James Cameron's 3-D film Avatar sought to revolutionize the movie-going experience when it was first released in 2009, creating an immersive world for viewers. But what if you also wanted to feel the heat and the wind, while flying on a banshee, direct from your cinema seat? While a small number of so-called "4-D" movies that add a physical element already exist, researchers from the University of Toronto are working on a way to apply the feature more broadly. "Usually the chair will shake, there can be splashing or some other kind of interaction while watching the film," says Yuhao Zhou, a fourth-year undergraduate in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. department of electrical & computer engineering, of the emerging entertainment. "Right now all these effects are created from the first phase of production. We'd like to automate this kind of process for movies that were not originally created for 4-D cinemas."

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In a recent interview with Yahoo, Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino revealed that his new horror film Suspiria is meant to be, "a sort of fierce showcase of the female artistic experience." But according to a recent lawsuit, he took too literal of an approach in this pursuit. On Thursday, the estate of Ana Mendieta claimed that the film copies images from the late artist's work. A cease and desist letter sent to Amazon Studios in July alleged that the film and trailer contained both a shot of a woman's hands bound with rope across a white table, resembling Mendieta's piece "Rape Scene," and a shot of a body silhouetted on a bed sheet, forming a similar image to Mendieta's "Untitled (Silueta Series, Mexico)." In response, these two images were removed from the film.

NOA doesn't want you to read the news. It wants to read it to you. The Irish company's full name is News Over Audio and it does exactly what that suggests: collects up the best of the world's news and turns it into nuggets of audio, allowing you to catch up on them while listening rather than having to read at a screen. The news you can get is already among the best in the world: it includes the Financial Times and Bloomberg, as well as The Independent. And it is continuing to grow, with other publishers that are among the world's biggest and most important, having announced in recent days that the Economist and the New York Times are arriving, too. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph.

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BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 28, 2018--Schwarzman Scholars yesterday hosted a high level international dialogue on artificial intelligence (AI), aimed at encouraging greater discourse and cooperation on complicated topics associated with the development of AI. The event was held in conjunction with the release of the English language version of Tsinghua University's Chinese Institute for Science and Technology Policy's Artificial Intelligence Development Report. The report outlines China's AI development from four different perspectives: technological development, market applications, policy environment and social impact. It offers a multi-dimensional comparison between China and developed countries regarding AI development, and analyzes China's strengths, weaknesses and its position in the international AI competitive landscape. "Schwarzman Scholars is pleased to have served as the convening organization for this important international dialogue. I commend Dean Xue Lan on the release of his important report and thank the participants for their insightful comments and engagement," said Stephen A. Schwarzman, Founding Trustee of Schwarzman Scholars and Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone.

The $150 Boom 3 and the $200 Megaboom 3 are portable, battery-powered speakers that are waterproof and shaped in such a way that they throw sound in every direction. The Megaboom 3 is a physically larger speaker--imagine a fatter version of those tall Arizona iced tea cans you can buy at the gas station--that weighs in at almost exactly two pounds compared to the 1.34 pound Megaboom 3. Neither of these speakers can talk to Alexa like the Blast and Megablast speakers UE released last year, but there are some benefits to make up for the lack of digital assistant for those who don't want voice control in the first place. The top of the Megaboom 3 now plays host to what UE calls the "magic button," which allows you to control the music playing on the speaker without reaching for your phone. Pressing it once plays or pauses the music, while double-pressing it skips to the next track. If you use Apple Music or Android's Deezer platforms to stream your tunes, you can use the UE app to designate up to four playlists that you can play immediately by pressing and holding the magic button for three seconds. I found myself using this a lot.

It was taken by Rover 1-B, one of two Japanese rovers currently hopping around on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. The duo detached from the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft last week and quickly began sending back mesmerizing images of the asteroid's stony surface. The solar-powered rovers are small, just seven inches across and less than three inches tall, but they contain cameras and temperature sensors to give astronomers back home their best look so far at a C-type (carbon-rich) asteroid. The bots move autonomously, activating an internal motor that sends them just high enough to glide about 50 feet in 15 minutes. The hopping mechanism is carefully calibrated--Ryugu's low gravity means that a more powerful jump could send them soaring straight off into space.

This piece originally appeared on the Conversation. In 1998, Google, formally incorporated in a garage in Menlo Park, California, began humbly providing search results from a server housed in Lego bricks. It had a straightforward goal: make the poorly indexed World Wide Web accessible to humans. Its success was based on an algorithm that analyzed the linking structure of the internet itself to evaluate what web pages are most reputable and useful. But founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page had a much more ambitious goal: They wanted to organize the world's information.

But hey, when your ad's copywriter is an artificial intelligence, you have to give it some credit for trying to connect with us weirdo organ-sack humans. Burger King's newest TV ad campaign claims each spot was "created by artificial intelligence," an explanation that precedes some truly bizarre voice-overs, such as, "Bed of lettuce for you to sleep on, bed of mayonnaise for extra sleep," and, "Burger King logo's chicken is the new potato." In a statement announcing the campaign--which will air during prime time on cable networks including MTV, History, TBS, Adult Swim and E!--the brand refers to as the creation of "a new deep learning algorithm that could give a glimpse into what the future of marketing and communications could look like." "AI, bots, machine learning, deep learning algorithms, blockchain, among others--these are all topical as we explore our future in marketing," says Marcelo Pascoa, Burger King's global head of brand marketing. "But we need to avoid getting lost in the sea of technology innovation and buzzwords and forget what really matters. Artificial intelligence is not a substitute for a great creative idea coming from a real person."