IBM artificial intelligence technology's appearance in H&R Block's Super Bowl commercial starring Jon Hamm. "It is one of the most powerful tools our species has created. It helps doctors fight disease," Hamm says. "It can predict global weather patterns. It improves education for children everywhere. And now we unleash it on your taxes."