Apple finally released its HomePod on Friday after pushing back its planned December release. The HomePod comes into the smart speaker market that already has various options for customers, including gadgets from Amazon, Google and Sonos. The HomePod is one of the priciest home speaker models out there, priced just $50 less than the Google Home Max. The HomePod is powered by Siri, which allows users to send messages, create lists, set timers, get the news, check sports, traffic and weather updates. Siri also converts measurements, reads text messages out loud and helps with translations. The voice assistant works as a DJ as it progressively learns more about it user's taste in music.

Google's quest is to show results in the best interest of the searcher – Faster, better, relevant, and useful. And that should be your quest too! However, Google wouldn't just find out you're creating amazing content which is the best fit for their searchers. She won't just find you. You have to let her know. That's what SEO is all about. One of the best ways to predict and understand how Google works is through experiments and experts. Over the past few weeks, We had the opportunity to interview SEO experts and get their best tips and advice for the changes in the SEO landscape for 2018.

One AI content writer has written screenplays that went on to become very popular on YouTube. Another writes news for the Washington Post. Admittedly, the films are short and a bit odd -- surreal if you like -- and the news items are really just basic, fact-driven financial or sports reports. But both cases illustrate the ability of AI to create original content. Benjamin is a scriptwriting AI on a recurrent neural network that wrote the screenplays for Sunspring.

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'We made it': Mother describes giving birth in hospital hallway The wireless 7in smart speaker uses spatial awareness technology to sense its place in a room and adjust audio output accordingly.

U.K. sports publisher GiveMeSport has used its proprietary technology to help grow its Facebook audience to an impressive 25 million followers. Now, it's integrating artificial intelligence from its new owner, Breaking Data Corp., to give it an advantage over competitors. The publisher is using AI to play at both ends of the news spectrum -- analysis and reaction pieces as well as breaking news. Before this, most of the publisher's 2,000 monthly articles, created by 14 full-time and 50 freelance writers, were reaction pieces. The new program also frees up writers' time to focus on longer-form 1,500-word articles, which carry more ad space around them.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are poised to have a breakout 2018 in the world of media and entertainment. During the recent IBC show, Adrian Drury, group technology strategy and insight director at Liberty Global, called AI "something that's transforming our business today." "It will disrupt pretty much all areas of the market," agreed David Mowrey, head of Product & Business Development for IBM Watson Media. "We're just scratching the surface on how transformative AI will be." AI often refers to any machine or computer that exhibits cognitive functions similar to those shown in human beings.

After 3 hours of Googling, I have to ask you guys. I'm looking for an app or command-line tool that is able to increase resolution using AI. Something like Let's Enhance but free. I know about Alex J. C.'s neural-enhance but my PC is not able to run Docker. And without Docker, the installation is super complex.

As technology becomes indispensable from everyday life, humanity and tech will merge to the point they are indistinguishable, predicts communication and marketing firm PHD. Its research into the forces shaping marketing's future produced Merge: The Closing Gap Between Technology And Us, a documentary and book on how technology and human evolution had progressed since the 1950s and how technological advances over the next 25 to 35 years would reshape society and the marketing industry. The research drew on experts' insights and foresights, including inventor and author Ray Kurzweil, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, futurologist Dr Ian Pearson and Microsoft UK chief envisioning officer Dave Coplin. PHD Malaysia head Eileen Ooi said the year ahead would bring a host of new technologies that would challenge the industry but also present new opportunities for those willing to invest in innovation and take a bold first step. She cited four key trends: chatbots, sentient virtual personal assistants, next wave of wearables, and intelligent data layers that give you additional info when viewing things.

Big River Steel, based in Arkansas, makes extensive use of sensors, control systems, and machine learning-based optimization. Working with the AI consulting firm Noodle.ai, Big River has developed a variety of technologies to improve the practice and profit of steelmaking.