A French journalist has revealed how she discovered the dating app Tinder had 800 pages of personal data about her. Judith Duportail said she discovered the app had gathered massive amounts of data about her age, gender, interests, the people she had dated or spoken to, where she went and where she lived over a period of several years she used it. She said that with the help of a privacy activist group, personaldata.io, The US company is required under EU data protection rules to hand over any information it holds on any European citizen if they ask for it. The process involves an email to the privacyinquiries@gotinder.com email address with a clear and precise list of all the information you want with the subject line "Subject Access Request".

LG has placed its trust on Google Assistant and has given it the power to control its smart appliances. While it teamed up with Amazon earlier this year to give its refrigerators built-in access to Alexa, its partnership with Google is much bigger in scale. Now, you can control any of the company's 87 WiFi-connected smart home appliances by barking out orders through a Google Home speaker or through a compatible iOS or Android smartphone. Once you're done setting voice control up through LG's SmartThinQ app, you can use commands within a Home speaker's range or through a phone to tell your fridge to make more ice or to tell your AC to adjust the temperature. If you have an LG washing machine, you can ask Assistant how much time is still left before your load is done.

At 9.24pm (and one second) on the night of Wednesday 18 December, 2013, from the second arrondissement of Paris, I wrote "Hello!" to my first ever Tinder match. Since that day I've fired up the app 920 times and matched with 870 different people. I recall a few of them very well: the ones who either became lovers, friends or terrible first dates. I've forgotten all the others. The dating app has 800 pages of information on me, and probably on you too if you are also one of its 50 million users.

We live in a technology-driven society, and successful organizations need to provide customers with innovative products and features that enhance their experience beyond a simple purchase. This, of course, includes launching a reliable chatbot that can help consumers get the answers they need, solve any issues, or answer questions they may have about specific products, services, or your website. Companies of all sizes have started implementing virtual assistants that are powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to help them address these scenarios while allowing them to build a stronger relationship with their customersand internal teams with slackbots. But, because these dedicated pieces of software are still in their early development stages, you also have to keep an eye out for what's in store for the future. AI, messaging applications, and machine learning are moving at a fast pace, so you have to plan ahead and come up with creative ways to use these technologies to your advantage.

Cue AI, which analyzes large volumes of unstructured data for immediate insight on the areas where a bot or intelligent virtual assistant should be deployed; Prompt AI, which discovers and creates business intent by categorizing large amounts of natural language ideas together to prioritize, test, and deploy language understanding; Trace AI, which identifies trends, risk, and improvement opportunities and makes recommendations on those opportunities while continuously learning from user interactions; The Context IQ Engine, which leverages numerous NLP techniques and supports full conversational attributes, including multiple languages, two-way and mixed-initiative dialogues, goals, full regression testing, and human influence for scoring; The Prompt Predict Engine, which leverages self-learning; Author AI, a natural language generation content management system that lets users access and manage digital interactions and responses across endpoints and multiple conditions for business intents; Conversation Designer, which enables users to visually design how conversations should look, feel and be experienced; and Alme Lab, a visual development environment for modeling the precise language a bot or intelligent assistant needs to understand, including clarifications and multi-step mixed initiative dialogue, as well as the ability to incorporate context and mine data to personalize understanding and experiences. Alme Lab, a visual development environment for modeling the precise language a bot or intelligent assistant needs to understand, including clarifications and multi-step mixed initiative dialogue, as well as the ability to incorporate context and mine data to personalize understanding and experiences.

You can already use Google Home to order from Walmart, watch CBS All Access on your TV and hear daily news updates from former-VP Joe Biden. Now, Google has just updated Home with the ability to set reminders with your voice. The company confirmed to Engadget that (English) reminders would start rolling out Monday to the US, UK, Australia and Canada (French is coming soon). Google Home users can now set one-off and recurring reminders (daily or weekly) and even set reminders for months down the road. Google Assistant also understands context - if you ask it to remind you to walk the dog at 6 while you get ready for bed, for example, it will know to set the reminder to 6 AM.

Apple has ditched Bing in favor of Google for results when searching the internet with Siri on iOS or Spotlight on macOS. It will finish rolling out this afternoon, according to TechCrunch, a switchover that was likely timed to sync with today's release of MacOS High Sierra. Google will provide general internet links and videos, but Bing will still give image search results for now. The switch likely came due to the search giant paying billions of dollars to remain the default engine on Apple's devices, although the latter is just as interested in maintaining consistency and quality with user searches, TechCrunch pointed out.

Last month, Google announced that Walmart would be the next retail partner to use Express, Google's shopping and delivery service. At the time, it wasn't totally clear when the integration would go live, but as of today you can order from Walmart via Google Express -- which also means you can now shop Walmart with your voice using Google Assistant. Setting this up is pretty straightforward -- you'll first need to link a Walmart account to your Google account. Once that's done, you can ask Google Assistant to order whatever item you might be interested in. The Assistant will read you back options that you can accept or decline and it'll tell you what retailer they come from as well as how much they cost.

One of the most useful features across both Google Home and the Amazon Echo series is getting a daily news briefing. Asking both devices to tell you what's going on for your day can include a customized look at news that matters to you from a variety of sources. As of today, there's a new option for getting a news update from your smart speaker, and it comes from a somewhat surprising source: former vice president Joe Biden. "Biden's Briefing" is essentially a short daily podcast featuring news and info curated by Biden -- the content itself is sourced from a wide variety of news publications, including Axios, Bloomberg, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, MSNBC, New York Review of Books, Politico, Slate, Vice and Wired. How exactly the format will work isn't quite clear -- it sounds like Biden will be "curating" the content, but what's unclear is if the program will just replay stories from its sources or if Biden will be offering his own take.

Forget using earphones or holding a portable speaker. Bose has designed sound system that you hang on your neck. This speaker is designed to be convenient for people who are constantly on the move as it sits on your body and can play music for up to 12 hours at a time. For people who work from home, the device could allow them to listen to music without having to invest in multi-room speakers, the company says. The SoundWear Companion Wearable Speaker works in a similar way to Bluetooth headphones - except it does not block out ambient sounds. Using the 3-button control system on the device, users can adjust music volume, alter playback and even talk to virtual assistants like Siri.