Todoist is one of the more full-featured to-do services out there, and it's available on nearly every platform out there. Whether you use Mac or Windows, iOS or Android, Todoist has you covered. It works much like you'd expect: you can ask Alexa to add items to the various lists that you have in your Todoist account, and you can also ask it to tell you everything that's on your to-do list for that day. And Alexa works with Todoist's natural language processing, so you can ask it to add things to your list "tomorrow" or "next Wednesday" and it'll know just what you're asking it for. It's not clear if you'll be able to tell Alexa to add items to specific projects or to-do lists in your account -- they probably get added to whatever your default list is for you to sort out on your phone or computer.

Until now, Tinder users have had to rely on good old-fashioned narcissism to try and determine which photo they look best in, but now it can be ascertained empirically, boosting their chances of finding matches. "Starting today, we're implementing a brand new algorithm that maximizes your match potential," a spokesperson for the dating app announced. "It's simple: Smart Photos alternates the photo first seen by others when you're shown on Tinder, notes each response as others swipe on you, and reorders your photos to show your best ones first. In testing, users saw up to a 12% increase in matches. "Tinder's Smart Photos continuously test your profile photos for their success, so that you're always leading with the photos most likely to be swiped right." "Think of us as your own personal data research team.

In this post-Tinder world, your profile picture is everything. The world swipes right (acceptance!) or swipes left (rejection!) based solely on what your photo looks like. Not what you look like. What your photo looks like. So, when hunting for dates and other forms of conjugation, you better get that photo right.

Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Recode by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, executive editor at The Verge and editor at large of Recode. I've been familiar with Siri longer than most people. Way back in 2009 -- two years before Apple incorporated the intelligent digital assistant into the iPhone -- I stood onstage with the inventors of the service while they debuted it at a tech conference I co-produced. At the time, it was just a third-party app on the iPhone App Store. Not long thereafter, Apple bought the company, and the assistant reemerged in 2011 with a splashy introduction as a core feature of the iPhone 4s.

"I wish I could touch you," Theodore says, laying in bed. Until she speaks up, tentatively. "How would you touch me?" It's a famously poignant scene from the movie Her, as the character Theodore is about to make vocal love to an artificial intelligence living in his ear. But according to half a dozen experts I interviewed, ranging from industrial designer Gadi Amit to the usability guru Don Norman, in-ear assistants aren't science fiction. In fact, a notable pile of discreet, wireless earbuds enabling just this idea are coming to market now. Sony recently released its first in-ear assistant, the Xperia Ear. Intel showed off a similar proof-of-concept last year.

Bill Gates recently declared artificial intelligence "the holy grail of computer science." The industry has made massive strides in recent years and there are even more exciting things ahead. The AI market will grow from 420 million in 2014 to over 5 billion by the year 2020. By 2018, an estimated 6 billion things from appliances to cars to wearable tech will depend on AI technology. There are currently more than 1,000 AI start-up companies and a total of 5.4 billion has been invested into them.

Voice assistance on your phone is nothing new. Be it Alice, Cortana or Siri, they have all been assisting us with minor chores through our otherwise busy life. You don't really need to look carefully to figure the monotony in the speech and hence one never banks fully on the assistant. Psychologically, a person has never found a'spark' of sorts with their assistant. Since most systems today need to be trained or taught by humans, it is almost impossible for us to pre-program an assistant who adapts to every consumer.

At Dreamforce this week, Salesforce finally provided details about Einstein, its artificial intelligence technology that it touts as "AI for everyone." For the last couple of weeks, Mark Benioff has been teasing us about Einstein, and yesterday we saw the fruits of that labor. A series of speakers extolled the benefits of Einstein – from being able to predict the sports gear that a consumer might like, to medical uses such as being able quickly diagnose bleeding in the brain. The real impact of Einstein, however, is that it validates the larger trend of Artificial Intelligence or "AI" being applied across a wide variety of both enterprise and consumer tasks. One of my favorite comments from the keynote was that AI is like electricity, and that when it was first incorporated into appliances they were referred to by names such as "the electric toaster."

From chatbots to smart apps, developments in artificial intelligence are changing the way that banks interact with their customers. Like many people who were young in 1997, I had a Tamagotchi and it meant the world to me. Whenever it was hungry, I hurried to feed my digital pet. If it beeped about being lonely, I'd go give it attention. My parents thought it was a little silly to be that devoted to a toy, but in this day and age it's almost impossible to imagine life without interaction between man and machine.

After recently purchasing the artificial intelligence start-up Viv, it looks like Viv's AI could replace Samsung's S Voice in the alleged Galaxy S8, according to the latest leak. The California based Viv was co-founded by Dag Kittlaus, who helped create Apple's Siri. Viv's mission is to create an even better AI assistant than Siri, and its recent purchase by Samsung helped give this goal momentum. Many tech companies are putting effort into stepping up their AI game, as was seen in Google's October press event. It makes sense for a hardware company like Samsung to invest in AI, and this most recent rumor gives us an idea of how Samsung intends to use its new resource.