Ring founder Jamie Siminoff tells Jefferson Graham how his video doorbell and companion products spook burglars and help curb crime, on #TalkingTech. The video doorbell, out since 2013, has expanded into a suite of products that also include new motion detection lights with companion camera (new), a standalone security camera and chimes to bring traditional audio to the doorbell. The added inventory helped push the company to sales that more than doubled in 2016. Ring founder and chief inventor Jamie Siminoff has positioned the company as a tech Batman, a product that can help keep the burglars away. The Ring doorbell connects to Wi-fi, and when it's rung, you get a notification on your phone that allows you to see who's out there, and say "Who's at the door?" from inside the house, at work, or even on vacation.

Amazon's Alexa is now your personal butler at the Wynn hotel in Las Vegas. Self-learning software developed by Google defeated the world's best player of the highly complex Chinese strategy game Go. IBM's Watson saved the life of a woman in Japan by correctly diagnosing her with a rare form of cancer that doctors missed. We are rapidly approaching an inflection point in human history where artificial intelligence will exceed human intelligence, and debates about humans vs. machines have become part of our common vernacular. How can we prepare our next generation of students to compete?

We were fascinated by the possibility of generating new and non-existent but realistic images using conditional adversarial neural networks that remembers a certain set of features from what it has seen in the past; the same process that we humans undergo when we dream. Taking inspiration from the given examples, we applied a pre-defined color scheme to geographic data (OpenStreetMap) using Mapbox Studio: roads, green spaces, buildings, water were styled with different colours (black, green, red, blue), so that the neural network (NN) could compare these to aerial images and learn the correspondence between them. We then used vvvv as a tool to collect both satellite imagery and the associated labeled map tiles. We trained a conditional generative adversarial network, using pix2pix to reconstruct the satellite imagery from its map tiles. The sample below on the right shows the reconstructed sattelite image of the given map tile, closely resembling to the original on the left.

After the Note 7 debacle, the pressure will be on Samsung when it launches is eagerly-anticipated Galaxy S8 smartphone Wednesday. Last year the South Korean tech giant's launch of the Note 7 smartphone quickly degenerated into a PR nightmare of epic proportions. Forced to end production of the troubled phone following users' reports that the phones were catching fire or exploding, Samsung is now working to rebuild its smartphone brand. The company is also in the spotlight in South Korea after its chief Jay Y. Lee and four former and current Samsung executives were indicted on corruption charges earlier this year. "This is kind of a make or break moment for Samsung – not only was [the Note 7] a failure and a big black eye for Samsung, but they have also had this ongoing legal trouble with the highest levels of the Korean government," Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates, told Fox News.

The United States has repeatedly attacked AQAP, the Yemeni arm of the militant group, in strikes this month from aircraft and unmanned drones in what U.S officials says is a campaign to degrade the group's ability to coordinate militant attacks abroad.

Information technology (IT) advances are transforming the way we innovate in business, thereby disrupting the old guard and their predictable status-quo. Industries are converging, and new opportunities and threats are emerging, like never before. So, how are savvy chief information officers (CIOs) leading this transition? Back in 2015, the IBM Institute for Business Value conducted a market study that included the findings from over 1,800 CIO interviews from around the globe. The resulting insights are worthy of revisiting today, as we consider the digital business transformation outlook in 2017.

Home robots have been lurking on the horizon for years. BIG-i is NXROBO's most recent contribution to this industry, a home robot which can interact with family members and smart appliances. The robot uses a custom operating system designed by NXROBO to analyze voice commands and visual cues. The robot, which currently only speaks English and Mandarin, is programmed through if-this-then-that style voice commands. For example, parents can define different conditional situations like "If you see Tommy grabbing food, remind him to wash his hands".

FILE - In this April 6, 2016, file photo, Iranian students prepare their robots during the international robotics competition, RoboCup Iran Open 2016, in Tehran, Iran. Universities in the U.S. say President Donald Trump's revised travel ban would block hundreds of graduate students who play key roles in research. Twenty-five of America's largest universities told The Associated Press they've sent acceptance letters to more than 500 students from the six banned countries for next fall, mostly from Iran, who are known for their strength in engineering and sciences.

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Twitter has quietly started blocking certain words on the platform's built-in search engine. Words such as'porn', 'nsfw', 'sex' and similar terms will no longer appear when searched under'Latest' tab – but, racial slurs and the word'jihad' have not been removed. Although Twitter has blocked these words from being found in the Latest tab, users can still find some of the'forbidden' terms by searching in the'Top' tab. Twitter has quietly started blocking certain words on the platform's built-in search engine. Words such as'porn', 'nsfw', 'sex' and similar terms will no longer appear when searched under'Latest' tab Twitter says it'prohibits the promotion of hate content, sensitive topics, and violence globally.' But this policy does not apply to news and information that calls attention to hate, sensitive topics, or violence, but does not advocate for it.