Thanks to both a range of demanding new applications, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and more, as well as a perceived threat to Moore's Law (which has "guided" the semiconductor industry for over 50 years to a state of staggering capability and complexity), we're starting to see an impressive range of new output from today's silicon designers. Entirely new chip designs, architectures and capabilities are coming from a wide array of key component players across the tech industry, including Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), AMD (NASDAQ:AMD), Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM), Micron (NASDAQ:MU) and ARM, as well as internal efforts from companies like Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Samsung (OTC:SSNLF), Huawei, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). It's a digital revival that many thought would never come. In fact, just a few years ago, there were many who were predicting the death, or at least serious weakening, of most major semiconductor players. Growth in many major hardware markets had started to slow, and there was a sense that improvements in semiconductor performance were reaching a point of diminishing returns, particularly in CPUs (central processing units), the most well-known type of chip.

Amazon said alcohol is now among tens of thousands of items available for Prime Now free two-hour delivery via an Alexa voice order. In what could be the highest, best use of voice recognition technology to a generation of digital natives, Amazon's digital assistant has added beer runs to its skills. Beginning Tuesday, Amazon Prime customers who have an Alexa-powered device, like the Echo speaker, can order beer, wine and spirits in Seattle, and beer and wine in Columbus and Cincinnati. Amazon will deliver the alcohol within two hours. Parents needn't worry: customers must show valid ID to receive the order.

On this new post series, we will analyze hundreds of thousands of articles from TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Recode to discover cool trends and insights about startups. These are the types of questions we aim to answer with this analysis. On this first post, we will cover how Scrapy can be used to get all the articles ever published on these tech news sites and how MonkeyLearn can be used for filtering these crawled articles by whether they are about startups or not. We want to create a dataset of startup news articles that can be used for studying trends later on. On the second post, we will create text classifiers that do analysis on the actual content of the startup articles. Is it a news about acquisition? Finally, on the third post we will use the data we got here, and the classifiers from the second post, to answer our questions.

SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced it was ranked as a leader in "The Forrester Wave: Predictive Analytics And Machine Learning Solutions, Q1 2017." According to Forrester, "SAP offers comprehensive data science tools to build models, but it is also the biggest enterprise application company on the planet. This puts SAP in a unique position to create tools that allow business users with no data science knowledge to use data-scientist-created models in applications. SAP's solution offers the data tools that enterprise data scientists expect, but it also offers distinguished automation tools to train models." A finding in the report is that the predictive analytics and machine learning (PAML) market is forecasted to experience a 15 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2021.*

Samsung has announced Bixby, its artificial intelligence assistant, ahead of the launch of the Galaxy S8. It's expected to be one of the phone's biggest new features, and Samsung hopes it will trigger an enormous shift in user behaviour. As has been rumoured, the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S8 will have a dedicated Bixby button, which users can push in order to launch the voice assistant. Bixby is designed to make Samsung's devices more "natural and intuitive" to use, according to the company. It will initially only work with a handful of pre-installed apps, but Samsung says it will support almost every task the app is capable of performing, entirely through spoken commands. 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.

Pope Francis has warned young people about their use of social media, urging them to create their own history and reject "false" depictions of reality. The Argentinian pontiff was recording a video message for World Youth Day, which takes places on 9 April. "Many people say that young people are distracted and superficial," he said. Still, we should acknowledge our need to reflect on our lives and direct them towards the future. "In the social media, we see faces of young people appearing in any number of pictures recounting more or less real events, but we don't know how much of all this is really'history', an experience that can be communicated and endowed with purpose and meaning."

Amazon has successfully conducted drone deliveries in England, but consumers across the Atlantic have yet to witness it in action – until now. The e-commerce giant showed off its Prime Air drone to the public during a conference in California by dropping off a box containing a bottle of sunscreen. The demonstration brings Amazon one-step closer to commercializing its service, which it said will deliver packages in 30 minutes or less by drones flying up to 50 miles per hour. The firm said its drones will deliver packages 30 minutes or less while flying at speeds of 50 mph. It is understood Amazon will use'highly automated' drones equip with GPS to locate the exact address.

Known as Information Warrior 17, it will take place between 26 March and 6 April in various locations in and around Scotland. It is intended to drive the development of cutting edge technology in the Navy, including artificial intelligence, to put the UK at the forefront of Information Warfare. It will also test the defensive capabilities of ships and submarines against cyber attacks, which are as real a threat in the modern age as traditional weapons like rockets, missiles, and torpedoes. Admiral Sir Philip Jones, First Sea Lord, said: "We are living in a data-driven age in which our adversaries are already exploiting the potential of Information Warfare, and we must respond in kind." The Royal Navy has expressed an interest in using AI technology to develop a "Ship's Mind" at the centre of its warships, enhancing efficiency and allowing for fast and complex decisions to be made automatically.

The Devon and Cornwall Police force is to become the first in the UK with a permanent, 24-hour drone assistance unit. The flying fuzz will be on hand to search for missing persons, seek out suspects and generally provide an eye in the sky whenever needed, gathering intel at crime scenes and responding to road accidents. The dedicated unit, which will also help out police in neighbouring Dorset, is set to launch this summer after a new "drone manager" is hired to oversee the nine sites the coppercopters will operate out of.

Is it a silly prank, a Pagan ritual, or a genius discovery about the next era of mass transit? In a picture posted to Flickr by artist James Bridle--known for coining the term, "New Aesthetic"--a car is sitting in the middle of a parking lot has been surrounded by a magic salt circle. In the language of road markings, the dotted white lines on the outside say, "Come On In," but the solid white line on the inside says, "Do Not Cross." To the car's built-in cameras, these are indomitable laws of magic: Petrificus Totalus for autonomous automobiles. Captioned simply, "Autonomous Trap 001," the scene evokes a world of narratives involving the much-hyped technology of self-driving cars.