Apple's personal assistant Siri is known for its Easter eggs and its oddball answers to questions like, "What is the meaning of life?" Now, its latest trick will help you get in touch with your inner Dark Knight. The Lego Batman Movie, released last Friday, features the voice of Siri as the Batcave's computer. So, naturally, Apple has teamed up with Warner Bros. to cross-promote the animated film. If you say, "Hey, computer!" or "Hey, 'puter!" into Siri, she responds to you as if you're the tiny, plastic Caped Crusader.

While the latter happened IRL in late 2016, a lot of the film's other future predictions were a little off. Though what's not too far fetched is the idea of robots, or artificial intelligence, working its way into our very real and ordinary lives in the not too distant future. Self-driving cars are already a thing, and that's only the beginning. "Artificial Intelligence (or AI) is likely to do to white collar jobs like how machines have been doing blue collar work. In other words, just like our brawns have been digitised, so will our brains be," Anders Sorman-Nilsson, global futurist and TEDx speaker told The Huffington Post Australia. Sorman-Nilsson is the author of Seamless: The Futurephile's Guide To Leading Digital Adaptation And Human Transformation.

InsideSales, the Utah-based tech unicorn is betting big on artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive analytics with its two latest products which hint towards the future of the company. Since being founded in 2004, InsideSales has built its products on its Neuralytics engine, which processes a rich pool of billions of anonymised sales transactions that enterprise customers can tap into and enrich with their own proprietary data. The company's first application for Neuralytics was for the sales industry, giving reps smart suggestions on when and where to contact leads to better close deals through smarter prospect scoring. Read next: Insidesales.com, the big data unicorn that is transforming the sales industry with its predictive cloud Now, CEO Dave Elkington compares the evolution of the InsideSales platform to that of Netflix or Amazon. You don't tell Netflix you like horror movies and therefore would like to see more of them, the algorithms do it for you.

Russian author Boris Zhitkov wrote the 1931 short story Microhands, in which the narrator creates miniature hands to carry out intricate surgeries. And while that was nearly 100 years ago, the tale illustrates the real fundamentals of the nanoscience researchers are working on today. Nanoscience is the study of molecules that are one billionth of a metre in size. Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has made millions of mouths water over the years, thanks to the author's vivid descriptions of quirky tastes and inventive sweets. In reality, there aren't chewing gums that taste like a three-course dinner just yet, but food manufacturers have been working on ways to change tastes and textures using molecular tech To put this into perspective, a human hair is between 50,000 and 100,000 nanometres thick.

Late last year, a team of Sony researchers based in Paris released a pair of new pop songs. One, called "Daddy's Car," straightforwardly echoed the soft '60s psychedelia of The Beatles; the other, "Mr. Shadow," was an electro-ish update on classic jazz à la Duke Ellington or Cole Porter. The songs were just fine (if that), from a critical standpoint. What made them major events was the fact that they were composed using artificial intelligence, specifically using the Flow Machines software developed by Sony's Computer Science Laboratory.

The first of many planned IMAX theaters dedicated to virtual reality has opened in Los Angeles. Trading large, wraparound screens for small, immersive headsets, the facility allows anyone to experience VR without buying a high-end gaming PC or video game console. As UploadVR reports, the LA center has a mixture of HTC Vive and Starbreeze StarVR headsets. They're stored in 14 isolated "pods" which also contain a Dbox cinema chair, a vibration-emitting Subpac vest and a variety of physical controllers. You can buy experiences individually, such as John Wick Chronicles, or grab a "sampler" if you want a broader taste of VR.

The dataset consists of about 12,000 headlines half of which are clickbait. The clickbait headlines were fetched from BuzzFeed, NewsWeek, The Times of India and, The Huffington Post. The genuine/non-clickbait headlines were fetched from The Hindu, The Guardian, The Economist, TechCrunch, The wall street journal, National Geographic and, The Indian Express. Some of the data was from peterldowns's clickbait-classifier repository I used Stanford's Glove Pretrained Embeddings PCA-ed to 30 dimensions. This sped up the training.

Tokyo's underground consists of miles of pedestrian walkways, extensive shopping arcades and a subway network. It stretches for hundreds of kilometers between more than 200 subway stations. Even with a map and a good sense of direction, it is not necessarily an easy place to navigate. And for the visually impaired, the challenge is even greater. So, this month, a unique voice navigation field experiment led by civil engineering and general contracting firm Shimizu Corporation, IBM Research and real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan is taking place in an underground pedestrian walkway and COREDO Muromachi shopping park buildings 1, 2, and 3 in Nihonbashi-Muromachi, a popular downtown district with history that dates back to the Edo period of the 1600s.

I met Aman Naimat, Senior Vice President of Technology at Demandbase at their headquarters in San Francisco on my recent visit to California for Social Media Strategies Summit. Aman is working on leveraging the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data science for marketing and sales platforms. On this podcast, episode 150, Aman and I discuss how AI functions in account-based marketing (ABM). Before working with Demandbase Aman was previously founder and CTO of Spiderbook, a data-driven sales engine for account-based targeting. Aman has been building CRM systems since he was 19 and was the architect for the Oracle CRM Applications.

The World Is Not Only For Humans: Rajinikanth, Salman Khan, Amy Jackson and Akshay Kumar promoting 2.0, India's most hotly-anticipated film (Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images) At the age of 17, Allirajah Subaskaran came to Europe to escape war-torn Sri Lanka, helping out at his family's Paris restaurant and then at its corner shop. Now Lyca Productions, part of his Lycamobile telecommunications and media group, is making 2.0, a science fiction film starring Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar and Amy Jackson. Directed by Shanmugam Shankar, the highest-paid movies director in India and promoted under the banner "The World Is Not Only For Humans," it claims to be a spiritual successor to 2010's Enthiran {"Robot"]. It's the sort of story that could be the subject of a Bollywood or Hollywood movie itself. Yet, Subaskaran's creation of a billion dollar-revenue multinational company is no work of fiction.