SAN FRANCISCO, June 9 (Reuters) - Apple Inc announced a series of long-awaited enhancements to its App Store on Wednesday, but the new features may not ease concerns of developers and analysts who say that the App Store model - and the very idea of the single-purpose app - has seen its best days. The revamped App Store will let developers advertise their wares in search results and give developers a bigger cut of revenues on subscription apps, while Apple said it has already dramatically sped up its app-approval process. The goal is to sustain the virtuous cycle at the heart of the hugely lucrative iPhone business. Software developers make apps for the iPhone because its customers are willing to pay, and those customers, in turn, pay a premium for the device because it has the best apps. The store is now more strategically important than ever for Apple as sales of the iPhone begin to level off and the company looks to software and services to fill the gap.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc announced a series of long-awaited enhancements to its App Store on Wednesday, but the new features may not ease concerns of developers and analysts who say that the App Store model - and the very idea of the single-purpose app - has seen its best days. The revamped App Store will let developers advertise their wares in search results and give developers a bigger cut of revenues on subscription apps, while Apple said it has already dramatically sped up its app-approval process. The goal is to sustain the virtuous cycle at the heart of the hugely lucrative iPhone business. Software developers make apps for the iPhone because its customers are willing to pay, and those customers, in turn, pay a premium for the device because it has the best apps. The store is now more strategically important than ever for Apple as sales of the iPhone begin to level off and the company looks to software and services to fill the gap.

Norwalk, Conn.--June 8, 2016-- TMC announced today the conference program for the Smart Machine Conference, held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV from July 11 – 14, 2016. The Smart Machines conference is dedicated to exploring the business advantages of technologies like AI, Autonomous Robots, Chat bots, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Cloud, Big Data, Virtual Reality Assistants and so much more. The conference program includes keynotes, case studies, networking opportunities and a robust exhibit floor. "The smart machine revolution is here and disrupting society as a whole whether it's fraud detection powered by machine learning, customer service chat bots or a champion chess playing computer," said TMC's CEO, Rich Tehrani, the conference's Executive Producer. "At the Smart Machine Conference attendees will learn the competitive advantages of these technologies and what the industry's future holds."

Wix.com Inc, the creator of a cloud-based web development platform, has announced that it will be offering a new web design tool called Wix ADI (Artificial Design Intelligence), which the company says is capable of building websites tailored to individual users. The new tool works by pulling in curated layouts, images, text, forms, and other website features that Wix says will be customized to the needs of each user. In a release, Wix said that its AI has built its algorithms based on 86 million users, and the company said the Wix ADI will "ensure every website design will be stunning and complete." "Wix ADI is the world's first technology platform that combines website design and content creation with artificial intelligence to enable complete websites to be created in a matter of minutes," said Avishai Abrahami, Co-Founder and CEO of Wix. "Building a professional and complete website is the first step in getting online, and while Wix today makes it easy, challenges still exist. With Wix ADI, we solve these challenges, getting businesses online with a fully functioning, stunning website easier and faster than ever. Technology innovation is Wix's core competency, and for nearly a decade, small businesses have relied on Wix not only to build websites but also to manage and grow their businesses online."

CrowdFlower, the essential human-in-the-loop platform for data science teams, today announced its recent 10M venture funding. The investment round was led by Canvas Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Microsoft. The capital will be used to fuel the adoption of CrowdFlower AI which combines training data, machine learning and human-in-the-loop in a single platform. "We've seen companies like Tesla and Uber build large data science teams and adopt AI and machine learning to solve billion dollar problems like driverless cars," said Lukas Biewald, founder and chief executive officer at CrowdFlower. "But we wanted to bring AI and machine learning within the reach of every business to attack million dollar problems such as classifying customer support tickets or generating customer insights from social data. With CrowdFlower AI, companies can now easily deploy machine learning models that are commercially viable at a much lower price point."

Three early-career engineers who are making a big difference in three very different areas of technology are to receive the Royal Academy's prestigious Silver Medal at the Academy Awards Dinner at the Tower of London on Thursday 23 June 2016. The Silver Medal celebrates outstanding personal contributions to UK engineering, which has resulted in successful market exploitation. Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FREng FRS, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, says: "Damian Gardiner, Demis Hassabis and Tong Sun have all demonstrated the power of use-inspired research in taking ideas they have developed in academia and applying them to solve real-world problems. They are working with colleagues all over the world and making an enormous impact early in their careers that is both enriching academic knowledge and generating real economic benefit for the UK." Dr Damian Gardiner is taking the world of product authentication by storm, with his Cambridge University start-up company ilumink Limited acquired by Johnson Matthey's Process Technologies Division in 2015. They were keen to adopt his unique method of printing'liquid crystal' material onto any surface using an ink-jet printer.

OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In this A.M.BestTV episode, Neil Jacobstein, artificial intelligence and robotics co-chair, Singularity University, predicts a wave of change as web-based insurance competitors use intelligent automated systems to address risk in new ways. Click on http://www.ambest.com/v.asp?v jacobstein516 to view the entire program. "The insurance industry has been using artificial intelligence for over three decades," said Jacobstein. "They've used it in different forms, and it's gotten better and better. The underlying technology is now quite sophisticated but it's used actually throughout the industry." Jacobstein also believes that the usage of artificial intelligence is really something that will disrupt the industry over the next few years.

SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 6, 2016) - KnuEdge Inc., a neural technology innovation company that launched today, introduced its KNUPATH LambdaFabric processor technology enabling ground-breaking scalability, latency and workload performance in next-generation data centers. With a fundamentally different architecture than legacy products, KNUPATH can operate alone or be integrated with other devices, and it is available now to both end customers and technology vendors seeking to create data center neural computing capabilities to support advancements in machine learning, IoT and signal processing. "Many of today's CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs force system designers to either create workarounds with last-generation chip sets or reduce their requirements for advanced-compute projects," said Dan Goldin, Founder and CEO of KnuEdge. "After ten years of stealth development and rigorous testing, LambdaFabric enters the market as mature technology which enables system designers to meet the most demanding requirements now, and also helps them rethink what is possible with neural computing in the future." As evidenced by recent announcements such as Google's Tensor Processing Unit, there is increasing industry interest in targeted processor acceleration for machine learning and other growing workloads. KNUPATH LambdaFabric is inherently designed to scale up to 512,000 devices and beyond, and offers rack-to-rack latency of only 400 nanoseconds, approaching half the latency of existing high speed interconnects.

Forget about interactive iPad newspapers, mobile apps and catchy television graphics. The future of news may be far less complicated than anyone could have imagined -- as simple as a conversation with a friend. We're on the cusp of a chatbot revolution, with tech giants Facebook, Google and Microsoft all competing to create the brainiest robotic agent powered by artificial intelligence. "We think you should be able to message a business in the same way you message a friend," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said, announcing the launch of a chatbot store during the social network's annual developers conference. "And you shouldn't have to install a new app."

BERG will be presenting interim data from its ongoing Phase I study of BPM 31510 (IV) in advanced solid tumors, which demonstrates the promise of metabolically-driven therapy by reversing the Warburg phenotype in cancer. BPM 31510 (IV) is one of the first cancer drugs guided in development by artificial intelligence. BPM 31510 (IV) appears to reverse the compromised metabolism of cancer cells which normalizes the cancer microenvironment to induce cell death. BERG's Interrogative Biology platform was used in its BPM 31510 (IV) Phase I study to discover molecular markers identifying patients more likely to have clinical benefit to the treatment applying a precision medicine approach to the trial.