Once upon a time, artificial intelligence was an idea that remained in our imaginations and was expressed in movies and art conversations…

Around six years ago, high-resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT) was jointly developed by MedUni Vienna's Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Technology and its Department of Ophthalmology. OCT is an imaging technique that, like ultrasound – but contact-free – displays accurate stratified images of the retina. With the aid of algorithms recently developed at the Medical University of Vienna, it can be used to diagnose retinal diseases at an early stage within only a few seconds, so that the appropriate treatment can be given. Vienna is therefore regarded as a pioneer and also a driver of the digital revolution in ophthalmology, which now stands on the brink of a global breakthrough.

The majority of marketers are already dabbling in artificial intelligence, according to Salesforce's annual State of Marketing report, but the field will expand rapidly over the next two years.

Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, and Xiaomi are just the start.

Small businesses now have a powerful, new intuitive tool at their fingertips to help drive success - and the bottom line.

Researchers at Shree Devi Institute of Technology, in India, have recently carried out a study investigating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to communicate with deceased loved ones. Like in the chilling sci-fi fantasy foreshadowed by popular television series Black Mirror, AI tools could soon allow people to connect with virtual versions of deceased dear ones. Shriya Devadiga and Bhakthi Shetty, the two researchers who carried out the study, wanted to further examine this fascinating and yet rather unsettling possibility. They particularly focused on Replica AI, an app designed to create duplicates of people’s digital personalities, allowing others to communicate with them. “We got the basic idea for our study from Eugenia Kuyda, the founder of Replika AI,” Devadiga told TechXplore. “Replika’s basic purpose is to create a personal AI that can help people to express themselves through helpful conversations. Someday, you will die, leaving behind a lifetime of text messages, posts, and other digital ephemera. For a while, your friends and family may put these digital traces out of their minds, but then later feel out of place because they miss the loved ones. So our main objective was to explore ways of relieving the pain of this loss, at least bitwise.”

On November 13 and 14, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held the seventh hearing in its series of nine planned Hearings on Competition and Consumer…

As we look to 2019 the question of what changes will take place in the world of e-discovery over the next year will certainly entice answers from the many legal minds who work with e-discovery. Those answers however are not so obvious.

New research from the Imperial College Business School suggests that digital assistants like Amazon's Alexa and Google Home may soon be able to predict a user's love life.

The research suggests that these AI devices will be able to determine if your relationship is healthy or on the decline