Netflix has confirmed that it is adding video games to its library, amid a collapse in its subscriber growth. The company said it will add games for no extra cost to people with existing subscription plans. But it did not say when they would arrive, or what kind of games it would offer. The announcement came as part of its latest results, which showed that its fast growth in subscribers is slowing. The company blamed the issues on people leaving the house more as coronavirus lockdowns lift, as well as the fact that problems making films and TV shows under the pandemic meant it had less attractive content than usual.

Increasingly, job seekers need to pass a series of tests in the form of artificial-intelligence games just to be seen by a hiring manager. In this third of a four-part miniseries on AI and hiring, we speak to someone who helped create these tests, and we ask who might get left behind in the process and why there isn't more policy in place. We also try out some of these tools ourselves. This miniseries on hiring was reported by Hilke Schellmann and produced by Jennifer Strong, Emma Cillekens, Anthony Green, and Karen Hao. Jennifer: Often in life … you have to "play the metaphorical game"… to get the win you might be chasing. It's just a complicated game.. Gh - ah.. Game.." Jennifer: But what if that game… was literal? And what if winning at it could mean the difference between landing a job you've been dreaming of… or not. Increasingly job seekers need to pass a series of "tests" in the form of artificial-intelligence games… just to be seen by a hiring manager. Anonymous job seeker: For me, being a military veteran being able to take tests and quizzes or being under pressure is nothing for me, but I don't know why the cognitive tests gave me anxiety, but I think it's because I knew that it had nothing to do with software engineering that's what really got me. She asked us to call her Sally because she's criticizing the hiring methods of potential employers and she's concerned about publishing her real name. She has a graduate degree in information from Rutgers University in New Jersey, with specialties in data science and interaction design. And Sally fails to see how solving a timed puzzle... or playing video games like Tetris... have any real bearing on her potential to succeed in her field. So companies want to do diversity and inclusion, but you're not doing diversity and inclusion when it comes to thinking, not everyone thinks the same. So how are you inputting that diversity and inclusion when you're only selecting the people that can figure out a puzzle within 60 seconds.

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The ending of Roadrunner, Morgan Neville's new documentary about the life, career, and 2018 suicide of Anthony Bourdain, packs quite a punch. After exploring the celebrity chef's relationship to fame and how his death affected those closest to him, the film closes on Bourdain peacefully walking into the distance on a beach--or so it seems. A voiceover from Bourdain's friend, artist David Choe, breaks the spell to say that Bourdain himself would hate this saccharine ending. He then criticizes the way society idolizes artists who take their own lives by, for instance, painting their faces on the sides of buildings. A voice behind the camera points out that there are such murals of Bourdain downtown.

If you've heard Anthony Bourdain speak even a few sentences aloud, it's impossible to read his writing without hearing it in his own voice. In Morgan Neville's documentary portrait Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, Bourdain describes how he would roll out of bed in the morning and head straight for his keyboard without pausing for so much as a cup of coffee. His writing was a fluid extension of his life, and his life was sometimes inextricable from his writing. His longtime collaborators describe how, even in the recording booth, Bourdain would relentlessly cross out and rewrite his own voice-over, in part to purge from it any of the clichés of TV narration that wouldn't feel true to himself--or at least to the version of himself he was presenting. The intensely personal connection with that voice may be one reason why some of Bourdain's admirers reacted so strongly to the news that Neville had used a digital simulation of it in Roadrunner, using artificial intelligence to extrapolate from hours of his actual voice recordings. As Neville told both GQ's Brett Martin and the New Yorker's Helen Rosner, he worked with a software company to create audio readings of three passages that Bourdain wrote but never spoke out loud, at least one of them taken from a personal email never intended for anyone but its recipient.

