A June 2017 study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found relatively low current or anticipated use of virtual assistants--such as Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri--among Germany's internet users. But a new report by PwC has revealed that internet users in the country are much more interested in other artificial intelligence (AI) applications. PwC polling in July found 85% of adult internet users in Germany had used or would like to use AI in some capacity. Those polled were most interested in using AI in the form of robots. The study found 58% of respondents were using or interested in having an AI-powered robot to clean their home.

Nicholas Fuentes, an 18-year-old student who attended the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va., this past weekend, said that he's received death threats for months over his conservative viewpoints -- enough for him to decide it's time to leave Boston University. Fuentes said he made the decision to abandon his Political Science degree a month ago after being constantly threatened over his conservative views. He said no longer felt safe on campus, and will not return for the fall semester. Still, despite the intensity of the backlash he's received, he has absolutely "no regrets" about taking part in the controversial white-nationalist movement. "I went to represent this new strain of conservatives, of people in the right wing who are opposed to mass immigration and multiculturalism," Fuentes told Fox News on Thursday. "For a long time, this existed on the fringes.

If you're a Google Home user without a paid Spotify account, your use of the service on Home has been limited. Up until now, Spotify has only integrated with Home for paid accounts. But at I/O, Google announced that would change; free Spotify users would be able to stream their library to Home. And now, it appears that the integration is now live for US users: free-tier Spotify users can now stream their music to Google Home. We've reached out to Google to confirm whether the service is available now or in the process of rolling out.

White supremacist Chris Cantwell has been kicked off the dating website OkCupid following his participation in the recent Charlottesville, Va. In a series of tweets, OkCupid (owned by Match.com) said it had kicked Cantwell off the platform after being alerted of his profile. We were alerted that white supremacist Chris Cantwell was on OkCupid. Within 10 minutes we banned him for life. "We were alerted that white supremacist Chris Cantwell was on OkCupid," OkCupid wrote in a tweet.

Facebook's intelligent assistant M is now available for Facebook Messenger users in Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the U.K. M in Facebook Messenger first became available in April. M uses machine learning to scan words used in conversations to recommend actions or services. Tell someone good night and M may suggest a good night sticker. Chat about a plan and M may suggest you create a calendar event. M also suggests you do things like share your location, save a URL or video, initiate a voice or video call, or send best wishes when you're speaking to someone on their birthday.

Facebook has today launched its AI assistant'M' in the UK, four months after the service was made available in the US. M, which is run through Messenger, uses machine learning to recognise what you are talking about and offers suggestions that it thinks you might like. M will pop up and present helpful actions in the chat window of the app, perhaps sending a fun sticker, sharing your location or making plans to meet friends. It also allows you to save content from chats to view later, including URLs, videos, Facebook posts, events, and pages. A digital assistant launched by Facebook for Messenger is coming to the UK from today.

OkCupid is the latest company to kick white supremacists off of its platform. In a tweet today, the dating service said that it found out Chris Cantwell -- the fascist featured in Vice News' Charlottesville documentary who cried in a video when he thought a warrant was issued for his arrest -- was on its site and subsequently banned him for life. It also said, "There is no room for hate in a place where you're looking for love," and told members to report people they come across who are involved in hate groups. We were alerted that white supremacist Chris Cantwell was on OkCupid. Within 10 minutes we banned him for life. Other companies that have said no thanks to racists this week include Spotify, Google, GoDaddy, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, GoFundMe, Squarespace and Twitter.

Want to know what it's like to interview Jennifer Lawrence? Google Home can tell you. Google and Vogue inked a partnership that brings the magazine's September issue to the voice-activated Home devices by prompting consumers to ask a handful of questions about the issue's celebrity coverage, hinting that Google Home is starting to open up to marketers and publishers. Vogue and Google Home have created voice content with the magazine's writers about the stories they wrote for the issue. For example, saying, "OK Google, ask Vogue to tell me more about Jennifer Lawrence," prompts Jason Gay, who wrote Vogue's cover story about Lawrence, to talk about interviewing the actress.

OKCupid has banned white nationalist Christopher Cantwell from the dating service. SAN FRANCISCO -- Dating service OKCupid says it has banned a white supremacist for life. And it's asking its members to report other OKCupid members who belong to hate groups. OKCupid joins a growing corporate backlash against neo-Nazis in the U.S. after the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Technology companies that once tolerated white supremacists are now booting them from their services.

In the wake of last weekend's events in Charlottesville and the ongoing fallout, several popular matchmaking platforms are taking steps to ensure their users feel they're in a safe space by banning hate speech and white supremacists. OKCupid took the unusual step today of announcing that they'd discovered that white supremacist Chris Cantwell was a user. We were alerted that white supremacist Chris Cantwell was on OkCupid. The app itself has been a target of harassment from white supremacist groups.