Google may be an "AI first" company, but few people who work there actually use the term artificial intelligence. That's because it doesn't actually describe the seismic shift currently happening across all of the Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) unit's products. The better word for that process is machine learning, which is the technology that's making our computers think and act more like humans, said Peter Norvig, an AI scientist and a director of research at Google. "Sundar has come out and said we're an AI first company, and that's a pretty bold statement," Norvig told The Street. "Internally we use machine learning more...it's what we're going to use to become an AI-first company."

It's no secret that our lives have become more sedentary than our stone age ancestors. Exercise improves brain health, inducing the development of new brain cells, but the link between exercise and our brain's extends far back in history. New research suggests that the link between exercise and the brain is a product of our evolutionary history and our past as hunter-gatherers, and the same parts of the brain that are taxed during complex tasks such as foraging also benefit from exercise. Researchers argue that as humans transitioned from a sedentary, apelike existence to a more physically demanding, hunter-gatherer lifestyle about 2 million years ago, we started carrying out foraging tasks, which may explain the connection between the brain and physical activity. Two University of Arizona researchers who run a research program on exercise and the brain have developed an'adaptive capacity model' for understanding, from an evolutionary neuroscience perspective, how physical activity impacts brain structure and function.

Editor's Note: This post was originally published on LinkedIn on June 12, 2017. The world is long past the Industrial Revolution, and now we are experiencing an era of Digital Revolution. Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data Analysis are the reality of today's world. I recently had a chance to talk to Ciaran Dynes, Senior Vice President of Products at Talend and Justin Mullen, Managing Director at Datalytyx. Talend is a software integration vendor that provides Big Data solutions to enterprises, and Datalytyx is a leading provider of big data engineering, data analytics, and cloud solutions, enabling faster, more effective, and more profitable decision-making throughout an enterprise.

Electric car maker Tesla Inc may have an announcement related to the release date of its first mass-market Model 3 sedan on Sunday. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said there would be'News on Sunday', in reply to a tweet by Sydney-based Douglas Bailey who asked Musk to end the speculation on the Model 3 release date. Musk had said in May that Tesla was on track to begin production of the Model 3 sedan in July. Musk had said in May that Tesla was on track to begin production of the Model 3 sedan in July, but took to Twitter today to promise'News on Sunday' for the car. The car will be priced at about $35,000.

Researchers have revealed that brainwaves can be used to steal online passwords. A team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham found brainwave-sensing headsets, also known as EEG or electroencephalograph headsets, put users at risk. They have become commonplace both as medical devices but also as game controllers, ranging in price from $150 to $800. Researchers say EEG devices and future brain computer interfaces can be hacked to monitor what a user is typing. Elon Musk's latest company Neuralink is working to link the human brain with a machine interface by creating micron-sized devices.

Robo-advisers are forecast to take at least 15% market share of the Asian wealth management industry in the next seven years. Platform providers highlight the innovations that are driving the industry forward and debunk common myths about the financial technology. Robo-advisory platforms have grown exponentially in Asia in the past two years. Innovations have resulted in enhanced and more sophisticated offerings for investors. This will only propel the growth of the industry. Bhaskar Prabhakara, co-founder and CEO of Singapore-based robo-advisory platform WeInvest, expects robo-advisers to take at least 15% market share of the Asian wealth management industry by 2025. "There is a strong case for this. We went to many countries to talk to regulators and look for partners and everywhere we went, people acknowledged the fact that the robo-advisory wave -- a digital wealth tsunami -- is coming," he says.

SAO PAULO, Jun 30, 2017 (PR Newswire Europe via COMTEX) -- - Transaction reinforces the continued progress of Atento's strategic growth initiatives Atento S.A., the leading provider of customer relationship management and business process outsourcing solutions (CRM/BPO) in Latin America, and one of the three top providers worldwide, announced the signing of a strategic partnership and the acquisition of a minority stake at Keepcon, a leading provider of semantic technology-based automated customer experience management. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The addition of Keepcon will expand the Artificial Intelligence and automatization capabilities of Atento's omnichannel platform. The integration of Keepcon's semantic technology with Atento's existing solutions allows for the monitoring, analysis and management of customer sentiment and needs through social media in real-time. This can be delivered through a blended automatized and agent-based solution or through a fully automatized solution.

If you thought solving a Rubik's cube was difficult, you were right and maths can back you up. A recent study shows that the question of whether a scrambled Rubik's cube of any size can be solved in a given number of moves is what's called NP-complete – that's maths lingo for a problem even mathematicians find hard to solve. To prove that the problem is NP-complete, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers Erik Demaine, Sarah Eisenstat, and Mikhail Rudoy showed that figuring out how to solve a Rubik's cube with any number of squares on a side in the smallest number of moves will also give you a solution to another problem known to be NP-complete: the Hamiltonian path problem. That question asks whether there is route that visits each vertex exactly once in a given graph consisting of a collection of vertices connected by edges, like a triangle, pentagram, or the vast connections in a social network such as Facebook. It's reminiscent of the travelling salesperson problem, which aims to find the shortest route that visits several cities only once, probably the most famous NP-complete question of all.

Amazon Echo is getting an intercom function which allows users to'drop in' to the speakers remotely. Users can now access their Echo and Echo Dot speakers using different devices or the smartphone app. The feature was announced today in the US and will be available in the coming days. Users need to download the Alexa app on Android or iOS. To set up the intercom users have to go into the settings page in the Alexa app and name the device based on the room it is in. Users can then enable the'drop-in' feature.

Regular dietary intake of cocoa and chocolate could improve general cognition, attention, processing speed, and working memory, a new study found. In a recent review published in Frontiers in Nutrition, Italian researchers studied the effect of cocoa flavanols on the brain and the impact its additional consumption has on the body. The research found participants showed enhancements in working memory performance and improved visual information processing after eating cocoa flavanols -- a class of natural compounds that has neuroprotective effects. The study also found that women who consumed cocoa after a night of total sleep deprivation actually counteracted the cognitive impairment a night without sleep results in. The study, which was conducted on young and healthy adults, investigated the effects of relatively long-term consumption of cocoa flavanols -- ranging from 5 days up to 3 months -- in elderly individuals.