Seventeen years is an odd anniversary to call out. But at an event launching four new Kindles, Amazon's head of devices and services Panos Panay reminded a group of media that "Kindle is 17 years in the making, almost to the day." Panay added that the device is currently seeing its highest sales numbers, and that 20.8 billion pages are read each month on a Kindle. Since the introduction of the Kindle Scribe in 2022, there has been even more development in e-paper writing tablets, with a notable recent product in the reMarkable Paper Pro. While that 580 device supports a color writing experience, Amazon's Kindle Scribe still only works in black and white. But it might offer enough by way of software updates to make up for its monochrome manner.

Persuasive social robots employ their social influence to modulate children's behaviours in child-robot interaction. In this work, we introduce the Child-Robot Relational Norm Intervention (CRNI) model, leveraging the passive role of social robots and children's reluctance to inconvenience others to influence children's behaviours. Unlike traditional persuasive strategies that employ robots in active roles, CRNI utilizes an indirect approach by generating a disturbance for the robot in response to improper child behaviours, thereby motivating behaviour change through the avoidance of norm violations. The feasibility of CRNI is explored with a focus on improving children's handwriting posture. To this end, as a preliminary work, we conducted two participatory design workshops with 12 children and 1 teacher to identify effective disturbances that can promote posture correction.

Amazon's latest Echo device isn't designed to blend in with your surroundings. In fact, it's expected to be a center of attention. The Echo Show 15, available now for $249.99, is the tech giant's latest Alexa-enabled smart device, with features found on its vast line of smart speakers. Only this Echo has a touchscreen. It's 15.6 inches, which means it commands a notable presence in your home.

Amazon has already released updated versions of the 5, 8 and 10-inch Echo Shows earlier this year, but it's not done with smart displays just yet. Today, at its annual fall event, the company announced the Echo Show 15, its largest one to-date. With a 15.6-inch 1080p display, the Echo Show 15 almost looks like a large picture frame. It can be wall-mounted or placed on a stand, in either portrait or landscape orientation. The Echo Show 15 will retail for $249.99.

Need to remind the family to take out the garbage, pick up a prescription at the drugstore, or perform some other household duty? Just leave a digital sticky note on your Google smart display. First announced back at CES in January, the Family Notes feature is rolling out to Google smart displays starting today, along with an update to the Family Bell feature, interactive stories, and "find my family" functionality. First up, you'll soon be able to ask Google Assistant to leave a sticky note on your Google Nest Hub, Google Nest Hub Max, or another Google Assistant-enabled display. Just ask, "Hey Google, leave a family note that says pick up the dry cleaning," and Google Assistant will leave a digital sticky note in the top-right corner of the screen that reads, "Pick up the dry cleaning," along with a timestamp and the name of the person who left the note.

The intelligence community is investing in artificial intelligence as a way to augment the capabilities of intelligence analysts, with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency promoting computer vision technology and the CIA looking to AI and machine learning to help it sift through large volumes of data. Yet AI is only as strong and useful as the protections around it. That's why the intelligence community's research arm is looking for ways to predict if AI has been tampered with. In a draft broad agency announcement released last month, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity sought industry input on its TrojAI program. The program is designed to create software to automatically inspect an AI system and predict if it contains a "Trojan" attack that has tampered with its training.

When I think of the contact centers I visited in the 1990s, I remember walking into an open area where the agents worked. I noticed all the brightly colored sticky notes that dotted their workspaces. At the time, I thought it looked like chaos. But, in reality, that is how contact centers managed information and tasks. They used manual processes that were linear and analog.

Microsoft Edge is gaining new PDF reader features within the Windows 10 Fall Creator's Update--everything from sticky notes to inked signatures. It's part of Microsoft's bid to compete with Chrome and Firefox as the best Web browser, and along the way, carve out a niche as the best free PDF viewer available. We tried Edge's new capabilities within Build 16251 of the Windows Insider program, several iterations after Microsoft debuted the new functionality as part of Build 16188. The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update has since rolled out, and all of these features are now live. But based on these builds, you'll be able to fill fields, re-orient PDFs, add sticky notes, and adjust the PDF layout--even mark them up with digital ink, and sign PDF documents with a stroke of your stylus.

Microsoft Edge is gaining new PDF reader features with Windows 10's Fall Creator's Update--everything from sticky notes to inked signatures. It's part of Microsoft's bid to compete with Chrome and Firefox as the best Web browser, and along the way, carve out a niche as the best free PDF viewer available. We tried Edge's new capabilities within Build 16251 of the Windows Insider program, several iterations after Microsoft debuted the new functionality as part of Build 16188. While we're pretty sure what we've seen will match up with Edge's capabilities within the Fall Creators Update, there may be a few small changes. But based on these builds, you'll be able to fill fields, re-orient PDFs, add sticky notes, and adjust the PDF layout--even mark them up with digital ink, and sign PDF documents with a stroke of your stylus.

Google has unveiled a giant touch-screen canvas for companies trying to make it easier for their employees to brainstorm as they work on team projects and other assignments. The'Jamboard,' will replace whiteboard, the firm hopes, and goes on sale today for $4,999. It boasts a 55-inch, ultrahigh-definition screen capable of recognizing the difference between when someone is writing on it with a stylus or touching it with a finger. The'Jamboard,' boasts a 55-inch, ultrahigh-definition screen capable of recognizing the difference between when someone is writing on it with a stylus or touching it with a finger, Google says. As with a whiteboard, employees can post their ideas, documents and images on the Jamboard, only they won't need markers, tape or sticky notes to do it.