Two Chinese software developers are trying to harness the power of open source software to improve working conditions for coders. Last weekend, Katt Gu and Suji Yan, published the "Anti-996 License," which requires any company that uses the project's software to comply with local labor laws as well as International Labour Organization standards, including the right for workers to collectively bargain and a ban on forced labor. The license is part of the growing Anti-996 Movement in China, which refers to a common schedule of working from 9 am to 9 pm, six days a week. This grueling schedule is allegedly widespread in the Chinese tech startup industry, according to a story in the South China Morning Post last month. Last week, one or more anonymous activists launched a website called 996.ICU, detailing Chinese labor laws that a 996 schedule may violate, including provisions that generally limit work to 44 hours a week and require overtime pay.

Getting sick is the worst. But it's even worse when a doctor misdiagnoses your symptoms and you get put on the wrong antibiotics for a month -- only to get a new prescription after the first one didn't work. This often happens due to the doctor's fatigue or failure to spot a certain detail. We accept this because, after all, doctors are only human. Scientists now are working on ways to take this human error out of the equation by implementing artificial intelligence into various aspects of medicine.

Google is becoming more like Amazon.com. Meanwhile, the online retailer -- which is Google's biggest ad buyer -- is embracing an advertising model. Every year, investors eagerly await Mary Meeker's Internet Trends presentation. Many say she is the top expert in this field. Meeker's longevity is impressive; she's been at this since at least the early 1990s.

Mary Meeker is a legend in Silicon Valley. Because every year, she comes out with what many think is the most complete and thorough analysis of the technology industry. Now, Mary and her team do impeccable work: her presentations are full of great graphs, her slides full of data...and you have to believe that her insights come from hours of researching the industry and listening to the thousands of entrepreneurs that come to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (Meeker's employer) for investments. There is one problem though. The research pack is long and dense.

Mary Meeker is a legend in Silicon Valley. Because every year, she comes out with what many think is the most complete and thorough analysis of the technology industry. Now, Mary and her team do impeccable work: her presentations are full of great graphs, her slides full of data...and you have to believe that her insights come from hours of researching the industry and listening to the thousands of entrepreneurs that come to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (Meeker's employer) for investments. There is one problem though. The research pack is long and dense.

There has been a lot of buzz around artificial intelligence, which uses logic to mimic the human brain. In the advertising space, many shops have created an AI or a cognitive technology division. But for the time being, AI's real impact on various marketing fields seems to be limited. People often use the term AI interchangeably with machine learning, but they are different. AI is the broad concept of teaching machines with data to do things in an efficient way, while machine learning is the technique -- using algorithms to process data, learn from insights and make predictions -- that trains AI, according to agency executives. Machine learning is typically considered as a subset of AI, they said.

This summer, KPCB partner Mary Meeker's 2017 Internet Trends report singled out healthcare as a sector ripe with opportunity. The report proposed that the healthcare market, driven by a number of converging technologies, is approaching a "digital inflection point" and is currently positioned for rapid growth. Due to increasing digitization of inputs since 2013, the amount of global healthcare data has been increasing 48 percent year-on-year, according to Meeker's research. With the rising availability (and accompanying burden) of such rich informational resources, medical and healthcare practices are being reimagined on every front. Leveraging this explosion of data will create a complete transformation of both markets and service delivery norms.

Before voice assistants like Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa gained relevancy, Will Underwood and Jarrod Wolf were researching semantic search and realized a lot could be done with natural-language search by taking the words humans use on a daily basis and making them comprehensible to a machine. By analyzing reviews and ratings, AddStructure can better help users find what they're looking for based on what they're researching or requesting at any given moment, along with what they've asked about in the past. While many agencies are beginning to build voice skills for Amazon and Google devices, building custom products provides more autonomy than they have with Alexa's parent company, Amazon. In the third quarter of this year, Strike Social will start offering a new AI service to help clients buy digital media in a way that the company's co-founder, Patrick McKenna, says will make buying across YouTube and other platforms faster, cheaper and smarter.

Voice is starting to replace typing in online queries and it's becoming more accurate, according to Mary Meeker, partner at VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, in her 2017 Internet Trends report released Wednesday. Meeker's annual report is highly anticipated by techies, who scour the 355-slide deck that's chock-full of statistics, charts, trends and predictions. Voice is becoming more popular than typing in online search. Twenty percent of mobile searches were made using voice in 2016, according to the report. Meanwhile, voice recognition accuracy continues to improve and is now at about 95%.

Want to know where tech innovation is headed? Venture capitalist and Internet soothsayer Mary Meeker unveiled her Internet trends for 2017 on Wednesday during the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Meeker's report on the state of the Internet is among the most anticipated events at Code, serving as a guide to the biggest trends on the Web. According to Meeker, interactive gaming bears "the motherlode" of ideas for tech innovation and evolution. "Video games are the most engaging form of social media," said Meeker during her presentation.