Jefferson Graham runs down those 4 wild tech announcements--from the flying boats and cars to drone goggles and Amazon's closet camera, on #TalkingTech LOS ANGELES -- It'll be hard to top this week for wild, crazy technology unveilings. And some may even end up in your hands. How bout: the flying car that looks like a boat, or jet skies maybe, or perhaps a huge drone. The Kitty Hawk Flyer, the personal project from Google co-founder Larry Page, has to top the list of far-out tech product announcements. It's a vehicle that flies -- hot trend this month, by the way -- but stands out for this feature: It only flies over fresh water.

Chat bots, robots, virtual assistants and other devices powered by business algorithms are rapidly joining the ranks of workers in every industry and profession. But instead of fearing artificial intelligence (AI) and resultant job losses, it's up to human resource (HR) professionals to cultivate these innovations for the opportunities they bring to people and the company. I tuned in to a recent episode of Changing the Game with HR entitled, Reimagining HR: Will Machines Replace the Human Side of Business?, to hear a group of smart thinkers share their insights on AI with SAP Radio host and moderator Bonnie D. Graham. How HR can help make sure AI isn't the worst thing to happen to humanity Instead of the usual gloom and doom scenario for unemployed workers, Andi Britt, European Talent and Engagement at IBM, framed AI in a much more positive light. "All of us suffer from information overload so why can't we use technology smartly to do some of the analysis, the filtering of data for us," he said.

Your Tinder selfies may not be as secure as you believe. You might have uploaded your best photos to the dating site, but they could be used for almost any other purpose, without your permission, as highlighted in a TechCrunch report Friday. According to the report, a user of Kaggle, a Google-owned machine-learning platform, recently exploited flaws in Tinder's application programming interface (API) to download 40,000 selfies posted on Tinder – 20,000 of each sex. Stuart Colianni created a dataset called People of Tinder, which consists of six downloadable zip files of people's profile photos from Tinder. The zip files contain multiple photos from single users, which means there might be less than 40,000 Tinder users at stake here.

Online dating and work chat apps have been separate entities for entirely logical, productive and HR-compliant reasons. But a dating app-maker has decided that the line dividing office life and love life should be blurred with the help of a chatbot for the reigning king of productivity services, Slack. If you think company-sanctioned flirting through work messaging is a good idea, you should probably talk to your human resources department. Because this is playing with fire in a way that gets people fired. The slackbot for inter-office dating was built by Feeld, which is mostly known as "the threesome app." (Yup.)

Have you ever asked Siri its opinion on the film Inception? Or whether it knows a good place to hide a dead body? 'Inception is about dreaming about dreaming about dreaming about dreaming about something or other. I fell asleep', is one of your answers. The answers are pre-programmed, rather than genuine reactions capable of passing the Turing test, but hint at one of the ultimate aims of artificial intelligence – creating machines we can chat with and which understand levels of irony.

In the movies, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence usually leads to robotic cyborgs going haywire, machines that threaten humanity, or a choice between a red or blue pill. The plotline almost always assumes the worst will happen. Instead, AI has tremendous potential to help improve performance for nonprofits and social good organizations and drive meaningful change in the world. But first we need to separate the buzz words and bravado from the real transformation that is taking place with AI for nonprofits:. Artificial Intelligence is, at its heart, enabling machines to process information and learn.

Apple is getting closer to unleashing its secret weapon to take on Amazon's Echo. A new leak has revealed that the Cupertino company is'currently finalizing' its own smart speaker, which is said to be marketed as a'Siri/AirPlay device'. The latest news also noted that the Siri-driven device could'carry some form of Beats technology and is expected to run on variant iOS'. Apple is getting closer to unleashing its secret weapon to take on Amazon's Echo. A new leak has revealed that the Cupertino company is'currently finalizing' its own smart speaker, which is said to be marketed as a'Siri/AirPlay device' Sonny Dickson, who is known for sharing inside information in the tech world, revealed that Apple is'currently finalizing' its smart speaker that will be marketed as a'Siri/AirPlay device'.

Amazon's newly-announced Echo Look uses the company's Alexa AI to take photos and videos of you and make judgements on outfits. But experts have expressed concern over the privacy issues surrounding a camera that regularly takes and stores pictures of users and their homes. They say that Amazon must update its privacy policy and better-inform consumers of the technology's risks. Amazon has released the Echo Look, which is an Alexa-powered camera that takes full-length photos and short videos of you and your home. Amazon's Echo Look smart camera is priced at $200.

Artificial intelligence (AI), or machines that can think like people, doesn't need gender. But many of the AI-based assistants and bots we interact with every day have at least an implied gender. There are a number of reasons for this. For starters, gender helps humanize machines. This, in turn, makes it easier to interact with them.

The S8 offers a lot to talk about: There's Bixby, Samsung's attempt to hang with Alexa and Siri and Google Assistant as the software platform you thread through your entire life. There's iris scanning and face recognition, so you can unlock your phone like an MI6 agent. There's a big battery everyone hopes won't explode, an improved camera, and new chips. But the real seller here is that screen--5.8 That screen is what will grab you from across the Verizon store, and make people stop you to ask which phone you're using.