Computers are getting better at recognising faces and shapes and making connections between images, heralding a new age of visual search that could transform the way we interact with the world around us. Have you ever searched Google maps for a destination, asked it for directions, then walked off in completely the wrong direction? I have, plenty of times - and I'm way down the street before the arrow on my phone jolts into the right position telling me I'm getting colder, not hotter. Of course, being a man, I have to walk on a few more metres before finally admitting my mistake and effecting the 180-degree "swivel of shame". And this always seems to happen when I'm late for a meeting, which is quite often.

There are countless ways technology can improve our daily lives – but, when it comes to parenting, it may be best to err on the side of caution. A chilling new trailer for the Netflix hit Black Mirror taps into the worries known by every parent; in just an instant, a child can disappear from sight. The new season is set to explore the desperate move of a mother who, after a scare at the playground, decides to get her daughter fitted with a brain implant. But, if the previous seasons are any indication, the device will bring unintended consequences. A chilling new trailer for the Netflix hit Black Mirror taps into the worries known by every parent; in just an instant, a child can disappear from sight.

Recommender systems take inputs from user history, use an internal ranking algorithm to generate results and possibly optimize this ranking based on feedback. However, often the recommender system is unaware of the actual intent of the user and simply provides recommendations dynamically without properly understanding the thought process of the user. An intelligent recommender system is not only useful for the user but also for businesses which want to learn the tendencies of their users. Finding out tendencies or intents of a user is a difficult problem to solve. Keeping this in mind, we sought out to create an intelligent system which will keep track of the user's activity on a web-application as well as determine the intent of the user in each session. We devised a way to encode the user's activity through the sessions. Then, we have represented the information seen by the user in a high dimensional format which is reduced to lower dimensions using tensor factorization techniques. The aspect of intent awareness (or scoring) is dealt with at this stage. Finally, combining the user activity data with the contextual information gives the recommendation score. The final recommendations are then ranked using filtering and collaborative recommendation techniques to show the top-k recommendations to the user. A provision for feedback is also envisioned in the current system which informs the model to update the various weights in the recommender system. Our overall model aims to combine both frequency-based and context-based recommendation systems and quantify the intent of a user to provide better recommendations. We ran experiments on real-world timestamped user activity data, in the setting of recommending reports to the users of a business analytics tool and the results are better than the baselines. We also tuned certain aspects of our model to arrive at optimized results.

The global recorded music market grew by 5.9 percent last year. It was the fastest rate of growth since 1997 and was as a result of the shift from traditional CDs and portable devices to the ability to stream content anywhere, at any time. Yet despite an estimated 498 online music streaming services available in over 40 countries in 2007, many of these companies cease to exist today. This emphasizes the importance of building a clear growth strategy that can continuously appeal to a demographic that is yearning for instant and tailored music on demand. Today, brands across the globe are continually searching for fresh ways to connect and resonate with their audiences while striving to stand out from the competition in order to grow their business.

Welcome back from what was hopefully a nice long weekend. We've got our verdict on Google's Pixel Buds, more news on that massive Yahoo data breach, and Time Inc.'s further struggles. Oh, and some new NASA tires inspired by chainmail. He won't fight charges that he helped swipe 500 million accounts. The US may find it hard to catch the Russians accused of participating in the massive 2014 Yahoo breach, but a third culprit appears ready to cooperate.

Britain's Conservative government on Monday announced plans to invest 735 million pounds ($970 million) in areas including artificial intelligence, driverless cars and the life sciences, "with the aim of making the U.K. the world's most innovative nation by 2030."

A nightmarish new image shows a'zombie' head after it was infected with a deadly parasitic fungus. The photo, taken in a forest in Singapore, shows fungal stalks bursting from the long-dead fly, which is missing both of its eyes. The photographer believes an infamous parasite named Cordyceps, which takes over its victims' bodies like a horror movie zombie virus, infected the fly before it died. A nightmarish new image shows a fly's'zombie' head after it was infected with a deadly parasitic fungus. Separate species of Cordyceps prefer different hosts, but generally the fungus takes over the bodies of insects and forces them to walk to the top of plants.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gained worldwide exposure over the years through Hollywood, including the recent blockbuster movies such as Alien: Covenant and Blade Runner 2049. While androids like those depicted in the movies are nothing but science fiction at this point in time, we are seeing the increasingly advanced application of AI incorporate mainstream computing. In this post, we examine how website development is benefiting from artificial intelligence (AI), as well as some unique integration challenges. Modern mainstream website development has focused on the building of a customer-facing front-end presence on the Internet and the integration of the front-end with enterprise back-office operations. Drupal is an industry-leading open-sourced platform for building such enterprise websites.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning are some of the buzzwords swirling around today. You'e more likely to hear about AI and ML when tech companies talk about voice assistants and smart home devices. Now, while Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are very much related, they are not the same thing. Let's dive in a little deeper to understand what these terms mean. While tech giants have started talking about AI more recently, it is something that existed decades ago, and you probably didn't even realize it back then.

Artificial intelligence is increasingly a part of our daily lives. It helps run our search engines, populating our Facebook feeds.