Your Google Home may soon be able to help you fall asleep at night. The search giant is planning to introduce its suite of Digital Wellbeing features to Google Assistant and Home smart speakers, according to 9to5Google. Google unveiled the Digital Wellbeing tools at its annual I/O developers conference earlier this year as a way for users to cut down on smartphone use each day. Your Google Home may soon be able to help you fall asleep at night. Details in application package kit (APK) associated with the latest Google app for Android revealed that such features were coming to its voice-activated devices and as a skill for its digital assistant. There now includes a'Digital wellbeing' setting, as well as another setting called'Downtime,' 9to5Google noted.

Online dating service OkCupid now allows its non-binary and LGBT users to choose their pronoun. Once they've selected their gender(s) from their profile, they can either select from a trio of options (she/her, he/him and they/them) or type in their chosen pronoun. Once entered, it will show up in the'details' section alongside gender and sexual orientation for others to publicly see. This follows Grindr's move last November allowing folks pick their pronouns to better include the app's transgender users. OkCupid added pronouns to help LGBTQ daters, per the company's blog post, to affirm those who want to share it with potential partners.

Earlier this year, Tinder began testing out a feature that serves up a list of curated profiles for users who were willing to pay a few extra bucks each month. Now, the popular dating app has announced that the feature, called'Top Picks,' is now launching worldwide. However, it's only available for paying subscribers of Tinder Gold, which costs £7.49 Tinder announced that'Top Picks' is now available worldwide. Top Picks quietly launched in the US and UK last week, after it was tested in Germany, Brazil, France, Canada, Turkey, Mexico, Sweden, Russia and the Netherlands, according to TechCrunch.

VUMC providers who participate in upcoming studies exploring the efficiency of voice recognition software and virtual assistants will use Nuance technology to find information about patient's vital signs, medication lists, problem lists, and general health status. Kumah-Crystal and her team will then compare individual provider's experience using virtual assistants with each provider's experience retrieving information manually. The VUMC team will do a timed task analysis to determine whether providers are able to access and review health data more quickly using either method.

At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018, BMW today premiered its digital personal assistant for its cars, the aptly named BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant. But you won't have to say "Hey, BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant" to wake it up. You can give it any name you want. The announcement comes only a few weeks after BMW also launched its integration with Amazon's Alexa, but it's worth stressing that these are complementary technologies. BMW's own assistant is all about your car, while its partnerships with Amazon and also Microsoft enables other functions that aren't directly related to your driving experience.

This year's Innovation Zone will highlight the latest innovations from Symphony RetailAI – from AI-enabled personalized marketing and demand forecasting, to virtual store remodeling, next-generation category management and Symphony RetailAI's unique digital analytic assistant, CINDE (Conversational INsights and Decision Engine). A first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence-enabled digital assistant for grocery and hard goods retail that is transforming the way retailers work. CINDE does what is humanly impossible, helping you make more intelligent business decisions at speed and scale, to drive sales, profit and customer loyalty. Comprehensive promotion planning, evaluation, and forecasting allows you to maximize the return on every promotional dollar through optimization with AI technology. Make the most of data and insights to design, collaborate & test concepts for your in-store innovations.

On May 16, via a video link, US President Donald Trump "addressed" a conference in Tianjin from Washington and floored the audience with his almost flawless Chinese. Trump highlighted the big leaps made by artificial intelligence or AI, but what impressed the audience more was the US president's tone - his Chinese intonations, inflections and pitch were near perfect. Well, as it transpired, the voice was not really Trump's, after all, but that of an AI-enabled voice technology developed by iFlytek Co Ltd. And, for the record, unlike his granddaughter, Trump hardly knows any Chinese. The iFlytek technology demonstrated its speech synthesis capability - it can produce an unbelievably human-like voice.

Apple's new iPhones will understandably grab the spotlight at the company's media shindig Wednesday at its Cupertino headquarters. But no less important for iPhone (and iPad) owners who have no intention of dashing off for the latest models, will be the official release of iOS 12. It is the software at the core of these devices that promises to freshen them up with new features and tools, including possibly adding zing to an aging handset, even one as old as the iPhone 5S. That means you should be able to install iOS 12 (which you can do for free) soon after Apple's press event. Just be aware that some of the features arriving with the latest software will require or work better on more recent hardware.

That the modern world is a complex place will not have escaped your notice. We are all dimly, unsettlingly aware that our lives are enmeshed in systems we can't fully comprehend. The last meal you ate probably contained produce grown in another country that was harvested, processed, packaged, shipped, then sold to you. The phone in your hand is the end-product of an even more convoluted chain; one that relies on human labor from mines in Africa, assembly lines in China, and standing desks in San Francisco. Explaining how these systems connect and the effect they have on the world is not an easy task.

AI has been empowering many of the world's top technology solutions. Within e-commerce, AI is being used to make the industry increasingly customer-centric. This can be seen with sales forecasts, product recommendation engines, virtual personal assistants like Siri or Alexa, AI-powered chatbots, automated warehouses, etc. Large e-commerce companies offer catalogs with thousands of products and plenty of options. Customers, however, are becoming increasingly impatient during the buying process figuring out what they want to buy in the shortest possible time.