Xiaomi on Tuesday announced the launch of its second line of smart TVs- The Mi TV 3S, available in 55 inches and 65 inch and sporting 4K displays. This is the Chinese tech giant's second outing in the smart television market. Earlier in March, Xiaomi had launched the 43-inch FHD TV and the 65-inch curved Mi TV 3S. NNow, bothe the Mi TV 3S variants launched on Tuesday have 4K resolutions and support HDR. In China, they are priced at RMB 3,500( 525) and RMB 5,000( 750), respectively.

For the past couple of decades, the trend in technological development has been toward maximizing the capacities of computers and machines to do tasks that people would rather not do, or at least ones that machines could do cheaper. In an interview with Raconteur, chief strategy and innovation officer for The Future Laboratory Tracey Fellows predicts that 35 percent of jobs currently done by humans could be taken over by robots one day, and those would include jobs that are either tedious or dangerous, saving innumerable hours and lives. The landmark achievement of the 21st century is, arguably, artificial intelligence (AI). With the writing of some strings of code, machines can now perceive their environment, process relevant information, and execute actions that provide the highest probability of success. Further innovations in artificial intelligence are often driven by the elimination of human error in day-to-day tasks (e.g., self-driving cars).

Given its potential, it's nagged researchers that getting one's eyes tracked wasn't easier. "It was quite shocking to me that we all don't have eye-trackers," says Aditya Khosla, a graduate student in the computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory of MIT's electrical engineering and computer science department. Khosla and a team of six other researchers from the University of Georgia and the Max Planck Institute of Informatics in Saarbruecken, Germany, set out to achieve a straightforward goal: create eye-tracking software that could run on any mobile phone with a camera.

At the end of Sept 2016 #ArtificialIntelligence paranoia was evident. An AI Allliance (Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, to benefit people and society.) Commenting on the Partnership, Mashable seems rather ignorant; or at least they don't speak for S45, when they wrote (1 Oct 2016): "We are racing toward a future we barely understand." Mashable elaborated: "And it scares the hell out of people." Why does Mashable think the future is difficult to understand?

CHINA has long been seen as the "world's factory," churning out vast mountains of low-quality goods, but it is also considered a nation incapable of producing innovative products and ideas. Now, this is beginning to change -- China is closing the innovation gap. From drones to artificial intelligence, the Internet to genetic engineering, innovative Chinese companies are leading global innovation and reshaping the country's technology and business landscape. "There is a huge market with great opportunity," said Dai Xiang, co-founder and general manager of Enpower Energy, a manufacturer of aqueous ion batteries, which are cleaner, safer and more cost-effective than lead-acid batteries. After 20 years in the United States, working as a senior manager for start-ups in Silicon Valley, Dai decided to go back to China and start his own business.

"Data-Driven Thinking" is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today's column is written by Mark Smith, president at Kitewheel. Marketers, being marketers, are always looking to invent new names for their products to make those products seem better than previous iterations. This is most common when the need for new product cycles outpaces companies' ability to produce significant new features or advances. For an excellent example, take a look at what's been happening in the analytics space for the past 25 years.

The honor and struggle of the working class is a staple of auteur cinema -- in modern days, via some of the works of the Dardenne brothers and Mike Leigh and, in earlier times, with classics such as "The Bicycle Thief." But few directors do neorealism like Ken Loach. And few Loach movies arrive at a more propitious moment than the British director's latest, "I, Daniel Blake." The surprising (to some critics, really surprising) recipient of this year's Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, "Blake" made its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival on Saturday ahead of its American release in December. It comes as income inequality has dominated a presidential election cycle and driven various forms of populism across Europe.

Patrick Meier (center, in cap) flies a drone in Nepal after the earthquake in 2015. Meier and his team were able to to capture detailed images of damage around the capital, Kathmandu. He believes using this technology will make crisis mapping even more effective for disaster response. Patrick Meier (center, in cap) flies a drone in Nepal after the earthquake in 2015. Meier and his team were able to to capture detailed images of damage around the capital, Kathmandu. He believes using this technology will make crisis mapping even more effective for disaster response.

Major technology firms have joined forces in a partnership on artificial intelligence, aiming to cooperate on "best practices" on using the technology "to benefit people and society." Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, and Google-owned British AI firm DeepMind on Wednesday announced a non-profit organization called "Partnership on AI" focused on helping the public understand the technology and practices in the field. The move comes amid concerns that new artificial intelligence efforts could spin out of control and end up being detrimental to society. The companies "will conduct research, recommend best practices, and publish research under an open license in areas such as ethics, fairness, and inclusivity; transparency, privacy, and interoperability; collaboration between people and AI systems; and the trustworthiness, reliability, and robustness of the technology," according to a statement. Academics, non-profit groups, and specialists in policy and ethics will be invited to join the board of the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society (Partnership on AI).

Barely a day goes by without a story taking the internet by storm about the use of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Machine Learning and Big Data, how these technologies will impact marketing, advertising agencies and nearly every type of company and industry. What's lesser discussed, is why these technologies are gaining so much traction. Digerati sat down with technology observer Cami Rosso to ask why, and why now. What do you think is driving this interest in A.I., Big Data and Machine Leaning? One aspect of this demand is that machine learning has quickly become the new'must-have' capability for forward-thinking software providers, principally because Machine Learning, a subset of A.I., enables computers to learn without hard-coding.