Synechron Inc., the global financial services consulting and technology services provider, has announced that nearly 60 financial institutions are set to implement artificial intelligence (AI) technology – with interest spanning across four continents. Currently, 57 financial institutions based in Europe, the US, Middle East and Asia are being helped to adopt AI technology by Synechron: 28% of these firms are based in Europe with UK headquartered institutions accounting for nearly half (45%) of the interest in Europe, and 23% of interest worldwide. And, 25% of firms set to implement AI are also based in the United States. Of the 57 firms looking to implement AI, 30% are focused on robotic process automation, and another 30% is focused on chatbots. A further 26% involve natural language processing or natural language generation.

Will.I.Am is trying to get into your house. The Black Eyed Pea has already attempted, mostly unsuccessfully, to get onto people's wrists, around their phones and into their cars. But now he appears to be launching perhaps his most ambitious project: running people's homes. His company, i.am, has bought connected home startup Wink. That firm makes an app and a hub that are intended to talk to all the other smart products inside a person's home, unifying them all under one operating system.

Amazon's range of smart speakers and their artificial intelligence assistant Alexa have proved to be a huge sales hit. But the product is still a shadow of what the man in charge - Dave Limp - and indeed their owners, hope it will become. "We have thousands of engineers inside Amazon adding to [its] capability every day and then another tens of thousands of developers adding to the skills," he tells the BBC. "The thing I am sure of is that this time next year she will be significantly more intelligent than she is now, and that sometime in the future we will hit our goal of reinventing the Star Trek computer." It's a lofty goal, especially since any attempt to go beyond commanding a weather update or asking for the lights to be switched on is currently asking for trouble.

It's about to get a lot more expensive to play PlayStation online. Sony has announced that it will increase the price of its Plus membership – required to play the console over the internet – significantly next month. And the price rise will happen automatically unless people go through a complicated process to cancel it. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Home robots are the promised land of a consumer market that has been on the precipice of burgeoning for a few years. But aside from a roving vacuum cleaner-turned-spy or a Tesla with some self-driving functionality, you probably don't have a robot in your house. One company is hoping to take a circuitous path past the discarded corpses of helper bot prototypes and creepy home assistants. Ori has developed a line of robotic, reconfigurable furniture that moves around a small space, creating new partitions and spitting out hidden features like cabinets, a bed, or a desk on-demand. If you live in San Francisco, New York, or Vancouver, you probably don't have as much space as you want.

A few weeks after the tech giant admitted that it is already running its own machine learning investment fund, it now announced to the public its hands-on Launchpad Studio program which aims to provide support and resources to hungry AI startups. In the company's Google Developers Blog post on Wednesday, Google claimed that the program's mission is to "enable startups from around the world to build great companies." "In the last 4 years, we've learned a lot while supporting early and late-stage founders. From working with dynamic startups--such as teams applying Artificial Intelligence technology to solving transportation problems in Israel, improving tele-medicine in Brazil, and optimizing online retail in India--we've learned that these startups require specialized services to help them scale," a part of the post read. The Launchpad Studio is another initiative from Google that shows the company's commitment to artificial intelligence and machine learning studies.

Have you ever thought about what the future holds for us? Self-driven cars, automatically-curated Netflix queues, and an intelligent home that auto sets the temperature are some of the things that come to mind. It is no secret, then, that artificial intelligence (AI) will impact us in myriad ways as technology progresses. A recent study by research firm Gartner found that over 55% of forward-looking organisations are either already investing in AI, or have plans to do so by 2020. This is a clear indication of the importance of this phenomenon, one that is bound to impact decision-making for businesses.

Those eager to learn something, anything new about computer programming, allows programming skill development (it doesn't matter for what purpose – ex: building a platform in Hadoop or working with SQL, Shogun, C#, Scikit, etc. Building some experience in Matlab, Octave, Scilab, etc is another sure way to become better exposed as something as complex as building code for ICA (Independent Component Analysis) can be handled in only a very few lines of code. I have met many very successful ML professionals who have developed their skills by self-learning, studying hard and applying their innate scientific skills to apply ML algorithms. Also, Matlab can get things done very quickly. ICA (ICA is a technique to separate linearly mixed sources) can be accomplished very quickly in spite of the significant work that would go into coding such analysis initially. One person I know who has a strong background in Math and Physics is a team leader at Goldman Sachs, having locked himself away for close to six months only to come out a darn good applied data scientist.

From Amazon to Apple, many of the biggest technology firms around the world have recently developed smart speakers. And according to the latest rumours, Facebook looks like it could be the next firm to release its own device. The rumours suggest that Facebook plans to unveil a smart speaker with a 15-inch (38-cm) touchscreen as early as next year. According to the latest rumours, Facebook (CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pictured) looks like it could be the next firm to release its own speaker. In May, Amazon released a version of its Echo speaker called the'Show' which features a seven inch touchscreen.

IMAGE: This is the overview of Pharma AI drug discovery pipeline. Thursday, July 27, 2017, Baltimore, Md., Insilico Medicine ("Insilico"), a Baltimore-based leader in artificial intelligence ("AI") for drug discovery and biomarker development, is pleased to announce a multi-year drug development agreement with the biotechnology company Juvenescence AI Limited ("Juvenescence AI"). Juvenescence AI will develop the first compounds generated by Insilico's deep-learned drug discovery engines, which train over structural, functional, and phenotypic data in order to predict the biological activity of compounds. Insilico's platforms incorporate new AI techniques such as Generative Adversarial Networks in order to generate novel compounds with desired pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties. As part of the agreement, Juvenescence Limited ("Juvenescence"), the parent company of Juvenescence AI, made a direct investment into Insilico to further advance Insilico's drug discovery platform and develop a set of companion multi-modal disease biomarkers.