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Reality Check: How AI & Machine Learning Change CMS

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While driverless vehicles and personal assistants like Alexa are the innovations that steal the spotlight and get the most public attention, there isn't a day that goes by without news about how artificial intelligence will transform every aspect of our daily lives. Today, you can order a pizza through Echo while connecting it to your lights and thermostat, but the technology is still limited to specific users and use cases. By that, I don't mean to diminish its value though. After all, who am I not to agree after Andy Rubin, the Google veteran who built Android into the world's largest mobile operating system, is convinced that artificial intelligence is the next big thing? However, from the business perspective, in reality the advancement of technology gains an actual meaning when it applies to business use cases to create business value.


We Were Promised Mind-Blowing Personal Tech. What's the Hold-Up?

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A few weeks ago, I attempted to sit through Samsung's live-streamed Galaxy S9 smartphone launch event. I nearly fell asleep at my desk. Or the relocated fingerprint sensor, which is exactly what it sounds like. I realize this is a first-world problem, but in the 11 years since the release of the iPhone, advances in personal technology have gone from breakthrough to, well, pretty broke. What--and where--is the next revolutionary product, the thing that rewrites the rules and alters our lives forever?


Google Assistant can now buy movie tickets on your behalf

Engadget

Google Assistant's latest trick is ordering movie tickets. It's a partnership with Fandango that enables the digital helper to assist you with movie night decisions. You can buy tickets with your voice, or you can ask for general showtimes in your area, along with finding out a movie's cast and maybe even watching a trailer. Google says picking assigned seats is pretty simple too. It was only a matter of time before Google brought Assistant into the movie mix.


What to expect at Google I/O 2018

Engadget

It's somehow already May, which means Google's I/O developer conference is right around the corner: next week, in fact. The show is once again being held in scenic Mountain View, California, and with its keynotes, sessions and musical acts, I/O feels like a developer conference with just a hint of Coachella. Personally, we're going for the hard news, and we expect a lot of it, even despite a recent, massive Google news dump. In anticipation of all that action, here's a quick primer on what we know Google has in store for I/O, along with a few things we're likely to see once the show kicks off on Tuesday. Google's latest version of Android is already available for tinkerers, so the broad strokes are well known at this point.


Google Assistant: 12 awesome features you should be using

PCWorld

Google has had voice search features in Android for years, but when Google Assistant rolled out on the Pixel in October 2016, everything finally came together. You can now get Assistant on all modern Android devices, and Google is constantly improving the platform with new features. It can be easy to miss the improvements if you don't obsessively keep an eye on the news, so here they are in one place: the 12 coolest new features in Google Assistant. Google Assistant supports numerous smart home devices, but you might notice that devices you've just added to your account don't always work right away. You can give it a kickstart. After adding a new smart home device like a camera or thermostat, open up Assistant and say, "Sync my devices."


AI Wars: Google Assistant vs Siri vs Alexa - Cashify Blog

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Quite clearly, the future of technology is headed towards Artificial Intelligence. Many of the top tech companies have already launched their own personalized AI assistant. But in the world of AI currently, there are currently only three top players – Apple's Siri, Google's Google Assistant, and Amazon's Alexa. But amongst the three AI, which is the best? First of all, we need to understand the fact that all these AI are specific to specialized OS.


The Morning After: Gaming cheats are getting caught

Engadget

We get a vague due date for Tesla's next big project, the Model Y, Google's voice assistant makes its way into thousands more smart devices and cheaters never prosper (and possibly go to jail) when it comes to Overwatch and Fortnite. Elon Musk says it'll spark a'manufacturing revolution'. Tesla's latest prediction for Model Y's arrival is 2020 Tesla's forthcoming Model Y is still shrouded in mystery. We know it's a crossover EV, and we know it might not have mirrors... and that's about it. But CEO Elon Musk has now revealed that the company aims to bring the new vehicle to production in 2020, adding in its conference call that doing so will spark a "manufacturing revolution".


Windows 10 update bug locks machines running Chrome, Cortana and others

The Guardian

The new Windows 10 April 2018 update is causing apps such as Google's Chrome browser and even Microsoft's own Cortana virtual assistant to freeze and lock up computers. The bug within the latest version of Windows 10, which rolled out to the general public on Monday, has caused hundreds of users to take to Reddit as well as Chrome and Microsoft's support forums to complain of seemingly random incidents where machines lock up. "Everything freezes, keys don't work, Ctrl Alt Delete doesn't work," one exasperated user on Reddit called TheCuteCat said. "The ONLY way to gain back control is to make the computer sleep by pressing the power button on my laptop, then reawakening." The Guardian can confirm that the bug affects some but not all Windows 10 machines updated to the April 2018 update, and appears to impact newer computers with Intel's integrated graphics chips.


Apple took 8 days to give me the data it had collected on me. It was eye opening.

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

How much does Apple know about me? Following Facebook's acknowledgement that it had let a political ad targeting firm scrape the personal data of 87 million users, I rushed to see what kind of personal data the social network and Google had gathered on me. Both had more information, reaching back longer, than I had envisioned. I use an iPhone, iPad and two Mac computers, and Apple also offers data downloads in the privacy section of its website. It's hard to find, and once you do make the connection, you can expect a hefty wait to get the results.


The Age of AI: Managing Content Will Never Be the Same

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When the "Father of Android" Andy Rubin was betting on the next frontier two years ago by saying: "There is a point in time -- I have no idea when it is -- it won't be in the next 10 years, or 20 years -- where there is some form of AI, for lack of a better term, that will be the next computing platform," he was onto something. Today, the AI-powered innovations like driverless vehicles and personal assistants are already stealing the spotlight on a daily basis and making people more productive with their day-to-day tasks. The ripple –through effect of AI didn't only impact how we interact with the digital world but also it eventually hit the business interactions as well. By narrowing the scope of the digital business world, in this article, we will highlight how AI and machine learning can be applied to content management. When we inject "intelligence" into content management systems, from automating menial tasks to analyzing the tone of each piece of content, the possibilities are endless. As the Salesforce CMO said on the London leg of their World Tour: "Welcome to the age of artificial intelligence, the world will never be the same again and it's going to happen really quickly."