Digital technology is driving new forms of customer engagement that are rapidly eliminating the functional silos between online and offline retail channels. As a result many high street retailers are already experiencing falling footfall in their physical stores as customers increasingly switch to online competitors for better convenience, choice and prices. However, these bricks and mortar (B&M) businesses could use Liquid Big Data (cloud based analytics shared between partners, suppliers and potentially even competitors for their mutual benefit) to integrate the physical and digital customer experience into a unique, responsive personal customer journey online competitors can't imitate. So what might the Liquid Big Data Customer Experience be like for a global retailer selling ready to assemble home furniture, appliances and accessories for example? Traditionally high street retailers focus on their brand as source of differentiation to attract customers to their physical stores.

Text analysis startup Aylien, which uses deep learning and NLP algorithms to parse text and extract intel from documents for its customers, has launched a new tool specifically focused on analyzing written news content. "The idea for the News API is to give access to the news content that is out there enriched and in real-time to developers and data scientists," says co-founder Parsa Ghaffari. The Dublin-based startup says it's utilizing core text analysis tech powering its existing text API product, which launched back in February 2014 -- but this time it's focusing exclusively on news content and also doing a little more of the analytical heavy lifting for its customers. "We decided to simplify the use case a little bit by collecting and analyzing the news documents on our end, rather than giving them the tools to do that themselves. So this was born out of that," says Ghaffari.

The purpose of a game is to deliver a captivating interactive experience to its users. If we delve games that have made a huge success out of themselves we'll find just one common trait- Design. People can call it'Fancy Technology', but we all know it's the fascination of technology that attracts users the most. Then comes the graphics part, where smoothness and asymmetry concoct an effective broth. With the entrance of technologies like Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, the user experience has drastically shot up and so the competition.

Amazon acquired artificial intelligence start-up Orbeus last year, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The tech giant allegedly bought the Californian image recognition firm in autumn 2015, according to a source familiar with the matter. Orbeus's website now greets visitors with a message saying it is no longer taking new customers. The domain name - 'Orb.us' - is also owned by a company subsidiary, Amazon Hostmaster. Its photo recognition technology is based on neural networks, and is available via consumer application PhotoTime.

In a giant step towards rapid robot fabrication, researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed the first ever technique for simultaneously 3D printing with solids and liquids. And to demonstrate how well it works, they have developed adorable little robots that waddle about on little hydraulic legs. "Our approach, which we call'printable hydraulics,' is a step towards the rapid fabrication of functional machines," said CSAIL Director Daniela Rus, who oversaw the project and co-wrote the paper, in a statement. "All you have to do is stick in a battery and motor, and you have a robot that can practically walk right out of the printer." The printer first starts with the solid materials, building them up layer by layer, curing them with UV light before adding the liquid that powers the hydraulic bellows that operate the legs.

In a giant step towards rapid robot fabrication, researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed the first ever technique for simultaneously 3D printing with solids and liquids. And to demonstrate how well it works, they have developed adorable little robots that waddle about on little hydraulic legs. "Our approach, which we call'printable hydraulics,' is a step towards the rapid fabrication of functional machines," said CSAIL Director Daniela Rus, who oversaw the project and co-wrote the paper, in a statement. "All you have to do is stick in a battery and motor, and you have a robot that can practically walk right out of the printer." The printer first starts with the solid materials, building them up layer by layer, curing them with UV light before adding the liquid that powers the hydraulic bellows that operate the legs.

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said his company is committed to playing a key role in the emerging market for artificial intelligence-based chat software, one week after the company's first Internet chat bot in the U.S. was so manipulated by users that it had to be pulled down within a day of its introduction. "It's a simple concept yet it's very powerful in its impact it is about taking the power of human language and applying it more pervasively in all our computing," Nadella said about the strategy the company has dubbed conversation as a platform. The CEO was speaking Wednesday at the company's Build conference for software developers in San Francisco. Later, in a keynote speech, Nadella will outline the company's strategy for conversation-based products working with bots, which are pieces of software that use artificial intelligence to automate or accomplish tasks, as well as tools for developers to create their own. Nadella has been trying to expand Microsoft's reach and influence in AI, emphasizing how the technology can augment products in the mobile and cloud-computing markets.

If you love data science, you'd find many aspects to it. A month back, I found 10 Best Movies on Machine Learning. A week later, I found 7 Documentaries on Statistics. It's time to explore the funny side of analytics. I've compiled a list of best hilarious jokes (including images, videos) based on numbers, statistics, big data, machine learning.

Switch chips have a very long technical and economic lives, considerably longer than that of a Xeon processor used in a server – something on the order of seven or eight years compared to three or four. As it turns out, the various GPUs used in Nvidia's Tesla accelerators look like they, too, will have very long technical and economic lives. Even after a new technology is introduced, sometimes the old one can be had at a much cheaper price and therefore continues to be a good price/performer even after it has been presumably obsoleted by an improved product. Its economic life outlives its technical life in this regard, and it is not obsoleted instantly (often to the frustration of its creator, which wants to sell the shiny new stuff). But sometimes this is in fact the plan.

Software is already pervasive in our society, but artificial intelligence software raises unique concerns even among the technological elite. The recent announcement that tech titans, including Elon Musk, have committed 1 billion to an artificial intelligence research center out of concern for what AI may become denotes an important question: Will AI software obey the law of the land and adhere to our ethical standards? It is true that AI software is increasingly autonomous and potentially self-modifying, but it is our view of AI as a hegemonic, monolithic entity that drives our fear of it. Just as there is no one "software" entity, there will be no one AI entity. So here is a new viewpoint on how AI will be kept in check -- more AI.