The Internet of Things is changing so many aspects of our daily lives that's it's almost hard to keep up. While many of these changes seem small, when you take them all together, it becomes clear that we are on the verge of a monumental shift in how we work, play, and manage simple, everyday tasks. In fact, thanks to technology and the IoT, it won't be long before many of the items that we use on a regular basis will become obsolete. Consider these items that are not too far away from going the way of the dinosaur. In fact, according to a Gallup poll, only about 24 percent of Americans use cash to make most or all of their purchases.

With just one week to go before Apple finally unveils its highly anticipated iPhone 8, a video has emerged on Reddit that claims to show the device. It comes after months of rumours about Apple's next smartphone, ranging from an all-screen display to a 3D facial recognition sensor. The short clip appears to confirm several rumours, including a near-edgeless display and virtual home button. The video of the alleged device was posted on Reddit this week by a user called horryshiet, along with the caption'Alleged working iPhone 8.' It shows small bezels and a cutout space at the top that will feature the front-facing camera and speaker. Techradar notes the cutout at the top of the display doesn't look to be symmetrical suggesting it may be a fake Several people in the Reddit thread have also questioned the video.

Pro image editing tools like Adobe Photoshop are vital in the creative world, but let's face it: not everyone can justify paying $10 or more per month, every month, just to get more than rudimentary tools. You may not have to in the near future, though. The Pixelmator team is previewing Pixelmator Pro, an upgraded version of its long-serving (and historically more affordable) Mac app geared toward serious creatives. The editor promises many of the features you'd expect in a high-end app, and a little bit beyond -- there's even a dash of AI-like technology involved. The software is non-destructive (that is, you can always reverse changes), with a heavily revamped interface that merges everything into a single pane.

Tribune Publishing, a storied icon of American journalism, recently renamed itself Tronc and released a video to show off a new "content optimization platform," that Malcolm CasSelle, Tronc's chief technology officer, claims will be "the key to making our content really valuable to the broadest possible audience" through the use of machine learning. As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed. Instead of debuting a new, tech-savvy firm that would, in the words of chief digital officer Anne Vasquez, be like "having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture," it came off as buzzword-laden and naive. The internet positively erupted with derision. Yet what I find even more disturbing than the style is the substance.

The Tesla founder spoke about his fears after Vladimir Putin claimed that the nation which controls artificial intelligence will come to rule the world. On Twitter, Musk wrote: "China, Russia -- soon all countries with strong computer science. The development of killer computers would give any nation a clear edge over its competitors. Artificial intelligence could be used to command fleets of drones or battalions of killer robots, while responding to threats at speeds much faster than any human could manage, The Sun reports. The race to develop artificial intelligence could spark World War Three, according to Elon Musk. But there's a risk that a super-smart AI could go rogue and launch genocidal attacks without being constrained by human conscience and empathy. Musk said that it may actually be the AI itself that launches the next World War. He added: "[WW3] May be initiated not by the country leaders, but one of the AI's, if it decides that a pre-emptive strike is most probable path to victory." Nick Bostrom, head of the University of Oxford's Future Of Humanity Institute, recently claimed that we may have just 50 years to save ourselves from artificial intelligence. Competition to build a machine that's as clever as humans will be fierce in the coming decades, with considerable rewards on offer for the nation which manages to pull off the historical feat of achieving "machine intelligence". But the scrabble to create this silicon-powered mind could lead to mistakes with disastrous consequences, according to The Sun. "There is a control problem," Bostrom said. Killer robots, or lethal autonomous weapons, should be banned because of the potential scale of destruction and ability to be hacked, industry leaders say. "If you have a very tight tech race to get there first, whoever invests in safety could lose the race.

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Which naturally leads to: whose ethical and social values? What biases do we build in – intentionally or otherwise – that will affect the output? Each individual, socio-cultural group, and national geography can have different attitudes to ethics, morality and legality. This is further complicated by the choice of data used to train AI systems. Even the best-laid intentions can go awry if the data itself breaks our ethical standards.

As Labor Day weekend ushers in the unofficial end of summer, Hollywood wraps up a dismal summer box office season with movie ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada the lowest they've been in a decade. Fittingly, the box office ranks remain virtually unchanged from last week with the two films premiering this week, the re-release of Sony's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and the Weinstein Co.'s "Tulip Fever" debuting at No. 14 and No. 24, respectively. Lionsgate's R-rated action comedy "The Hitman's Bodyguard" maintained the top spot for the third consecutive week, bringing in an estimated $13.4 million over the holiday weekend for a total of $58 million cumulatively. Starring Samuel L. Jackson as an imprisoned assassin who enlists the help of bodyguard Ryan Reynolds, the $30-million film received mixed reviews from audiences, earning a B rating on CinemaScore but a stale 40% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Warner Bros' horror prequel "Annabelle: Creation" remained at No. 2 on the charts, earning $9.3 million through Monday, for a total of $91 million.

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Strong interim results posted by Chinese smartphone camera makers may have proven yet again the future of camera manufacturing lies with lenses that are minuscule and A.I.-savvy. The landscape of the camera making industry has fundamentally changed as consumers are shelving their professional cameras and using smartphones to take pictures in recent years. Now as computer vision technology, which uses deep learning scheme to enable machines to understand digital images and videos, matures, smartphone camera makers, many of which are leading the pack in computer vision software development, could displace traditional camera makers' dominance in their own backyard. Companies such as Q Technology, Sunny Optical exemplified the rapid growth of smartphone camera makers in China. Both companies have posted strong first-half results this year, as traditional camera makers such as Canon see a decline in unit sales in digital compact cameras.