It was only a matter of time. Today, TCL announced that it's working on a range of 8K HDR TVs, called the 8-Series, that will launch in the US later this year in a variety of screen sizes starting at 75 inches. All of these TVs will run Roku's lightweight software and support upscaling for 4K and 1080p content, as well as "the latest HDMI standards," ensuring they play nice with future consoles and set-top boxes. The 8-Series will also offer Quantum Contrast, a new backlight technology based on mini-LEDs, and QLED, which uses Quantum Dots to improve color brightness and intensity. TCL also revealed that some models will come with an "integrated high-performance far-field mic array."

LG has revealed a consumer version of its roll-up TV set at the CES trade show in Las Vegas. The Signature OLED TV R is built on a concept unveiled last year, in which the screen retracts into a base when not in use so it is less obtrusive. LG plans to sell the device in the US before the end of 2019, but has yet to reveal the month or price. Experts say the technology is unlikely to become a mass-market proposition for many years to come. "It's a 4K set rather than 8K, so you could argue there's a compromise there - but otherwise this is a very high-end design that is going to be very costly," commented Jack Wetherill from the consultancy Futuresource.

The rapid rise of digital technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics and mobility has not just enabled businesses to run more efficiently and effectively. In addition, companies that fully embrace these tools have found them to be a key source of competitive advantage. In a matter of years, trailblazing companies such as Netflix, Amazon and Facebook have evolved from scrappy startups to global behemoths, threatening the very existence of their decades- or even centuries-old counterparts. These advancements, however, come with a downside. As more human jobs are (or are threatened to be) displaced by the emergence of innovations like self-driving cars, humanoid robots and AI-produced medical diagnoses,it is unsurprising that some worry about a dystopian future in which people are rendered obsolete and only a rarified set of professions still require work by humans.

LG is hopping on the home-brewing bandwagon. At CES on Monday morning, the firm unveiled its first beer-making appliance, which will let users brew their own IPAs, pale ales, and malt beverages'with little more than the push of a button.' LG also kicked off its CES presence by revealing its 2019 TVs, including a jaw-dropping new 8K model and its highly-anticipated rollable OLED TV. And, the firm teased its ambitious plans to launch 5G connectivity in its devices before 2020, with its first 5G phone set to be unveiled at LG's Las Vegas keynote Monday night. Onstage in Las Vegas, LG and Qualcomm promised 5G will soon be hitting devices, claiming firms who aim for a 2020 rollout of the technology are'definitely going to be too late.'

This story and its headline have been updated. Forbes is investing in tools to make its newsroom more bionic. Over the summer, the business publisher, which just had its most profitable year in more than a decade, rolled out a new CMS, called Bertie, which recommends article topics for contributors based on their previous output, headlines based on the sentiment of their pieces and images too. It's also testing a tool that writes rough versions of articles that contributors can simply polish up, rather than having to write a full story from scratch. The CMS is currently available to Forbes' editorial staff and senior contributors in North America, and will be rolled out to all of its contributors in North America and Europe in the first quarter of 2019.

Samsung and Apple have made the shock announcement that they are working together to get videos from your phone and onto your TV. The two long-standing arrivals will allow iPhones to speak with Samsung's smart TVs, ensuring customers can get all of the films and TV that Apple makes available even if they don't have an Apple TV. The iPhone maker's iTunes Movies and TV Shows app is to be introduced on Samsung smart TVs later in 2019, the first time the two companies have cooperated in such a manner in the TV market. Support for Apple's wireless AirPlay 2 connection is also to be introduced, meaning Apple iPhone and iPad users will be able to stream content to their Samsung smart TVs. The two companies have long been rivals in smartphone, tablet and other markets.

Generally CNNs are regularized by L1 and L2 norms on the weights. I am wondering what work (if any) has been done on using statistical functions as regularizers on weights or activites. Upon a search of google scholar and IEEE, I have been unable to turn up anything useful.

Some robots are designed to build cars. Others are meant to perform surgery or help astronauts in space. The Lovot, however, has a far simpler and adorable mission in life: to make you smile. The pint-sized cutie, developed by a Japanese robotics startup called Groove X, rolls around and bumps into furniture with the grace and curiosity of a five-year old toddler. The robot will stare up at you with its big, beady eyes and flap two small, pudgy hands when it wants to be picked up and coddled like a baby.

It's no secret that Discover Weekly is a popular personalized playlist for Spotify users. The custom playlist the streaming service builds based on your listening habits each week quickly amassed tens of millions of users after its introduction in 2015. Ads have been included on the playlist for a while if you have a free account, but now Spotify is giving brands the ability to completely customize the sponsored messages that appear in its most popular playlist. Basically, the streaming service will allow companies to control the messages "end-to-end," which was possible before in editorial playlists like Rap Caviar, but not for Discover Weekly. Given the popularity of the personalized playlist that helps you find new music each Monday, brands were surely champing at the bit to fully customize every aspect of the messages Spotify users will see and hear there like they could elsewhere on the streaming service. "Personalization has quickly gone from a nice-to-have to an expectation by consumers and marketers are craving opportunities to be part of these moments," Spotify's global head of partner solutions Danielle Lee explained.

Another year has passed and humanity still remains in charge of the planet(better or worse?). Will robots take over in 2019? Well doesn't seem so in next year, but you always have the next year. Since the inception of AI, developers have been fascinated by the idea of self-learning programs, Natural Language Processing, and Generative Modeling is the most popular GitHub repositories among developers. All this interest means there are going to exciting developments in years to come. AI will take more roles in society.As AI goes up against more jobs in the public eye -- particularly jobs generally held by humans there will be more social engagement among individuals and AI.