To answer the question posed in the subhed, no, Polk didn't create the Command Bar by taking a hole saw to the middle of its chassis and dropping an Amazon Echo Dot in there. But the feature is unquestionably designed to look like that, and this soundbar does support Amazon's Alexa digital assistant. Soundbars are hot these days, and they run the gamut from sub-$100 cheapies to the ludicrously priced, but wow-it's-impressive Creative X-Fi Sonic Carrier. Polk is going after the better-than-entry-level market with this $300 speaker. That makes it $100 cheaper than the recently reviewed Sonos Beam, and it comes with a nicely matched subwoofer.

When you buy an item on a favored website, does the site show you pictures of what others have bought? Retailers have been building such systems for years, many built using the programming language R. For older implementations of recommender systems, it's time to consider improving performance and scalability by moving these systems to the cloud --the Azure cloud. Recently, we were asked to help a customer improve the performance and process surrounding the R implementation of their recommender solution and host the model in Azure. Many of their early analytic products were built in R, and they wanted to preserve that investment. After a review of their solution, we identified bottlenecks that could be vanquished.

Winning a competition really can stoke a man's ego – to the extent that they may be more likely to cheat on their partners, a new study suggests. Researchers have found that men experience a testosterone boost when they believe they've bested another man at something, causing some to view themselves as a more valuable'sexual prospect.' And, it all boils down to the belief that they have won, as opposed to the actual effort of the task itself. The study showed that winning causes hormonal fluctuations in men that can influence their sexual behaviour and make them more likely to approach attractive women. Researchers have found that men experience a testosterone boost when they believe they've bested another man at something, causing some to view themselves as a more valuable'sexual prospect.'

Primary care serves as patients' first point of contact with the healthcare system and is a continuing focal point of comprehensive, accessible, and community-based care [1]. More than just a gate-keeping process for specialist referrals, it has been widely recognized for its focus on caring for the longterm health of patients rather than solely for treating specific diseases or conditions. As such, primary care helps deliver more equitable health outcomes across populations and meets 80-90% of individuals' health needs throughout their lives [2]. To this end, a recent special report from the Economist stated that "good primary care is an essential precondition for a decent healthcare system" [3]. The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasized several defining features for effective and socially productive primary care, including comprehensiveness, person-centeredness, and continuity of care [4]. In particular, person-centeredness refers to the "clinical method of participatory democracy" that allows patients to participate in decisions that affect their health.

The promises of AI are great, but understanding the considerations needed to build and implement AI within an organization is challenging. Building the right solution, leveraging the skill sets available and solving the highest-priority problems for the banking organization is the key to success. Subscribe to The Financial Brand via email for FREE!From business innovations and media headlines to TV and movies, it seems that artificial intelligence (AI) is virtually everywhere. While still in its early stages across the financial services industry, AI adoption is expected to accelerate over the next few years. And it's expected to save companies big bucks.

Scientists say the secrets to success in online dating are to aim high, keep your message brief, and be patient. Playing "out of your league" or dating people considered more attractive than you, is a winning strategy, according to a new analysis of internet daters in the US. Men had greater success when they approached women they believed were more desirable than themselves. The new study has been published in the journal, Science Advances. Internet dating has become the dominant form for those seeking romance - it's the third most popular means of meeting a long term partner and around half of all 18-34 year olds now use dating apps.

You know the type: Those friends who think they've found the best way to game Tinder, insist wearing a dress instead of jeans will catch someone's attention, or that the most fruitful way to find love is by going on the Bachelor. There is so much dating lore and folk wisdom out there, but we've never really had hard data behind it--at least until now. A group of researchers recently attempted to decode the world of heterosexual online dating and found not just that women go for older men and men for younger women, but that so many Americans are seeking a partner "out of their league." On average, researchers found, both heterosexual men and women go after people who are around 25 percent more "desirable" than themselves. But, you're probably wondering, how the hell are they defining what makes someone "desirable"?

Someday, Boris Sofman wants families to sit down and debate: cat, dog or robot? Sofman is the chief executive and founder of Anki, a robotics company that's made its mark in the toy world since launching its first product in 2013, a set of smart racing cars. It followed that product's success with a toy robot called Cozmo in 2016, which the company says is the best-selling toy on Amazon in the United States, the United Kingdom and France. A new product, Vector, launched Tuesday on Kickstarter and offers the first hint of Anki's broader consumer robotics ambitions. "Our north star . . . is to have a robot in every home," Sofman said in an interview with The Washington Post.

If you're struggling to find matches on dating apps, it may be because you're setting your sights too high. A study found the majority of online daters are seeking potential dates who are at least 25 per cent more attractive than themselves. Daters focussing on people'out of their league' may explain why a lot of messages on apps go unanswered, scientists said. The tactic might not get you as many dates as those with realistic expectations - but the study did show one in five people who use it manage to get at least one reply. If you're struggling to find matches on dating apps, it may be because you're setting your sights too high. Study coauthor Professor Elizabeth Bruch, a sociologist at the University of Michigan, said: 'I think a common complaint when people use online dating websites is they feel like they never get any replies.

Amidst the great debate over whether artificial intelligence (AI) will steal human jobs, there has been little discussion of how it will transform corporate cultures in new and unprecedented ways. In the era of automation, the most successful businesses will be those that redesign their working environment and workforce around harnessing the cognitive capabilities of machines in the same way that Victorian-era industry was redesigned around harnessing the physical capabilities of steam and mechanization. AI will demand a radical culture shift because it alters the relationship between machines and humans, changing machines from passive receivers of commands into informed, sentient collaborators. In doing so, it will also transform the skills that organizations seek to find and foster in human workers. Fundamentally, AI will require human workspaces to be built around powering processes, products and services with data in the same way the Machine Age saw society reconfigured around powering machines with electricity.