Machine Learning is the buzzword of the moment. In recent years, news stories raving about its possibilities have soared, Google searches for the term have quadrupled, and companies across the globe have been scrambling to figure out how to capitalize on the excitement by bringing it into their product mix. While that can be a great thing, claims made by some businesses about what Machine Learning can do are wildly exaggerated. That makes it crucial to cut through the noise and get to grips with its potential, limitations, and what you can realistically achieve with your resources so that any investment makes solid business sense -- so say Philip Lima, CEO of Mashey, and Boaz Farkash, Head of Product Management at Sisense. The pair joined forces to deliver an in-depth webinar on Machine Learning and business intelligence, which you can view in full here.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--If you own an iPhone, there's yet another way to talk with an artificial intelligence trained on the whole internet and beamed down to your handset from a cluster of computers somewhere in the world. Tuesday, Google made its artificial-intelligence powered Assistant available for the iPhone. The service, which uses a conversational interface to do things and provide information for users, has been available on Android phones since spring of last year. The move brings the company's voice interface into direct competition with Apple's own Siri. For the first time, you can now have both assistants on the same phone in your palm.

As PSD2 is set to open data sharing between banks and third parties, banking and fintech professionals should heed this warning: Don't confuse digitization with digital strategy. You need to build mobile apps and digital experiences for your customers. They expect it, so you should deliver. But a series of mobile experience projects doesn't constitute a digital strategy. To appreciate the difference, we'll look at a topic outside of banking and fintech--AI (artificial intelligence) assistants.

Over the last several decades, the evolution of artificial intelligence has followed an uncertain path – reaching incredible highs and new levels of innovation, often followed by years of stagnation and disillusionment as the technology fails to deliver on its promises. Today we are once again experiencing growing interest in the future possibilities for AI. From voice powered personal assistants like Google Home and Alexa, to Netflix's predictive recommendations, Nest learning thermostats and chatbots used by banks and retailers, there are countless examples of AI seeping into everyday life and the potential of future applications seem limitless . . . Despite the mounting interest and the proliferation of new technologies, is this current wave that much different than what we have seen in the past? Do the techniques of the modern AI movement – machine learning, data mining, deep learning, natural language processing and neural nets – deserve to be captured under the AI moniker, or is it just more of the same?

Music streaming service Spotify on Wednesday disclosed it has acquired the team and technology behind Niland, a French start-up with a service for delivering music recommendations. The move signals that Spotify wants to incorporate more artificial intelligence (AI) into its system as it fights off competition from alternatives like Apple Music. Niland is not well-known in the field of AI. But for years its CEO, Damien Tardieu, has done research on ways to extract meaningful information from raw music content in order to form connections with other music. This approach differs from collaborative filtering, one of the techniques that Spotify and others use.

By now, many of us have heard about or might even own one of the popular, sleek multi-functional voice-first devices, such as the Amazon Echo, also known as "Alexa", the name used when waking the device to give a verbal command. Quick joke: How do you make Alexa laugh? This joke is terrible for many reasons, not the least of which is that I ended up anthropomorphized a digital device, which may be one of the biggest issues with this devices. Related: There's No Doubt That Amazon Alexa Is the Next Big Thing First, according to Voice Labs Voice Report for 2017, 6.5 million voice-first devices -- defined as an always-on piece of hardware utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) with primarily a voice interface, both for input and output -- were shipped in 2016. In 2017, that number is estimated to grow to 24.5 million devices shipped, thanks in large part to its appearance during the Super Bowl commercials.

Samsung's much-rumored Galaxy C10 smartphone has been spotted in a newly leaked photo. The still-unannounced handset will be Samsung's first smartphone to feature a dual-camera setup. The leaked photo of the Samsung Galaxy C10 first popped up on the Chinese social site Weibo, Android Headlines said. The photo shows the device in its rose gold color option. More importantly, the leaked image shows the upcoming smartphone will feature dual cameras on the back.

The future Blade Runner warned us about might already be here. But there is definitely something uncanny about how well the new Google Assistant ad syncs up with the Blade Runner 2049 trailer – which, as a reminder, is the sequel to a movie about a dystopian future teeming with sentient A.I. SEE ALSO: Google's vision for AI is the right one I just laid the audio from the Blade Runner 2049 trailer to the new Google Assistant ad. Literally no extra editing involved pic.twitter.com/5lwUWqxFml Mashable actually checked to see if Spencer Chen was telling the truth, and he is. That really is the uncut footage from the Google Assistant ad, and that really is the unedited audio straight from the most recent Blade Runner 2049 trailer. Now, if you'll excuse us, we're going to unplug and hide from our Google Home for a bit until we're ready to process Assistant's apparent love of Blade Runner.

A religion teacher at one of the city's most prestigious private high schools said he was harassed and threatened by students after they found his online dating profile -- and then he was fired by the school.