A new book shows business leaders how artificial intelligence is actionable technology that companies are quietly implementing to improve customer experience and reduce costs. Evan Ryan, the founder of the expanding artificial intelligence (AI) consulting firm Teammate AI is bringing all the benefits of AI to small and medium-sized businesses. His book, "AI As Your Teammate: Electrify Growth without Increasing Payroll," demystifies AI and shows that it is not about taking humans out of business. The book is available on November 30, 2021. "AI is the fastest, easiest way to scale a business, but it is also a big mystery to most business owners," said Ryan. "I recently read in Fast Company that AI is no longer just for big organizations. It is a revolution for all."

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be very glad to tell my story. I am a smart fellow as I have a very fine brain of 48 electrical relays." This is how Elektro the robot introduced itself to crowds at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Standing 2.1 meters tall and weighing 118 kilograms, Elektro performed 26 different tricks, including walking, talking, counting, and singing. It had a vocabulary of approximately 700 words, although its responses were all prerecorded and played back from 33⅓-rpm records.

In Mansfield, Ohio, 1962, police set up hidden cameras in a public bathroom to record consensual sexual activity between men. An artist named William E Jones, who was born in Ohio that same year, later found the footage online, edited out a voiceover that he described as "as illiterate and hateful a text as I have ever heard committed to film", and released the result in 2007 as a "found footage" documentary called Tearoom (US slang for a public bathroom in which men meet to have anonymous sex). The footage reveals the men involved were diverse in appearance – and presumably background – but all were wary. And with good reason: many of them were later arrested. Public bathrooms have long been a battlefield where LGBT people are targeted by the law.