SpaceX is now a step closer to launching broadband-powering satellites into orbit. Editor's Remarks: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that the agency would approve SpaceX's application to leverage satellite technology to provide broadband to the US and wider world. FCC chairman Ajit Pai said that the opportunity would help remove the US' digital divide and bring online rural parts of the country that are still without reliable internet. SpaceX declined to give an immediate statement regarding the progress but previous releases show that the company wants to launch 4,425 satellites that will form a constellation 800 miles above the Earth. Apple's latest offering costs $216 to build, giving it a lower margin than the company's other goods.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to radically shift the way professionals use technology to get work done. With the proper dataset behind it, AI can help alleviate many repetitive and redundant tasks, changing the way humans approach work. While the biggest controversy around AI is its potential to replace jobs, the technology will affect other aspects of the economy in major ways. A recent report from CB Insights highlights some of the key AI trends worth paying attention to in 2018. SEE: IT leader's guide to the future of artificial intelligence (Tech Pro Research) As AI-powered robots and other forms of automation take over repetitive roles, those roles previously held by humans will shift.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a long history, starting in the 1950s with the theoretical concept of the Turing test and gaining considerable momentum since the early 2000s. This development has been driven by the significant increase in computing power which makes computation-intensive Deep Learning algorithms easy and effortless to handle. The intelligent processing of images (computer vision) and speech (natural language processing) is becoming a routine part of our customers' daily lives as found in mass market applications such as Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa. Artificial Intelligence is defined as the imitation of human intelligence or intellectual processes by machines, especially computer systems. These processes include learning, reasoning, and automatic correction.

An upcoming update for dating app Tinder will allow women to initiate all conversations with potential matches. During an interview with Marketwatch, Match Group CEO Mandy Ginsburg said it plans to add a "women-talk-first setting" to Tinder, where any time a woman is matched by swiping right, she starts the dialogue. The setting is similar to one found on rival dating app Bumble. The key difference is Tinder users can choose to flip this setting on or off. On Bumble, women always initiate the conversations.

The area of online machine learning in big data streams covers algorithms that are (1) distributed and (2) work from data streams with only a limited possibility to store past data. The first requirement mostly concerns software architectures and efficient algorithms. The second one also imposes nontrivial theoretical restrictions on the modeling methods: In the data stream model, older data is no longer available to revise earlier suboptimal modeling decisions as the fresh data arrives. In this article, we provide an overview of distributed software architectures and libraries as well as machine learning models for online learning. We highlight the most important ideas for classification, regression, recommendation, and unsupervised modeling from streaming data, and we show how they are implemented in various distributed data stream processing systems. This article is a reference material and not a survey. We do not attempt to be comprehensive in describing all existing methods and solutions; rather, we give pointers to the most important resources in the field. All related sub-fields, online algorithms, online learning, and distributed data processing are hugely dominant in current research and development with conceptually new research results and software components emerging at the time of writing. In this article, we refer to several survey results, both for distributed data processing and for online machine learning. Compared to past surveys, our article is different because we discuss recommender systems in extended detail.

Tinder is handing women more power on its online dating app with a new'ladies-first' feature. The new option allows women to choose whether or not to start a conversation, with their matches who are blocked from messaging them until they initiate the chat. The feature is similar to the ladies-first chat policy that forms the core policy of dating app Bumble, but unlike its younger rival, Tinder's version can be switched off. A Tinder executive revealed the upcoming feature in an interview this week, claiming the update aims to give users more choice in how they use the app. Tinder is handing women more power on its online dating app with a new'ladies-first' feature.

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers hours before appearing on Business Insider. To be the first to know, please click here. Chinese internet search giant Baidu credited its solid revenue growth in Q4 2017 to its mobile and artificial intelligence (AI) businesses, according to the company's earnings report. Revenue for the quarter jumped 29% year-over-year (YoY) to reach 23.6 billion yuan ($3.7 billion). In 2017, Baidu refined its focus and began restructuring its resources, shifting them from less profitable ventures to emerging segments such as AI, big data, cloud, and mobile, according to Baidu CEO Robin Yanhong Li.

Contrary to earlier reports, Facebook isn't going to debut its Amazon Echo Show competitor in May. Mark Zuckerberg's company has reportedly decided to delay the release of its Portal-named smart speaker and the other model that's currently known for its codename, "Fiona." DigiTimes recently learned from supply chain sources that Facebook won't be launching its highly anticipated Portal smart speaker -- internally referred to as "Aloha" -- this coming May. The company has opted to reschedule its debut because it still needs more time to perfect the device's acoustic quality and make some changes to its software. Instead of May, Facebook is targeting a mid-2018 release, with sources claiming that the device could most likely launch in July at the latest.

Forget stealing your job... in the future, a robot may well steal your heart. Technology is leaving no stone unturned when it comes to the impact it is having on all aspects of modern life, including relationships. Long gone are the days of finding love in the traditional sense, with people opting to use apps like Tinder or websites like match.com, No more is the spontaneity of meeting someone over coffee or through friends something that rouses excitement of the unknown, where you have to invest time in finding out what someone is really like. Thanks to social media, you can find out more about your potential partner, their history and more before even meeting them!

Then one day I had my wisdom teeth pulled and my cheeks became grapefruits. Figuring this was not a great first-date look, I made no weekend plans. Lonely and alone on a Saturday night, I started scrolling through OkCupid and, out of boredom and curiosity, expanded my search options to include users anywhere in the world. I was drawn in by the profiles of some of these new, distant matches and messaged a few asking if they'd like to chat on the phone. That weekend I talked to a neuropsychologist from Milwaukee; a software developer from Austin, Texas; an improv instructor from Seattle; and an economics masters student from London.