It's easy to think of TJBot as a person. After all, TJ responds to voice commands, displays emotions, and can carry on a chat. But TJBot is actually a programmable cardboard robot powered by IBM Watson. This little robot gives you an entry point into the world of artificial intelligence and "embodied cognition." Now you can embed AI and cognitive capabilities into everyday objects and enhance your device interactions.

Artificial intelligence is undoubtedly one of the hottest topics these days. We often find ourselves interacting with AI without even knowing it. Various tech giants such as Facebook, IBM, Google, and Microsoft are all engaging in different AI-initiatives. They are competing on building digital personal assistants such as Facebook's M, Apple's Siri and Cortana from Microsoft. Mark Zuckerberg even plans to build his own model of Iron Man's Jarvis to run his home.

With the rapid advancement of information discovery techniques, machine learning and data mining continue to play a significant role in cybersecurity. Although several conferences, workshops, and journals focus on the fragmented research topics in this area, there has been no single interdisciplinary resource on past and current works and possible paths for future research in this area. This book fills this need. From basic concepts in machine learning and data mining to advanced problems in the machine learning domain, Data Mining and Machine Learning in Cybersecurity provides a unified reference for specific machine learning solutions to cybersecurity problems. It supplies a foundation in cybersecurity fundamentals and surveys contemporary challenges--detailing cutting-edge machine learning and data mining techniques.

At this year's CES, one of the largest global consumer electronics and consumer technology tradeshows, it was announced that augmented reality, virtual reality and artificial intelligence will be the primary disruptive consumer technologies for the next 20 years. In addition to this a recent report published by research company, Mintel, looked at how virtual and augmented reality technologies are entering our homes and stated that this will have an impact on how we shop, the brands we choose, and so on. You only have to think about the potential of drones delivering your goods versus the good old parcel delivery driver, to appreciate the impact this technology is likely to have on our lives and the environment around us. In 2016 Pokémon Go and Snapchat demonstrated how brands can effectively capture consumer attention and monetise augmented reality experiences at scale. Add to this recent news from Digi-capital, which showed that in the first quarter of 2016 investment in augmented reality and virtual reality grew to $1.1 billion (compared to the $700m total in 2015) and you can start to appreciate how these technologies are beginning to move centre stage.

Have you ever wondered how Facebook collects all the data it has to feed you with the content it presumes you'll like and keep you coming back for more? Well, now there's an app that can answer these questions. Available for free, Data Selfie is an open-source Chrome extension that helps you discover how machine learning algorithms track and process your Facebook activity, and gain insights about your personality and habits. TNW Conference won best European Event 2016 for our festival vibe. See what's in store for 2017. To accomplish this, the nifty extension monitors your Facebook interactions for patterns and then crunches the collected data into insightful reports.

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Machine Learning is getting a lot more air time these days but are we actually sure what it is? It gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed" (Arthur Samuel, 1959). This is an old quote but it has held the test of time. But,how can computers "learn" – have we really reached the age of artificial intelligence where they will take over the world and make humans redundant? Let's explore the core of the definition: the ability to learn What this really means is there are a set of algorithms that, rather than simply following a static set of program instructions, they can make data driven predictions, or decisions through building a model. Supervised learning – The computer is presented with example inputs (training data) and their desired outputs, given by a "teacher", and the goal is to learn a general rule that maps inputs to outputs. The "easiest" example of supervised learning is a decision tree – this uses a tree-like graph or model of decisions and ...

Self-driving cars could account for 21 million new vehicles sold every year by 2035. Over the next decade alone such vehicles--and vehicles with assisted-driving technology --could deliver $1 trillion in societal and consumer benefits due to their improved safety. For autonomous vehicles to make good on that promise they will need onboard artificial intelligence (AI) technology able to link them to highly detailed maps that reflect every change in the status of lanes, hazards, obstacles, and speed-limits in real time. Researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering are making this critical machine-to-machine handshake possible. Yi Fang, a research assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a faculty member at NYU Abu Dhabi, and Edward K. Wong, an associate professor in the NYU Tandon Department of Computer Science and Engineering, are developing a deep learning system that will allow self-driving cars to navigate, maneuver, and respond to changing road conditions by mating data from onboard sensors to information on HERE HD Live Map, a cloud-based service for automated driving.

An agtech company from the Netherlands is about to make landfall on U.S. soil with a new technology it says could change the way farmers manage soil fertility. With its initiatives Springg and SoilCares, the company, Dutch Sprouts, works with Talend, a big data integration company, to blend a mix of hardware and software to gather and analyze soil samples around the globe. It all starts with a handheld scanner that allows farmers to analyze soils on the go, according to Angelique van Helvoort, head of marketing and communications with Dutch Sprouts. "You simply scan the soil and transfer it to our database," she says. "Within minutes, a readout and fertilizer advice is sent to the user's smartphone.

Watson can now help security analysts parse thousands of natural language research reports. IBM Watson, Big Blue's artificial intelligence (AI) platform, keeps on learning with the smart platform now well versed in cyber security. Watson for Cyber Security can now help security analysts parse thousands of natural language research reports which were previously not possible. It is claimed to be the industry's first augmented intelligence technology designed to power cognitive security operation centres (SOCs). The company said that for the past year, Watson has been trained on the language of cyber security and has studied more than one million security documents.