Everyone is already expecting Samsung to announce the Galaxy Note 8 soon, but it looks like the South Korean phone maker will also be announcing a new app along with it. A recent report is claiming that Samsung is planning to release its very own news app that will be called News Today. Information on the new Samsung app was first reported by SamMobile, which cited "trusted sources." The app will not only provide the latest news articles, but it will also apparently be able to provide users with podcasts. It's believed that users will be able to subscribe to podcasters and channels, and they should also be able to search for podcasts as well.

The iPhone has a hole next to its rear camera lens. It's easy to miss because it's so small, and you might never have noticed it before, let alone wondered what it's for. However, the hole actually serves a very important purpose. It is, in fact, a microphone, one of three on the device. 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.

Imagine doing your morning workout with the help of a virtual personal assistant that instructs you while you are at it and even encourages you to do another lap so that you can meet your fitness goals. A product of Delhi-based Boltt Sports Technologies, B is powered by artificial intelligence. "We launched Boltt two years ago.Arnav Kishore was a professional tennis player and tech freak. We started with smart shoes that can track all biomechanical data," said Aayushi Kishore, 27, who cofounded Boltt with her 24-year-old brother Arnav two years ago. Their family runs Globalite Retail, a sport lifestyle brand.

If 2016 was the year artificial intelligence entered the general conversation, 2017 might be the year machine learning follows suit. SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner discussed it in a keynote earlier this year, plenty of other big names have announced ventures into the space, and a pair of industry analysts have published the first major book on the subject. The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible is the product of more than a year of research and reporting from Josh Sullivan and Angela Zutavern, SVP and VP, respectively, at Booz Allen Hamilton. The duo founded a data science practice back in 2011 -- they originally focused on cloud analytics -- and have evolved since then to jump into perhaps the hottest tech topic today. Before we go any further, a short note: Machine learning and artificial intelligence are, for the record, very different areas.

Like it or loathe it, being an entrepreneur means a lot of talking. Whether it's chatting at networking events, pitching to investors, selling your product to customers or explaining it to journalists, talking is a big part of what you sign up for. "Talking is the way you represent your brand; it's the way you build credibility in what you're doing," says Danish Dhamani, co-founder of Orai, an app that claims to make you a better public speaker. But talking – or rather, public speaking – wasn't something that came naturally to either Dhamani or business partner Paritosh Gupta. The pair met in their first year at university in Philadelphia, where they are still based.

As an artificial intelligence researcher, I often come across the idea that many people are afraid of what AI might bring. It's perhaps unsurprising, given both history and the entertainment industry, that we might be afraid of a cybernetic takeover that forces us to live locked away, "Matrix"-like, as some sort of human battery. And yet it is hard for me to look up from the evolutionary computer models I use to develop AI, to think about how the innocent virtual creatures on my screen might become the monsters of the future. Might I become "the destroyer of worlds," as Oppenheimer lamented after spearheading the construction of the first nuclear bomb? I would take the fame, I suppose, but perhaps the critics are right. Maybe I shouldn't avoid asking: As an AI expert, what do I fear about artificial intelligence?

Alibaba (BABA) is charting a way to push the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in diagnostics and healthcare to make medical treatment more accessible, timely, and affordable. Alibaba Cloud is actively working on AI-powered solutions to tackle heath care problems in China and globally. Here's a look at Alibaba's efforts to bring AI to the healthcare arena and why this exercise matters. The World Health Organization database reveals that the world's most populous nation, China, has a shortage of physicians with only 1.49 doctors available for every 1,000 people, lower than 2.55 in the U.S., 2.8 in the UK, and 3.37 in Australia. There is a further shortage of specialist doctors (such as radiologists and oncologists) despite the huge workload; such mismatches increase the chances of misdiagnosis and wrong treatment.

With cars becoming more connected and autonomous, cybersecurity is a constant worry for automakers. They dread the likelihood of intrusions into the connected car from hackers, terrorists, extortionists, and thieves (see "Your Future Self-Driving Car Will Be Way More Hackable")--not to mention the random 12-year-old with mischief in mind. Apprehensions about automotive cybersecurity came to a head when a pair of white-hat hackers broke into a Jeep Cherokee in 2015, leading to the recall of 1.4 million vehicles by Chrysler Fiat to fix a software bug in the Uconnect infotainment system (see "Carmakers Accelerate Security Efforts after Hacking Stunts"). Cars represent a fundamentally different sort of security challenge from laptops, servers, or mobile phones, in which corruption or theft of data is the hacker's objective. A cyber-attack on a moving vehicle may create a deadly safety hazard, and conventional antihacking software could be too slow or ineffective to avert an incident.

It's perhaps unsurprising, given both history and the entertainment industry, that we might be afraid of a cybernetic takeover that forces us to live locked away, "Matrix"-like, as some sort of human battery. And yet it is hard for me to look up from the evolutionary computer models I use to develop AI, to think about how the innocent virtual creatures on my screen might become the monsters of the future. Might I become "the destroyer of worlds," as Oppenheimer lamented after spearheading the construction of the first nuclear bomb? I would take the fame, I suppose, but perhaps the critics are right. Maybe I shouldn't avoid asking: As an AI expert, what do I fear about artificial intelligence?

As China's power and influence in science and technology keeps growing, a backflow of overseas elites in the AI field has become a general trend. Competition in the new round of talent in the artificial intelligence (AI) field is now tooth and nail. "Our data shows annual growth in students with an overseas AI educational background who return to China after graduation of over 14 percent, while those who have worked overseas, but choose to come back is 10 percent. In other words, more experienced talents come back to China," said Wang Di, vice president of Technology at LinkedIn China to Yicai Global. Since the entire market lacks AI talents, talents will flow from the place creating less value to places with larger value," said Song Jiqiang, president of Intel Labs China, in an interview with Yicai Global, Unexpectedly, the Chinese AI talents are not as'academic' as imagined. By 2010, about 10 percent of workers in AI field in China had formerly worked in universities or research institutions, and over half of them later migrated to enterprises. In contrast to China, the proportion of AI workers in the US who have worked in universities or research institutions is over 25 percent. "Now we are in the early stage of AI, and AI masters are rare.