Exari, the leading provider of enterprise contract management software, announced today that together with IACCM it will host a live and complimentary webinar titled "An Artificial Intelligence Survival Guide for Contracts Professionals," on Tuesday February 28, from 11:00AM to 12:00PM Eastern Standard Time. The webinar will offer expert advice from Jamie Wodetzki, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Exari and Tim Cummins, CEO of IACCM. Interested professionals can register for the webinar here. "We are in a golden age of machine learning," said Jamie Wodetzki. "Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming our daily lives and our professional careers. AI has entered into the contract management space and is already giving us new and different ways to explore key facets of contract documents."

Last year, Huawei leapfrogged a couple of fellow Chinese hardware companies to secure its spot as the third largest smartphone maker worldwide. As the company takes aim at the number two spot, it's apparently working to differentiate itself even more from the competition by developing more proprietary tech, adding to a list of components that already includes its own in-house chips. According to a new report from Bloomberg, a smart assistant is the next step. The company is said to be hard at work on a Siri/Alexa/Google Assistant competitor, employing a team of more than 100 people tasked with its creation in Shenzhen. If true, the company would join Samsung in a growing list of Android handset makers opting not to go with Google's assistant – though the Galaxy maker sped up the process a bit with its recent acquisition of Viv Labs.

Artillery is no longer the King of War. Information technology has transformed the modern battlefield at sea, in the air and on land, and it is arguably the new King of War. In April the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) will help to demonstrate this as part of the Royal Navy led Information Warrior exercise. Information Warrior builds on the impressive success of last year's Unmanned Warrior exercise. It focuses is on how information can be used offensively and defensively to give the UK's armed forces a battle winning advantage.

The report "Drone Software Market by Architecture (Open Source, Closed Source), Offering (App-Based Software, Desktop Software), Application (Control & Data Capture, Image Processing, Analytics), Platform, and Region - Global Forecast to 2022", published by MarketsandMarkets, the market is estimated to be USD 2.85 Billion in 2016 and is projected to reach USD 12.33 Billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 27.63% during the forecast period. Browse83 market data Tables and42 Figures spread through 135 Pages and in-depth TOC on"Drone Software Market" PRnewswire&utm_medium Referral&utm_campaign PaidPR ] Early buyers will receive 10% customization on this report. The key factors expected to fuel the growth of the drone software market include increasing investments and the rising use of drones in commercial and military applications. Based on architecture, the open source segment is expected to dominate the market. Open source software are available freely and many companies are opting for open source software.

This is exactly what Qzone, one of China's largest online social network platforms owned by Tencent, YouTu Lab, an AI research lab under Tencent focusing on machine learning, and Vipshop Holdings Limited, China's leading online discount retailer for brands, have joined hands to accomplish. The three platforms have produced a new AI powered report that reveals the fashion preferences of China's "post-95" generation in terms of most popular colors, fabrics and patterns and inspired a new collection by famous Chinese designer Chi Zhang, named Designer of the year by Esquire China, to be launched at New York Fashion Week 2017. This is the first time that AI technology has been leveraged to identify fashion trends to guide the design of a major new collection for presentation at New York Fashion Week. By applying facial recognition technology to big data aggregated on Tencent's Qzone platform, YouTu Lab's algorithm identified the ages of "post-95" users accurately within three years. In order to analyze fashion preferences, the AI-powered technology was able to distinguish users' clothing from a multitude of varied backgrounds with 95% accuracy.

Today, ZestFinance announced the Zest Automated Machine Learning (ZAML) Platform for credit underwriting. ZAML enables lenders to analyze vast amounts of non-traditional credit data to increase approval rates and reduce the risk of credit decisions, particularly for thin-file and no-file borrowers like millennials. The platform also provides the ability to explain data modeling results to measure business impact and comply with regulatory requirements. The ZAML Platform is available today. Financial institutions, including banks, credit card issuers, auto financiers, and others, are under competitive pressure to increase revenues while managing risk and ensuring compliance.

Otto's California Truck Testing May Depend on Whether Drivers Keep a Foot on the Accelerator or Not When Otto first began testing its technology in California last year, a co-founder of the company sought to assure regulators it was developing driver-assistance systems on the state's public roads and not self-driving semi trucks. Otto, which hopes to develop fully self-driving trucks, would not be required to obtain an autonomous-testing permit from the state if it was only testing driver-assistance features. But it would be Read More ... Places: Americas North America United States West Pacific California Why is Ford investing $1 billion over five years in a Pittsburgh startup called Argo AI? It's looking to gain an edge in self-driving car technology in the four-year countdown to 2021. That's when Ford has said it will be shipping cars with autonomous driving. Several other automakers said in 2016 they'd have self-driving cars within five years, too.

MIT announced today that it's developed a speech recognition chip capable of real world power savings of between 90 and 99 percent over existing technologies. Voice technology has, of course, become nearly ubiquitous in mobile devices, thanks to the exponential growth of smart assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google Home – but the new chip could help branch out in much simpler electronics. The team gives IoT devices a potential use case – devices designed to go months on end without charging or changing batteries. Speech input will become a natural interface for many wearable applications and intelligent devices. The miniaturization of these devices will require a different interface than touch or keyboard.

Up, up and away: Dubai hopes to have a passenger-carrying drone regularly buzzing through the skyline of this futuristic city-state in July. The arrival of the Chinese-made EHang 184 -- which already has had its flying debut over Dubai's iconic, sail-shaped Burj al-Arab skyscraper hotel -- comes as the Emirati city also has partnered with other cutting-edge technology companies, including Hyperloop One. The question is whether the egg-shaped, four-legged craft will really take off as a transportation alternative in this car-clogged city already home to the world's longest driverless metro line. Mattar al-Tayer, the head of Dubai's Roads & Transportation Agency, announced plans to have the craft regularly flying at the World Government Summit. Before his remarks on Monday, most treated the four-legged, eight-propeller craft as just another curiosity at an event that views itself as a desert Davos.

SEOUL: Hyundai Motor Group has hired a former General Motors researcher to oversee its centre to develop fully autonomous vehicles, joining other automakers and Silicon Valley giants in accelerating efforts on the fast-growing technology. Lee Jin-woo, 47, who has previously led autonomous driving technology development at General Motors (GM) for more than a decade, will head the newly established Intelligent Safety Technology Centre – a combined research body for Hyundai Motor and its affiliate Kia Motors – starting on Feb 13. "The new centre will not only enhance existing Advanced Drive Assistance System technologies but also conduct research into artificial intelligence related self-driving car technologies with the aim of commercializing those technologies," Hyundai Motor said in a statement on Feb 13. Hyundai Motor and Kia, together the world's fifth-largest automaker, aim to develop highly automated vehicles by 2020 and fully autonomous vehicles by 2030. However, experts say Hyundai needs to do more to catch up with rivals in the self-driving car race. Earlier, Ford Motor Co announced plans to invest US$1bil (RM4.44bil) over the next five years in autonomous vehicle tech firm Argo AI, while GM made a billion-dollar bet a year ago with its acquisition of Silicon Valley self-driving startup Cruise Automation.