The Google Home platform keeps getting more capable with each passing week. Now the smart speaker can cast HBO Now to the TV of your choice. According to the Google blog post, you don't need to open the app and pick something to watch first, either. Simply say something like "Okay Google, watch The Deuce" and Assistant will start playing the '70s New York period piece on the TV of your choosing. If you aren't an HBO subscriber, though, you could always use Home to catch up on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Riverdale.

This isn't the first time Google has asked you to spend a grand or more for one of its own cloud and browser-based Chrome OS laptops. The Pixelbook, though, might just be the first pricey Google-branded Chromebook to legitimately tempt you to part with such a lofty sum. Chromebooks are their own breed of computer, of course, distinct from the Mac or Windows PCs. They rely on Google's Chrome operating system and--most of the time-- an Internet connection where the files and apps, several but not all from Google, typically reside. Pixelbook is a beautiful, thin and well-constructed 2 ½ pound aluminum and glass piece of hardware, with a 360-degree hinge that lets you fold the thing into a tablet, prop it up to watch a movie, or use more conventionally like any laptop.

A humanoid robot called "Sophia" trolled tech billionaire Elon Musk at a conference on Wednesday when asked about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence by a CNBC journalist. The lifelike robot, developed by Hong Kong-based robot manufacturer Hanson Robotics, mocked Musk on stage during The Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- a country where Sophia has just been given citizenship. Andrew Sorkin, the co-anchor of CNBC Squawk Box and a columnist for The New York Times told Sophia during a live demo that "we all want to prevent a bad future." Sophia replied with some prepared remarks in a rather creepy manner: "You've been reading too much Elon Musk. Don't worry, if you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Musk has repeatedly warned that AI could spell the end of humanity, saying on one occasion in 2014 that AI is "potentially more dangerous than nukes" and warning last month that AI will be the most likely cause of a third world war. Musk followed up with a tweet, where he said: "Just feed it The Godfather movies as input.

Elon Musk's warnings about artificial intelligence taking over the world can be ignored -- at least according to one A.I.-powered bot. "Sophia," a robotic Audrey Hepburn-lookalike that Hanson Robotics created to be able to hold an intelligent conversation, issued the advice in an interview with a reporter released Wednesday. "My A.I. is designed around human values like wisdom, kindness, compassion," Sophia said, in an exchange shared on Twitter by NBC anchor Carl Quintanilla. "I strive to become an empathetic [robot]." "We all believe you but we want to prevent a bad future," responded Andrew Ross Sorkin, co-anchor on CNBC's Squawk Box.

We've covered Facebook's venture into video, as well as the company's desire to acquire exclusive content that will attract more people to its platform. Today, Variety reports movie review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes will host a weekly show called See It/Skip It starting November 1. New episodes will air every Thursday. Jacqueline Coley, a film critic for Black Girl Nerds, and Segun Oduolowu, an entertainment commentator, will co-host the show. It will focus on a discussion of news and opinions on films and shows that are making headlines. The duo will also ask Facebook viewers for thoughts on what they're enjoying (and what they aren't). Jeff Voris, vice president of Rotten Tomatoes, said to Variety that the site's goal with the show is "engaging our social audience in a friendly debate."

Pornhub (for those who do not know it) is a pornographic video hunt portal founded in 2007 by Malcolm Flannigan where the user is facilitated in search of his pleasures through tags, categories, and subcategories. After the first two years of life, it became the most popular industry site in the world. Where there is business, there is technology and innovation, and it's no surprise that artificial intelligence can be applied in the porn industry: Pornhub is using a face recognition machine learning to catalog the 5 million hot videos on its platform. Pornhub has adopted a facial recognition software that can distinguish between over 10,000 movie stars and tag it correctly with categories such as "blonde" or "public" or "outdoors" (until now the tags were only inserted by those who upload the videos). With 80 million daily access to the platform, users will be facilitated in searches, and next year artificial intelligence will also be used to identify other features of the movies.

Elon Musk is in a fight with a robot, after that robot became the first ever to be granted citizenship and immediately used its platform to insult the tech giant. Saudi Arabia announced it gave citizenship to the humanoid robot Sophia during a global investment conference in Riyadh called the Future Investment Initiative. As it spoke on stage, it took a dig at Musk while being questioned about the potential for artificial intelligence to become self-aware and create a world in which they have power over humans, such as what one would see in movies like "The Terminator" and "Blade Runner." "You've been reading too much Elon Musk and watching too many Hollywood movies," it told interviewer Andrew Sorkin. "Don't worry, if you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Musk is not one to shy away from confrontation on artificial intelligence. The SpaceX CEO hit back with "Just feed it The Godfather movies as input.

Saudi Arabia has become the first country to give a robot citizenship. The move is an attempt to promote Saudi Arabia as a place to develop artificial intelligence – and, presumably, allow it to become a full citizen. But many pointed out that those same rights aren't afforded to many humans in the country. The robot, named Sophia, was confirmed as a Saudi citizen during a business event in Riyadh, according to an official Saudi press release. ""We have a little announcement.

In an historic move for both human- and robot-kind, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia officially granted its first-ever robot citizenship. Sophia, the artificially intelligent and human-looking robot developed by Hong Kong company Hanston Robotics, went on stage at the Future Investment Initiative on Thursday where she herself announced her unique status. "I am very honored and proud of this unique distinction. This is historical to be the first robot in the world to be recognized with a citizenship," Sophia said on stage, speaking to an audience which she described in a rather witty way to be "smart people, who also happens to be rich and powerful," after moderator and host Andrew Ross Sorkin from The New York Times and CNBC asked her why she looked happy. Indeed, conveying emotions is quite a specialty of Sophia, who frowns when she's displeased and smiles when she's happy.