Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterprises are using some form of XaaS - software, platform, and infrastructure as a service. Cloud Expo is the single show where delegates and technology vendors can meet to experience and discuss the entire world of the cloud. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as "Cloud-Ready" as it can be!

Amazon's workforce has exploded in recent years, more than doubling since the end of 2014, when it employed 154,000 people. As of the latest count, there were 306,000 employees working worldwide for the Seattle tech giant. But another group is growing just as quickly as the company's human workforce: the number of robots working alongside people in Amazon fulfillment centers. The company said this week that it has 45,000 "robotic units" operating in 20 distribution centers working with people to fill and ship customer orders. The number is up 50 percent from the 30,000 bots that Amazon reported across 13 fulfillment centers in the third quarter of 2015.

Tech companies flocked to the Las Vegas Convention Center as the 50th Consumer Electronics Show--a quaint descriptor in the era of self-driving cars, big data and cloud-based storage systems, as the New York Times pointed out--kicked off Thursday morning. However, techies across the globe unable to foot the bill, let alone make it to Sin City for the couple dozen free conferences, can tune in to the CES 2017 live stream for free. Although many see CES as a "schmoozefest" and a giant publicity stunt for the likes of Microsoft, Apple, Samsung and Google, the conference offers plenty of reasons for the world's tech-obsessed to take a look. Versions of Amazon's popular artificial intelligence-equipped speaker and home helper, the Echo, are likely to be ubiquitous. BBC's preview of the event pointed to a demo by the French startup Bixi that allows tablet and smartphone users to control their devices from a short distance by making hand gestures.

If you feel overwhelmed by an ever-growing social circle, fear not. Your brain can keep up with all those new faces, thanks to one region that continues to grow even in adulthood. The discovery is surprising, because most changes to the brain as it matures involve the altering of existing connections between neurons. But brain scans have revealed that one area of the cortex, the fusiform gyrus, gets much larger as we age. The fusiform gyrus is thought to play a role in recognising faces, something that adults are better at doing than children.

BMW Group, Intel, and computer-vision maker Mobileye today announced they will collaborate to create a fleet of about 40 autonomous BMW vehicles that will hit U.S. and European roads by the second half of 2017. The pilot project is aimed at demonstrating advances the three companies have made in technology that enables fully self-driving vehicles. The BMW 7 Series will be used as the initial platform for Intel processor and Mobileye computer vision technology during the global trials. Mobileye, an Israeli technology company, is a leader in developing both software and proprietary computer chip technology (EyeQ) to support vision-based advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that provide warnings for collision prevention and mitigation. Mobileye has also partnered with other automakers and multi-billion-dollar tier 1 auto parts maker Delphi to supply its technology to the industry.

Inc. surprised some with one of its next-gen commerce announcements. Amazon Go, which promises to eliminate the checkout altogether, generated headlines in mainstream media and prompted some to contemplate the potential demise of retail as we know it. Lost in all this hype is the fact that the brick-and-mortar apocalypse is no more likely today than it was before Amazon's recent endeavor. Of course, Amazon, which is the world's largest internet retailer, has set the standard for commerce reinvention with fast delivery, near-invisible payments and other perks tied to its Amazon Prime membership platform . Amazon has outpaced the rapid growth of digital commerce in the retail industry globally, increasing its own market share from 12% in 2011 to 19% in 2016, according to the latest data from Euromonitor International.

With the increased attention on fraud and cybersecurity, companies are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to strengthen fraud mitigation efforts to predict the trustworthiness or riskiness of an online transaction. In an effort to achieve the same, iovation, a provider of device-based solutions for authentication and fraud prevention, launched the iovationScore machine learning fraud prevention solution. Michael Thelander, Product Marketing Manager, iovation in an interview with Techseen discussed this new solution and the advent of machine learning in fraud detection. Thelander: iovationScore is less about "fraud detection" than it is a tool for "real-time predictive analysis." One of its uses is to provide immediate insight into how risky a device is, from the very first moment that device appears on your digital doorstep.

With Qubit's machine learning engine, you get actionable insights - helping you prioritize customer segments and initiatives for the biggest impact Customer data is one of the biggest and most complex data sets companies ever have to handle. This is because of the volume of customer interactions companies gather, across hundreds of different data points - behavioral, quantitative and qualitative - all streaming in at speed. This scale and complexity can also make it one of the most difficult data sets to put to work.

Deep Learning is a hot buzzword of today. The recent results and applications are incredibly promising, spanning areas such as speech recognition, language understanding and computer vision. Indeed, Deep Learning is now changing the very customer experience around many of Microsoft's products, including HoloLens, Skype, Cortana, Office 365, Bing and more. Deep Learning is also a core part of Microsoft's development platform offerings with an extensive toolset that includes: the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, the Cortana Intelligence Suite, Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs, Azure Machine Learning, the Bot Framework, and the Azure Bot Service. Our Deep Learning based language translation in Skype was recently named one of the 7 greatest software innovations of the year by Popular Science, and this technology has now helped machines achieve human-level parity in conversational speech recognition.

The vehicle is Toyota's Concept-I car, and it claims to represent a friendlier, people-focused approach to future mobility. While the car is only a concept and is not on sale, it gives a glimpse into the firm's vision for the future of automobiles. The vehicle is Toyota's Concept-i car, that represents a friendlier, people-focused appraoch to future mobility The Concept-I was unveiled at the CES technology show in Las Vegas, and was produced by the firm's CALTY design centre in California. The basic philosophy for the design is'kinetic warmth' - the belief that mobility technology should be warm, welcoming and fun. Bob Carter, Senior Vice President of Automotive Operations at Toyota, said: 'At Toyota we recognise that the important question isn't whether future vehicles will be equipped with automated or connected technologies, it is the experience of the people who engage with those vehicles. 'Thanks to Concept-i and the power of artificial intelligence, we think the future is a vehicle that can engage with people in return.'