Children today have grown up with the Internet being an integral part of their lives. Babies use tablets to swipe through games and interactive programs. Toddlers can navigate apps on a smartphone. By the time children hit middle school, technology is a natural part of their everyday life, both in school and at home. And of course, their grasp on technological concepts comes, in some cases, faster for them than for their parents. How do you explain a concept like contextual search to a 12-year-old girl or boy?

We are the market leader in providing service assurance for large service providers around the world and large enterprises. Before, it took them four months, four to five months, between the moment the process starts where we have the big sales targets and the time the sales rep in every country receives the letter that tells him, okay you need to sell this product with this discount -- four to five months. So we're at the very early days of narrow applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence. I think that what you're going to find is that in any kind of specific category where you can frame a problem you can bring predictive algorithms; you can bring machine learning; you can bring neural networking.

Neville Marriner, the first music director of the L.A. Chamber Orchestra and the founder of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra in London, died Sunday night, the academy said. Millions of moviegoers who may not recognize Marriner's name have nonetheless been touched by his work: He served as music supervisor for the film version of "Amadeus" and conducted the soundtrack, which went on to be one of the bestselling classical recordings of all time. Born April 15,1924, in Lincoln, England, Marriner studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire. He began his career as a violinist, eventually playing in the London Symphony Orchestra. Later, what started as a group of friends gathering to rehearse in Marriner's living room became the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, a premier chamber ensemble that gave its first performance in its namesake London church in 1959.

Barely a day goes by without a story taking the internet by storm about the use of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Machine Learning and Big Data, how these technologies will impact marketing, advertising agencies and nearly every type of company and industry. What's lesser discussed, is why these technologies are gaining so much traction. Digerati sat down with technology observer Cami Rosso to ask why, and why now. What do you think is driving this interest in A.I., Big Data and Machine Leaning? One aspect of this demand is that machine learning has quickly become the new'must-have' capability for forward-thinking software providers, principally because Machine Learning, a subset of A.I., enables computers to learn without hard-coding.

STOCKHOLM – It is serendipity: from America to Viagra, history is full of great discoveries helped along by chance, as more than a century of Nobel prizes can attest. Among the chance discoveries that have been honored with the prestigious prize are X-rays (physics, 1901), penicillin (medicine, 1945), fullerenes that paved the way for nanotechnology (chemistry, 1996), conductive polymers (chemistry, 2000), and the bacteria responsible for ulcers (medicine, 2005). But, as the father of pasteurization Louis Pasteur noted in 1854, "In the fields of observation, chance only favors the prepared mind" -- a remark made in reference to the discovery of the link between electricity and magnetism by Danish scientist Hans Christian Orsted. Orsted happened to notice that a compass needle deflected from magnetic north when an electric current from a battery was switched on and off -- a pioneering discovery in electromagnetism. Like Pasteur, Dutch scientist Pek Van Andel also believes in the unexpected.

Will artificial intelligence replace humans, or assist humans? We'll see this debate play out over and over, from the Westworld HBO television show that begins on Sunday to tech events that happen every week in the valley. I recently moderated a debate about artificial intelligence in the CEO suite at the NetEvents Global Press & Analyst Summit at the beautiful Mountain Winery in Saratoga, Calif. A.I. is on an accelerated improvement path. Deep learning neural networks have made huge progress in the last five years. We're seeing improvements in tech such as voice recognition, face recognition, autonomous cars are coming. So the question is, will we have The Terminator and Skynet? Or Minority Report, where Tom Cruise is aided by all the computers that he needs? Science fiction has taught us to distrust A.I. and to believe in human intuition, instead. But what happens in the CEO suite?

Media attending the event included BBC News, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Financial Times, Ars Technica and more. News coverage focused on a range of topics, exploring advancements in robotics, chatbot personalities, machine vision for understanding differences in language and culture, as well as startup acquisitions and funding. We've shared just a few of the great articles from the summit below. Why Data is the New Coal - The Guardian Deep learning needs to become more efficient if it is going to move from using data to categorise images of cats to diagnosing rare illnesses. Alex Hern reports on revelations in this area from speaker Neil Lawrence, the newly appointed Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon.

Josh Fischel, the founder of last weekend's inaugural Music Tastes Good Festival in Long Beach, died Thursday afternoon of liver disease, according to festival organizers. The news came as a shock to the Long Beach and Southern California music communities, who just days ago saw Fischel overseeing the culmination of a life's work in local music. Though family and festival organizers knew he had been sick, no one knew how rapidly his disease would progress after the festival. Music Tastes Good was a three-day event in downtown Long Beach headlined by the likes of the Specials, Warpaint and the Squeeze, among many others. "He couldn't go more than a few feet in his golf cart without somebody stopping him to say'Hey, Josh!' " said Jon Halperin, the talent buyer and co-promoter of Music Tastes Good.

When it comes to sex tapes, Donald Trump clearly doesn't get it. And that seems downright un-American. While abusing former Miss Universe Alicia Machado during an early-morning tweet, the Republican nominee for president of the United States called her "disgusting" and encouraged followers to look into her past, which, he said, included a "sex tape." Machado, for those not following the news cycle, is the beauty queen Trump previously berated for gaining weight and called "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeping." She since has become an American citizen and a vocal supporter of Hillary Clinton, who told her story at the first presidential debate.

Will "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" have a fairy-tale ending at the box office? While its final chapter has yet to be written, Tim Burton's fantasy film is earning pretty good grades at the multiplex so far. The picture about a group of extraordinary children collected 9 million on Friday, according to an estimate from distributor 20th Century Fox. That means the movie is on track to gross around 27 million by weekend's end -- a so-so start, considering the picture cost the studio 110 million to make. The weekend's other big debut, "Deepwater Horizon," lagged slightly behind in ticket sales Friday, with 7.1 million.