At the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging in Prague, a Harvard-based artificial intelligence system won the Camelyon16 challenge, a competition comprised of participants introducing their individual AI systems and its ability to facilitate automated lymph node metastasis diagnosis. Referred to as PathAl, the computing system identifies cancerous cells through a mechanism referred to as deep learning--an algorithmic technique that accumulates copious amounts of unstructured data and organizes it into clusters, before analyzing it for patterns. Deep learning is predominately utilized in speech recognition systems like Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana. According to one of the challenge's organizers, Jeroen van der Laak of Radboud University Medical Center in Netherlands, the technology featured in the competition went "way beyond" his expectations, as the AI's accuracy proved strikingly close to that of human beings. In addition, van der Laak said AI technology has the propensity to intrinsically redefine the way histopathological images are handled in the medical community.

This Chrome extension uses FP-Growth to surface recommended products from other users who have upvoted the product you are looking at. This is similar to how Amazon's "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" recommendations work. Learn how to build and implement your own collaborative filtering recommendation engine today.

Artificial Intelligence is the latest hotness. We've heard how bots are going to be the new apps allowing natural conversational interfaces. Siri, Cortana and Google Now are no longer a gimmick and are becoming more useful every day. Machine Learning sits behind artificial intelligence and on the surface it may seem like a deeply technical, scientific topic. We are here to tell you that it is more accessible than you think.

One of the most interesting features of the Anniversary Update for Windows 10 is the beefed-up inking capability. Particularly when combined with Cortana, which can turn handwriting into actionable tasks such as reminders. It's a neat feature, and you don't have to be a stylus-wielding user to take advantage of it. Even someone with a keyboard and mouse can use Cortana's smarts in collaboration with the new Sticky Notes app. Here's a preview of this new functionality, and how it currently works in the latest Insider Preview Build of the Anniversary Update, before the new bits roll out to our PCs on August 2. Windows has had a built-in Sticky Notes program ever since Windows XP arrived nearly 15 years ago.

Augmented reality is going to change the way people relate to sex and dating. It has to--most new technologies find some useful application in those arenas. But no matter how AR ends up altering people's love lives, surely no one expected the shift to be heralded by a rogue Charizard. Less than a week ago, it would've been easy to assume a young person determinedly flicking at their smartphone screen in a bar or coffee shop was swiping through potential dates on Tinder. This week, it's far more likely they're playing Pokémon Go, the mobile game that is currently taking over the US and is already ensconced on more Americans' Android phones than Tinder managed to find its way on to in four years.

Gaming is often seen as an unsociable and solitary pursuit. But fans of Pokémon GO claim the augmented reality craze - which since its launch last week has had users chasing around their neighborhoods in pursuit of fictional creatures - has given rise to so many chance meetings between strangers that people have started using it as a dating app. Numerous users have shared their stories of romance spurred by the app - claiming that they were either asked out while playing the game or invited on a Pokémon GO date with their potential love interest. It has also proved a hit as a dating activity among existing couples and as a new way of making friends. Such is the popularity of the game - which has already been installed on more Android devices than dating app Tinder - that some fans are using it to replace movie nights, giving rise to the phrase'Pokémon GO and chill', adapted from'Netflix and chill'.

Virtual marketing assistant Kit CRM announced today the launch of its chatbot on Facebook Messenger, making it the third platform it's available on. The move comes three months since it became one of the first companies to announce an integration with Facebook's conversational platform. Any of the more than 900 million monthly app users will be able to have access to a virtual employee right at their fingertips. The idea to bring this marketing assistant to Facebook Messenger enables merchants without marketing support to manage their online marketing promotions on Facebook and Instagram using an interface they're likely more comfortable with instead of being inundated by ad-serving networks and interfaces. Founded by Michael Perry, Kit is the producer of an artificial intelligent virtual assistant that previously let you run your e-commerce business through SMS text messages or using Telegram.

Is your garage door opening right now? Is your washing machine running? A growing number of products attempt to give consumers data on the sources of their household energy use--crucial data for home efficiency efforts and utility peak-hour conservation programs. But Sense, a startup in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the first to offer a consumer product that reads incoming household power levels a million times per second--enough to tease out telltale clues to which specific appliances, even low-wattage ones, are operating in real time. "It's at the cutting edge of what I have seen people attempting in this area," says Michael Baker, a vice president at SBW, an energy efficiency consultancy in Seattle.

A computer program has been developed that can tell if a person is lying by analysing linguistic cues in emails, texts and even online dating profiles. Researchers from City University in London detailed their findings in a paper set to be published in Journal of Management Information Systems. The paper, titled "Untangling a Web of Lies: Exploring Automated Detection of Deception in Computer-Mediated Communication," describes tell-tale signs that someone is lying. Deceitful emailers have a tendency to avoid personal pronouns--such as "I" and "me"--while also including language that flatters the recipient. The paper's authors say their findings could be used within a business context, to identify corporate deception and spot when a customer might not be telling the truth.

In 2012, Dennis Mortensen had 1,019 meetings, each of which required an average of roughly eight back-and-forth emails to schedule. Every time Mortensen comes across a contact interested in meeting with him, the CEO and founder of New York City-based artificial intelligence firm x.ai simply sends them a return email copying Amy, who takes care of the rest. "In raw numbers, I've saved about an hour every day -- an hour which I would otherwise have to use in really rudimentary work where I add not much value," Mortensen said of Amy's help scheduling meetings. Virtual assistants like Amy are becoming more common. Just as household technology platforms like Apple's "Siri" and Microsoft's "Cortana" has helped consumers navigate their lives more easily, other forms of rudimentary artificial intelligence platforms are starting to proliferate the market, many of them upending traditional business roles.