Advertising stands to be rebooted by advances in artificial intelligence – but the industry must re-learn practices to embrace the power of machine learning. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Hlavacek explains how AI could make a step-change. "A number of players in the ecosystem – ad-tech companies, publishers, marketers – they're starting to understand how AI can help them predict what actions their consumers are going to take when they don't have all the data that they're used to having," he says. "AI is a new category of advertising and it's really going to change everything that we do, much of the way programmatic changed everything that close to a decade ago happened in the digital space." So, what is AI really?

PARIS – Praying mantises sporting tiny 3-D glasses -- held in place with beeswax -- have revealed a new kind of "stereo" vision that may help improve robot sight, researchers said Thursday. Sporting two teardrop-shaped, light-filtering lenses in lab experiments, the insects lashed out at special 3-D film images of tempting prey, a team of scientists said. Scientists then observed reactions to more complex images, and learned that mantis vision works very differently from ours. Humans can naturally judge depth when shown a still image. However, in mantises, such 3-D perception activates when there is movement.

Praying mantises sporting tiny 3D glasses that were held in place with beeswax have revealed a new kind of'stereo' vision that may help improve robot sight. With two teardrop-shaped, light-filtering lenses perched on their heads, the insects lashed out at images of tempting prey in a special 3D film, a team of scientists said. Currently robot algorithms for sight require a lot of computing power. However, if scientists could replicate the way mantis sight detects depth they could create more lightweight robots with better 3D vision. Praying mantises sporting tiny 3D glasses that were held in place with beeswax have revealed a new kind of'stereo' vision that may help improve robot sight Also known as stereopsis, 3D or stereo vision helps humans and other creatures determine the distances to objects we see.

Like many online retailers, Overstock closely tracks the behavior of visitors on its site. But transforming all those individual page views and clicks into actual revenue is easier said than done. The company recently discussed with Datanami how it overcame challenges in building its own one-to-one marketing analytics system, and what results it's delivered this year. Overstock emerged from the wreckage of the first dot-com boom with a winning business plan: sell the excess merchandise of failed retail outfits at below-wholesale levels, build a loyal following, rinse, and repeat. Now nearly two decades in, Overstock has expanded to sell new products, and it all adds up to nearly $2 billion in revenue annually.

The legend of a shipwreck off the coast of Manzanita stretches back to the early 19th century, when a fur trader noticed Native Americans trading in beeswax despite there being no native honeybees in Oregon. To this day, beachcombers periodically find blocks of beeswax and pieces of fine china around Short Sands beach and the Nehalem Spit.