Google has just announced a brand new update to their music streaming service, Google Play Music. The new design and features will begin rolling out to Android, iOS and the web starting this week, and Google says it will be made available to 62 countries around the world. As with most of these app updates though, it will be rolled out gradually to users. So, you can either wait patiently for the update to be pushed to your device, or you can sideload the update when it becomes available. The first thing you'll notice about this update is its new design.

The U.S. has many rituals that define the progress of the year, some quite traditional like Christmas and Thanksgiving, and some with an air of shared ridiculousness like Black Friday. It is now a deep-seated American tradition to revel in the shared gluttony and community of Thanksgiving and then exercise those calories off the next day in the way we Americans know best - shopping! The term Black Friday comes from 1950's Philadelphia to describe the barely controlled chaos of thousands who poured into the city for the Army-Navy game the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Since the 80's, the world has changed, particularly in the world of retail, in which the shopper has changed as much as the shopping center, with technology playing a massive role in those changes. For example, in I the past couple of years, Big Data and Machine Learning have gone from being fringe technologies to must-haves.

SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced three new courses delivered on the openSAP platform to guide users through the transformative effects experienced as a result of using iOS technology, machine learning and SAP S/4HANA to implement everyday business processes. These courses come in addition to the recent release of "Upgrade of Systems Based on SAP NetWeaver – Advanced Topics," which investigates the latest tools and features essential for SAP software system upgrades and maintenance. The new courses on openSAP will cover how the partnership between SAP and Apple is optimizing the use of iOS technology for end-to-end business processes. They also provide users an in-depth look at how machine learning is giving rise to new intelligent applications. SAP Fiori for iOS – An Introduction: The recent partnership forged between SAP and Apple will enable developers to build quickly their own native apps for Apple iOS devices.

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The common, and recurring, view of the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence research is that sentient and intelligent machines are just on the horizon. Machines understand verbal commands, distinguish pictures, drive cars and play games better than we do. How much longer can it be before they walk among us? The new White House report on artificial intelligence takes an appropriately skeptical view of that dream. It says the next 20 years likely won't see machines "exhibit broadly-applicable intelligence comparable to or exceeding that of humans," though it does go on to say that in the coming years, "machines will reach and exceed human performance on more and more tasks."

The possibilities that IoT brings to the table are endless. IoT continues its run as one of the most popular technology buzzwords of the year, and now the new phase of IoT is pushing everyone to ask hard questions about the data collected by all devices and sensors of IoT. IoT will produce a tsunami of big data, with the rapid expansion of devices and sensors connected to the Internet of Things continues, the sheer volume of data being created by them will increase to an astronomical level. This data will hold extremely valuable insights into what's working well or what's not. Also, IoT will point out conflicts that arise and provide high-value insight into new business risks and opportunities as correlations and associations are made.

Take our end of the year blog reader survey. Complete and be entered to win 1 of 5 $25 Visa gift cards. What Does Artificial Intelligence Mean in Human Resources and Recruiting? One of the most talked about trends in HR and recruiting in the second half of 2016 has been AI and artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is defined as "an ideal'intelligent' machine [that] is a flexible rational agent that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal."

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Artificial intelligence could cause the biggest affliction to the entire human civilization, with the potential to outstrip all the advantages it comes with if left unmanaged. This was the powerful statement made by renowned scientist Stephen Hawking on Wednesday at a new AI research center at Cambridge University in London, as reported by US News & World Report. Companies are now purely focused on developing artificial-based intelligence systems that can imitate human behavior. The potential benefits of AI are huge, and no one can predict what humans might achieve when their minds get amplified by AI, said Hawking. The tools can definitely help to undo some of the damages that have already occurred besides eradicating poverty and disease, he added.

Google's DeepMind has been making use of Blizzard's StarCraft II Game as a testing platform for AI as well as important machine learning research. It's not just Google that can benefit from this platform either; it's open to anyone who wants to make use of it and is available worldwide. The company commented, "We've worked closely with the StarCraft II team to develop an API that supports something similar to previous bots written with a'scripted' interface, allowing programmatic control of individual units and access to the full game state (with some new options as well)." The two companies are still working together now, this time creating "curriculum scenarios." These are tasks that get more difficult as they are completed and are designed to allow AI researchers to get the system up and running, benchmark algorithms, and advance.