After months of leaks and countless rumours, the Samsung Galaxy S8 has been officially unveiled. The eagerly-awaited iPhone rival features a radical redesign to allow a massive 5.8-inch screen to be squeezed in to a device with a relatively small footprint. The device is one of two new phones with the S8 landing alongside the even larger 6.2-inch Samsung Galaxy S8 . Both feature facial recognition technology that allows users to unlock the phone with their face, and a Bixby'personal assistant' button. They are available for preorder on March 30th and will be shipping on April 21st.

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S8 and S8, the company's first flagship phones since the Note 7 debacle in 2016 threatened to sink its brand in the eyes of the public. The new phones' most eye-catching feature is an almost completely bezel-free display, running the full width of the device, even curving around the edge (akin to the screen on Samsung's Galaxy S7 Edge), and shrinking the chin and forehead of the front screen to tiny slivers. Samsung's calls this the "infinity display", and even the home button has been removed, replaced with a pressure-sensitive section at the bottom of the screen. Launching on 28 April (though pre-order customers will receive theirs a week early), the Galaxy S8 will retail at £689 and the S8 at £779. Those prices are £10 and £40 cheaper than the respective iPhone models Samsung is competing with, but leave the S8 £120 more than the S7 and the S8 £140 more expensive than the S7 Edge. Two colours will hit Britain, "Midnight Black" and "Orchid Grey", and Samsung is still decided whether to launch a third colour, "Arctic Silver".

You've probably used AI-driven apps without realizing it and may have even accessed them today. Businesses use apps built with artificial intelligence to learn about consumers' purchasing behaviors. They leverage this data to suggest things consumers might want to buy, detect credit card fraud and even write news stories. The prevalence of AI apps in society, including popular personal assistant apps like Siri and Cortana, have caused many people to wonder if this year will be the one that sees AI apps move into the mainstream. Let's look at some AI apps currently used and being developed to explore the impacts they might have on our world and the ways we live.

With 400 million machines now running Windows 10, it's proving to be an ascendant operating system, and the disastrous Windows 8 is barely a spec in Microsoft's rear-view mirror. Even though Windows 10 only has 19 percent of the desktop OS market, according to Net Market Share, and Windows 7 still has almost 50 percent, the momentum is clear. The Windows users who held onto Windows 95 for years, and that still cling to Windows 7 like a lifeboat in rough operating system seas, are slowly but surely migrating to what very well may be the best Windows ever. SEE ALSO: Microsoft'Windows 10 Cloud' could challenge Google's Chrome OS Those who feared the Start Button-less Windows 8 are embracing the software-as-service model of Windows 10 (and, of course, breathing a sigh of relief over the return of the Start menu). It doesn't hurt Windows 10 that Microsoft has, in recent years, paired it with some remarkable home-grown hardware: Surface Pro 4, Surface Book and the new Surface Studio.

There is no doubt the search industry has evolved. Just one look at how search engine results pages are currently laid out shows how things have changed. We have come a long way from 10 blue links. But have we gone far enough? At SXSW earlier this month, information access was a hot topic.

After the Note 7 debacle, the pressure will be on Samsung when it launches is eagerly-anticipated Galaxy S8 smartphone Wednesday. Last year the South Korean tech giant's launch of the Note 7 smartphone quickly degenerated into a PR nightmare of epic proportions. Forced to end production of the troubled phone following users' reports that the phones were catching fire or exploding, Samsung is now working to rebuild its smartphone brand. The company is also in the spotlight in South Korea after its chief Jay Y. Lee and four former and current Samsung executives were indicted on corruption charges earlier this year. "This is kind of a make or break moment for Samsung – not only was [the Note 7] a failure and a big black eye for Samsung, but they have also had this ongoing legal trouble with the highest levels of the Korean government," Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates, told Fox News.

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the great milestones of recent years. It has changed our way of relating to technology and will be the basis for the fourth industrial revolution where robotics will gain ground compared to humans. Autonomous cars and smartphones, as examples of AI, not only make our lives more comfortable but we can talk to them and interact. Experts are considering how this transformation influences our mental processes and how it will affect the lives of human beings and their way of behaving and of thinking. Science has had difficulties in portraying this phenomenon that advances by leaps and bounds, but there are some concrete points on which a consensus has been reached.

In my last column in this space, I wrote about the dominant technology trends of 2017 and beyond. Today, I want to address one of the most dominant technology trends in human history. Artificial intelligence is being mentioned everywhere in the media, as it is dramatically developing and being deployed everywhere in the U.S and in many other developed countries. In the last 20 years, AI has gone from science fiction to science and economic reality. In 2011, it beat the top two human champions of "Jeopardy."

If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. Our picks and opinions are independent from any business incentives. Google is quietly playing catch up with the Amazon Echo. Today the search giant announced new smart home partners for Google Home, its competing smart speaker. The list includes products from Best Buy Insignia, LIFX, TP-Link, and Wink.

Toni Reid oversees the product development teams for Echo devices and Alexa customer experience. Reid joined Amazon in 1998 as a recruiter and has worked on several Amazon teams since then, including Amazon Fresh, IMDb, and Amazon Media Group. She earned her bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of North Texas.