Meghan Markle was the most Googled person in Britain this year, the tech giant has revealed. The American actress, who married Prince Harry in May, has seen more people look up her name than any other figure in the UK. This is the second time the former Suits star has soared to the top of the search engine's'top trending people' list. Meghan Markle was the most Googled person in Britain this year, the tech giant has revealed. This is the second time the former Suits star has soared to the top of the search engine's'top trending people' list Celebrity Big Brother contestant Roxanne Pallett came in second place.

The applications of image analytics are endless. Organizations are starting to realize the possibilities of how to extract value from unstructured data, such as images or video footage, to create a new and enticing customer experience within retail, entertainment, transportation and airport security, insurance claims, and more. Here are five image analytics applications that are unexpected, disruptive, and creative. On June 26th, I'll be talking about image analytics use cases at the Boston Area SAS Users Group in my Image Processing: Seeing the World through the Eyes of SAS Viya talk. Curious to know who attended the Royal Wedding?

When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle say "I do" at their royal wedding, online viewers tuning into the Sky News stream will not have to guess the names of international celebrities and British nobility in attendance. Instead, the U.K. broadcaster will use artificial intelligence to identify famous guests as they make their grand entrances at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle -- displaying the invitees' names and details about how they are connected to the royal couple. Dubbed "Who's Who Live," Sky News announced the livestream service last week in partnership with Amazon.com and several data and engineering firms. As the 600 guests enter the chapel, Sky News will highlight notable attendees using Amazon Rekognition, a cloud-based technology that can recognize and compare faces in images and video using artificial intelligence. Along with identifying the wedding guests, the livestream service will also show facts about them, Sky News said, using captions and on-screen graphics through the company's app.

Celebrity spotting at this weekend's Royal Wedding will be an automated activity for millions of Sky customers, as the broadcaster will use machine learning technology from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to name famous guests as they enter the chapel. The guests will automatically be labelled with a name tag when they reach George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, and added to a list that includes a bite-sized biography and details on their connection to the Royal couple. Viewers can then watch the service on-demand and navigate through the footage to the arrival of specific guests. Sky claims that this is the world's first live machine learning project on a large-scale event, but it may not have been possible if the wedding was just one week later, as the GDPR implementation date arrives on Friday 25 May. Sky has not received the guest list, so the broadcaster researched the likely invitees and used their images as the training data set for the system to recognise their faces.

File photo - Britain's Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle leave St Mary Magdalene's church after the Royal Family's Christmas Day service on the Sandringham estate in eastern England, Britain, December 25, 2017. The Royal Wedding this weekend will be spectacular and the vast security operation to keep the couple, their guests and the crowds safe will be a masterpiece of planning. Authorities in the U.K. have had to consider all potential threats and prepare solutions. Highly trained and experienced manpower, combined with a blend of low tech and high tech approaches will deliver a masterclass in how to keep a gigantic event safe - one highly attractive to terrorists, protesters and pranksters alike, and while the entire world is watching on their televisions. Keeping a Royal wedding safe is no small task.

We tested Alexa, Siri and Google Home to see which digital assistant knows most about the Royal Wedding. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. We tested Alexa, Siri and Google Home to see which digital assistant knows most about the Royal Wedding.

SAN FRANCISCO – Alexa's been studying up on the royal wedding. So go ahead, ask the Amazon assistant everything your heart desires about the upcoming marriage of American actress Meghan Markle to Britain's Prince Harry. Amazon's artificial intelligence-infused Alexa digital assistant routinely gears up for blockbuster occasions, which the May 19 union of British and Hollywood royalty promises to be. Since November, the Amazon group that preps Alexa for news and cultural events has been adding answers and information so that no one gets the dreaded "Here's what I found on the web" answer in a response to questions ranging from "Who's going to walk Meghan Markle down the aisle?" to "What time is the royal wedding?" Google Assistant, with its Google Home rival to Alexa, isn't far behind when thrown the same types of questions. In our tests, Apple's Siri drew blanks on most of them, in terms of reading the answers aloud.

As we get older, the phenomenon becomes more familiar: looking at someone who's getting attention at a large gathering of famous people, and wondering aloud, "Who in the hell even is that?" Well, U.K.-based Sky News wants to make sure you wonder no more. The network recently announced that it will use an AI-based facial recognition software during the broadcast of the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on May 19th. Now, as guests arrive, their names and some background information will appear on the broadcast. No more time wasted discerning the blue bloods from the peasants.