When Michelle Kennedy had her first baby, she realised that nothing is capable of preparing you for the numbing isolation and loneliness that motherhood can entail. Integral to the launch of the highly successful dating app Bumble and a former executive of the European social networking site Badoo, Ms Kennedy said that she felt that modern parenting involved a new language that she didn't speak. So in the spirit of a true entrepreneur, she decided to transform her frustration into an opportunity. Ms Kennedy created a brand new app called Peanut, which aims to break the stigma around motherhood and help women--just like herself--to make meaningful connections based on common values and interests during this new--often scary and almost always transformative--phase of their lives. "There is still a stigma [about motherhood]on two levels," she told the Independent.

Apple is setting up engineering operations in Seattle to develop artificial intelligence applications for its range of devices including the iPhone, MacBooks, Apple Watch and iPads among others. Geekwire reported Thursday the company has invested in the venture to realize its "AI ambitions" and has setup a $1 million endowed professorship in artificial intelligence and machine learning at the University of Washington in accordance with its acquisition of Australian start-up Turi in August last year. "We're trying to find the best people who are excited about AI and machine learning -- excited about research and thinking long term but also bringing those ideas into products that impact and delight our customers," Carlos Guestrin, director of machine learning at Apple told Geekwire on Thursday. He also added: "We work on the whole spectrum. It's not just about doing research, but it's about the technology transfer and how that gets embedded into experiences that customers love."

When you think of artificial intelligence (AI), do you imagine Will Smith battling humanoid robots? Well, think again…did you know that AI is already being applied in the Internet, helping you go about your daily life without drawing attention to itself? Artificial intelligence simulates traditionally human processes like learning, reasoning and self-correction. Unlike traditional programs, AI-based applications don't need to be continually fed data or manually coded to make changes to their functionality and output. AI can be (and already is) immensely useful to B2B professionals in all industries. Most people tend to think of "strong" AI examples like IBM's Watson, but "weak" or "narrow" AI is more common and useful to our businesses and everyday lives.

Just like it does every year, Apple is expected to launch its next major iOS update at its World Wide Developers Conference event, which will be held in San Jose in June. According to previous rumors, the device will have an edge-to-edge display, a front camera with depth measurement functionality and support wireless charging. This milestone could be another reason that Apple could put out a new update, bringing major changes to the existing version of the operating system. Artificial Intelligence enabled Siri: Artificial intelligence (AI) enabled voice assistants seem to be the new fad in the smartphone industry. While Google's Assistant and Amazon's Alexa have made their way not just to smartphones, but even to smart devices, HTC has come out with its own Sense Companion and Samsung is developing Bixby.

At the recent Startup Grind Global conference in California, Tinder CEO and Founder Sean Rad said the future of the popular dating app may involve artificial intelligence. And that future may come much sooner than anticipated. Rad said that in the next five years, Tinder's millions of global users may be able to ask Siri to find them dates, which would then prompt AI to track down possible matches nearby. "In five years time, Tinder might be so good, you might be like'Hey [Apple voice assistant] Siri, what's happening tonight?' And Tinder might pop up and say'There's someone down the street you might be attracted to. She's also attracted to you. We know you both like the same band, and it's playing - would you like us to buy you tickets?'… and you have a match."

Artificial Intelligence (AI) reminds us of many Hollywood movies, like The Terminator, The Matrix etc, in which machines surpass ability and smartness of human beings to perform incredible acts. With significant advancement in technology, it is now actually possible to empower a machine with AI by using a few programming techniques and database management system. But AI is no restricted to machines robotics only, and is now seen as the next frontier of mobile devices too. Cortana, Siri and Google Now have already shown us how AI can make a difference in digital world to make human lives better. They behave as personal assistants to advise and suggest a user, like reminding birthdays of loved ones, an important meeting, a major event and many more.

Recently, tech leaders including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and billionaire Bill Gates warned about robots taking over jobs. However, a new report shows people are not that concerned about job automation. The report The Robots Are Coming, But Not For Me, is based on an online survey of more than 2,000 adults commissioned by consumer engagements firm LivePerson last month. Although experts agree robots, artificial intelligence and automated technology will have at least some effect on global economies, the majority of people think they'll be alright but say other professionals will be affected by mass layoffs, the report found. Among those surveyed, a high 88 percent said they were not very worried about losing their job after they were told about an Oxford University study that said 47 percent of US jobs were "highly likely" to be replaced by technology.

We build a collaborative filtering recommender system to restore images with impulse noise for which the noisy pixels have been previously identified. We define this recommender system in terms of a new color image representation using three matrices that depend on the noise-free pixels of the image to restore, and two parameters: $k$, the number of features; and $\lambda$, the regularization factor. We perform experiments on a well known image database to test our algorithm and we provide image quality statistics for the results obtained. We discuss the roles of bias and variance in the performance of our algorithm as determined by the values of $k$ and $\lambda$, and provide guidance on how to choose the values of these parameters. Finally, we discuss the possibility of using our collaborative filtering recommender system to perform image inpainting and super-resolution.

A free speech debate has erupted over Amazon's efforts to prevent prosecutors from obtaining audio that was recorded by one of the company's new Alexa personal assistants. Prosecutors in Arkansas say the audio could be important to proving the first-degree murder charge that it filed against James Andrew Bates, who is accused of killing a friend, Victor Collins. Bates' home had an Amazon Alexa, a device that can answer questions and perform simple functions, such as playing music. The voice-activated device is complemented by Echo, which contains speakers and microphones. Seattle-based Amazon says that the data recorded by the device, and the responses from the Alexa operating system, are protected by the First Amendment.

Prosecutors in an Arkansas murder trial have been attempting to obtain possible voice recordings from an Amazon Echo device that may be key evidence in the trial. But Amazon is claiming that Alexa, the voice of the Echo, has First Amendment rights and in the interest of protecting the customer's privacy and rights refuses to give up the recordings without legal requirement to do so, according to Forbes. The Echo product in question belongs to James Andrew Bates who's friend Victor Collins was found dead in Bates's hot tub in November 2015, according to The Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Bates pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. In the argument against the warrant for the recordings Amazon argues that the information Alexa receives and gives can reveal the intricacies of the user's personal life and should thus be protected.