Rapid technological evolution only means quick changes and even faster changes in the fashion and entertainment industry. Likewise, either due to necessity or by desire, IT professionals in the 21st century will continue to learn and evolve. As we come close to the last quarter of the year, here are some technology trends that are still being explored and will continue to make an impact in the future. AI-enabled conversational interfaces will soon replace mobile screen interactions, blockchain is gaining a lot of traction across businesses, mixed reality is being explored by enterprises and internet users are all for OTT. As the 2010s come to an end, there are some technological trends that businesses will leverage to unleash the full potential of a digitally-driven world, which will eventually, shape our future – personal and otherwise.

Google is launching a new service for the Google Assistant called "Your news update" Take the idea of an algorithmically determined news source, the kind you get from Facebook or Google news, and convert it into an audio stream. To play it, simply ask a Google speaker or smart assistant on your phone to "listen to the news" Google uses the information it has learned about you over the years along with your location to create a personalized series of short news updates from the partners you have an audio license for. He hopes to foster an ecosystem that he calls "the audio web" according to Liz Gannes, Google audio news product manager. These are not podcasts, but news, similar to the hourly news updates that can be heard on the radio. Your News Update replaces the current way to get news updates from the Assistant, which consists of a direct list of news sources. With that system, you must choose which sources you want and in what order they are reproduced.

Drawing on the film "Ex Machina," and Plato's allegory of the cave, the chapter examines our relationship with increasingly complex technologies, including the possibility of AI that may one day be able to manipulate humans to achieve its goals. The eminent twentieth-century computer scientist Alan Turing was intrigued by the idea that it might be possible to create a machine that exhibits human intelligence. To him, humans were merely exquisitely intricate machines. And by extension, our minds -- the source of our intelligence -- were merely an emergent property of a complex machine. It therefore stood to reason to him that, with the right technology, there was no reason why we couldn't build a machine that thought and reasoned like a person.

Newswise -- Wood is a natural material that is lightweight and sustainable, with excellent physical properties, which make it an excellent choice for constructing a wide range of products with high quality requirements - for example for musical instruments and sports equipment. Unfortunately, as most natural products, wood has a very uneven material structure that extends over several length scales. Therefore, large safety margins are often required during processing, which limit the efficiency of material utilisation. With the help of science, this drawback could soon be resolved. A key technology for this is artificial intelligence.

The 20 words defined in this lexicon reflect the ways in which light irradiates the atmosphere, the universe, and our perception of the world. Because no single system--scientific, religious, philosophical, or cultural--can possibly encompass every meaning of light, this lexicon is systematically unsystematic, exploring each of these realms through words that serve as synecdoches for ways in which we understand light and its myriad effects. Each of Earth's poles has an aurora, which can occasionally grow large enough to be seen near the equator, inspiring visions of apocalypse. For the Inuit, who are more accustomed to it, the aurora is perceived as a football game played by spirits in the heavens. The scientific explanation is no less astounding.

For decades machines have been able to understand simple musical features like beats per minute. Now AI is boosting their abilities to the point that they can not only figure out what particular genre of music is playing, but also how to appropriately dance to it. It's obvious that the dancing style in an EDM club is very different from the way people waltz in a hotel ballroom. And even if you're no country music fan, your foot may tap and your head softy sway when you hear the nostalgic "Country Roads" chorus. How our bodies respond to diverse musical stimuli almost seems instinctual -- how to teach that to a machine?

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has opened a new innovation hub for mining and energy in Perth, Australia. The hub gives mining and energy companies access to "technology innovations including cloud computing, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, virtual and augmented reality, quantum computing, blockchain and drones". Ann Burns, who leads Accenture's Resources sector in Australia and New Zealand, commented: "With this new innovation hub, we are helping raise the innovation profile of Western Australia and Australia overall. We believe that the Western Australian energy and mining sectors can become world leaders in digitalization. Crucial to this is a focus on what we refer to as'triple zero': ideas, design and technologies that help achieve zero harm to workers and machines, zero loss across the value chain, and zero waste for sustainability."

And here is a brief response to the report from Johannes Klingebiel of Süddeutsche Zeitung. A strategy for #AI adoption will vary depending on the nature of the news organisation. However, the #JournalismAI survey shows there are a few key key elements everyone should consider.