Twenty-six years after Talking Heads broke up, David Byrne remains one of New York's most recognizable people. There he is, about town, slim and white-haired--on his bicycle, at a just-opened restaurant, at the Public Theatre (his second musical, "Joan of Arc: Into the Fire," had a run there last month), or at a concert by an artist on his boutique record label, Luaka Bop. Before I took a seat at Carnegie Hall last Friday, then, I periscoped the room, wondering whether he was there and, if he was, whether he would wind up onstage. Angélique Kidjo, born in Benin, long based in Brooklyn, was performing "Remain in Light," and it seemed inevitable that Byrne would show, if only to see what another great artist would do with his strongest, strangest work. The band members strode out and took their places beneath the Stern Auditorium's broad arch: a dozen musicians, female and male, black and white, singers and instrumentalists. Kidjo emerged stage right, wearing an extravagantly patterned pantsuit and matching headdress of African design.

Microsoft is making some bold promises with Story Remix, its recently announced app for the Windows 10 Fall Creators update. Together with the company's deep learning technology, it can automatically craft your photos and videos into short films. Story Remix resembles Apple Clips and Google's Photo Assistant, but it goes a bit farther with the ability to analyze everything on a pixel level-basis to detect people, objects and the overall setting. If it works as advertised, it could be a transformational app for consumers fed up with their ever-growing libraries of digital media. It's the latest attempt by Microsoft to make your life easier by predicting what you want.

My parents gave me "Motivation" before I left for college. Below a beautiful picture of a rocky shore at sunset it reads, "If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon." Since the beginning of time, Americans have been inventing better ways of doing more for less, from Eli Whitney to Henry Ford. Revolutionary innovations often bring growing pains, but at the end of the day we adapt and move the world forward.

The networking technology company said Thursday that it plans to buy MindMeld, a startup specializing in artificial intelligence, for $125 million. The deal is expected to close in early 2017. MindMeld, founded in 2011, builds software tools for coders to create chat bots that can recognize and respond to human voices. Music-streaming service Spotify, for example, has experimented with MindMeld's technology for people to search and play songs by talking to their smartphones. Considering MindMeld has roughly 20 employees based on the company's website, it's likely Cisco is buying the startup for its workers.

After already two decades, the Internet giants -- speaking of Amazon, Google, Facebook, Alibaba and Baidu -- are still collecting tons of data, filling their databases with information of everyone's knowledge, opinions, recommendations, locations, movements, buying behavior, relation status, lifestyle etc. This is not a secret and nothing new. And there is no end in sight. On the contrary, almost every month, new services or devices are released to provide a better user experience, make our life more convenient and increase our dose of digital addiction. Amazon, Google, Facebook and Co. have become ubiquitous in our life. And thanks to the Internet of Things, the gap between our analog and digital life is getting smaller and smaller.

In the age of Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence has come a long way from Siri to driverless cars. If you have used a GPS on Google Maps to navigate in your car, purchased a book recommended to you by Amazon or watched a movie suggested to you by Netflix, then you have interacted with artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior which relies on the processing and comparison of vast amounts of data in volumes with help of big data analytics, no human being could ever absorb. Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Bill Gates have recently expressed concern in the media about the risks posed by AI. According to them, AI will soon replace all kinds of manual tasks and make humans redundant.

Would you trust a robot to make a personal Mother's Day video? Jefferson Graham weighs in on Google Photos' automated Mom's Day slideshow, with panelists Dawn Chmielewski and Tov Arnerson on the #TalkingTech Live webcast/podcast. LOS ANGELES -- Google has a cool new feature for the weekend: The ability to make a Mother's Day movie based on your photos and video clips, automatically. Just click a button, and within seconds you could get a heartfelt, tear-inducing masterpiece set to music and created by robots. Google Photos app creates automated Mother's Day videos.

To borrow a cliché opening from the last high school commencement or Maid of Honor speech you heard, the dictionary defines artificial I\intelligence (AI) as 1: a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers; and 2: the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior. But, do these definitions really explain the difference between an artificially intelligent system and one that's just programmed to be useful? What is "intelligent" behavior or, more specifically, "intelligent human behavior"? The definition is clearly open to some level of interpretation. Combine that ambiguity with the term's cool sci-fi connotations, and you get a world in which, as The Atlantic's Ian Bogost puts it, "deflationary examples of AI are everywhere."

Microsoft just wrapped up its Build developer conference, and the theme unifying all the news is clear: Windows and Cortana everywhere. Whether it's linking Windows to all your other devices or letting developers code for various platforms from their PCs, Microsoft made a bigger effort to get its hooks in all aspects of our tech lives. CEO Satya Nadella kicked off the first keynote by outlining the company's vision for the future of computing, which will incorporate devices from laptops and smartphones to cars, forklifts, thermostats and robots. Although the first day served up more news for developers than consumers, it offered a taste of what Microsoft services could be coming soon. For instance, the just-released Cortana Skills Kit public preview will let creators build more functions for the voice assistant that span your personal and professional life.

The most volcanically active place in our solar system is one of Jupiter's 67-ish moons, Io. Its insides are incessantly pulled apart, ravaged, and heated by the mighty gravitational pulls of both Jupiter and its moons. Using a powerful telescope, scientists spotted an 8,300 square mile lake (bright yellow dot in the center-ish) on Io's surface – that's larger than Lake Ontario. Also, you'll notice that another of Jupiter's famous moons, Europa, makes an epic, if not slightly rude, photobomb.