The list of products, services, and apps that Alexa can communicate with gets larger every day. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. The list of products, services, and apps that Alexa can communicate with gets larger every day.

The following post highlights how Venture Scanner categorizes the Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup landscape, and presents our Innovation Quadrant showing how those categories compare to one another. The data for this post is through April 2017. The above sector map organizes the sector into 13 categories and shows a sampling of companies in each category. Our Innovation Quadrant provides a snapshot of the average funding and average age for the different AI categories and how they compare with one another. Heavyweights: These categories are comprised of companies that have reached maturity with significant financing.

A new dating app is going full-blown Law and Order on daters by running a background check on them before they get swiping. And then blocking anyone who has a criminal record. But, is it fair to apply ban literally everyone with a conviction, especially if it's over a petty crime? Gatsby -- which is currently only available on iOS in the U.S. -- works like most dating apps, you swipe left to pass, swipe right to match. But, there's one rather significant difference: When new users sign up to the app, Gatsby scans them for criminal records.

Despite what the average consumer may realize, AI, or Artificial Intelligence, is already a core part of their daily lives. In our modern lives, no one goes untouched by the power of Artificial Intelligence. Be it Siri or Alexa's conversational helping hands or Netflix's hyper-sensitive recommendation engine, there are few places in our digital lives that aren't enhanced by machine learning and algorithms. In the business world - especially in the marketing and advertising spheres - for any organization seeking to gain a foothold or maintain a lead, tapping into the power of AI is beyond the point of theory. Whether you're on board or not, here's a rundown of the 3 major ways AI is changing the face of marketing -- not only supplanting the traditions in who is looking at this data, but how we make key decisions, from content and creative to customer support to measuring and acting on data -- and ultimately, how you as a marketer can benefit.

Doing stand-up is hard, but Kevin Allison learned that it gets even worse when you forget all of your jokes. First Fails is a new mini-series from Mashable and Bravo. Join celebrities as they recount their worst moments in full animated color. Google Home has a cute Easter egg about Amazon's Echo

Amazon still hasn't said when it plans to ship its new Echo Look camera, but it appears that will be happening very soon. The company has started rolling out companion iOS and Android apps for the device, which costs $200 and is only available via invite to Prime customers -- at least for the time being. To refresh your mind, Echo Look is an Alexa-powered camera for people who want to take pictures or videos of their daily outfits, enhanced by an artificial intelligence algorithm that'll learn your habits and make clothes recommendations based on that. The iOS and Android apps are going to bring all of that together, putting your very own lookbook in your pocket. Naturally, you'll be able to share your pictures with friends, family or other loved ones -- if you're into that sort of thing.

Amazon's Alexa has made it onto a lot of platforms in the past year and its latest jump will make it easier to find your favorite movies or TV shows. Satellite TV provider Dish announced Monday its digital video recorders can now be paired with Amazon's Alexa in the home. The feature, which is available on Dish's Hopper or Wally DVR models, allows users to give voice commands to Alexa from the Echo, Echo Dot and Amazon Tap to control their TVs. Functions can be used across Dish's live, recorded and on-demand titles and also work with Netflix's catalog. Through Alexa, users can control the playback of a show with functions like time skipping, rewinding, pausing and restarting programs.

Google I/O 2017 culminated Friday, but tech circuits are still abuzz about the many announcements that came out of the conference. Several new products, features within products and initiatives were announced at Google I/O and should be prominent throughout the rest of 2017. As with many Google conferences, the tech giant announced the latest figures of its continued growth, which include over 2 billion active users on Android and over 1 billion monthly users on each of its major platforms, including Google Search, Android, Play Store, Gmail, Chrome, YouTube and Google Maps. Here's a rundown of the other announcements and details shared during Google I/O 2017. Google Lens is essentially a search engine, which uses images and videos instead of words.

World, I guess it's time for you to meet Matt Ox. If you don't already know who this kid is, just consider him a spawn of Post Malone. It's hard to find much information about him, but Matt Ox is basically the more explicit version of MattyB, and goes as hard as you can get for a kid who raps. If this is what the future of music is like, then well, we've got a lot to look forward to. Google Home has a cute Easter egg about Amazon's Echo Deleted outtakes of the'Get Out' ending give everyone's favorite TSA agent a chance to shine

In the battle of household robots that people talk to instead of using their phones, at least we can all still be friends. There's an arms race going on between Google and Amazon to have the best personal assistant. Amazon has the Echo, and Google has the Home. Each of the slightly creepy robots have their own pros and cons, but Google just one-upped Amazon on cute Easter eggs. A YouTuber noticed that if you ask Google Home to "say hi to Alexa," it actually plays off one of the Echo's automatic responses.