Amazon's Echo Show 15 comes with a digital photo frame picture that enables it to display only photos or artwork, uninterrupted by random Alexa skill suggestions, recipes or your schedule. Only the 15.6-inch had that feature, though -- until now. According to The Verge, the e-commerce giant has recently added its dedicated photo frame feature to all Echo Show Models in the US, the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Australia. The Verge says you can activate the slideshow by saying the voice command: "Alexa, start Photo Frame." Your smart display will then start a slideshow using the contents of your Amazon Photos and your Facebook account. It can also display a random selection of stock images if you've yet to upload your personal photos or have yet to link your accounts with the device.

Want to add more video to your content mix? Have you considered repurposing your blog content into video? There's no need to spend hours recording video with an expensive camera when you have existing content and access to free tools. In this article, you'll learn how to use free tools to turn blog posts into videos you can share on social media. You can turn a blog post into a video pretty easily by building a slideshow presentation that communicates key ideas and converting that slideshow into a video file.

Can PowerPoint speak aloud and read the text in my slideshows? Using the Speak command, also known as the Text to Speech (TTS) feature, PowerPoint can read the text in your slideshows and in your notes out loud. Be advised, however, that there is not a pause and continue feature with Speak. This is available only with the Read Aloud command, which is available in Word and Outlook, but not yet in PowerPoint or Excel. NOTE: The Speak command cannot automatically read an entire presentation.

It has become commonplace--and somehow not at all weird--to ask your speaker for a weather report, or to command your television to switch on HBO. This is the new now, a place we've been ever since Alexa marched into our living rooms and Siri snuck into our pockets. And it's likely the future, as voice-controlled smart-home speakers and devices continue to proliferate like bunnies in the spring. The thing is, I'm not quite sure it's the future we asked for. Haven't we already decided the smartphone is the best tool for ambient internet tasks?

Amazon meanwhile offers medical advice through applications on its voice-activated artificial assistant Alexa. Insilico is working on drugs for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), cancer and age-related diseases, aiming to develop personalised treatments.

In "The First International Beauty Contest Judged by Artificial Intelligence," a robot board judged faces, in light of "algorithms that can precisely assess the criteria connected to perception of human beauty and health," as per the contest's site. In any case, by failing to supply the AI with a diverse training set, the contest winners were all white.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been a staple of science fiction, but in recent years, technology has improved to the point where real-world AI systems have become usable. In fact, Markets and Markets predicts that that the worldwide market for AI systems could be worth $16.06 billion by 2022. Interestingly, as AI becomes a bigger part of daily life, it also seems to be playing a bigger role in the entertainment industry. Already this decade, filmmakers have put out at least 30 feature films featuring an A.I. character in a key role. By comparison, our research turned up just 19 notable AI movies from the 2000s, 14 from the 1990s and 10 from the 1980s.

Time to make the most of them! Google is working hard to make Google Home your home's central entertainment hub. With the latest update, you can now link Netflix with the Google Home app and "OK, Google" things like launching a binge session of Stranger Things. You can also do cool things like launch a slideshow of your pictures from last Christmas on your Google-connected TV. The Amazon Echo-competitor is playing a game of catchup; but Google Home has the advantage of being able to leverage home networks that are already serving up streaming content to TVs and speakers via Chromecast and Chromecast Audio devices.

Nightingale Security is a San Francisco based company that specializes in the use of drones for facility surveillance. The drones are fully autonomous, with a 4 km operational radius, and are capable of carrying a number of sensors including infrared, thermal, and hazmat. Nightingale Security offers the drones as a monthly or annual service, including installation and maintenance of all hardware and software.

Just tap any desired Memory in the list to see its contents. Each Memory has a thumbnail image, creation date and title based on location the photos were taken, what's on them (portraits, landscapes etc.) and other parameters.