Still, Mark Geistfeld, Sheila Lubetsky Birnbaum Professor of Civil Litigation at The New York University School of Law, believes Apple and similar firms have a responsibility to explore ways to cut down on distracted driving. One such technological solution might be for smartphone makers to disable or limit a device's functionality when it's traveling at driving speeds. Jennifer H. Arlen, Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law at The New York University School of Law, says that makes texting-while-driving cases a "very good place for liability imposed directly on the person who misuses [a phone], and perhaps criminal statutes that enhance the penalties on people who have serious accidents while texting and driving." Apple calls its system CarPlay, for Android devices there's Android Auto.

To ease the burden, a group of local entrepreneurs - some of whom are former lawyers - have designed a website that helps lawyers search faster, keep notes and organise their research better. Launched in January, Intelllex, meaning "intelligent law", has already attracted more than 1,000 users - about half of whom are lawyers and the rest law students. Lawyers said it has reduced their research time by 30 to 60 per cent, meaning they can handle more cases. "A junior litigation lawyer spends 35 per cent of his time every day doing research," said Mr Chang.

Specialized tools for seeing through blur and pixelation have been popping up throughout this year, like the Max Planck Institute's work on identifying people in blurred Facebook photos. The attack uses Torch (an open-source deep learning library), Torch templates for neural networks, and standard open-source data. "Just take a bunch of training data, throw some neural networks on it, throw standard image recognition algorithms on it, and even with this approach…we can obtain pretty good results." To build the attacks that identified faces in YouTube videos, researchers took publicly-available pictures and blurred the faces with YouTube's video tool.

Many scientists and futurists agree that the effects of artificial intelligence and automation on society are difficult to predict. While many predicted that the tip of the spear for such technology would play out in areas such as medicine or general computer system markets, the AI revolution is already underway in the financial markets. Nearly all market-making is presently dominated by machines that employ AI techniques, including advanced pattern recognition. The markets evolution from the primordial ooze of computers, networks and massive storage systems to a complex, intelligent and somewhat singular market entity will impact society well beyond finance.

That's why we created This Week in Machine Learning! Apple acquires another machine learning firm, purchasing India-based Tuplejump and its open-source FiloDB project for analyzing massive amounts of complex data. Researchers at MIT create a machine learning-based system for automatically screening children for speech and language disorders through an accessible mobile app. Facebook launches a new feature, powered by machine learning, that automatically infers when a message suggests a transaction and prompts the recipient to pay.

Those microphones are backed by Intel's Real Audio technology, a natural language processing system that can respond to commands and questions, and follow context. The Oakley Radar Pace system responded with the beats per minute measurement. It even includes touch sensitive controls, which you can use to access music and talk to Intel Real Audio. For all the built-in technology and sensors, the Radar Pace lacks a heart rate monitor, which means that, if you want to track that key workout metric, you'll need to wear and connect to a third party device.

The dating app rolled out a new experience for iMessage, an app called Tinder Stacks, that allows people to create their own Tinder-like swiping experiences directly in their conversations. The idea behind Tinder Stacks is to give Tinder users a way to allow their friends to "vote" on collections of photos while they chat. Once set up, using Tinder Stacks is fairly straightforward: create a "stack" based on photos from your camera roll and share it with friends who can vote on the images you share. When Mashable published its list of the 100 greatest iPhone apps of all time, we noted the greatest contribution Tinder (#20) has made to the app world is its design.

Rapidfy, an on-demand platform that connects customers with service professionals and small and medium enterprises is looking to improve how these professionals interact with customers. The firm announced today (Sept. Rapidfy's Live Chat feature will allow customers to communicate via a service professional's website, Facebook or the Rapidfy platform. The chatbots will use artificial intelligence to help service professionals reach and communicate with customers in an affordable way. Just last week, Facebook announced 30,000 bots would soon be payment-enabled for the 900 million users of its Messenger platform.

Rapidfy, an on-demand platform that connects customers with service professionals and small and medium enterprises is looking to improve how these professionals interact with customers. The firm announced today (Sept. Rapidfy's Live Chat feature will allow customers to communicate via a service professional's website, Facebook or the Rapidfy platform. The chatbots will use artificial intelligence to help service professionals reach and communicate with customers in an affordable way. Just last week, Facebook announced 30,000 bots would soon be payment-enabled for the 900 million users of its Messenger platform.

Google Allo is a smart messaging app that is based on users' phone numbers so they can basically use it to get in touch with anyone in their phonebook. 'When you chat in Incognito mode, messages have end-to-end encryption and additional privacy features like discreet notifications and message expiration' – AMIT FULAY, GOOGLE Or it may be able to suggest a Smart Reply based on what's going on in a photo, for example if it is a pet a Smart Reply could be "aww cute!" Not just an attack on WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, Google's Allo is also taking a shot at Snapchat in terms of photos, emojis and stickers. "When you chat in Incognito mode, messages have end-to-end encryption and additional privacy features like discreet notifications and message expiration," Amit Fulay, group product manager for Google Allo explained.