Apple device users will soon be able to interact with apps using Siri instead of tapping the iPhone's screen. Apple will allow third-party apps to access Siri, the Cupertino, Calif. This means Siri will be able to do more than just answer questions and set reminders; one could, for instance, tell Siri to send a WeChat message or book an Uber ride. You'll also be able to search photos using your voice in apps like Shutterfly, says Apple. The announcement comes as companies like Amazon and Google are putting more emphasis on their own virtual assistants.

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2011 file photo, Todd Howard, center, of Bethesda Game Studios, is joined by members of his team as he accepts the award for game of the year for "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" at Spike TV's Video Game Awards in Culver City, Calif. The video game publisher announced plans at the Electronic Entertainment Expo on Sunday night to bring the demon-battling shooter "Doom" and post-apocalyptic role-playing game "Fallout 4" to virtual reality.

FILE - In this June 15, 2015 file photo, Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft's Xbox division and Microsoft Studios, opens the Xbox E3 2015 briefing ahead of the Electronic Entertainment Expo at the University of Southern California's Galen Center in Los Angeles. From virtual reality to the latest installments of "Gears of War" and "Battlefield," the newest hardware and software will be hyped by nearly 300 exhibitors at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the gaming industry's annual trade show kicks off Sunday, June 12, 2016.

Given an arbitrary dataset, you typically don't know which kernel may work best. I recommend starting with the simplest hypothesis space first -- given that you don't know much about your data -- and work your way up towards the more complex hypothesis spaces. So, the linear kernel works fine if your dataset if linearly separable; however, if your dataset isn't linearly separable, a linear kernel isn't going to cut it (almost in a literal sense;)). For simplicity (and visualization purposes), let's assume our dataset consists of 2 dimensions only. Now, it looks like both linear and RBF kernel SVM would work equally well on this dataset.

Apple is introducing more artificial intelligence to the iPhone and iPad, with devices now able to understand conversations and recognise faces in photos. The technology giant's virtual assistant Siri has been given a major update that now means it can use machine learning to predict words you plan to use in text conversations as well as find faces in your photo albums. Apple chief executive Tim Cook opened the keynote at the WWDC conference in San Francisco by paying tribute to the victims of the Orlando shootings, saying Apple offered its "deepest sympathies to everyone whose lives were touched by the violence". Apple chief executive Tim Cook speaks at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco. He then led a moment's silence before the event began.

'We found birds, especially songbirds and parrots, have surprisingly large numbers of neurons in their pallium, the part of the brain that corresponds to the cerebral cortex, which supports higher cognition function such as planning for the future or finding patterns,' said Professor Herculano-Houzel. 'That explains why they exhibit levels of cognition at least as complex as primates.' The connection between intelligence and neuron count has not been firmly established, but the experts say avian brains could provide birds with a much higher cognitive power than mammals. The study has also demonstrated that there is more than one way to build a larger brain. Previously, it had been thought as brains grew larger neurons had to grow bigger as well because they had to connect over longer distances.

Medical information is now doubling every two to five years, and the average person is expected to generate more than one million gigabytes of health-related data in their lifetime. This is driving the dawn of a new era of computing, where cognitive computing systems like Watson mine these data streams, understand complex questions posed in natural language and respond with evidence-based answers, predict outcomes and learn more with each interaction. Cognitive computing is enabling the dismantling of barriers between data, people and communities of care, and encouraging increased collaboration among researchers, health-care providers and technology experts. This paradigm is what's behind our vision for the recently announced collaboration with Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS). Together we're creating a new centre in downtown Hamilton focused on health-care innovation.

Bill Graham Civic Auditorium is the site of Apple's WWDC confeence (Photo: Edward C. Baig) SAN FRANCISCO -- To many of the folks keeping score, Apple was already behind rivals heading into its annual Worldwide Developers Conference here in San Francisco. In the hotbed fields of artificial intelligence, virtual reality and voice response, Apple has lagged Amazon, Google, and Facebook -- even though Apple's Siri was the first to familiarize most people with the idea of a vocal personal assistant. I'm sorry to say that Apple didn't say a peep about VR or AR (augmented reality) during what was a packed two-hour presentation. What the company did do -- and it really, it had little choice -- was give Siri more to do and to open her up to third-party developers. She pops up more on the watch, on Apple TV, in the car, and yes, finally, on the Mac.

Filmmaker Oscar Sharp pulled together a cast and crew for a day of filming. He had actors, including Thomas Middleditch from HBO's "Silicon Valley." He had a set, props and special effects. Most importantly, he had a script written by an artificial-intelligence neural network. And the finished product, "Sunspring," is exactly as weird as you'd expect.

Filmmaker Oscar Sharp pulled together a cast and crew for a day of filming. He had actors, including Thomas Middleditch from HBO's "Silicon Valley." He had a set, props and special effects. Most importantly, he had a script written by an artificial-intelligence neural network. And the finished product, "Sunpring," is exactly as weird as you'd expect.