For decades, science fiction authors, futurists, and movie makers alike have been predicting the amazing (and sometimes catastrophic) changes that will arise with the advent of widespread artificial intelligence. So far, AI hasn't made any such crazy waves, and in many ways has quietly become ubiquitous in numerous aspects of our daily lives. From the intelligent sensors that help us take perfect pictures, to the automatic parking features in cars, to the sometimes frustrating personal assistants in smartphones, artificial intelligence of one kind of another is all around us, all the time. While we've yet to create self-aware robots like those that pepper popular movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Wars, we have made smart and often significant use of AI technology in a wide range of applications that, while not as mind-blowing as androids, still change our day-to-day lives. One place where artificial intelligence is poised to make big changes (and in some cases already is) is in education.

Developers and press gathered today at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California, for the annual ritual known as Google I/O. Are you ready for a Google overdose? Here's everything the company announced during its most important event of the year: Google launched its latest Android N developer preview today -- the first one to receive "beta-quality" status. Developers can start testing their apps for this release by downloading the new preview here. The factory images should arrive shortly for the following supported devices: Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Nexus 9 LTE, Nexus Player, General Mobile 4G, and Pixel C. Remember the rumor suggesting Google may use an online poll to name Android N? Well, it turns the rumor was half-correct: It's more of a suggestion box than a poll. Google wants to hear your what you've got at android.com/n.

Justin Gerrard speaks quickly, Brian Gerrard speaks slowly. If you met them separately, you would never guess they were brothers. But their oil-and-water partnership helped them create Bae, a dating app for black people. Bae works pretty much like Tinder, but tailor-made for black users. The Gerrards came up with the idea after they realized how difficult it is for black singles to find dates on existing platforms.

Two's company but three's a crowd according to dating app Tinder, which has launched a legal bid to kill off a rival app aimed at people looking for threesomes. Tinder, owned by global dating firm Match Group, is alleging trademark infringement in the high court against 3nder, an independent app for non-monogamous couples and their potential partners. It wants its smaller competitor to shut down and erase its presence from the web entirely to avoid "confusion" between the two apps, claiming the alleged similarity gives 3nder an "unfair advantage". But 3nder launched its fightback in bizarre fashion on Monday, calling on its users to send Tinder pictures of their socks via Twitter, using the hashtag #TinderSuckMySocks. Founder Dimo Trifonov vowed to fight Tinder, which he accused of "loading a nuclear weapon" against his firm, which employs just eight people.

My mother enrolled in a high school physics course in 1968. This wouldn't be especially notable except for the fact that it was the first time in her school's history that girls were permitted to take physics. In prior years, boys were allowed to study physics while girls were expected to enroll in home economics. While my mother acknowledges she was not destined for a career in physics, there were women of her generation that did aspire to enter the scientific field: Dr. France Córdova, Director of the National Science Foundation; Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and Persis Drell, former director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, are just a few of the women who not only studied physics, but excelled and built their careers in the field despite the barriers of their generation. Women have progressed significantly since 1968.

"Artificial intelligence is the art and science of making machines intelligent," Corrado explained. According to Corrado, the brain's billions of neurons all make tiny decisions based on small amounts of information, but working together they can perform advanced thinking tasks. Moving back to the image recognition example, Corrado explained that these artificial neurons will individually scan tiny patches of pixels in an image and make some judgment about them. Asked how machine learning works for things like booking a movie ticket -- a task Google's AI-powered Google Assistant performed during CEO Sundar Pichai's keynote -- Corrado explained that parts of that task were not done by AI.

The tech world is awash with talk of artificial intelligence. The seemingly out-of-nowhere magical force is now powering everything from image recognition to virtual assistant chatbots; it's on the lips of every tech executive within 10 feet of a microphone. Not surprisingly, AI was front and center last week at Google's I/O conference, a massive gathering of some 7,000 developers and media all looking to Google for a peek at the future. Google CEO Sundar Pichai did little to temper that blue-sky enthusiasm, ending the closing AI portion of his keynote with a line that felt cribbed straight from a Star Trek script: "Things previously thought to be impossible may in fact be possible." AI is becoming an increasingly more important feature in our daily lives, yet one of the more fascinating aspects of its rise is how poorly we understand what it actually is.

Google has announced Google Assistant, a cloud-powered artificially intelligent personal assistant. Unlike Google Now, you interact with it in the form of a conversation - either in Google's new mobile chat apps or at home using an Amazon Echo-like mic-equipped speaker. Allo is a competitor to WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, with the benefit of Google Assistant. It can automatically suggest replies to messages in your conversations, even if it takes the form of a photo. So, if someone sends you a photo of a cat then Allo will suggest a reply of'that's a cute British short hair' using its image recognition algorithms. Allo will link your conversations to the wider web too.

Conversational bots, which can understand complex voice commands and complete tasks for you, are quickly becoming the rage. Earlier this month, the inventors of Siri showed off their creation Viv, which ordered flowers and booked a hotel in under a minute. Google Assistant, revealed this week, promises similar capabilities. Microsoft has now let slip that it's also working on a bot to help get things done, reports ZDNet off of a job posting from the company that's now been removed. Our biggest ever edition of TNW Conference is fast approaching!

Tinder is reportedly suing 3nder, a rival dating app targeted at people who want threesomes, over the similarity between their names. The company claims to have been "ordered to immediately cease operations" by Tinder, which reportedly believes the similarity between the apps' names could cause confusion for users. In a statement, 3nder said it was "confident" none of its members would ever confuse the two apps, and drew attention to Tinder's lack of ownership of the '-nd(e)r' suffix, used by similar services like Grindr and Adult Friend Finder. Dimo Trifonov, the founder of 3ndr, said: "Our mission and our values could not be more distinct from those of Tinder." "With so many sexualities and relationship structures left out of Tinder and the Match Group [Tinder's parent company] offerings, there is room for all of us."