Samsung is in need of a show-stopper phone after the fiasco of its Galaxy Note 7's exploding. Now, new rumours suggest that its upcoming Galaxy S8 will use its built-in AI assistant in all of the phone's pre-installed apps. The voice-guided assistant, reportedly named'Bixby', could be used for a wide variety of functions in a similar way to Apple's Siri. The Samsung Galaxy S8 will use its built-in AI assistant in all of the phone's included Samsung-made apps, reports suggest. For instance, the assistant could be used in the Gallery app to show photos of the beach.

Earlier this year, Samsung acquired Viv, an artificial intelligence assistant from the creators of Siri. Now it's been discovered that Samsung's Bixby will be powered by Viv's tech and will be supported in almost all of the Galaxy S8's native apps. Bixby is said to work system wide on the Galaxy S8. This means that most of the apps that are already preinstalled on Samsung's smartphone will support the AI assistant, according to SamMobile. For example, a user will be able to ask Bixby to show photos taken at a particular date in the Gallery app.

Samsung's Galaxy S8 is expected to include the debut of its new voice-based digital assistant. Following on from the South Korean company's acquisition of Viv Labs, the technology from this artificial intelligence platform will be baked into Samsung's software on the upcoming flagship. Previous Galaxy handsets have supported voice interaction using its S Voice application, but the inclusion of a new voice-powered digital assistant (that many are calling'Bixby') should give Samsung an AI presence in all of the Galaxy S8's own applications (reports SamMobile). It also gives Samsung a stronger foothold into the world of digital AI alongside the likes of Microsoft's Cortana, Apple's Siri, and Google's imaginatively named Google Assistant. And it is the latter which could raise some eyebrows in Mountain View.

Samsung's Galaxy S8 is expected to include the debut of a new voice-based digital assistant. Following on from the South Korean company's acquisition of Viv Labs, the technology from this artificial intelligence platform will be baked into Samsung's software on the upcoming flagship. Previous Galaxy handsets have supported voice interaction using its S Voice application, but the inclusion of a new voice-powered digital assistant (that many are calling'Bixby') should give Samsung an AI presence in all of the Galaxy S8's own applications (reports SamMobile). It also gives Samsung a stronger foothold into the world of digital AI alongside the likes of Microsoft's Cortana, Apple's Siri, and Google's imaginatively named Google Assistant. And it is the latter which could raise some eyebrows in Mountain View.

The most interesting thing about Huawei's latest flagship, the Mate 9, is actually invisible to the naked eye. Under the hood, the phone uses machine learning to anticipate which apps you're going to use when, allowing for supposedly smoother performance. What the phone would have been like without this AI, we don't know, but we can say that the performance feels brisk throughout. If fluid day-to-day use seems like table stakes, you might also be impressed with the long battery life, bright display and the fact that it actually has a headphone jack. Unfortunately, what's otherwise a great phone stumbles with low-light photography, as well as some heavy-handed software tweaks that will turn off Android purists.

Honda, SoftBank want to make cars your new best friends TOKYO -- Honda Motor and SoftBank Group announced a research collaboration Thursday on the use of artificial intelligence in cars, with a goal of creating vehicles that are more than just a machine for transporting people from point A to point B. The two Japanese companies aim to give cars the ability to read the moods and learn the preferences of drivers, not only through cameras and sensors but also by conversing with them. Honda and SoftBank envision the car as less of a tool and more like a member of the family. SoftBank Chairman Masayoshi Son invited Honda R&D President and CEO Yoshiyuki Matsumoto on stage Thursday at an event for corporate customers in a hotel here.

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General introduction Network and link analysis is a highly studied field, subject of much recent work in various areas of science: applied mathematics, computer science, social science, physics, chemistry, pattern recognition, applied statistics, data mining & machine learning, to name a few [4, 20, 30, 56, 61, 73, 96, 101]. Within this context, one key issue is the proper quantification of the structural relatedness between nodes of a network by taking both direct and indirect connections into account. This problem is faced in all disciplines involving networks in various types of problems such as link prediction, community detection, node classification, and network visualization to name a few popular ones. Preprint submitted to Elsevier January 2, 2018 The main contribution of this paper is in presenting in detail the bag-ofpaths (BoP) framework and defining relatedness as well as distance measures between nodes from this framework. The BoP builds on and extends previous work dedicated to the exploratory analysis of network data [54, 53, 67, 104]. The introduced distances are constructed to capture the global structure of the graph by using paths on the graph as a building block. In addition to relatedness/distance measures, various other quantities of interest can be derived within the probabilistic BoP framework in a principled way, such as betweenness measures quantifying to which extent a node is in between two sets of nodes [60], extensions of the modularity criterion for, e.g., community detection [26], measures capturing the criticality of the nodes or robustness of the network, graph cuts based on BoP probabilities, and so on.

Apple CEO Tim Cook responds to a question during a news conference at IBM Watson headquarters, in New York in April 2015. Days after Softbank billionaire Masayoshi Son met with Donald Trump to discuss a mega, $100 million investment fund that would funnel half itself into American companies, Apple may be getting in on the action. Apple has reportedly discussed putting some of its own money in what looks set to be history's biggest, technology-investment fund. Apple has talked to Softbank about investing up to $1 billion in the fund, according to reports in Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, which cites people familiar with the matter, and who cautioned that any investment from Apple had yet to be finalized. Such a move would bring Apple's cash, estimated to be worth some $200 billion and located mostly outside of the United States, into one of the world's biggest investment funds.