It's difficult to talk about security analytics without considering machine learning. Machine learning is used to detect malicious websites, flow anomalies, infectious files, infected endpoints and user behavior anomalies. It's applied to big data repositories to glean information and insights that may otherwise go undetected. Multiple industries are using machine learning to better automate security screening, border entry, college applicant selection, loan analytics and health care. Behind the scenes, almost every industry that affects our daily lives involves some type of machine learning. Machine learning is based upon statistical analytics of existing data and learning applied to new data sets.

This week brings us one chatbot, one'robot judge' closer in the AI revolution of legal. While financial, services and other industries charge head-on into the technological future, legal's embrace of technology has been a reluctant move at best. As Clutch Group president Brandon Daniels told me in a conversation earlier this week, when it comes to legal, "the application of artificial intelligence tends to create some trepidation." Originally published on LegalTech News. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Positive Grid can already provide you with modelled guitar amps and effects in your iPad, and now the company is set to provide a virtual drummer as well. In fact, it's claimed that AI Drums could be your "best songwriting partner", being "the world's first artificial intelligence drum app". Positive Grid says that, with just a few finger taps, AI Drums can learn your song structure, BPM and music style. It'll then search through thousands of drum patterns and kits in the cloud and select those that are most suitable, though you can change the'feel'. We're also told that, because it uses "the latest AI technology and deep machine learning", the more you use AI Drums, the more it learns about your drum preferences.

Chatbots and conversational interfaces are the new big thing: they are intuitive, natural, and can be quickly deployed without downloading a new app. Use cases for enterprises are numerous: agenda management, customer support, ... During this talk, we will focus on one particular B2B application: how intelligent assistants can reinvent the way analysts and data scientists access and spread advanced data analytics across organizations.

NowDiscover, a unique content recommendation engine built to bridge the gap between video content and e-commerce/retail, has formally launched. Following months of successful customer trials of the platform, which tailors video content into product websites to increase sales, is now full accessible to businesses worldwide in Beta. NowDiscover parses product data from any online store before scouring YouTube for videos that are likely to help consumers reach their purchasing decision and automatically integrates these videos directly into e-merchant's site. The platform has proven to boost sales and saves both e-merchants and consumers time by delivering informative tutorials, branded, unboxing and review videos via a proprietary player at the crucial moment in the shopping journey. Commenting on the launch, co-founder Vishal Kawatra said: "NowDiscover bridges the gap between content and ecommerce, giving the shopper the video experience they want. The increased amount of video content across online platforms has left consumers wanting richer more immersive experiences before they buy. NowDiscover satiates consumer desire for authentic as well as branded product videos to inform purchase decisions."

Like many tech enthusiasts, I've been using a $180 Amazon Echo intelligent speaker at my home for a year or more. And, while I love using it for some things -- playing music and podcasts, setting timers, and re-ordering items from Amazon -- I've come to realize that, like Apple's Siri and all other virtual assistants, its Alexa voice-driven artificial intelligence system disappoints a lot. So I was excited to test Google Home, the $129 Echo competitor that puts the search giant's much-touted new Google Assistant intelligence technology inside a small, but powerful Echo-like speaker and microphone unit. Surely, I thought, after collecting all that info about the world (and about me) for years and years, Google would crush Amazon in the home-intelligence race. But after nearly a week of using two Google Home units in two different rooms, my conclusions are decidedly mixed.

"The law is an ass," said Charles Dickens. That may be so but it is a predictable one at that. Researchers at University College London, the University of Sheffield and the University of Pennsylvania applied an AI algorithm to the judicial decisions of 584 cases that went through the European Court of Human Rights and found patterns in the text. Having learned from these cases, the algorithm was able to predict the outcome of other cases with 79 percent accuracy. Interestingly, it was found that rather than legal argument being predictive of case outcomes, the most reliable factors were non-legal elements: language used, topics covered and circumstances mentioned in the case text.

OK, now this is clever. That was my reaction when I asked Google Home, "What's the temperature inside?" and it replied, "It's currently 73 degrees, but the Nest is set to 65." Google's hyper-aware, voice-activated speaker dishes up a lot of surprising answers, and it's smarter, better sounding, and better looking than Amazon Echo. At $129, Google Home also beats the Echo's current price by $51. That's significant, because the two digital assistants promise essentially the same features and benefits. And both let you control other smart home devices with voice commands.

There's a place where the internet, Wi-Fi, and GPS do not exist. Communication is haphazard: Sometimes messages arrive different times at the same place, the same time at different places, or not at all. For scientists talking to submarines, robots, and other instruments, data travels at dial-up speeds of single bytes per minute--far slower than the megabits per second we use in the office or at home. Oceanographic researchers have gotten around the problem by connecting devices to tethers of fiber optic cable or copper wires, which provide enough bandwidth to stream images of the Titanic or weird creatures that live around underwater volcanic hot springs. But the heavy cables can also get tangled, dragging down the vehicles they connect.

After years of steady growth, innovation and sometimes disappointment, the robotics market is heating up on several fronts amid some new breakthroughs in the arena. Both the industrial and service robotics markets are hot. In addition, the consumer market is seeing a new level of interest, as the industry is invaded by the next wave of so-called personal assistant robots or social robots for the home. Asus, Blue Frog Robotics, InGen, Jibo, NEC, Samsung and others are developing various personal assistant robots for consumers. In addition, a number of companies from China are also developing them. Personal assistant robots might be the next big thing. "If successful, Jibo (and its competitors) could usher in a new consumer electronics market--social robots for the home," said Dan Kara, an analyst at ABI Research. "Personal robots, often called social robots, are technically advanced robots that interact directly with people and are designed to assist in the home, or to act as a companion," Kara said.