South Korea media outlets are now saying that LG Electronics will likely adopt an advanced type of liquid crystal diode (LCD) display for its upcoming G7 flagship phone. The move is seen as the company's way to make the premium device more affordable and attractive to consumers. Korea Herald reported Monday that the LG G7 is now predicted to feature an advanced LCD panel, called M LCD. The panels will reportedly be manufactured by the tech firm's very own LG Display. An M LCD panel has pixels that are composed of green, red, blue and white colors. The pixels of such an advanced LCD panel are said to emit more light than standard LCD panels, but they consume 40 percent less power.

Amazon and Google really do want to watch your every move. A series of patents filed by the firms'outline an array of possibilities' for how their smart speakers could be used to better listen in on users. They suggest their always-on Google Home and Amazon Echo devices could know everything from a user's mood to their medical condition, and target advertising based on this data. The development comes amid a growing scandal involving the handling of the private data of 50 million users by Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Google has filed a patent application for a system that used its smart speakers and camera to spy on a user's mood or medical condition.

The word "Digital" is used so often and encompasses such a vast array of things that it could define anything from a simple wristwatch mechanism to an entire stratosphere of cloud solutions. The adage of "the only thing that's constant is change' has never held more true; technology has been and continues to be the harbinger of economic and financial evolution of mankind, and the future looks even more dramatic. If you are still skeptical, just look towards the movies from Hollywood, and you might agree that the entire genre of science fiction doesn't look that fantastical anymore. The idea of man and machines co-working to build never-thought of technological solutions is no longer relegated to just screenplays and novels, they have emerged out of the blueprints- and they are everywhere. Borrowing a term coined by Eric Schmidt, ex-CEO of Google, mankind has reached, what he calls, 'Augmented Humanity' where is technology seeped into almost everything we do in our daily lives; it adds an additional layer or layers of technical support (either via software or hardware) to make a process much more efficient.

There is no denying the presence of computers in our everyday life, whether it's through phones, personal virtual assistants such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa, or video games. Lately, the interest and development surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has escalated, and the opportunities to embrace this within the healthcare industry seem to be growing. I'm not talking about conventional robots--although robotic assisted surgery is on the rise--but the inclusion of high-speed, deep learning computers to aid diagnosis and treatment. The growth of medical knowledge is far from slowing and is expected to double every 73 days by 2020. In 2017, in excess of over 80,000 oncology papers were published, according to indexing service Web of Science.

Google has finally added native Bluetooth pairing support to their Google Home lineup of smart speakers! Now you can route your music (or give other commands) through to your Bluetooth enabled speaker.

Amazon ran a commercial on this year's Super Bowl that pretended its digital assistant Alexa had temporarily lost her voice. It featured celebrities like Rebel Wilson, Cardi B and even the company's chief executive, Jeff Bezos. While the ad riffed on what Alexa can say to users, the more intriguing question may be what she and other digital assistants can hear -- especially as more people bring smart speakers into their homes. Amazon and Google, the leading sellers of such devices, say the assistants record and process audio only after users trigger them by pushing a button or uttering a phrase like "Hey, Alexa" or "O.K., Google." But each company has filed patent applications, many of them still under consideration, that outline an array of possibilities for how devices like these could monitor more of what users say and do. That information could then be used to identify a person's desires or interests, which could be mined for ads and product recommendations.

Software developers sometimes get up to the most incredible of projects even if those projects are pretty much things that accomplish a very small specific task. With the advent of voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant, along with the ease of incorporating their SDKs into any project a person desires, people are coming up with some really incredible stuff. Simon, a software engineer, decided to put his development skills to use and build something awesome. The result -- a tank that fetches you beer. Simon started simple, buying a toy-tank chassis, and then proceeded to make it a robot.

Blockchain technology is also democratizing artificial intelligence (AI). Businesses of any size will soon be able to offer the sort of personalized recommendations that are currently the province of giant retailers like Amazon. Imagine walking into a neighborhood shop for the first time and the sales associate immediately shows you the products that match your tastes, in your size, and that you don't already own. That's the sort of intuitive experience that AI promises. The barrier is gaining access to enough high quality data about customers to adequately power those systems.

The majority of us use artificial intelligence every day -- without even realizing it. Like when Google predicts your search phrase or you issue a command to Siri or you scroll through ads and articles on your Facebook feed. And that, says AI technologist, Kriti Sharma, is dangerous. "Despite the common public perception that algorithms aren't biased like humans, in reality, they are learning racist and sexist behavior from existing data and the bias of their creators. "AI is even reinforcing human stereotypes." This story is part of a series about the intersection of gender and language, "From'Mx.'

By Atul Batra, Manthan The words "Beam me up, Scotty" created an indelible memory in my mind over thirty years ago. Never before would have anyone imagined that in as many years the world would be ushering in an era of artificial intelligence powered conversational platforms for business. As a teenager growing up with the sci-fi television series "Star Trek" I was fascinated with Captain Kirk saying the lines ".....to boldly go where no one has gone before." Such powerful portrayal of the future played a part in inspiring me to go after computer sciences as a specialization in college. All those years of dreaming, and now the association with analytics and AI, have led to one absolute reality that in the short span of perhaps 18 to 24 months a wide variety of businesses globally will be working with algorithmic powered conversational platforms that serve as intelligent business advisors.