It seems like every TV these days is smart--it connects to the internet, and gives you access to premium apps like Netflix and HBO Now. It's almost impossible to find one that isn't, frankly. But while smart TVs have come a long way in the last five years, they're still not generally as fleshed out and user-friendly as a streaming box like the Roku, Fire TV Stick, or Apple TV. No matter how pricy your flashy new smart TV was, here are reasons to consider grabbing a streaming box. The number one reason to pick up a streaming device?

Mark Hamill is here to rescue your weekend with some good old-fashioned nostalgia. The "Star Wars" actor shared a photo Saturday morning of himself as a young Luke Skywalker posing in the Tatooine desert on the first day of filming "Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope." He stands with his hands folded across his heart. "Taken in Tunisia early morning day [number one] waiting for my [first] shot (emerging from home for robot auction)," he wrote. Hamill has played Skywalker since 1977's "A New Hope," the first installation in the Star Wars movie franchise.

Preview: Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) faces challenger Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29 KOs) in a middleweight unification bout Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. Coverage of the fight will be on HBO pay-per-view. On the line are the WBA (Super), WBC, and IBO middleweight titles with two boxers entering the fight on knockout streaks. Golovkin, a native of Kazakhstan, has knocked out 23 opponents in a row. Jacobs, a native of Brooklyn, has 12 knockout victories in a row.

During the recent U.S. Presidential election, it became clear that both the left and right were using the Internet and social media to disseminate false information using a new form of insidious propaganda: "fake news." Nearly in real-time and at little cost to the campaigns, organizations and individuals were able to post fake news stories on news sites, social media, and blogs that looked and felt legitimate. Millions of people saw these stories and may have been influenced by what they read. "If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not -- and particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones -- if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems." It's still up for debate whether fake news changed the outcome of the recent presidential election, but most would agree the country is better off if we were reading accurate stories.

The AI algorithms that has recently the last decade taken over the internet, is specially constructed to keep people engaged. It's competition for costumers, taken to the logical extremes. When you watch a video on YouTube, search for products on the internet or chose a tv series in Netflix. The data used to show relevant content and products. This is big business, but what are the costs? By only showing the content relevant to the topic at hand that other people liked, you are artificially creating echo chamber.

Before Kanye West gets to the White House, first, we'll have to survive the robot apocalypse brought about by his A.I.-powered doppelgänger. It's a very real piece of software created by a high school student from West Virginia. You can use Alexa in Amazon's app now, and it's really smart Robbie Barrat, a 17-year-old hip-hop fan and coding whiz, taught himself to code using open source software, according to a report from Quartz. Initially, the software simply rearranged 6,000 Kanye rap phrases to create new songs, but now the software has been modified to create original rap lines using the Kanye word bank. On the YouTube Page demonstrating the software's ability, Barrat says, "Excluding the beat; this song was written 100 percent by a deep neural network."

TL;DR: Machine-driven communications tools are a reality now and artificial intelligence enabled tools will soon dominate the online information space. This paradigm shift isn't limited to artificial personal assistants like Siri and recreational chatbots like Xiaoice. It refers to machine-driven communication overwhelming Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Match, Reddit, chat rooms, news site comment sections, and the rest of the social web. All of it will be dominated by machines talking. This machine communication will be nearly indistinguishable from human communication. The machines will be trying to persuade, sell, deceive, intimidate, manipulate, and cajole you into whatever response they're programmed to elicit. They will be unbelievably effective. Machine-driven communication is here now. Advances in artificial intelligence will radically increase the efficacy of machine-driven communication tools. A machine-dominated information environment is a rational extrapolation of current technology trends into the near future.

As Quartz reports, a West Virginia teenager has created an artificial intelligence emcee whose style is based entirely on Kanye West's body of work. "All of the sudden I had a week to make a neural network that could rap," Barrat explained to Quartz. A self-taught programmer, Barrat cooked up most of the code for his digital lyricist in the course of one afternoon; it only took him a few extra days to complete the effort. The West Virginia teen's AI rapper takes its cues from 6,000 different Kanye West lines and is able to produce its own bars and flows like a traditional artist would. "Originally it just rearranged existing rap lyrics, but now it can actually write word-by-word," Barrat says.

Scientists from the Oxford University along with Google's DeepMind have developed an artificial intelligence system that can lip-read better than humans. The system was trained by thousands of hours of BBC news programs, the media outlet said Friday. The system, called "Watch, Attend and Spell," can correctly lip-read 50 percent of silent speech correctly, while professional…

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