Mobile video games will be the focus of the Netflix's video game initiative. These future mobile games will be included in members' subscriptions at no additional cost, the Los Gatos, California-based streaming TV provider company said in its second quarter 2021 shareholder letter Tuesday. "We view gaming as another new content category for us, similar to our expansion into original films, animation and unscripted TV," the company said. "We're excited as ever about our movies and TV series offering and we expect a long runway of increasing investment and growth across all of our existing content categories, but since we are nearly a decade into our push into original programming, we think the time is right to learn more about how our members value games. Netflix:The 50 best TV shows to watch right now: 'Never Have I Ever' Season 2 in July Streaming TV:Can you have too much of a good thing? Netflix last week hired video game executive Mike Verdu as its vice president of game development. He had previously been at Facebook-owned VR company Oculus, where he oversaw games. Prior to that, he had worked at Electronic Arts and Zynga. The company is in "the early stages of further expanding into games, building on our earlier efforts around interactivity," Netflix said, noting its Black Mirror Bandersnatch "choose your own adventure" film and "Stranger Things" video games. This news about video games comes as Netflix sees its growth slowing. Worldwide, Netflix added 1.5 million new subscribers in the April-June period, beating their own 1.2M forecast. But the net TV provider lost 430,000 subscribers in the U.S. and Canada during the period. In the same period a year ago, Netflix added 10 million new global subscribers with about 2.9 million new additions from the U.S. and Canada. And the company's forecast of 3.5 million new subscribers expected for the current quarter (July-Sept.) is below what analysts hoped (5 million or more). "The pandemic has created unusual choppiness in our growth and distorts year-over-year comparisons as acquisition and engagement per member household spiked in the early months of COVID," the company said. Netflix shares were down 1% in after-hours trading. As for growing competition in the streaming market, Netflix pointed to the Warner Media-Discovery merger and Amazon's acquisition of studio MGM of "the ongoing industry consolidation as firms adapt to a world where streaming supplants linear TV." Such consolidation not affected Netflix's growth "much, if at all," the company said. "While we are continually evaluating opportunities, we don't view any assets as "must-have" and we haven't yet found any large scale ones to be sufficiently compelling to act upon.

'Gutfeld!' panel debates whether CNN will change their coverage This is a rush transcript from "Gutfeld!," This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. I want to protect free speech. No, we want people to be protected from disinformation, to be protected from dying in this country, to be protected from people like Donald Trump who spread this information for -- who love to make sure that the division and the death continues. That was a rough weekend, and not just for Kat. But at least she kept her clothes on unlike our other guests, Jimmy Failla. But it was a far worse weekend for CNN. First let's go to our roly-poly guacamole gossip goalie. See how bad it got unreliable fart noises. Here's Michael Wolff delivering that smack to the hack. You know, you become part of -- one of the parts of the problem of the media. You know, you come on here and you -- and you have a, you know, a monopoly on truth. You know, you know exactly how things are supposed to be done. You know, you are why one of the reasons people can't stand the media. You should see the rest of the world, buddy. Can I hear that chuckle again? But if that was a heavyweight fight, and it is because, you know, Stelter, it would have been stopped in the first 25 seconds. It got worse, meaning better, lots better. STELTER: It's -- how -- so what should I do differently, Michael? WOLFF: You know, don't talk so much. Listen more, you know, people have genuine problems with the media. The media doesn't get the story right.

Sony announced two entirely new high-end home theater products today: The four-speaker HT-A9 home theater system and a new flagship soundbar, the HT-7000A. The audio manufacturer also announced two wireless subwoofers that can add deeper bass to either product, and wireless rear speakers that can supplement the soundbar. The Sony HT-A9 home theater system ($1,800) consists of a control box with a LAN port and HDMI in and out, along with four cylindrical, wireless, self-powered speakers. Each speaker has two built-in microphones that measure the speaker's relative height and position in the room. Sony's 360 Spatial Sound and Sound Field Optimization technology then creates up to 12 phantom speakers by synthesizing sound waves based on positional information.

More businesses are now embracing Artificial Intelligence, causing the technology to show signs of acceleration.