Police and prosecutors face a daunting task of identifying, managing and reviewing a veritable tsunami of digital evidence generated daily by officer bodycams, jail house calls, interrogation videos, dispatch calls and closed caption television, which stretches staffing capabilities and resources. Today, Vū Digital for Law Enforcement's A.I. capabilities deliver a robust and dynamic evidence management solution for law enforcement agencies worldwide. The layer recognizes and identifies events, keywords and sequences of words generated by Vū's automated tagging engine to tag and identify instances of significance, including confessions, identification of personal information and references to certain "trigger" words. "Data can exist without A.I., but not vice versa," said Wade Smith, vice president of operations for Vū Digital. "First, we create data where it otherwise didn't exist, then we apply an artificial intelligence layer to identify relevant events from the digital evidence. In the end, artificial intelligence is only as powerful as the data it considers."

Sarasota, Florida-based Revcontent, the fastest growing native ad network, has announced that it has acquired a machine learning company called Rover. Rover is known for developing advanced personalization and recommendation technology that will complement Revcontent's massive ad network. After the acquisition closes, Rover's offices in Sunnyvale, California will be turned into Revcontent's Silicon Valley headquarters. The terms of the acquisition were undisclosed, but the deal was reportedly valued at more than $30 million. Rover was founded by Jonathan Siddharth and Vijay Krishnan while the two of them were attending graduate school at Stanford University.

Amazon's digital assistant for the Echo and other devices officially has 10,000 skills, the company announced Thursday. The lucky 10,000th skill: Beat the Intro, a game that tests your ability to recognize songs. It joins a growing list of talents, including the ability to check your bank account, turn on your smart home lights and set you up with some sweet jams while you cook. "We've been blown away by the innovation and activity in the Alexa developer community," wrote David Isbitski, Amazon's "chief evangelist" for Alexa and Echo, in a blog post. The company said some of the highest-rated "skills" include interactive, voice-controlled games, like Jeopardy!, which turns Alexa into Alex Trebek.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced the launch of its latest premium application processor (AP), the Exynos 9 Series 8895. This is Samsung's first processor chipset to take advantage of the most advanced and industry leading 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology with improved 3D transistor structure, which allows up to 27% higher performance while consuming 40% less power when compared to 14nm technology. The new Exynos 9 Series 8895 is the first processor of its kind to embed a gigabit LTE modem that supports five carrier aggregation, or 5CA. It delivers fast and stable data throughput at max.1Gbps (Cat.16) The Exynos 8895 is an octa-core processor, comprising of four of Samsung's 2nd generation custom designed CPU cores for improved performance and power efficiency in addition to four Cortex -A53 cores.

Feedzai's technology is built using machine learning and artificial intelligence that adapts with the detection of new malicious threats at scale, helping business customers make data-backed decisions and de-risk commerce transactions in real-time. The Whitebox Explanations is a human-friendly semantic layer that helps analyst make informed decisions confidently. Feedzai is a data science company that offers software, which uses big data analysis and machine-based learning to prevent fraud in commerce. For more information about Feedzai, please check out a detailed profile of this company in our dedicated, industry-specific online company database. The MRC is a global trade association providing a platform for ecommerce fraud and payments professionals to come together and share information.

Amazon apparently won't be the only company offering drone delivery service: The United Postal Service could follow suit. UPS announced Tuesday it had successfully tested out a drone for residential delivery, a press release said. The company worked with Workhorse Group, a manufacturing company that created both the drone and the electric UPS car used to test the flight. The test drone successfully flew to its designated location, dropped off the package and then proceeded on its delivery route. The drone tested could carry up to 10 pounds.

It was one of those amazing "we're living in the future" moments. In an October 2013 press release, IBM declared that MD Anderson, the cancer center that is part of the University of Texas, "is using the IBM Watson cognitive computing system for its mission to eradicate cancer." Well, now that future is past. The partnership between IBM and one of the world's top cancer research institutions is falling apart. The project is on hold, MD Anderson confirms, and has been since late last year.

Episode Summary: One facet of business that nearly any industry has in common is the need to stay on top of news in their respective market, including competitor strategies or understanding changes in news related to the field. Media monitoring is a domain that machine learning (ML) is well suited for, with it's ability to coax out headlines, contextual information, and financial data from the seemingly endless stream of social, blog, and other information on the web today. Signal is a company that uses ML specifically for these purposes. In this episode, we speak with Signal's Chief Data Scientist and Co-founder Dr. Miguel Martinez, who dives into real business use cases illustrating the use of machine learning for media monitoring across industries. Brief Recognition: Dr. Miguel Martinez is chief data scientist at Signal, where he manages a team of data scientists to transform best algorithms from the fields of machine learning, information retrieval, and natural language processing into large-scale commercial products.

BENGALURU: Microsoft chief executive officer Satya Nadella said "an enlightened immigration policy" has enabled him to live the American dream, even as he emphasised that governments had the right to determine immigration and trade policies. "American values have always been about inclusion and diversity. It's a land of immigrants," said Nadella, who was born in Hyderabad and completed his bachelor's degree in engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology, before moving to the US in 1988. "American technology reaching me in India is what made it even possible to dream the dream. And then, the enlightened American immigration policy is what led me to live the dream. And I think those are things we will always advocate for... the American dream and the American enlightened immigration policy, especially for high-skilled workers, is something that I'm optimistic about," Nadella told ETin an interview.

Want to receive a weekly deep dive into all things auto, transportation, & logistics tech? Click here to subscribe to our auto tech newsletter. Private companies working in auto tech are on pace to attract record levels of deals and funding in 2016, with autonomous driving startups leading the charge. As expectations around self-driving vehicles have risen, major corporations have ramped up their own initiatives, racing to deploy technology onto public roads. Using CB Insights' investment, acquisition, and partnership data, we identified 33 corporate groups involved in the development of advanced driver assistance systems and self-driving vehicles. They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands. The list is organized alphabetically (companies working on industrial autonomous vehicles were not included in this analysis).