Amazon's latest set of crowdfunded Echo devices aim for luxury over eccentricity. The retailer has unveiled three new trippy Echo Dot concepts from Belgian fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg (DVF) that you can pre-order today for $60 each. Well, as long as they hit their sales target. Like the trio of weird products Amazon unveiled in February (cuckoo clock anyone?) these dinky speakers are part of the Built It program that borrows from Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Basically, Amazon will only ship out this second round of gadgets if they generate enough consumer interest within 30 days.

With warnings coming fast and furious from tech luminaries as diverse as Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and the late Stephen Hawking, to name a few, most of us are conditioned to think of the potential dangers of artificial intelligence in the hands of bad actors. While armies of AI-powered humanoid bots have not yet materialized, AI is being harnessed by hackers in the creation of "smart malware" that overcomes traditional defenses by using predictive technology. But if this is true, can't the opposite be also? Can AI be harnessed to turn against malware? Experts emphatically say yes, and some, like Barracuda and Cylance, are already doing it.