At this moment there are a lot of new technologies that could have a massive impact on eCommerce. This is why Managers are having a difficult time to place the correct bet. For this reason, we have investigated Managers and Directors to navigate future eCommerce trends. We asked more than 60 carefully chosen managers from all around Europe. First, we asked them about their eCommerce investments last year.

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.

The age of the bot has begun. We just have barely begun to notice. It's only been 10 years, and smartphones have fundamentally changed our world, the bot revolution will come quicker, and have an even greater impact on us. The bots cometh in all shapes and sizes, hardware and software, automations and AI and robot fried and foe. But most likely our most common interaction with them in the very near future will be in the form of messenger/personal assistant and customer service bots.

When applied to the S&P 500 constituents from 1992 to 2015, their stock selections generated annual returns in the double digits--whereas the highest profits were made at times of financial turmoil. In March 2016, South Korean Lee Sedol, one of the best Go players in the world, lost to the AlphaGo computer program. It was a milestone in the history of artificial intelligence because up to that point the Asian board game had been considered too complex for computers. Behind successes such as this are programs that are modelled on biological systems and are constructed in a form similar to neural networks so that they can independently extract relationships from millions of data points. 'Artificial neural networks are primarily applied to problems, where solutions cannot be formulated with explicit rules,' explains Dr. Christopher Krauss of the Chair for Statistics and Econometrics at FAU. 'Image and speech recognition are typical fields of application, such as Apple's Siri.

What will shopping be like in 10 years? No one knows all the details (that's exciting!), but one thing is for sure: it will be very different than it is today. History is clear about that. In the mid-19th century, most people in the US were shopping at small markets. They would tell the manager what they wanted, and then wait for the item to be retrieved from the back or from the supplier.

Quantum science is still a relatively unknown area, yet with the help of machine learning, scientists are hoping to be on the threshold of a giant leap forward in the field. Scientists from the University of Bristol are working with researchers from Microsoft's Quantum Architectures and Computation Group, and others from the Eindhoven University of Technology, on quantum-enhanced machine learning technology to be used inside a quantum processor. They're hoping that it will allow them to find out more about quantum systems and get to the bottom of the mysterious realm on the very edge of science. One of the main reasons behind the use of machine learning is that traditional computer systems are simply not equipped to handle the heavy workload. According to the University of Bristol's website, the scientists have used something they refer to as a, "reprogrammable two-qubit silicon quantum photonic processor" – which sounds like something taken directly out of a science-fiction film – and "is characterised and certified with the use of a type of machine learning approach, called Bayesian inference".

Uber named Zoubin Ghahramani as its new chief scientist based in in San Francisco, the company announced. He will oversee Uber's AI Labs, its recently created machine learning and artificial intelligence research unit, and will lead AI/machine learning strategy companywide. Ghahramani joined Uber through its acquisition of Geometric Intelligence. He is a professor of information engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he leads a group of about 30 researchers. He was a founding member of the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit in London, one of the founding directors of the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data science, and a faculty member of Carnegie Mellon University's Machine Learning Department, among other accomplishments.

We talk about artificial intelligence (AI), robots, and machine learning as if they're coming soon, or are just some tech pipe dream. In fact, a special report from Bank of America, Merrill Lynch predicts the global market for AI and robots will be just under $153 billion by 2020, and some industries will experience up to a 30% productivity increase through the use of those technologies alone. That can either terrify you if you've seen too many sci-fi films, or excite you if you consider the upside and benefits it could yield. The reality probably lies somewhere in the middle. There will be disruption – there will be jobs and perhaps even whole industries that see massive displacement from robots and other "intelligent" machines. And that says nothing of the inherent risk associated with creating something capable of logical thinking without emotion. The robots may not rise up and exterminate humanity any time soon, but the development of true AI is closer than you think.

One of the biggest events in the tech calendar is set to take place later this month, with Samsung belatedly preparing to unveil its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8. It will launch alongside the Galaxy S8, a larger model that's expected to come with many of the same features and specifications. Here's everything you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy S8 ahead of its release. 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. Japan's On-Art Corp's CEO Kazuya Kanemaru poses with his company's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' and other robots during a demonstration in Tokyo, Japan Japan's On-Art Corp's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' performs during its unveiling in Tokyo, Japan Singulato Motors co-founder and CEO Shen Haiyin poses in his company's concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China A picture shows Singulato Motors' concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China Connected company president Shigeki Tomoyama addresses a press briefing as he elaborates on Toyota's "connected strategy" in Tokyo.

SAP Labs in India is the second largest R&D centre for the company after its centre in Walldorf in Germany and among the 3 hubs in SAP Labs network of 19 Labs across 16 countries. Dilipkumar Khandelwal, Managing Director for SAP Labs in India, has a dual role as he is also the Executive Vice President and Global Head of Enterprise Cloud Services for SAP. Edited excerpts: What is the SAP Lab's focus here? Do you focus more on the local needs to serve SAP India or do you essentially serve global needs? SAP Labs India was founded in 1998.