The biggest challenge, however, of using AI to detect fake news is that it puts technology in an arms race with itself. Machine learning systems are already proving spookily capable at creating what are being called "deepfakes" – photos and videos that realistically replace one person's face with another, to make it appear that, for example, a celebrity was photographed in a revealing pose or a public figure is saying things he'd never actually say. Even smartphone apps are capable of this sort of substitution – which makes this technology available to just about anyone, even without Hollywood-level video editing skills.

Robots aren't supposed to be any good at art, that's what differentiates them from us humans. But it looks like that might no longer be true thanks to a piece of classical music that was unveiled during Future Technology Week at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The piece, titled'Ode to Dubai', is the world's first theme song for a city composed purely by artificial intelligence. The AI, affectionately known as AIVA, reportedly used algorithms based on 30,000 symphonic music scores to create the unique composition. It mined the likes of Mozart, Beethoven and Bach, and you can definitely hear the resemblance.

Ned Price offered to show me some reels from a print made from the original 70-mm camera negative, and they were amazing,

Samsung Electronics knows how hard it is to look for content available on TV these days. So the South Korean tech giant has introduced a new AI system for its smart TVs that helps users find or discover content that matches their preference. Samsung took to its online newsroom Thursday to announce Universal Guide, its advanced program powered by artificial intelligence that helps with content discovery. According to Samsung, its new program will assist users in finding content, be it a TV show, movie, song or a sports channel, that fits their taste. Universal Guide is designed to give suggestions that viewers might like.

The latest announcements could aid Amazon in bolstering usage of its voice assistant platform. At the moment, voice assistants are used primarily for activities like checking the weather, receiving news updates, or making calls. The development of new experiences that expand voice assistants' ability to complete more complex interactions will likely help voice assistants and smart speakers occupy a growing amount of consumers' time. The voice app ecosystem is booming. In the US, the number of Alexa skills alone surpassed 25,000 in January 2018, up from just 7,000 the previous January, in categories ranging from music streaming services, to games, to connected home tools. As voice platforms continue to gain footing in homes via smart speakers -- connected devices powered primarily by artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled voice assistants -- the opportunity for voice apps is becoming more profound.

James Marsden plays robot host Teddy Flood in Westworld. James Marsden is the poster boy for charming robots. In Sydney this week to promote Westworld, he was on stage in front of a giant poster of himself playing sentient robot Teddy Flood in the HBO show. Marsden might have ditched the cowboy hat and stubble in real life, but he still looks like a theme park's version of a perfect human. But the good guy Teddy of season one (who died five times but was still so gosh-darn polite) has made way for a darker Teddy in season two.

As recently as 10 years ago, social media advertising was a relatively unknown medium, but in 2018 it is a major part of huge, global advertising campaigns, which gives you an idea of the speed and scale at which the advertising industry is changing. With that in mind, in this article Clear Channel Direct looks into another form of technology that has, and will, impact advertising platforms: artificial intelligence. When artificial intelligence is mentioned, you might think of robots and various other sci-fi- style inventions. However, AI doesn't just mean robots that can walk and talk – there are plenty of less spectacular iterations of artificial intelligence that feature in our advertising industry in a more understated way. When we're looking for a product online, we log on to a search engine or a specific shopping site and search for what we want without a moment's hesitation.

I feel like Uber's approach was rather empirical. Is this paper a theoretical explanation to what Uber's people have observed?

LG Electronics has finally unveiled the LG G7 ThinQ in New York City. As expected, the LG G7 ThinQ features a notch on its display and impressive specs that could rival other Android flagships on the market. It features a tall 19.5:9 aspect ratio display and is covered by Corning Gorilla Glass 5. The G7 ThinQ also has a super bright display at 1,000 nits and supports 100 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut. The display is said to be so bright that users should have no problem with visibility even when it's under direct sunlight.

After a while, we just created a layout of the scene and took it from there." It's a simple story to follow, and most of the action takes place right in front of you. The viewer is free, however, to look elsewhere, and if you're using the Spotlight Stories app, the movie will adapt accordingly. If you look at the musicians, for instance, the main action -- Méliès and his wife -- will wait off-screen until you turn your head back. That's possible because of some special Google software called the Spotlight Stories Editor, which allows for nodal-based logic, similar to what's used in a video game. "It's immersive theater much more than it is a film." Mark Davies, a CG supervisor at Nexus Studios, says it works like punch-drunk-style theater. "It's immersive theater much more than it is a film," he said. "Because the actor is there, and if they see that you're staring at the floor, the ceiling or something else, they'll wait for you to turn around, and go, 'Oh, yes, I can begin acting again.'"