Movies Anywhere, the streaming hub that pulls together films you purchase for a variety of digital stores, has added a feature many users have long been hoping for: lists. Not only will this help you better organize your library, the system will automatically generate personalized lists based on the movies you own. You should now see a My Lists tab next to My Movies. Organizing a Movies Anywhere library presents a different challenge to grouping titles together on the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. While subscribers of those services have access to the same content based on the country they're in, every Movies Anywhere user has a unique selection of films in their locker.

LyricJam, a real-time system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate lyric lines for live instrumental music, was created by members of the University of Waterloo's Natural Language Processing Lab. The lab, led by Olga Vechtomova, a Waterloo Engineering Professor cross-appointed in Computer Science, has been researching creative applications of AI for several years. The lab's initial work led to the creation of a system that learns musical expressions of artists and generates lyrics in their style. Recently, Vechtomova, along with Waterloo graduate students Gaurav Sahu and Dhruv Kumar, developed technology that relies on various aspects of music such as chord progressions, tempo and instrumentation to synthesise lyrics, reflecting the mood and emotions expressed by live music. As a musician or a band plays instrumental music, the system continuously receives the raw audio clips, which the neural network processes to generate new lyric lines.

The icing on the cake is that the action takes place in the PUBG universe. Some of the most exciting inventions in TV will be in 2021. LG has hinted at ditching the E-Series OLED and bringing in Gallery Series. On the other hand, Samsung might unveil a rotating Sero TV. This year will be bigger and mightier with TV screens measuring above 75-inch becoming mainstream.

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The impact artificial intelligence will have on the digital universe should not be understated.

For being one of the most iconic and influential anime series of all time, Neon Genesis Evangelion is also one of the most confusing; as of the franchise's most recent film, released on Amazon Prime earlier this month, the series has officially ended four times. But the new--and truly final--movie, Evangelion: 3.0 1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, delivers a real capstone to the series, as well as a new argument for how to watch the series as a whole. In case you're totally unfamiliar with the series, the gist is as such: Three teenagers, Shinji Ikari (Megumi Ogata), Asuka Langley Shikinami (Yūko Miyamura), and Rei Ayanami (Megumi Hayashibara), serve as the pilots of giant robots known as Evangelions. Though their initial function was to fight against mysterious beings known as Angels, they know serve as pawns between the organization NERV, led by Shinji's father Gendo (Fumihiko Tachiki), who seeks to cause a mass extinction in order to reunite with his late wife, and WILLE, a group of former NERV employees who are now NERV's only opponents. The Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, of which Thrice Upon a Time is the last, serves as a sort of re-telling of the events of the original TV series.

In 1966 a television series called "Star Trek" introduced the communicator, a device Captain Kirk flips open to talk to his crew remotely. Decades later, in the mid-1990s, Motorola released its StarTAC model phone--credited as the first flip phone and clearly inspired by the communicator device from the science fiction series. Likewise, "2001: A Space Odyssey," a movie released in 1968, introduced the idea of video calling, with which most of us have become all too familiar in the past year. And the list goes on--autonomous cars, cars that can fly, smartwatches and virtual reality, just to name a few more. There are several visionaries who have inspired our thinking and design principles.

When Roadrunner, a documentary about late TV chef and traveler Anthony Bourdain, opened in theaters last month, its director, Morgan Neville, spiced up promotional interviews with an unconventional disclosure for a documentarian. Some words viewers hear Bourdain speak in the film were faked by artificial intelligence software used to mimic the star's voice. Accusations from Bourdain fans that Neville had acted unethically quickly came to dominate coverage of the film. Despite that attention, how much of the fake Bourdain's voice is in the two-hour movie, and what it said, has been unclear--until now. In an interview that made his film infamous, Neville told The New Yorker that he had generated three fake Bourdain clips with the permission of his estate, all from words the chef had written or said but that were not available as audio.

Information manipulation has been around since Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote "The Art of War" in 550 BC. The Russians routinely use disinformation tactics to destabilize democracies. Events like the 2020 U.S. elections or COVID-19 vaccinations highlight how political opponents and rogue nations actively practice disinformation campaigns to undermine confidence in governments and science, sowing fear and distrust. The disinformation machine is said to cost the global economy $78 billion yearly. The good news is that we're getting better at detecting deep fakes.

What if technology enabled you to share a screen with Hugh Jackman? And no, we are not talking about a look-alike or virtual replica. Warner Bros.' upcoming movie Reminiscence starring Jackman has incorporated deepfake technology to turn a fan's photograph into a short video sequence with Jackman. Along with digital studio Oblio, the American film production company has partnered with Israeli-based synthetic media startup D-ID to use its'Live Portrait' product and create personalised experiences for movie fans. For the Reminiscence project, Warner Bros. has created an official website where users can enter their first names and upload a picture of themselves -- from the past or current.