Get your day started with a video from Virgin Galactic's latest test flight and then go for a ride with Roberto Baldwin in Lamborghini's Huracán Performante Spyder. One step closer to commercial service.Virgin Galactic breaks Mach 2 in third powered test flight After being released from the VMS Eve carrier craft, the VSS Unity flew higher than it has previously, reaching a peak altitude of 170,800 feet and entering the mesosphere for the first time. It also reached speeds of Mach 2.47 during its 42-second rocket burn. All leading to Unpacked on August 9th.Samsung teases improved battery life for the Galaxy Note 9 The first in a series of teasers leading up to the launch of Samsung's next Galaxy Note, the company highlighted how frustrating it is when your battery is running down. The implication is that this new device will eliminate that, and rumors have suggested it could pack a 4,000mAh battery inside.

APAC regional legal technology conference LexTech has launched an AI assistant to help facilitate a better conference experience, making its services available through Facebook Messenger -- a first in the local legal tech industry. Called, LEXi, the Artificial Intelligence chatbot was developed by Malaysia's CanChat and will focus on addressing enquiries of LexTech delegates in real-time via Facebook Messenger. Notably, between now and August 31, 2018, potential conference delegates can secure a 20% discount code by asking LEXi for one. Lee Su Wen, Director of the LexTech Conference 2018 said that: "By leveraging on AI capabilities, the chatbot is a smart and intuitive way to provide information and directions to our audience with great convenience and speed. With LEXi taking on these tasks, we are now able to more efficiently re-allocate our manpower to the more strategically-intensive departments, and by extension creating a better experience for all delegates."

Here is an assortment of artificial intelligence quotes. Once you read some of the quotes it is easy to see why AI is so important. "I am telling you, the world's first trillionaires are going to come from somebody who masters AI and all its derivatives,and applies it in ways we never thought of." "Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? "Artificial Intelligence is the new electricity." "Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place.

We propose a tensor-based model that fuses a more granular representation of user preferences with the ability to take additional side information into account. The model relies on the concept of ordinal nature of utility, which better corresponds to actual user perception. In addition to that, unlike the majority of hybrid recommenders, the model ties side information directly to collaborative data, which not only addresses the problem of extreme data sparsity, but also allows to naturally exploit patterns in the observed behavior for a more meaningful representation of user intents. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model on several standard benchmark datasets. The general formulation of the approach imposes no restrictions on the type of observed interactions and makes it potentially applicable for joint modelling of context information along with side data.

On Thursday, the tech company said it's releasing the first of several home assistant devices with screens slated for the summer. The Smart Display, built by Lenovo and running Google's Android Things software for internet-connected devices, hits stores this weekend. Like Google's Home, Home Mini and Home Max, the Smart Display lets you control it with your voice, and focuses on playing music. But it also has either an 8-inch or 10-inch screen, on which you can watch YouTube videos, have a video chat or get better answers to some questions. The Smart Display starts at $200.

Google has taken the wraps off of the personality behind its AI-powered Assistant. To give Assistant some flair, the tech giant employs a huge group of comedians, 'empathy experts,' sound engineers, game designers, animators, illustrators and graphic designers, according to Yahoo Finance. As part of the Personality team, they're charged with incorporating various Easter eggs, conversational elements and comedic quips into users' interactions with Assistant. Google has taken the wraps off of the personality behind its AI-powered Assistant. The Personality team designs Assistant's voice user interface (VUI), or the system that enables humans to interact with Google's AI software.

The Lenovo Smart Display gives Google Assistant a face and, well, it's kind of beautiful. As promised at CES and then again at Google I/O, Lenovo is finally rolling out the first Google Assistant device with a display, delivering a fresh new spin on the smart home speaker. While Amazon has been selling its Echo Show for more than a year (and the smaller Echo Spot for about half as long), Google has taken its time with building its visual Assistant. We've seen glimpses of it on our phones, cars, and TVs (using Chromecast for the last), but Google Assistant on the Lenovo Smart Display isn't just a cobbling together of Assistant's existing screen appearances. It's an entirely new interface that adds a deep new dimension to Assistant, at once showing the limitation of voice and opening up Google's AI to far more possibilities.

Voice assistants are like sleep, magnets, or Advil: We're happy to have them, even if we don't really get how they work. You can ask a question of Siri, Alexa, Cortana, or Google Assistant, and boom: it speaks a factual answer. More impressively still, you can kid around with your voice assistant, and it'll kid right back, tossing back your goofball question ("What's the meaning of life?") with a goofball answer ("All signs indicate chocolate"). But how can an artificially intelligent being have humor, sass, and tact? How can a blob of code have a personality? Behind the scenes, human teams at Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google write every joke, program every trivia game, hammer out subroutines to handle everything you might say.

Following up on February's revealing comparison of smart speaker AI assistants, Loup Ventures today published its "annual digital assistant IQ test," tracking the performance of the four major AI assistants on smartphones. The firm suggested that Google's Assistant, Apple's Siri, and Microsoft's Cortana have all improved over the past year, but surprisingly claimed a big improvement in Siri, while saying that Cortana fell well behind Amazon's Alexa. Loup used the same set of 800 questions for each digital assistant, and spread them across five categories: local, commerce, navigation, information, and command. To better reflect the capabilities of modern assistants, this year's questions were modified from ones used in a similar April 2017 test, somewhat muddying direct year-to-year comparisons. Overall, the clear winner of the test was Google's Assistant, which correctly understood 100 percent of questions, and had the most correct answers at 85.5 percent.

Mobile app development is revolutionizing our lives turning impossible into reality. Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be unanimous choice of industry analysts. Right from chatbots, context-aware smart sensors to predictive analytics, developers and businesses are exploring innovative ways to utilize Artificial intelligence to deliver better customer service, new products and reimagine business processes. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning is causing an unprecedented change in the way that developers, businesses, and users think about modeling algorithms and intelligent interactions within applications. Machine learning is no longer in its nascent phase.