Janina Gavankar plays an Imperial special forces officer in a story mode set after the events of'Return of the Jedi' in the new video game'Star Wars: Battlefront II.' Electronic Arts Janina Gavankar plays Iden Versio, commander of the Empire's Inferno Squad unit in the video game'Star Wars: Battlefront II.' (Photo: EA) Even the evil Empire in Star Wars had its own heroes, and actress Janina Gavankar is giving life to a great one. In this week's episode of The Mothership, USA TODAY's geek culture podcast, Gavankar comes aboard to talk about her voiceover role as Iden Versio in the video game Star Wars: Battlefront II (out Nov. 14). Versio is commander of the Imperial special forces unit Inferno Squad and has to deal with the aftermath of the Rebels' stunning defeat of the Empire at the end of Return of the Jedi. And in our Nerd Alert segment, Brett and Brian discuss the departure of longtime Marvel Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis to rival DC Comics and ponder what icons Bendis should tackle in his new gig. Have thoughts about the podcast?

Let's face it: The AI hype train isn't going away and soon all our devices will be run by artificial intelligence. While Apple's answer to the AI takeover is to just call its new A11 processor "Bionic", Huawei has taken a more concrete approach. The company embedded a neural processing unit (NPU) on its Kirin 970 chip, which it claims can run AI tasks faster and with less power than others. The newly launched Mate 10 Pro is the first phone to use the Kirin 970, and it's meant to demonstrate the wonders of deeply embedded AI. So far though, it's a capable, well-designed phone that has yet to fully explore what a dedicated NPU can do. When Huawei asked a group of reviewers what we wanted from AI, I didn't have a real answer, though my peers pointed out things like natural linguistics and battery management.

With Selfie Scenes, users can choose from ten Apple-designed scenes, featuring unique locations, characters, colours and visual styles. It also includes two bonus Star Wars backgrounds. Each scene is a full 360-degree experience, so it surrounds users on all sides as they move the iPhone X. Environmental sound effects aim to make the scenes even more immersive. The feature is an update to the Clips app, first introduced by Apple in April, released this week.

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That's $110 more than several other 4K HDR streaming devices, including the Roku Streaming Stick, Fire TV, and Chromecast Ultra, all of which do a decent job of playing much of the same content. But just like the regular Apple TV, which remains available for $149, the Apple TV 4K nails the little details in ways its competitors often don't. Its apps are universally best-in-breed, its voice search is speedy and sophisticated, and its home screen is refreshingly free of advertisements. The fact that Apple's streaming box is the only one to support Dolby Vision--a proprietary enhancement over the HDR-10 standard--is just icing. Those small details--and Apple TV 4K's ability to perform as a HomeKit-based smart home hub, a feature this review will not focus on--don't add up to a better value, but they do make for a superior streaming box if you're willing to pay a stiff premium.

From the surrealist nesting doll of realities in FX's "Legion" to the frank yet humane explorations of sexuality in Amazon's "Transparent," the best moments of the Peak TV era deliver scenes and stories you've never seen. "Future Man," a half-hour action-comedy that arrives on Hulu Nov. 14, has a similar goal, but also no compunction about reminding viewers of something familiar. Centered around Josh Futturman ("Hunger Games" alum Josh Hutcherson), a frustrated janitor who lives with his parents, the show blasts off when Josh completes an impossibly difficult video game. This feat triggers the arrival of two gruff, time-traveling warriors from a bleak future – Wolf (Derek Wilson of "Preacher") and Tiger ("Happy Endings" star Eliza Coupe). Having completed their recruitment effort, the two of them enlist him to help save the future.

Good reinforcement learning and other'reasoning' benchmarks to measure progress, some set of increasingly harder tasks that can measurably show the different strengths of various models. My thoughts are that it wasn't just the data, but everything around image-net that really pushed the field forward, the yearly competition, the talks and progress graphs the anticipation and excitement to see how far the teams pushed the limit this time. Reinforcement learning still needs its'image-net moment', ideally some annual competition that can gain traction over time, have the big teams invest resource to push the limits. The field lends itself well to simply adding more complex tasks as the models get stronger and stronger. I merely answered this question as in'what would I as an outsider like to see', so feel free to disregard', but I think there is something in the human nature about competition which drives progress.

A Disney blooded, crafty, fun-lovin' wife/mom/organizer/planner, etc who is obsessed with all things Disney Maria grew up with the Magic Kingdom and has loved watching WDW evolve into what it is today. A firm believer in the Power of Pixie Dust, she is the owner of The Disney Driven Life - A Community for Neurotic Disney People & a d.i.y. Lucasfilm and Disney released a new episode Science and Star Wars on the science of Artificial Intelligence. In this week's video, C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels joins researchers in the lab to explore how close real-world science has come to A.I. in the fields of medicine, education and technology. Droids that run a fictional version of A.I. are some of the most memorable characters in Star Wars.

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Space is a cold and barren place. Nothing can exist there, nothing!" Ludwig Von Drake, an obscure uncle of Donald Duck and a professor of astronomy, is sitting on a high stool in his observatory. When he sees that he is being filmed, he falls off and lands on the floor with a loud thump. "Now I can see stars I've never seen before!" he groans. He walks over to a table with a large pile of books on it. The thickest of them all is a guide to space travel that he wrote himself. In a 45 -minute- long monologue, he tells us in a thick German accent how mankind discovered the planets in our solar system and has fantasized about everything that might be crawling around on them. Every now and then, he picks up a book from the large pile and reads from it, and then throws it nonchalantly into a corner of the room. He tells us about Copernicus and Galileo, and about Kepler's dreams about Martians, Fontenelle's speculations about life on other planets, and even John Herschel's Great Moon Hoax. Science fiction comes to life in the colorful cartoon: Hairy space beings and flying saucers shoot across the screen. At the end, the professor has the last word. He finds all these fantasies poppycock; nothing can live in that empty, barren space! But, as he is speaking, Von Drake is kidnapped by a black Martian robot from one of his stories. The cartoon, Inside Outer Space, is part of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, a television series from the 1960s. The absent minded duck professor hosts a number of episodes, each with their own topic: the history of flight, the color spectrum, space--all exciting stuff for American kids in the Space Age. Lou Allamandola spent his teenage years in the science- crazy 1960s. He grew up in a Catholic family in the state of New Jersey. His grandparents were immigrants from Italy, and he didn't learn to speak English until he went to school. He still clearly remembers the Disney cartoons with Ludwig Von Drake, which were broadcast on Saturday evenings. "Von Drake called the interstellar medium--the empty space between the stars and the planets--a barren place where nothing could exist," he tells me. "That was all we knew in the '60s.