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CES Editors' Choice Awards: The best and coolest tech to expect in 2019

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA TODAY's newsroom and any business incentives. CES is the biggest technology show of the year, and every year Reviewed's crack team of product experts spend days sorting through the thousands of new releases that debut in Las Vegas. To weed out the pretenders and highlight only the things we think will actually make a splash in 2019. We call them our CES Editors' Choice winners, and once again we've found some truly exceptional products. Though there are plenty of flashy products making big promises, we focus on the stuff you're actually going to buy this year. All 40 of our winners strike a balance in our four key criteria: innovation, technology, design, and value. Congratulations to all of our winners and be sure to check back as we update this page with coverage of all of our winners as CES 2019 continues. Okay, while a "roll-up" OLED TV did debut last year, the LG R9--technically, the OLED65R9PUA--is a real, flesh-and-blood product.


Maria Johnsen: Digital Marketing Expert, Filmmaker & Book Author - Mr. Web Capitalist

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Today I'm going to talk with Maria Johnsen, an entrepreneur, digital marketing expert, filmmaker and an author of many books. In this interview, she's going to talk about her daily life, struggles as an entrepreneur and her favorite moments in the business. Could you describe what do you do and how you earn your living? I run a multilingual digital marketing company in Norway and film production company in London, UK. I earn my living through my video creation and digital marketing services.


Game of thrones: 'Intelligent toilets' all the rage at CES 2019

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Smart gadgets seem to be everywhere nowadays, popping up in our cars and even in our refrigerators. But there's one place they've been absent from - until now, that is: Our toilets. At the Consumer Electronics Show, the display floor was flush with'intelligent toilets' that tout all kinds of high-tech capabilities. Smart gadgets seem to be everywhere nowadays, popping up in our cars and even in our refrigerators. But there's one place they've been absent from - until now, that is: Our toilets The toilet that turned the most heads was Kohler's $8,000 Numi 2.0 Intelligent toilet.


Amazon reportedly developing a subscription video game streaming service

Washington Post - Technology News

Amazon is planning to use its massive cloud computing service to jump into the streaming market for video game play, according to a new report from the Information. The service, which could potentially bring top-notch titles to virtually anyone with a smartphone or streaming device, could make Amazon a major competitor in the space already in play by Microsoft and Google. While most big-budget video games require users to own a gaming console or a computer to run, Amazon's reported streaming service would live on the tech giant's cloud network, freeing customers to play elaborate, robust games even on their mobile devices, the report said. The service is slated to launch next year, the report said. The development of a Web-based gaming hub would mark a significant foray for Amazon.


The Artificial Intelligence Market Ecosystem is Expanding and Diversifying Rapidly, with More than 1,000 Companies Actively Driving Innovation in the Market

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Compared to a few years ago, the artificial intelligence (AI) market is starting to solidify around real-world applications with the pace of change being faster than it has ever been before, as startups and technology providers rush to create platforms and targeted niche solutions for solving specific enterprise problems. According to a new report from Tractica, the industry is churning and evolving quickly as merger and acquisition (M&A) activities abound, and it is homing in on areas of focus. Tractica's research has identified more than 1,000 companies that are driving innovation in the AI market, some of whom are well-known technology heavyweights but many of which are emerging solution providers that are focused on tailored AI applications to serve tactical business needs in specific industries. "The AI ecosystem is a tangled web of traditional technology providers that have adapted to shifting trends and new market entrants focused on using AI for solving problems in niche areas, in addition to well-established internet-era hyperscaler companies that are spearheading the push toward AI-first organizations," says research analyst Sherril Hanson. The key categories of companies in Tractica's mapping of the AI market ecosystem are as follows: Tractica's report, "Artificial Intelligence Market Ecosystem", provides an in-depth examination of the market ecosystem for AI.


Fortnite and the Floss: Chips with Everything podcast

The Guardian

Fortnite Battle Royale has been a runaway success, so much so that it has brought in more than $1bn (£780m), and has broken into mainstream culture in a way few video games do. The rapper 2 Milly, the actor Alfonso Ribeiro and the family of Russell Horning, otherwise known as the Backpack Kid, are suing the company for allegedly copying what they say are their dance creations, and not paying them to do so. Jordan Erica Webber talks to Dr Barbara Lauriat of the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London about why we should look to the Elizabethan era to learn more about intellectual property law. She also chats to the Guardian's former Games editor Keith Stuart about what is happening with the lawsuits. The lawyer Alex Tutty then explains why it is unlikely to be an open-and-shut case.


The problem with AI in sales and why top sales people will ignore it - B2B Sales Success Training

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Hands up if you still think Artificial Intelligence or AI is a Spielberg film, and has something to do with Robotics? Until quite recently, it really didn't occur to me that AI Artificial Intelligence had anything at all to do with selling. So should we be using AI in Sales? But first I will explain why I might take this view. You see when I started selling ET had just been released on the big screen, and the Space shuttle had not long started its missions into the final frontier.


The New AI Tech Turning Heads in Video Manipulation

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A new technique using artificial intelligence to manipulate video content gives new meaning to the expression "talking head." An international team of researchers showcased the latest advancement in synthesizing facial expressions--including mouth, eyes, eyebrows, and even head position--in video at this month's 2018 SIGGRAPH, a conference on innovations in computer graphics, animation, virtual reality, and other forms of digital wizardry. The project is called Deep Video Portraits. It relies on a type of AI called generative adversarial networks (GANs) to modify a "target" actor based on the facial and head movement of a "source" actor. As the name implies, GANs pit two opposing neural networks against one another to create a realistic talking head, right down to the sneer or raised eyebrow.


Will Artificial Intelligence Disrupt Your Profession?

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Daniel Burrus is considered one of the world's leading futurists on global trends and innovation. The New York Times has referred to him as one of the top three business gurus in the highest demand as a speaker. He is a strategic advisor to executives from Fortune 500 companies, helping them to accelerate innovation and results by develop game-changing strategies based on his proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations and their future impact. His client list includes companies such as Microsoft, GE, American Express, Google, Deloitte, Procter & Gamble, Honda, and IBM. He is the author of seven books, including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller Flash Foresight, and his latest book The Anticipatory Organization.


Cutting through the AI hype – Data Driven Investor – Medium

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By means of the famously cited '10 man' Dartmouth Summer Conference, the research field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was already established in 1956. The elite workshop was attended by John McCharty (Dartmouth College), Marvin Minsky (Harvard University), Nathaniel Rochester (IBM) and Claude Shannon (Bell Telephone Laboratories), amongst others. However, the public debate about AI has just begun. After more than half a century of intensive research and development, the technology finally made it into mainstream business: Netflix and Amazon are recommending films and books to you. Due to massive amounts of big data, generated by millions of individual users, it is calculated whether you could potentially like'Bird Box' when you already watched'La Casa del Papel' and'Narcos'.