Visit John Keble Primary School in Hampshire and you will see Year Six pupils being captivated by the magic of machine learning. Artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us and many of these 10 and 11 year olds and their parents will have used AI assistants such as Amazon's Alexa to play music or turn their lights on and off. Do they understand how these devices work? Experts from IBM visited the school to demonstrate its Watson question and answer computer system which uses machine learning and natural language programming. The children played the Guess Who Bluemix game to illustrate how cognitive technology works.

Holiday shoppers can expect price cuts for numerous electronics, including smart TVs, smartphones and home assistants, for this year's Black Friday. Amazon, Target, Walmart, Best Buy, Samsung and Microsoft are all offering tech deals, with some offers starting before Black Friday and going on through Cyber Monday. Below are the best tech deals the retailers are offering. WALMART - Acer Aspire ES Laptop - $449, save $100. BEST BUY - Amazon - Echo (2nd generation) - $79.99, save $20. AMAZON - Fire 7 Kids Edition Tablets - save $50 when purchasing two (offer available now).

Instead it is about a thoroughly progressive, completely 360 degree view of the traveller and everything that goes into creating special, unique, memorable experiences." Did you get your tickets directly from the ticket office? In today's fast-paced world, finding time to travel to a ticket office and get your tickets is a luxury few can afford. Besides, why bother if you can get your tickets in just a couple of clicks via your laptop or even your smartphone? Indeed, digital travel sales grew rapidly over the last several years, totaling $496.21 billion in 2015. And the number is expected to reach $817.54 billion by 2020.

From swiping right to sexting, modern dating can be a minefield. And when it comes to creating an eye-catching online profile it can be hard to know where to start. Luckily help is at hand for singletons struggling to describe themselves as a new study has revealed the buzz words most likely to help you attract a partner on the net. Dating service Match has scoured the most successful profiles on its site to reveal the'trigger words' most likely to bag you a date. The company analysed the text in the'About Me' section of their website to reveal the words that appear most frequently in its top profiles.

Today we're going to talk about how computers understand speech and speak themselves. As computers play an increasing role in our daily lives there has been an growing demand for voice user interfaces, but speech is also terribly complicated. Vocabularies are diverse, sentence structures can often dictate the meaning of certain words, and computers also have to deal with accents, mispronunciations, and many common linguistic faux pas. The field of Natural Language Processing, or NLP, attempts to solve these problems, with a number of techniques we'll discuss today. And even though our virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa, Google Home, Bixby, and Cortana have come a long way from the first speech processing and synthesis models, there is still much room for improvement.

Machine learning and big data tools similar to those that power popular digital assistants like Alexa and Siri can enable banks and insurance companies to rationalize their operations and cost structures and, longer term, help gain insights about customer needs and identify new sources of incremental revenue. Bank call centers have traditionally been focused on customer satisfaction by responding to routine requests for assistance at minimal cost. They have been run as cost centers, with average call hold time their key metric. Machine learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) help to develop and automate repetitive tasks and flows. Then Predictive Analytics facilitates building models that are not explicitly programmed.

When the cheapest Kindle e-reader drops to $50, it's difficult to resist snagging one on an impulse buy. Appealing to our most reptilian consumer instincts is just how Amazon rolls, and--right on schedule--the retail behemoth-cum-hardware manufacturer is dropping prices across its product lines. Here are all the Black Friday deals for the Amazon Echo, Kindle, and Fire tablet lines. We're also including links to our own coverage of the price-dropped devices (many of which are best in their categories, the Amazon pedigree notwithstanding). Amazon says these deals will end at the stroke of midnight on Monday, Nov. 27.

Dozens of gizmos will work with one or both of these speakers, and third-party manufacturers continue to bring out additional ones. If you'd like to see all of your options, Google has made a list of Home-compatible devices and Amazon has collected the Echo-compatible ones. With so much smart tech out there, it can be hard to figure out which device to buy first. So we collected six of our favorite gadgets for smartening up your home. Google's dinky streaming dongle works like a charm with Google Home.

At home, it helps power personalized shopping apps, suggests personalized entertainment experiences, manages and monitors self-driving cars, supports virtual assistants, and improves navigation. At the office, it helps businesses develop the next best offer, recruit top-notch candidates, detect fraud, automate supply chains, and boost data center efficiency. Yet, corporate finance leaders are asking deeper questions which require more advanced analytics systems. "Why can you ask your mobile phone for directions to find the nearest restaurant but you can't ask your system how revenues are trending in Italy?" Oracle Vice President of Product Strategy for Big Data Analytics, Rich Clayton said during a recent Financial Executives International (FEI) webcast. "Why is that your systems don't understand your processes? Why do you spend so much time explaining simple variances when much can be automated?"

Jefferson Graham shows the many options for finding audio podcasts to listen to, from apps to connected speakers, TV and the car, on #TalkingTech. LOS ANGELES -- There are hundreds of thousands of podcasts to listen to, and finding them has gotten easier than ever, thanks to apps, the connected speaker and smart TVs and streaming boxes. Remember when we had to do to acquire podcasts by connecting the phone to the computer and syncing our subscriptions? Those days are long gone. Let's take a look at just how much easier it's become.