Science fiction cinema has a longstanding problem: Good ideas abound, but great ones are in short supply. After decades of drought, 2001: A Space Odyssey spawned Solaris and Star Wars and Alien, and the genre became popular, but pulpily so; parades of familiar tropes spackled over with terrible visual effects. For proof, go see Life this weekend. It's not good, but a couple of years ago we told you to support original sci-fi by buying tickets to Jupiter Ascending, and we're not going to back down now.) While you're watching Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal gamely trying to hunk up Life's Alien-lite premise and predictable twist ending, your mind will wander--and at some point you'll wonder when big space movies became such an unrelenting snooze.

Hip Hop's intersection with the digital video content realm is about to become even more expansive via a hot, new addition in the form of a notable who actually comes originally from the audio side of the culture. Che Pope, Chief Operating Officer at Kanye West's G.O.O.D Music record label and highly-respected music producer and composer is now adding digital narrative series development and production to his impressive list of achievements. Recent reports noted that Pope signed a multi-project content partnership with All Def Digital, a multi-platform media company owned by hip-hop industry impresario Russell Simmons'. Yet not many in the tech space understand the true reach of Pope's influence and his potential to completely disrupt the digital content game from a highly creative vantage point. In a departure from the staid hoodie, craft beer drinking image that Silicon Valley pushes as part of the standard, this story is about a player whose image and route is quite different though just as valid, and probably more relevant to the majority of Millennial digital content consumers today. You see, much of that 80 million demographic are hip hop culture fans, and to get onto their radar is a financially staggering opportunity.

Tech giants are in a race to see who can build the most powerful voice-activated assistant, but there's a side effect that we haven't considered: Kids who grow up asking Amazon's Alexa questions or summoning Siri might lose some social skills. What if artificial intelligence changes the way we talk? Experts in robotics, machine learning, and AI descended on Austin for South by Southwest this week, and the biggest questions were lifted straight from the film Her. Is it changing the way we interact with each other? Will kids think they can order around their friends the same way they tell Alexa to tell them a joke?

More than 10 million workers in the UK are at high risk of losing their jobs to robots and artificial intelligence (AI) systems over the next 15 years, according to a new report released today. However, new AI-related technologies will also boost productivity and generate additional jobs elsewhere in the economy, the report found. The study by accountancy firm PwC estimates that the UK has a lower proportion of existing jobs at potential high risk of automation than the US (38 percent) and Germany (35 percent), but more than Japan (21 percent). The analysis found that the likely impact of automation varies significantly across industry sectors. The highest proportion of jobs facing potential high risks of automation among the larger sectors include transportation and storage (56 percent), manufacturing (46 percent) and wholesale and retail trade (44 percent).

Twitter is considering building a premium version of its app that people will have to pay for, the company has said. The company is looking to create a paid-for version of its popular app Tweetdeck, it said. That could raise the possibility that it will charge suscription fees to use – a major break from its own strategy as well as those used by every other major social media company. Like its rivals, Twitter has looked to make money through advertising. But unlike Facebook and the range of companies it owns like Instagram, that advertising revenue hasn't worked out to enough to allow it to turn a profit.

Up to 30 per cent of UK jobs are at risk of being taken over by robots and Artificial Intelligence by the early 2030s, a new report warns. The study, published by professional services firm PwC, claims that the likelihood of automation is highest in sectors including transport, manufacturing, wholesale and retail. Education, health and social work are less at risk and-- as a result of that-- male workers are more likely to see their jobs taken over by robots than their female counterparts. Despite the threat, though, PwC says that the rise of automation is actually likely to boost productivity and generate additional jobs elsewhere in the economy in the long run. "Automating more manual and repetitive tasks will eliminate some existing jobs, but could also enable some workers to focus on higher value, more rewarding and creative work, removing the monotony from our day jobs," said John Hawksworth, chief economist at PwC. "By boosting productivity - a key UK weakness over the past decade - and so generating wealth, advances in robotics and AI should also create additional jobs in less automatable parts of the economy as this extra wealth is spent or invested," he added.

Chris Middleton is one of the UK's leading business & IT journalists and magazine editors. He is founder of Strategist magazine, consulting editor and former editor of Computing. He is also the former editor of: Computer Business Review (CBR). He is the author of several books on the creative use of digital media, and has commissioned, edited, and/or contributed to at least 50 more. Unusually, Chris is one of the few private individuals in the UK to own a real humanoid robot, which he hires out to schools, colleges, and corporate clients.

After the Storm A sublimely simple family drama from the Japanese writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda, a filmmaker assured enough to hide his mastery in plain sight. Nothing is overemphasized, and nothing escapes his attention. The Founder Michael Keaton gives a performance of ratty, reptilian brilliance as Ray Kroc, the American salesman who turned a California burger stand into the global fast-food behemoth that is McDonald's, in John Lee Hancock's shrewd and satisfyingly fat-free biopic. Frantz Beautifully shot in black-and-white with the occasional warm burst of color, French writer-director François Ozon's intricately layered post-World War I drama puts a feminist spin on Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 anti-war film, "Broken Lullaby." I Am Not Your Negro As directed by the gifted Raoul Peck, this documentary on James Baldwin uses the entire spectrum of movie effects, not only spoken language but also sound, music, editing and all manner of visuals, to create a cinematic essay that is powerful and painfully relevant.

Disrupting the streaming music market is extremely difficult to do, given the entrenched positions of Pandora and Spotify in the world market. But Brazilian company SuperPlayer is doing just that, with its streaming music service that is simple, curated, and effectively halves the price of Spotify's Premium service in Brazil. With the ability to listen to music offline without consuming data, Spotify should be worried. But the most impressive disruption that SuperPlayer has pulled off is using chatbots in their influencer marketing schemes. It's no secret that chatbots are essential to customer service, but SuperPlayer is the first to integrate music into chatbots, and effectively.

You can now chat with Kim Kardashian, well sort of. Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, the reality TV star and Kimoji creator's mobile game, now has the addition of a Kim Kardashian bot. The bot is on Facebook Messenger, so you can even use it if you don't play the game or have the app downloaded. If you've played the game, you probably won't notice much of a difference between conversations with Kim in the app and conversations with her bot on Facebook. On Thursday Kardashian tweeted out to her more than 50 million followers that she was a bot now, and said "let's chat." When I tried out the bot Kim started the conversation by asking "How's it going?"