It was April of 2015 and I had just returned to a burning summer in India from my startup stint in London. I wasn't happy with the heat, but I've never been good with adjusting to climate change. But weather had little to do with my decision to sweat in the humidity of Mumbai. I wanted to see how the burst of smartphone adoption had impacted the lives of those traditionally used to a life without dependency on technology. There were quite a few trends that stuck out, but one in particular.

NIIT, a global leader in skills and talent development, today launched a course in Web App Development with MEAN Stack under the DigiNxt Series. The company has recently ventured into Digital Transformation to offer pioneering programs to young aspirants wishing to enter the digital services industry, as well as to IT professionals wishing to reskill themselves for the new digital world. The cutting-edge program will use the student-centred pedagogy of project-based learning to help them carve a successful career in the emerging digital era. Some of the famous web applications like LinkedIn, Netflix, Uber, Paypal, etc. have been built using MEAN Stack. AngularJS, Node.js (MEAN) represents a group of open source technologies which are known to synergize well together, thereby empowering students to launch their own web and mobile apps.

After great promise in the 1960s that machines would soon think like humans, progress stalled for decades. Only in the past 10 years or so has research picked up, and now there are several popular products on the market that do a decent job of at least recognizing spoken speech. For Björn Schuller, full professor and head of the chair of Complex and Intelligent Systems at the University of Passau, Germany, who grew up watching Knight Rider--a television show about a car that could talk--this is the fulfillment of a childhood fantasy. Schuller is a World Economic Forum Young Scientist who will speak at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China, from June 26 to 28.He recently spoke about the possibility of machines soon tuning in to human language quirks, behavior and emotion. How did you get interested in machine intelligence and speech recognition?

We need to make data the centre of what we're doing, to be able to achieve the benefits of AI, says Deborah El-Sayed, Director of Digital & Multi-Channel Development at NHS England. And it has to be a collective process - because everyone, whether from academia, a provider organisation or clinician, has a piece of the jigsaw. AI and the NHS might at first glance seem uneasy bedfellows. Are the two an unlikely combination – or a match made in heaven? I think that we've hit a kind of tipping point in healthcare. People are living longer – which is a triumph; our expectations as healthcare consumers are growing and because we're surviving more conditions because we have better healthcare, we've got more complexities and more comorbidities.

Fast reactions can help you drive defensively and avoid collisions. Many of the autonomous features in cars have reactive ability, such as adaptive cruise-control systems that adjust speed by sensing the distance from and the speed of the vehicle ahead. Toyota Motors wants its cars to go beyond reaction to prediction and evasion. To accomplish those more complex functions, Toyota is going to rely heavily on artificial intelligence, according to Reuters. Like Ford and Honda, Toyota is investing heavily in AI and robotics to improve safety and performance in the fast-approaching world of self-driving cars.

Artificial Intelligence has been discussed for a long time and often inappropriately: some say that it represents a great opportunity, while others say it could be the biggest threat to humanity. But many do not even know what it is exactly. Perhaps because it is a discipline by poorly defined contours, debated among scientists and philosophers, which presents theoretical and practical aspects as well as ethical. We can generally define the AI as a computer's ability to perform typical functions and reasoning of the human mind: according to this definition it is clear that today we already are surrounded by examples of AI, for example Google. The search engine of Mountain View, in fact, no longer shows just lists of links, but also direct answers to various questions (try typing "obama birth date" or "David Beckham's wife" and see the results).

Jukedeck has raised a total of 2.5 million in funding across three rounds, the most recent of which was led by Cambridge Innovation Capital. Other investors include Backed VC, a 30 million ( 23m) European fund that launched last month, and Playfair Capital, which has also invested in Appear Here and Dojo. According to Rex, the product's "core user base" is online video makers. "Our market is YouTube creators and people making videos. We've built up a core of these people who are coming back to us every month," he said.

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We recently reviewed Reolink's marvelous RLC-410 4MP PoE Security IP Camera. One of it's most notable features is that it doesn't carry the added cost of a cloud subscription for storing video footage. Instead, you record directly to your mobile device, PC, or--if you want to use several cameras as part of a larger security system--to Reolink's own network video recorder (NVR). We tried out the NVR while we had the RLC-410 in hand and decided to review it separately to do justic to its breadth of features. Reolink offers two versions of it's standalone NVR: the 8-channel RLN8-410 reviewed here and the and the 16-channel RLN16-410.

The Amazon Echo is an unlikely hit. After all, the world's largest online retailer hasn't always won its bets on hardware. And a gadget that relies solely on voice? Yet Amazon has by one estimate sold some 3 million of the squat cylinders since the Echo launched in November, 2014. The company doesn't share sales data, but it did say Alexa, the voice-activated software that powers Echo, is active in millions of places, including smartphone apps and other Amazon gadgets.