Last week, Publishing Executive hosted a webinar in which we spoke with two experts about how publishers can compete with the kind of sticky user experience that leading platforms like Facebook offer by employing artificial intelligence. We had a lot of great questions throughout the webinar but we weren't able to answer every last one. Boomtrain CEO and co-founder Nick Edwards took a few minutes to answer some of publishers' lingering questions about AI. Check out the Q&A below and click here to watch 7 Steps for Publishers to Get Started With Artificial Intelligence. What is Artificial Intelligence and how does it affect publishers today?

Apple Inc. has acquired Indian machine-learning startup Tuplejump Software Pvt Ltd as it seeks to expand its expertise in artificial intelligence. The iPhone maker bought the Hyderabad, India-based company in June, according to a person familiar with the deal who asked not to be identified. Tuplejump's software specializes in processing and analyzing big sets of data quickly. The deal was reported earlier by TechCrunch. The purchase price wasn't disclosed.

Mumbai: ICICI Bank, India's largest private sector bank, today announced the deployment of'Software Robotics' in over 200 business processes across various functions of the bank. The bank is the first in the country and among few, globally, to deploy'Software Robotics' that emulates human actions to automate and perform repetitive, high volume and time consuming business tasks cutting across multiple applications. At ICICI Bank, software robots have reduced the response time to customers by up to 60% and increased accuracy to 100% thereby sharply improving the bank's productivity and efficiency. It has also enabled the bank's employees to focus more on value-added and customer-related functions. The software robots now perform over 10 lakh banking transactions every working day.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

More self-driving vehicles are expected to hit Singapore streets, following a new partnership deal to extend an ongoing pilot to include ride-sharing services. Autonomous car software developer, nuTonomy, last month launched a trial in the city-state offering the public self-driving taxi rides. In a statement Friday, nuTonomy said it inked an agreement with Southeast Asian ride-sharing operator Grab, to extend the public trial to its customers. The partnership would provide deeper insights on user experience, for example, around how passengers book and interact with self-driving vehicles. Coupled with Grab's fleet routing and mapping technology, nuTonomy added that data extracted from both companies' software could be tapped to improve routing and mapping for autonomous vehicles.

Apple has acquired a new machine-learning company, Tuplejump, based in India/US. According to a report by TechCrunch, this is the third machine-learning company Apple has acquired within a window of two years. Though there hasn't been any official confirmation by the Cupertino giant, their response to the queries regarding the acquisition gives a clear indication that the deal has happened. The company responded to the questions saying, "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans." Though Tuplejump's website has been taken down after the acquisition, a Wayback Machine capture reveals this was the companies introduction: "A few years ago people realised that the volume of data that businesses generate was becoming unwieldy. A new set of technologies to handle this huge amounts of data cropped up. We were one of the early adopters of these'big-data' technologies. Having helped Fortune 500 companies adopt these technologies we quickly realised how complicated they were and how much simpler they could get. Thus started our quest to simplify data management technologies and make them extremely simple to use. We are building technology that is simple to use, scalable and will allow people to ask difficult questions on huge datasets."

While robots and computers will probably never completely replace doctors and nurses, machine learning/deep learning and AI are transforming the healthcare industry, improving outcomes, and changing the way doctors think about providing care. Machine learning is improving diagnostics, predicting outcomes, and just beginning to scratch the surface of personalized care. Imagine walking in to see your doctor with an ache or pain. After listening to your symptoms, she inputs them into her computer, which pulls up the latest research she might need to know about how to diagnose and treat your problem. You have an MRI or an xray and a computer helps the radiologist detect any problems that could be too small for a human to see.

Apple has acquired a Hyderabad-based machine learning startup Tuplejump to strengthen its expertise in artificial intelligence, reports TechCrunch. "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans." the Cupertino giant told the publication, indicating the deal was likely an acqui-hire. Tuplejump was founded in 2013 by Rohit Rai, Satyaprakash Buddhavarapu and Deepak Alur and helps companies to store, process and visualise big data. Tuplejump's website has now shut down and founders Rohit Rai and Satyaprakash Buddhavarapu have joined Apple, as indicated by their LinkedIn profiles. This deal comes a month after Apple acquired another machine learning company Turi. It had also bought deep learning company Perceptio in October last year.

A deep learning platform that actually sells to the customer. This article outlines a successful sales automation platform that uses deep learning to drive customers down an order flow. Most sales processes are mostly linear and have a flow. A good sales agent knows how to guide the customer down this path gracefully. If the customer is deviating from the flow the sales agent knows how to sell the product and continue on with the order flow.

Computing could be set to take a quantum leap, ushering in a new era of fast, powerful, processing which could change the world. That's according to some of the speakers at a Cambridge Wireless technology conference, which focused on the'quantum computing revolution'. Based in the theory of quantum mechanics, quantum computing applies ideas such as super-position and entanglement to dealing with data. Or, as Colin Williams from quantum computing firm D-Wave, put it: "Classical computing is based on having a one or a zero. In quantum computing you can have lots of ones and zeros at the same time."