Between cat videos and online banking, the web runs the gamut of wasteful and wonderful when it comes to getting things done. And if you were to weigh the Internet's time wasters against its time-saving tools, it would be like an elephant sitting across a fulcrum from a field mouse. But through all the advances that have come with cloud computing, the Internet is quickly turning into a giant productivity machine. Shopping is great when you're soaking in some retail therapy, but when you're doing it because you have to, it can feel like a major chore. Mezi, a free iOS app, works like a personal assistant that you can text message. Just tell the service what you want--airfare, clothing, dinner reservations, personal electronics--and Mezi's agents scour the web for the best deals, even using coupons if possible to get you a good deal.

Human attitudes of objection, protest, and rebellion have undeniable potential to bring about social benefits, from social justice to healthy balance in relationships. At times, they can even be argued to be ethically obligatory. Conversely, AI rebellion is largely seen as a dangerous, destructive prospect. With the increase of interest in collaborative human/AI environments in which synthetic agents play social roles or, at least, exhibit behavior with social and ethical implications, we believe that AI rebellion could have benefits similar to those of its counterpart in humans. We introduce a framework meant to help categorize and design Rebel Agents, discuss their social and ethical implications, and assess their potential benefits and the risks they may pose. We also present AI rebellion scenarios in two considerably different contexts (military unmanned vehicles and computational social creativity) that exemplify components of the framework.

The United States Geological Society captured gorgeous images of the'lava faucet' currently spewing out of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. It's been erupting since 1983, but on New Year's day, the lava caused a rock structure to collapse, exposing the flowing lava. Researchers are now concerned that the surrounding cliff might collapse as well, making the area even more dangerous than it already is.

The sixth and final chapter in the "Resident Evil" franchise has just come out in theatres, and you may as well start there. The films are best enjoyed out of sequence, with no prior knowledge of the plot. Who is this woman with the pair of shotguns and the tight pants? What's this undead beast that wants to eat her face? When did Washington, D.C., get turned to rubble?

To get everyone familiar with Arghon's many amazing features, we have decided to highlight one feature of our artificial intelligence each month. The feature for this month is Arghon Personalization: our AI's unique ability to learn and change for each individual user. Our AI learns a user's needs and adapts accordingly, proof of its superior standing in the AI market today. Arghon's ability to personalize to each user is arguably one of its best features.The more the AI gets familiar with a user's preferences, the more uniquely tailored it becomes. Each Arghon is different from any other AI in existence.

Too many laptops, tablets and other mobile devices leads to congested WiFi airwaves. Q: I have horrible Wi-Fi in rooms of my house. A: A wireless network repeater is a great way to extend coverage, but it has to be placed in the right spot. Most routers spread signals in a circle. The closer you are to the router, the stronger the signal. As the circle spreads out, there is a sweet spot to put the repeater.

Finding the music of the moment can often be a challenging problem, even for humans with well-versed musical tastes. These challenges further explode into a myriad of complexities when attempting to construct algorithmic approaches for automatic playlist generation. A variety of factors play a role in influencing a listener's perception of what music is appropriate on a given seed (e.g. Erik Schmidt, Senior Scientist at Pandora will be presenting at the Machine Intelligence Summit in San Francisco, 23-24 March. Erik will present an overview of recommendations at Pandora, followed by a deep dive into the challenges of recommending content.

Artificial intelligence is an amazing technology that's changing the world in fantastic ways, but anybody who has ever seen the movie Terminator knows that there are some dangers associated with advanced AI. That's why Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and hundreds of other researchers, tech leaders, and scientists have endorsed a list of 23 guiding principles that should steer AI development in a productive, ethical, and safe direction. The Alisomar AI Principles were developed after the Future of Life Institute brought dozens of experts together for their Beneficial AI 2017 conference. The experts, whose ranks consisted of roboticists, physicists, economists, philosophers, and more, had fierce debates about AI safety, economic impact on human workers, and programming ethics, to name a few. In order to make the final list, 90 percent of the experts had to agree on its inclusion.

Grimm After lying dormant for seven years, a new form of Wesen with a ferocious appetite emerges. Last Man Standing Eve (Kaitlyn Dever) surprises Mike and Vanessa (Tim Allen, Nancy Travis) with her decision about which college she wants to attend in this new episode of the family comedy. Rosewood The investigation of a suspicious death in an empty high-rise draws Rosie and Villa (Morris Chestnut, Jaina Lee Ortiz) into the inner circle of a former child star who wants to make a comeback. Ginormous Food Host Josh Denny visits Nashville, where he finds a 17-pound chicken gyro sandwich. Dr. Ken Ken (Ken Jeong) allows his wife (Suzy Nakamura) to think he wrote a love poem for her, but it was actually written by Dave (Albert Tsai) for his girlfriend (guest star Zooey Jeong, Ken's real-life daughter).

There are movies about the wonders of space travel -- a short list would include "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Solaris" and "Interstellar" -- that seek to test the audience's perceptual limits, altering our sense of time and place so as to usher us into the vast frontier of the unknown. And then there are movies like "The Space Between Us" -- though happily, not too many -- which take the vast frontier of the unknown and whittle it down to something obvious, familiar and dispiritingly pocket-sized. I suppose it could be worse. The soundtrack, for all its loud surges of pop dreck, at least has the decency to omit a certain Dave Matthews Band song -- the one that goes "The space between / the tears we cry is the laughter keeps us coming back for more," which more or less sums up this movie's idea of a tonal strategy. You may very well laugh and cry during "The Space Between Us," though probably at the wrong times and for entirely unintended reasons.