If you haven't upgraded to the glorious 4K HDR life yet, now's the perfect time to see what you're missing for cheap. Best Buy is selling a 43-inch 4K HDR Toshiba Smart TV with Amazon's Fire TV built-in for $200Remove non-product link. That price beats Amazon's all-time historical low by $50 and the current Amazon price by $100. The Toshiba 4K UHD Fire TV Edition features Amazon's Fire TV (obviously) and a voice remote with the Alexa digital assistant built-in. You can use Alexa to launch apps, search for programming, switch between TV inputs, and control smart home devices.

It turns out that even robots are having a tough time holding down a job. Japan's Henn-na "Strange" Hotel has laid off half its 243 robots after they created more problems than they could solve, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. One of the layoffs included a doll-shaped assistant in each hotel room called Churi. Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa can answer questions about local businesses' opening and closing times, but Churi couldn't. When hotel guests asked Churi "What time does the theme park open?" it didn't have a good answer.

From the invention of smartphones to digital assistants like Siri or Alexa breakthrough technology has been an extremely hot topic in recent years. Many aspects of life revolve around technology, but some of the most incredible innovations, however, are unseen by the majority of us in our daily lives. Generally speaking, it was much more grim to receive a cancer diagnosis roughly 50 years ago than it is today. The 5-year survival rate for childhood leukemia was just 14 percent from 1960 to 1963, for example, but has more than quadrupled to 61.4 percent. There has been a number of significant advancements in the world of cancer care and more breakthroughs have been made since the start of the 21st century than any period of time prior.

"It's easier now that we're not being frequently called by guests to help with problems with the robots," one staff member reportedly said. The hotel initially hoped that the robots would help it to overcome a labour shortage in the rural area that it is based. It wanted to use the robots for everything from stirring cocktails to answering a plethora of guest queries. But the robots were not advanced enough to perform many of the tasks that it wanted them to do. Guests became frustrated when their in-room robot "Churi," which lagged behind other AI assistants like Siri and Alexa, failed to answer their questions. One guest was reportedly awoken every few hours because a robot thought he was asking it a question when he was in fact just snoring.

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform the consumer journey has dominated industry conversations in recent years. At its lowest common denominator, AI enables brands to better synthesize mounds of data and incorporate those learnings to improve the commerce experience. This is brought to life in a variety of ways, from empowering store associates to enabling more powerful search to providing the personal touch. Artificial intelligence is expected to be the most impactful technology for commerce over the next five years.Getty AI, which refers to technologies capable of performing tasks normally requiring human intelligence, goes back centuries. The idea of cognitive computing gained steam in the 1930s when Alan Turing suggested that a machine could simulate any conceivable act of mathematical deduction.

When you're lost, Siri can be your best friend. But if she can't retrieve the right address from your contacts, she can drive you crazy. And so it is with the legion of virtual personal assistants that are entering our lives. From Amazon's Alexa to Google's Home, people are busy talking to intelligent machines as never before. It's estimated that more than 60 percent of internet traffic is now generated by machine-to-machine, and person-to-machine, communication.

Microsoft is splitting up search and voice assistant Cortana in Windows 10, giving each their own spot on the taskbar in the latest build for Windows Insiders testers. The change should go live for everyone in the next major update to Windows 10, which is planned for April. The move, according to Microsoft, should improve both functions as it "will enable each experience to innovate independently to best serve their target audiences and use cases." The search box will be solely for text queries, while Cortana will of course handle voice queries. Microsoft has placed more focus on improving search lately.

Microsoft's Insider preview builds for 19H1, the next major update for Windows 10, haven't been packed as chock full of new features as in releases past, favoring tweaks and adjustments instead. The Windows Insider Build 18317 released on Wednesday also goes this route, most notably by separating Cortana from the Windows 10 search box. The new build also includes new ways to import fonts, a tweaked Windows Console for Linux, and a separate process for the Start menu, a behind-the-scenes change that's being made for stability's sake. The most significant change is the separation of Cortana and the search box, which Microsoft has been testing with a few Insider builds previously. "This will enable each experience to innovate independently to best serve their target audiences and use cases," Microsoft executives wrote in a blog post.

The bedside lamp lights up gradually 30 minutes before your morning alarm is set to go off. After being roused from your sleep, you say "Good Morning" and the bathroom lights turn on immediately. As you get dressed for work in front of the mirror, it recognises who you are and starts displaying newsfeed customised for you. These scenarios were among the numerous artificial intelligence (AI) showcases at last week's CES in Las Vegas, the world's largest consumer electronics trade fair. From the pre-show presentation of tech sales and forecasts by CES 2019 organiser Consumer Technology Association (CTA) to the keynotes by different technology firms, AI was a topic constantly mentioned.

Data science has become a go-term for almost all the industries, including e-commerce. According to a report by a leading newspaper, India is the fastest growing online retail among the top global economies. With a growth rate of more than 50%, e-commerce websites have become more competitive than ever before. As the competition rises, these e-commerce players are resorting towards the use of technology such as analytics and data science to stay ahead of the competition. With an ever-growing data, it has become crucial for these players to use it in a way to keep the customers happy and satisfies.