Bates was charged in the November 2015 death of Victor Collins, whose body was found in a hot tub at Bates' home. Prosecutors say they requested the dismissal because the evidence supports more than one reasonable explanation.

You can't talk about SEO and artificial intelligence without mentioning Google RankBrain, an AI program that helps process search inquiries. This AI is trained by data, which helps it understand patterns and behavior to determine whether people like your content and whether search engines should send you more traffic. But what does this mean for marketers and SEO? Artificial intelligence takes search much deeper, because RankBrain looks at search results differently. RankBrain uses artificial intelligence to embed vast amounts of written language into mathematical entities -- called vectors -- that the computer can understand. If RankBrain sees a word or phrase it isn't familiar with, the machine can make a guess as to what words or phrases might have a similar meaning and filter the result accordingly, making it more effective at handling never-before-seen search queries.

The Amazon Echo's smaller, more affordable sibling is a fail-safe gift for anyone who values convenience. Driven by Amazon's Alexa digital assistant, this unobtrusive puck puts a wealth of useful information, entertainment, and practical functionality just a voice-command away. Use the Echo Dot to control a home's lighting, play music, estimate commute times, operate a timer, answer trivia questions, read books and news bulletins aloud, provide local movie times and locations, hail an Uber, or order anything from Amazon (natch). Don't be surprised if your gift of a single Dot has the recipient buying more to fill every room.

Many of us are bombarded with various recommendations in our day to day life, be it on e-commerce sites or social media sites. Some of the recommendations look relevant but some create range of emotions in people, varying from confusion to anger. There are basically two types of recommender systems, Content based and Collaborative filtering. Both have their pros and cons depending upon the context in which you want to use them. Content based: In content based recommender systems, keywords or properties of the items are taken into consideration while recommending an item to an user.

Your phone gets notifications, so why can't your smart speaker? Amazon is doing something about it.. and thankfully, it's not as bothersome as it could be. The company is trotting out a developer preview of notifications in Alexa skills. If you opt in, third-party skills can push notifications to your Alexa-equipped devices (such as an Echo speaker or your phone) that will trigger both a sound and an on-device alert (whether an LED light or on-screen display. This doesn't mean you're going to be peppered with unwanted speech, though: your notifications accumulate, and you'll only hear what they are when you ask Alexa to read them. Amazon stresses that it won't allow notifications with advertising, and it wants developers to use notifications "sparingly."

Today in Entertainment: Royal wedding location set; 'Get Out' scores big at 2017 Gotham Awards Grammy nominations 2018 updates: People of color and women dominate top four categories Royal wedding location set; Meghan Markle to become U.K. citizen Jordan Peele's'Get Out' scores big at 2017 Gotham Awards Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers take on Trump's'big, beautiful' tax cut'Avengers: Infinity War' will be a finale of sorts, producer Kevin Feige says Seth Meyers to host the 2018 Golden Globes Royal wedding location set; Meghan Markle to become U.K. citizen Jordan Peele's'Get Out' scores big at 2017 Gotham Awards Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers take on Trump's'big, beautiful' tax cut'Avengers: Infinity War' will be a finale of sorts, producer Kevin Feige says'Lady Bird' kicks'Toy Story 2' to the Rotten Tomatoes curb Greta Gerwig's directorial debut, "Lady Bird," has broken a Rotten Tomatoes record: It has accumulated the longest run of positive reviews ever recorded by the movie website. As of Tuesday morning, the film written by Gerwig and starring Saoirse Ronan found itself at 170 fresh reviews and counting, with an overall rating of 8.9 out of 10 from critics and no "rotten" reviews. About 87% of the audience rated it 3.5 stars or better. Here's some perspective: Before "Lady Bird" earned its 164th consecutive positive review on Monday, the Rotten Tomatoes title was held by "Toy Story 2," an animated crowd-pleaser released in 1999. "Citizen Kane" also has 100% positive critical response, with a 9.4 rating, but only 75 reviews total.

The main rule of the personal finance game: investing is sold more than bought, like with insurance, because many households have cognitive biases when it comes to managing their money and don't behave like in the consuming world. Therefore, while many Robo-Advisors attempt to gain mass market adoption by promoting their offers with captive user experiences, their 100% digital effort might not be enough to change investors' behaviour in a short time. However, should western world banks go fully digital overnight, they would create more exclusion than inclusion because many final investors operate in a "push" modality; only a few self directed ones would know how to "pull" investment products. Being "pull" means going on digital with a purpose, like looking for a specific product on Amazon. While none of my friends have ever invited me to take a look at what is happening on Amazon, clearly many readers have been searching for my literature and newest book - best-selling "FinTech Innovation: from Robo-Advisors to Goal Based Investing and Gamification" - online.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining hype and capturing headlines about its futuristic possibilities. Popular media, like Blade Runner 2049, depicts AI as a technology powering human-like robots with capabilities for taking over the world. In reality, AI is here, and it is already used in everyday lives. Today, AI is enabling ridesharing applications like Lyft and Uber, autopilot in commercial flights, mobile check deposits, online shopping, and more. The technology is making significant progress across a variety of markets and is spreading to the smart home.

It seems that we've already seen more than we were ready to VR in video games, IoT in medicine and smart cities being brought to life. We are really close to living in some sort of sci-fi so it's a good idea to have a look at the most possible and promising machine learning and AI trends for the upcoming 2018 and ask ourselves if we are ready for them. Healthcare is one of the biggest and most crucial industries in the world so no wonder it's the one that is heavily using the latest technologies – because it's the matter of life and death. First of all, due to artificial intelligence and work with Big Data, a scientist will soon get the opportunity to prevent certain diseases, like cancer. This can be done by analyzing patient's history and all their records so AI will be able to understand the mechanism of disease, thus enabling doctors to be proactive instead of reacting.

To fans of science fiction, artificial intelligence may remind them of robots like C-3PO, the loquacious but harmless golden droid in Star Wars, or Skynet in the Terminator movies, a calculating sentient computer that subjugated mankind. But AI is more than just a machine with human-level intelligence scientists hope they could one day create. It is a set of algorithms and technologies that is already powering many tasks in everyday life. Chatbots that converse with you in Yahoo, Facebook and other sites use AI. Alibaba harnesses deep learning to find a handbag matching the one in the photo you uploaded to its shopping site.