The Hugo Awards, widely considered the most prestigious science fiction and fantasy prizes, were announced Friday, with female authors dominating and N.K. Jemisin winning the award for novel for the second year in a row. Jemisin, who became the first black author to win the Hugo's novel award last year (for "The Fifth Season"), won again with the book's sequel, "The Obelisk Gate." The third and final book in Jemisin's trilogy, "The Stone Sky," will be released Tuesday. The awards were announced at a ceremony at Worldcon 75, a science fiction festival held this year in Helsinki, Finland. Female authors also took home the awards for novella ("Every Heart a Doorway" by Seanan McGuire), novelette ("The Tomato Thief" by Ursula Vernon) and short story ("Seasons of Glass and Iron" by Amal El-Mohtar).

Welcome back to Gaming IRL, a monthly segment where several editors talk about what they've been playing in their downtime. This month, we've enjoyed (to varying degrees) two flavors of Final Fantasy, explored Fullbright's new game, Tacoma, and lost ourselves in a "button-tapping mash-up between an idle-clicker and a text adventure." To open proceedings, UK Bureau Chief Mat Smith talks about how, when it comes to Final Fantasy XII, third time's a charm. My Final Fantasy completion list (barring those pesky online ones, pschh) had one glaring omission: the (ironically rather MMORPG-styled) Final Fantasy XII. Now that it's arrived on PS4, I got another chance to strike that iteration off the list -- and as they say, third time's the charm.

Buffering and pixelation are the scourge of streaming video. It ruins the experience for viewers, robs advertisers of revenue as said viewers tune out, and causes technical headaches for streaming services which have to engineer solutions. But a new neural network AI from MIT CSAIL may be just what the internet needs for velvety smooth streaming services. That would take entirely too much bandwidth. So instead, that data is chopped up into smaller pieces and sent sequentially.

Hello, This is my project on implementing some useful algorithm on excel. To my knowledge there is not any open source excel vba available till now. I found that unsupervised learning is probably more useful for excel context. Therefore, I am playing to implement EM algorithm next along of some other row reduction, factor analysis models. I think ANN, CNN and RNN will come eventually, but going to take quite some time. Implementing ML algorithm is just not a very present job using VBA lol.

Jerry (Chris Parnell) and Rick (Justin Roiland) will spend time together in the next episode of "Rick and Morty" Season 3. Adult Swim's "Rick and Morty" Season 3, episode 5, will feature Rick and Jerry's adventure. In this promo, Rick is seen in a hurry while waking up Jerry, who is still half-awake. "Oh Jerry, Jerry come on. You're gonna come with me Jerry, it's important Jerry, the fate of the galaxy rest on your shoulders. Let's go put some pants on," Rick says.

Jerry (Chris Parnell) and Rick (Justin Roiland) will spend time together in the next episode of "Rick and Morty" Season 3. Adult Swim's "Rick and Morty" Season 3, episode 5, will feature Rick and Jerry's adventure. In this promo, Rick is seen in a hurry while waking up Jerry, who is still half-awake. "Oh Jerry, Jerry come on. You're gonna come with me Jerry, it's important Jerry, the fate of the galaxy rest on your shoulders. Let's go put some pants on," Rick says.

CHENNAI, India, Aug 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With more than 20 million humans working as modern slaves, a technology developer is hoping artificial intelligence will help clean up the world's supply chains and root out worker abuse. Developer Padmini Ranganathan said mobile phones, media reports and surveillance cameras can all be mined for real-time data, which can in turn be fed into machines to create artificial intelligence (AI) that helps companies see more clearly what is happening down the line. "The time to do this now is better than ever before, with so many countries and companies focusing on modern slavery," she said in an interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "At the start of the decade, the driving force for compliance was fear of being penalised. Now companies are looking at social impact and saying they want to do this."

The biggest misconception about AI is that if we create intelligent systems, those intelligent systems will want to overthrow their human governors and to take over the world. You see this a lot in the movies - evil robots taking over the world. The question isn't whether robots would succeed in doing that if they wanted to. I think the more important question is whether they would want to in the first place. We have a tendency to anthropomorphize any kind of intelligence, because we live in a world in which humans are the only example of high-level intelligence.

If this sounded a bit dramatic, great. It's supposed to be to get your marketing team on its toes and prepared to embrace AI-powered marketing tools. Artificially intelligent systems constantly work on the background of popular products and services such as Netflix, Amazon, and, naturally, Google. In the past few years, though, AI has paved its way deeper into marketing, helping brands to enhance every step of the customer journey. Moreover, tools previously available to enterprise level companies have become affordable and accessible to medium- and small-sized businesses.