Amazon recently unveiled Alexa for Hospitality, a specialized version of its digital assistant designed for hotel rooms and concierge tasks. With Alexa for Hospitality, users can call the front desk, order room service, or find a local business, according to the product page. For business travelers, Alexa for Hospitality could eventually provide a more personal stay. According to the product page, users will eventually be able to link their personal Amazon account to the in-room Alexa, granting them the ability to listen to their audiobooks or call personal contacts. This could make it easier for business professionals to stay connected with their team while on the road.

WhatsApp, the popular messaging apps acquired by Facebook for $19 billion in 2014, has been adding new features on a regular basis. As of January 2018, WhatsApp was hitting 1.5 billion monthly users who are sending 60 billion messages per day. While WhatsApp seems like a basic and simple instant message application, it has a number of interesting and sophisticated features. WhatsApp allows you to back up your chat conversations and media using a cloud storage service so that you can restore the content again when you switch devices. You can set this up so it backs up automatically every day, every week or every month. This feature can be found under Settings Chats Chat Backup Auto Backup. WhatsApp backs up with iCloud on iOS and Google Drive on Android.

While teachers may always be the best line of defense for students falling behind, busy schedules don't always permit the special attention and feedback that students need. That's where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. "These intelligent tools can adapt pacing based on the student's ability … and provide targeted, corrective feedback in case the student makes mistakes, so that the student can learn from them," states an eSchool News report released earlier this year. "These tools also gather actionable insights and information about a student's progress and report the data back to the teacher." Understandably, there is still some hesitation at the idea of using this technology, as education professionals fear the day robots will replace teachers.

Some more examples are used commonly in our everyday routines. Virtual personal assistants like Siri or Amazon's Alexa or Google's personal assistant help make routine tasks even simpler. You simply ask, 'What is my schedule for the day?' and it bombards you with your plan. News generation or purchase prediction, it can do it all and serve millions every single day. You must have noticed the chat option which comes on many websites when you're browsing, what is it?

Yet like a handful of local dating apps in this traditionally conservative country, Tinder's biggest challenge appears to be getting enough women to sign on. In many parts of India, arranged marriages--as opposed to what Indians call "love marriages"--remain the norm, and dating in any form still carries a stigma, particularly for women. Indian women who have dabbled with dating apps complain they get overwhelmed by all the attention that comes with the surplus of men. "The barrage of messages that hits your inbox is like a swarm of locusts," said Anushree Majumdar, age 33, in Mumbai. She uses dating apps only occasionally, she said, and can understand why women are intimidated by them.

Are you among the millions of consumers across the world who have an Amazon Echo or a Google Home? Or are you creeped out by'always connected' smart home devices that are'watching' and'listening' to you always? A Cisco survey in December 2017 found that only 9 percent of consumers fully trusted IoT devices. Surprisingly, despite the vote of no confidence for connected devices, the survey found that the majority of people who use IoT devices were not willing to give them up. Smart home devices are enhancing people's lives and while it might be too much of a good thing for some, many consumers are in no mood to unplug them anytime soon.

If you're getting thumb strain from trying to swipe your way to the perfect partner on Tinder, the latest update to the dating app could be the solution for you. Tinder is piloting a new feature, dubbed'Picks', that ditches the need to constantly swipe left or right to trawl through users' profiles on the dating service. Instead, Tinder Picks highlights a handful of fellow lonely hearts that it believes will be a good match, based on similar career, hobbies and interests. Although any Tinder user can see the profiles picked-out for them by the app, only those who subscribe to the Los Angeles-based dating company's £7.49 Tinder Picks will highlight a handful of dating app users who share similar interests, hobbies, and jobs.

The sudden takeover of voice assistants is another milestone of digital transformation and, for many, it is yet another wake-up call. Humans are not alone anymore in any game, so why would sales be any different? However, can robots replace your sales reps? Also, the next question: is it good or bad? Humans love to have their voices heard – you can see the proof in the ever-growing popularity of voice-enabled digital assistants or VEDAs.

Artificial intelligence has an unimaginable potential. Within the next couple of years, it will revolutionize every area of our life, including medicine. I am fully convinced that it will redesign healthcare completely – and for the better. Let's take a look at the promising solutions it offers. There are various thought leaders who believe that we are experiencing the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, impacting all disciplines, economies and industries, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human.

How many times have you heard that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is humanity's biggest threat? Some people think that Google brought us a step closer to a dark future when Duplex was announced last month, a new capability of Google's digital Assistant that enables it to make phone calls on your behalf to book appointments with small businesses. Google Assistant will start making phone calls to small businesses to make appointments on you behalf. The root of the controversy lied on the fact that the Assistant successfully pretended to be a real human, never disclosing its true identity to the other side of the call. Many tech experts wondered if this is an ethical practice or if it's necessary to hide the digital nature of the voice.