Tinder does not allow its users to send photographs to their matches, the better to prevent…well, you can guess. But as of Tuesday, the dating app is allowing users in Canada and Mexico to use images from the personalized-avatar app Bitmoji on Tinder, allowing them to slide into each other's DMs with flirtatious cartoons. Tinder users can message each other within the app, but the company's ban on sending images to keep out explicit content does have a significant downside: Tinder users are limited to seeing only a few carefully curated photos of other users on the site. Users can select anywhere from one to nine images of themselves to attach to their profile, which others can view when swiping through the app. Beyond that, it may be a bit of a mystery what another person on Tinder really looks like.

We've only posted one sale on the Instax SP-2 when we saw it briefly drop during the holiday season, so while this isn't a huge drop, it's a nice savings that you can use on more film. The Fujifilm INSTAX SHARE SP-2 Smart Phone Printer is an also great pick in our guide to the best instant camera. "If you want to keep shooting with your smartphone but like the idea and look of an old-school, tangible print, the Fujifilm Instax Share SP-2 is the best instant printer available," Erin Lodi wrote. "You can easily connect your phone to the printer via Wi-Fi and share access to your library of images with the free Instax Share app, which you can then use to do some minor editing and add a filter or a custom border. Press the print button, and the SP-2's high-resolution 320 dpi print is ready in just 10 seconds."

Google is no stranger to serving up contextual info and commands when they're relevant. But wouldn't it be nice if could curate and organize that info in a way that could help with a jam-packed schedule? The search firm is currently trotting out a "visual snapshot" for Assistant on mobile devices that provides the info and controls the AI helper believes you'll need to make it through the day. It prioritizes navigation, but scrolling down will show you your itinerary, reminders, reservations (such as flights and movies) and eventually less essential content like stock prices and Assistant action suggestions. As you'd expect, the data will vary based on the time of day, where you are and your recent history with Assistant.

If you've been waiting to pick up the Sonos Beam soundbar, now's your chance. The speaker is now on sale for $399 on the Sonos website and at retailers. When we reviewed Beam, we gave it a score of 85, given its excellent sound quality, solid price point and support for AirPlay 2. Unlike the Playbar and Playbase soundbars, this one has Amazon Alexa built in, which you can use to control your TV with your voice (Google Assistant support should arrive later). Beam also has a night mode feature which boosts the volume of quiet sounds while suppressing louder ones, meaning you might no longer need to wear headphones for late-night movie watching. In addition, the speaker can enhance speech to make dialogue easier to hear.

Tinder is giving its users new ways to flirt. The dating app announced on Tuesday that it's testing a feature that will let users send Bitmojis to their matches. For now, it's only available for users in Mexico and Canada, but Tinder may eventually launch Bitmojis in the app globally. Tinder is giving its users new ways to flirt. The dating app announced on Tuesday that it's testing a feature that will let users send Bitmojis to their matches US users are expected to gain access to Bitmojis in the app by the end of this summer, Tinder told Engadget.

This is new territory for families. For the first time, children who are too young to distinguish fantasy from reality are engaging with devices powered by artificial intelligence. Many see smart speakers as magical, imbue them with human traits and boss them around like a Marine drill instructor, according to several new studies in the past year. Hunter Walk, a San Francisco venture capitalist, worried that his family's Amazon Echo "is turning our daughter into a raging asshole," he wrote in a blog post in 2016, because of the 4-year-old's tendency to boss it around. He has since set rules around how to talk to the device and said he hasn't noticed any rude behavior by his daughter, who is now 6. "I still have concerns," Mr. Walk says.

AFTER graduating from the pages of Sci-Fi novels to the screens of computer scientists in mere decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has morphed from concept to reality quicker than you can say "buzzword". Despite protestations, we have moved swiftly past the point of AI's place as a buzzword in the corporate lexicon. Artificial Intelligence brings with it a confluence of fear and excitement; of expectations and radical change. But questions about its capacity to solve real-world problems linger. We brought together a panel of AI, robotics, and customer experience (CX) experts to deliberate the current state of AI––the challenges for brands and consumers–– and what the future holds.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has blown up in the past few years and is quickly starting to take over the world of business marketing. From digital assistants like Alexa and Google Home to Siri and search algorithms, AI allows consumers to access the information they want quickly and efficiently. It's predicted that the world of AI is only going to continue to grow until it's incorporated into most aspects of our business and personal lives. Biz Journals anticipates that "62% of enterprises will use AI technologies by 2018", which has increased from the 38% of businesses that were using it in 2017. Some are afraid that AI is going to take jobs away from marketers by performing tasks usually carried out by humans, but this isn't the case. Rather, AI is able to quickly carry out a lot of the time-consuming, tedious tasks previously required by small business owners so that their time can be freed up to focus on more in-depth tasks that require a human's level of personalization.

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 07: Founder and CEO of Essential Products Andy Rubin speaks onstage at WIRED Business Conference presented by Visa at Spring Studios on June 7, 2017 in New York City. Its Amazon Prime day and one of the biggest discounts that are available is on the Essential Phone in Halo Gray coming in at $250 (see here) just 35% of what it was selling for just one year ago. Adding this deeply discounted product to the news that the company Essential Products Inc, is up for sale is a further indication that the ecosystem that Andy Rubin was going to build has failed badly. The focus has now switched to the smart home but without a smartphone, the ecosystem has almost zero chance. Essential Products' long-term strategy is to build a hardware-based ecosystem of devices which would offer better and smarter access to the Digital Life services that are used every day.

Our previous article on " Artificial Intelligence in Hotels " spoke about how AI can impact the operational processes and dynamics within the hospitality industry. This final article in the 3 part series will focus on using the inherent capability of AI along with predictive analytics and natural language processing to synchronize and optimize the entire information management system to deliver exceptional customer service. Intelligent hotel system is where all the data channels are linked together just like human arteries and veins, forming a superlative, productive and high-performance structure that resembles the future vision of automated hotel system. IoT-enabled connections of motion sensors, room control, and smart voice control are poised to change the way hotels function. Integration of IoT into intelligence-driven hotel operations will not only personalize hotel guest experience but also impact the business model of the hotel industry in the near future.