Following warnings from the FTC, both Apple and Google have removed several dating apps from their platforms that they say allowed children to join. According to a letter sent by the FTC to Ukraine-based Wildec LLC, which owns FastMeet, Meet24 and Meet4U, the trio of dating apps allowed children as young as 12 to participate in the service and communicate with adults. In an FTC investigation of the app, the organization says they were also able to identify and confirm multiple children within the service using a built-in age filter that allows users to search by age. A trio of dating apps was removed by Google and Apple for allowing children under 13-years-old to participate. The FTC says the apps have already been used by sexual predators.

Even after all these years, the first thing that likely comes to mind when you think Google is search. Google has long been about way more than that, of course, and the annual Google I/O developer conference, now underway in Mountain View, California, is where the Alphabet-subsidiary previews new hardware, software and other products. Google didn't ignore search during I/O and showcased 3D and augmented reality effects to make search that much more meaningful; it brought a virtual shark onto the I/O stage during one demo. What's more, using the Google Lens tool, the company showed how you could point a camera at a sign in a foreign language to not only translate that sign but to read aloud its contents. And it announced the next generation of the Google Assistant (coming later in the year) that Google says is 10 times faster than today's Assistant.

Imagine that your team is meeting to decide whether to continue an expensive marketing campaign. After a few minutes, it becomes clear that nobody has the metrics on-hand to make the decision. You chime in with a solution and ask Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa to back you up with information: "Alexa, how many users did we convert to customers last month with Campaign A?" and Alexa responds with the answer. You just amplified your team's intelligence with AI. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Today's intelligent assistants are full of skills. They can check the weather, traffic and sports scores. They can play music, translate words and send text messages. They can even do math, tell jokes and read stories. But, when it comes to conversations that lead somewhere grander, the wheels fall off.

The BBC is developing a voice-activated electronic assistant in an attempt to rival Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri. It will similarly be styled as a character – currently dubbed'Auntie' by insiders in a nod to the BBC's longstanding nickname – but will be renamed before launch to make it more'modern-sounding'. The assistant would be available to download free on smartphones and smart TVs in the UK. It would allow users to seek information across the internet by issuing a verbal instruction. The BBC is developing a voice-activated electronic assistant in an attempt to rival Amazon's Alexa (pictured) For example, users could ask the app to get weather reports, play the most recent episode of The Archers or work out the quickest route to work.

Apple's latest feature might allow you to unlock your phone using your ears or cheeks. Q: I am a freelancer working from home, and I want to record calls with my clients. How can I record calls on my smartphone? A: Android makes it much easier to record calls, depending on the device, of course. Android 9 Pie, for example, disabled the ability for third-party apps to record calls. Some smartphone apps require you to set up calls like a conference call, so it may take a few extra steps to get going.

Recommending appropriate items to users is crucial in many e-commerce platforms that contain implicit data as users' browsing, purchasing and streaming history. One common approach consists in selecting the N most relevant items to each user, for a given N, which is called top-N recommendation. To do so, recommender systems rely on various kinds of information, like item and user features, past interest of users for items, browsing history and trust between users. However, they often use only one or two such pieces of information, which limits their performance. In this paper, we design and implement GraFC2T2, a general graph-based framework to easily combine and compare various kinds of side information for top-N recommendation. It encodes content-based features, temporal and trust information into a complex graph, and uses personalized PageRank on this graph to perform recommendation. We conduct experiments on Epinions and Ciao datasets, and compare obtained performances using F1-score, Hit ratio and MAP evaluation metrics, to systems based on matrix factorization and deep learning. This shows that our framework is convenient for such explorations, and that combining different kinds of information indeed improves recommendation in general.

What if our phones turned out to be racist, misogynistic, homophobic pricks? Artificial intelligence assistants such as Siri and Alexa are great for convenience and offer a number of benefits. But they also have a lot of flaws and discrimination is one of them. Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have all admitted this. And they're trying to perfect this tech so we can have more ethical, humane AI in our lives.

LinkedIn is one of the favorite recruiting platforms in the market. Everyday, recruiters from all over the world rely on LinkedIn to source and filter candidates for specific career opportunities. Specifically, LinkedIn Recruiter is the product that helps recruiters build and manage a talent pool that optimizes the chances of a successful hire. The effectiveness of LinkedIn Recruiter is powered by an incredibly sophisticated series of search and recommendation algorithms that leverage state of the art machine learning architectures with the pragmatism of real world systems. It's not a secret that LinkedIn has been one of the software giants that has been pushing the boundaries of machine learning research and development.

Q: I am a freelancer working from home, and I want to record calls with my clients. How can I record calls on my smartphone? A: Android makes it much easier to record calls, depending on the device, of course. Android 9 Pie, for example, disabled the ability for third-party apps to record calls. Some smartphone apps require you to set up calls like a conference call, so it may take a few extra steps to get going.