Samsung releases ‘Incredibles 2’ AR Emojis

With Samsung’s partnership with Disney, it’s not surprising that the Incredibles 2 are getting the AR Emoji treatment. All five members of the superhero family as well as Frozone are available for you to play around with. AR Emoji has been likened to Apple’s Animojis. These emojis use your facial expressions to animate the characters you see on the screen. This latest pack is already available in the camera’s AR Emoji mode. Just a reminder that only the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus have access to this feature.

Source: Android Authority

Car-sharing service Car2Go ceases service in Toronto over prohibitive parking regulations

Car2Go is considered one of the most recognizable and popular car sharing services which has allowed many Canadians to get by without owning a car, which can be expensive in a city like Toronto where most of the parking spaces have been converted into high-rise condos.

Car2Go, which has 80,000 customers in Toronto, announced it is shutting down operations in the downtown core due to what it calls prohibitive parking permit fees. The familiar blue and white SmartCar vehicles will soon disappear from 350 parking spaces in Toronto.

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Amazon Prime Music brings Alexa hands-free functionality to mobile devices

Starting today, Prime Music is bringing Alexa wake word capability to the Amazon Music mobile app, providing customers with a full integration of voice capabilities. Now, when customers open the Amazon Music app, they can ask Alexa to play music wherever they go without touching to talk – a completely hands-free listening experience!

When the Amazon Music app is open and in the foreground on any iOS and Android smartphones, customers can safely utilize all of the innovative voice features they use on Echo devices to play music by mood, genre, artist or song title and much more, no searching or browsing required. Customers can now simply say “Alexa”, to play, pause, move back and forth between songs, and much more.

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IBM's CEO Ginni Rometty says AI needs to, "augment human intelligence, not replace it."

Echoing the sentiments of Microsoft's Satya Nadella, IBM's CEO Ginny Rometty recently stressed the need for ethical quidance for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Technoplogy leaders know the importance of keeping a technology as world changing as machine learning and AI (Artificial Intelligence), which are set to impact every industry as well as replace millions of jobs.

“At IBM, we fundamentally believe in the power of technology to make our world a better place to live, and to benefit the lives of the many, not just the few,” Rometty said in a prepared statement before her keynote at the high proficle Viva Technology conference in Paris yesterday. “We all have a responsibility to use innovation to make a difference, and through Call for Code our collective goal is to help people in need and build a better future.”

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