British and Irish TV watchers with the latest version of set-top box from satellite program provider Sky have just had a complimentary upgrade. The box is called Sky Q and has many features including the capability to watch programs on your iPad, upstairs TV and so on. It also provides access to a massive collection of 4K UHD content, including movies, programs and live sport of any UK provider. The remote control has a touch-sensitive pad on it and from day one this has had a discreet microphone button on its edge. There is also a more basic remote without a touchpad but this doesn't have the microphone built in.

Maybe he is just biased, but Chris Pratt already believes "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. The actor, who plays Peter Quill, a.k.a. Star Lord, in James Gunn's upcoming film, drummed up hype for the film when he posted the IMAX poster for the upcoming film on Facebook. He said the movie has already gotten a surprisingly high rating from Rotten Tomatoes, and he suspects it will win every award there is to be won, including medals at the Olympics. One of the most exciting things about the new movie has to be the introduction of Star Lord's father, Ego (Kurt Russell). Gunn earlier revealed during an interview with Complex that he's made certain changes to the comic book character and made him into a "normal person." "Ego is a living planet who is able to manifest himself in different ways he's been alone for millions of years and he's learned how to control the molecules around him in such a way as to create avatars of themselves, such as Kurt Russell," Gunn said. "I think Ego was a very lonely character out there by himself and went off in search of love and perhaps found it in Quill's mother." Despite being another movie from Marvel, Gunn also said that he is not pressured to connect "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Like a child learning about its parents, artificial intelligence has begun to study the human condition. An A.I. system created by a Boulder, Colorado-based company CaliberMind can form analytical judgments about how people think and communicate, with a text input of only 100 words. CaliberMind's software can rank someone on a spectrum of emotional versus analytical decision-making, then draw conclusions about their character traits. Culling these details into a snapshot of someone's personality, the software then makes recommendations on how to best communicate with that person. It's nothing less than an artificially intelligent effort to peer into a person's heart and mind.

SpaceX fans are excited about what is likely the first clear image of a robot that could be used on the company's autonomous spaceport drone ships. SpaceX's Of Course I Still Love You Drone Ship is seen at Port Canaveral on Monday, March 20, 2017. In the lower-right is what is believed to be a Falcon 9 first stage securing vehicle. CAPE CANAVERAL -- Stephen Marr had his suspicions when he photographed a mysterious piece of equipment atop SpaceX's drone ship at Port Canaveral on Monday. "I knew there was something different there," Marr, 34, said. So he did what any lover of space and social media would do: He posted it online.

It a known fact that customers expect personalised and relevant information. This is because of their awareness of new developments in tech. They start to get higher expectations. This can be a real challenge for companies. They want good service on all platforms, indirectly or directly.

Sky has finally rolled out voice search, letting people control their TV just by talking to it. Until now, the feature had only been hinted at by a strange, mysterious button on the side of the remote. Now, when that's pressed, people will be able to ask their TV for whatever they want to watch. That doesn't simply mean asking for the name of films and TV shows, though the Sky Q box will handle those. They can also ask for something like the "Liverpool game", categories like "films featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone", or even asking for ratings, such as "Tom Hanks movies rated five stars".

Snapchat is getting more diverse. The short video sharing site, whose Stories feature, social networks such as Facebook and Twitter have tried to replicate, is now working on TV-style programming for its users on its Discover platform -- MGM Television announced a deal with Snapchat parent Snap Inc. to create TV-like video content Tuesday. "The team at Snap is thinking about mobile TV differently than anyone else in this space. They are innovators, and it presents us with a unique opportunity to flex our development and production muscle in a whole new way. We are excited to create content for their vast and hard to reach audience that consumes entertainment in a very specific fashion," Barry Poznick, president of unscripted television, MGM saidTuesday.

But at its heart, Back to the Future is a sci-fi movie--and one of the most perfect examples of the genre. Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is your typical cool '80s teen who just so happens to pal around with a mad scientist, Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), who invents a time machine. Through a series of unfortunate events, Marty ends up getting sent back to 1955, where he befriends the teenaged versions of his parents and does his best to dissuade his mom from having the hots for him. By messing with history, Marty's messing with his own future and slowly being erased. But he manages to right the past, find his way back to 1985, and give those fun-loving kids a taste of what rock'n' roll should sound like.

Digital assistants like Alexa, Siri, Google Now, are all examples of artificial intelligence in action. Self-driving cars, video games, music recommendations, smart home devices, and programs that make purchase predictions use artificial intelligence as well. News organizations are using artificial intelligence to draft simple news stories and summaries right now. There are also new, helpful bots that live inside of applications you use every day including Slack, Facebook, and Twitter. These tools create new possibilities and new levels of productivity for the entrepreneurs that know how to wield these helpful ghosts that live in the cloud and on your machines.

In early 2016, streaming giant Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) announced that it had rolled out its service to 190 countries around the world. As the top provider of streaming content in the U.S., one of the biggest questions regarding the company's ability to succeed elsewhere was the issue of bandwidth. With slower internet speeds in many countries, would streaming performance suffer as a result? With worldwide growth at stake, this was a question that the company needed to answer. Turns out Netflix has a variety of tools it uses to navigate markets with underdeveloped bandwidth.