Content: A key element for connectivity The proposed USD 85.4 billion AT&T-Time Warner mega-merger highlights the value of content for telco growth, and it could have regulatory and business implications for connectivity in emerging markets. Meanwhile, Hooq's 2017 expansion into Malaysia and Vietnam highlights the power of locally relevant content as Netflix continues to face tough competition in the region. Maybe Netflix's new content strategy will help? And Canada is leading a local content charge of its own. The rapidly growing Chinese Internet giant Tencent's entrance into the global AI race comes as China's top search engine, Baidu recently reaffirmed that AI will be key to its future growth. Meanwhile, a new study finds China to be a close second to the U.S. in terms of the number of AI studies presented at top academic conferences in 2015.

After attending this year's IBM World of Watson event in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, I was both stunned and overwhelmed by the advancements in artificial intelligence and cognitive. I have written about IBM and Watson several times over the last few years, but this year seems to be it's coming out party. I remember when Watson was a contestant on the TV game show "Jeopardy." It has grown leap years in the last five years. What we think we know about AI mostly comes from the movies, TV and sci-fi, and it has been with us for quite a while.

With the beginning of the tech era, millennial tech entrepreneurs have given big established companies numerous reasons to be scared of them. While big companies work to satisfy their clients and compliment the projects assigned to them, the young entrepreneurs are working to solve a different kind of problems they themselves have gone through. Concentrating on millennial tech entrepreneurs, the young heads are working to solve technically low backgrounds of their countries and helping the local vendors to put their business forward by providing them software, applications, and platforms to showcase their products. That is the reason why Flipkart CEO SachinBansal and Brainscape CEO Andrew Cohen have grown to be millionaires in no time. Seeing the fast-growing profits of the startups, the big companies are trying well to copy unique traits of millennial entrepreneurs and their work ethics to double up their profits.

How does Santa get around the world? Research says Einstein'stheory of relativity means Santa would shrinks in size Also calculated that Father Christmas's cruising speed is 10million KM per hour Santa's speed means he could appear as a green flash as his sleigh flies by Research says Einstein'stheory of relativity means Santa would shrinks in size Also calculated that Father Christmas's cruising speed is 10million KM per hour Santa's speed means he could appear as a green flash as his sleigh flies by Two Secret Santas pay off more than $166,000 in layaway... Santa's little helpers! Two Secret Santas pay off more than $166,000 in layaway... Santa's little helpers! Dr Katy Sheen, from Exeter University, explains that Einstein's theory of relativity could be used to explain Santa Claus's trip to the home of every child on Christmas Eve According to Einstein's theory (E MC2), pictured here, objects travelling at high speed become compressed in size Watch woman get dragged off jet by police in Detroit'Scumbag unions': Chants outside Brighton rail station'We talked about life': Trump and Kanye discuss surprise meet Impressive fireball lights up Spain's Costa del Sol night sky Drag race ends in Lamborghini crashing into other cars Feliks Zemdegs breaks Rubik's cube speed-solving world record Trash is dumped on woman's door step after she fails to pay Brave 12-year-old punches armed robber in the stomach Syria: Footage emerges of Russian special forces'fighting ISIS' Horrifying moment woman is kicked down the stairs by stranger Documentary director attacked by gang of immigrants in Stockholm Hunters forced to shoot a wild bear dead as it charges towards them'We talked about life': Trump and Kanye discuss surprise meet Trash is dumped on woman's door step after she fails to pay Syria: Footage emerges of Russian special forces'fighting ISIS' Kanye 2024: Rapper makes VIP trip to Trump Tower to meet... Growing Pains star Alan Thicke, 69, dies suddenly after... Shocking moment a woman was physically dragged off a Delta... 'I can't feel anything Meg. I love you so much': Groom is... Prince Harry and Meghan Markle buy £60 Christmas tree in... Mother-of-two who let her paralyzed husband get eaten alive... Bill Cosby's lawyer gets in a screaming match with the DA...

When Steve Mahan was a kid in the 1960s, his mother would sometimes wake him in the early hours of the morning to watch the hours of television coverage preceding the launch of the Mercury space missions. "We would hear about all of the preparations, all of the technology, everything that led up to these moments," Mahan says. "And then we would count down'till you finally got to zero and ignition, and one of those rockets begins bellowing fire and smoke, and slowly begins to creep away from the grapples. Now 63 and having lost his sight, Mahan has become one of those capsule-bound explorers. In October 2015, he became the first member of the public to ride in Google's self-driving pod-like prototype, alone and on public roads.

On the heels of a mostly positive jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) (4.6% unemployment is the lowest it's been in nine years), the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) released a more sobering snapshot of the world of work. A briefing by MGI director James Manyika, compiled from the company's extensive research, took a deeper dive into employment numbers. In the United States and the 15 core European Union countries (E.U.-15), there are 285 million adults who are not in the labor force--and at least 100 million of them would like to work more. Some 30% to 45% of the working-age population around the world is underutilized--that is, unemployed, inactive, or underemployed. Manyika says that unemployment figures typically get the most attention at the expense of those who are underemployed.

One of the most pressing questions Silicon Valley leaders will want answered at their Wednesday meeting with President-elect Donald Trump is whether his administration will clamp down on the immigration policies that technology companies have come to rely on. You only have to look at the executive boards of some of the world's fastest growing companies to see the contribution immigrants have made. According to a study by the National Foundation for American Policy, immigrants founded more than half (51%) of the current crop of US-based startups valued at more than $1bn. All of this could be under threat if we are to take some of the comments the Trump campaign made in the run-up to the election at face value. The outspoken candidate claimed that Mark Zuckerberg's push for specialist H1B visas (the main visa used to hire foreign talent to tech companies) was a threat to jobs for American women and minorities.

Britain is "languishing in the digital slow lane" with 4G connectivity lagging behind the networks of countries like Romania, Albania, Panama and Peru, according to the Government's official infrastructure advisers. Market provision of mobile services has left too many "digital deserts" and "not spots" where users cannot get 4G signals, even within major city centres, the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) found. It called on the Government to step in to ensure that basic talk, text and data services are available to all Britons, wherever they live, work and travel, and to make the country ready for next-generation 5G communications. The NIC was asked in March to advise ministers on how the UK can become a "world leader" in the deployment of 5G, which potentially offers ultra-fast, ultra-reliable, ultra-high capacity seamless connectivity to support future technologies like augmented reality, connected vehicles and the "Internet of things". London has UK's best 4G coverage, but slowest speeds But the Commission found that there was still much work to be done to haul the UK out of its 54th position in global rankings for 4G, with typical users able to access the service only 53% of the time.

A shoe that intensifies your running gait, wristbands that tracks and logs your day-to-day actions wirelessly and an AI-backed cellular utility that displays quite a lot of well being-related information – these are only a few inventions spawned by way of advances in wearable expertise by Delhi-based totally Boltt – and The Corporate is best getting started. "We create services that empower individuals to are living higher and more fit," says co-founder of the wearable tech company, Arnav Kishore. "From improving fitness scientifically to tracking and furthering health objectives, our platform will cling a replicate to users' health in a complete new way," he provides. The soon-to-launch range of wearables by means of Boltt makes use of desktop finding out algorithms, cognitive computing and AI to analyse lifestyle patterns of users and convert their job knowledge into actionable insights. "The Boltt machine is powered through an in-constructed AI health assistant that provides audio remarks on actual-time activities," says co-founding father of the wearable AI health startup, Aayushi Kishore.

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