The flood of trolling on Rotten Tomatoes started about a month ago. Weeks before the release of Captain Marvel, commenters on the site were already claiming the movie was garbage and that they had no intentions of seeing it. "Terrible movie hate it already!!!!!!" wrote one. "Not interested in seeing another SJW [Social Justice Warrior] propaganda film," claimed another. And finally: "THIS MOVIE IS DESTINED TO FLOP."

Cedars-Sinai is making some of its hospital rooms a little more like home for patients with the help of Amazon Alexa. The Los Angeles hospital on Monday said it's piloting a system called Avia, which it calls "the world's first patient-centered voice assistant platform for hospitals." As part of the pilot, Cedars-Sinai has equipped more than 100 rooms with Amazon Echo smart speakers so patients can use Alexa to control the TV or summon a nurse with just the sound of their voice. Patients in these "smart hospital rooms" can say things like "Alexa, change the channel to ESPN" when they want to watch sports on TV or "Alexa, tell my nurse I need to use the restroom" when they need assistance getting out of bed. Healthcare requests are sent to the appropriate person's mobile phone--whether that be a caregiver, nurse, clinical partner, manager, or administrator.

While the way that businesses have used marketing campaigns over the years has changed, the reasons have not. Every business wants to reach its ideal customer just when that customer needs it. With the constant flux of new technologies, the way that companies need to reach these customers has to evolve to make up the difference. Here are 6 digital marketing trends to consider for your 2019 marketing strategy. Today's consumer uses multiple channels to research, compare, buy from and interact with businesses.

Tinder has college students covered. The dating app is introducing a new feature called Spring Break mode that will allow prospective matches to display where they will be traveling over break. The mode will have more than 20 popular destinations to choose from and will be available to college kids students using Tinder U. Spring Break badges can be displayed from March 4th through March 31st. Tinder users will be able to set up their Spring Break badge when they see the Spring Break card appear in their pile of matches. Once it appears, daters will have the ability to select a vacation destination where they'll be the mid-semester recess.

Rotten Tomatoes is overhauling its Audience Rating System in an effort to stamp out so-called "review bombing." As part of the ongoing changes, the review aggregation site is axing the "want to see" audience anticipation rating ahead of a film's release. The update arrives in the wake of the latest "review bombing" campaign against Captain Marvel, the first female-led Marvel Studios movie, which saw trolls weaponize the user rating system to drive down its "want to see" score to a paltry 28 percent. This despite all box office tracking estimates indicating the film was set for a blockbuster opening. According to Rotten Tomatoes, visitors were confusing the "want to see" rating with its "Audience Score."

Industry pundits are forecasting that AI will become a key strategic initiative for businesses in 2019, but in actuality, AI is already all around us. We're just taking it for granted. AI has the potential to change the world in major ways -- perhaps helping find the cure for cancer, or helping us reverse (or at least reduce) the damage caused by global warming and other environmental issues, or completely taking humans out of the driver's seat in cars. But these lofty goals are, unfortunately, years away. What is here today, however, is all kinds of instances of pragmatic AI, silently working behind the scenes unobtrusively and making our lives easier.

Walt Disney Co.'s "Captain Marvel" is expected to open with a spectacular $100 million in ticket sales from the U.S. and Canada alone next month. And yet, according to the highly influential website Rotten Tomatoes, only 28% of moviegoers are interested in seeing Marvel Studios' first superhero film with a solo female lead. Blame online trolls, who have previously waged campaigns to lower audience ratings for movies including "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" and "Ghostbusters" by flooding their pages with negative, sometimes sexist comments. Such "review bombing" efforts are a serious problem for Rotten Tomatoes, which depends on credible ratings to drive traffic to its free website. The company, owned by the largest online movie ticket seller, Fandango, now has a plan to curb the abuse.

With an upcoming update, Google assistant will show relevant suggestions about the subject of the message while it is being typed. The assistant will look for keywords in the message which with the help of AI algorithms will be used to populate the suggestions. One such example of this feature could be suggesting reviews of a particular place or destination that is being talked about in the message. Not just this, Google will also introduce 7 new Indic languages to its Google Assistant. Doing so will enable support for Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Urdu.

Over two months since Apple Music landed on Amazon Echo, it's now set for another smart speaker that isn't the HomePod. A listing for the music streaming service has been spotted inside the Google Home app for iOS by a Mac Rumors reader. Though it's currently not live, the update (Apple Music was previously slotted in the app's "limited availability" section) indicates that it could be imminent. Until December, the HomePod was the only smart speaker with Apple Music availability. That changed with its arrival on the Echo, and its Google Home debut would put it on all three leading smart speakers.

The world is fast evolving, with Artificial intelligence (AI) at the forefront in changing the world and the way we live. This article is Part 1 of a 2 part series. An important question: What is AI? For many people, it remains unclear what this technology is all about, so this is a good place to start the conversation. AI is a branch in computer science that deals with the intelligent behavior of machines.