Publishing is no longer about writing just a book. Therefore publishing is not just dependent on itself but on other mediums as well. A best selling book makes it to a Netflix show or a movie and that in turn gives the book sales another fillip. So content in its traditional form - i.e as a book is not dying anytime. In fact, the need for good content is greater than ever as players like Netflix and HBO keep on searching for the next bestselling story to be made into a tv show or a movie.

Episode 9: For the past five years, Russia's been building walls around its web and packing it with tech oligarchs, startup cities, face-finding algorithms, hacker hunters, and, of course, a few bears. The best mouse I've ever met lives in Akademgorodok, a Siberian city about an hour's drive from Novosibirsk. The mouse is not alive. It's a 2-foot statue that stands watch over a genetic engineering laboratory. Frozen in time, the mouse wears glasses and a lab coat, using a pair of knitting needles to stitch together strands of DNA.

Artificial intelligence is getting its teeth into lip reading. A project by Google's DeepMind and the University of Oxford applied deep learning to a huge data set of BBC programmes to create a lip-reading system that leaves professionals in the dust. The AI system was trained using some 5000 hours from six different TV programmes, including Newsnight, BBC Breakfast and Question Time. In total, the videos contained 118,000 sentences. First the University of Oxford and DeepMind researchers trained the AI on shows that aired between January 2010 and December 2015. Then they tested its performance on programmes broadcast between March and September 2016.

It's no secret that the new "Power Rangers" film is a departure from the original TV series, and the concept art for the movie's new Alpha 5 serves as further confirmation. Even fans who thought the updated looks for Rita, the Rangers' suits and the Zords gave them adequate mental preparation for any other redesigns probably couldn't refrain from a quick "Ay yi yi yi yi" after seeing the new Alpha. Revealed by IGN, this new take on the Power Rangers ally is more than a bit of a departure from the character's original look. In the TV series, Alpha was Zordon's panicky but devoted robotic assistant who served as the Rangers' advisor and friend. While the new Alpha retains the gold saucer-shaped helmet as well as the red body, not much else is recognizable.

On this week's Slate Culture Gabfest, the critics discuss the new Disney film Moana, about a Pacific Island princess on a standard Disney journey, and whether the movie is new and exciting or if its feminist stance makes it predictable. Then, the critics are joined by Gilmore Girls completist Seth Stevenson to talk about the series' return to Netflix, which premiered over Thanksgiving weekend after nine years. How has the show changed, and was the revival a success? Last, the critics discuss Nathan Heller's New Yorker piece, "If Animals Have Rights, Should Robots?" They dig into the intricacies of his argument and debate whether robots can ever achieve the consciousness of animals.

It's no secret that "Power Rangers" is a departure from the original TV series, and the latest concept art for the movie's new Alpha 5 is further proof. Even fans who thought the updated looks for Rita, the Rangers' suits and the Zords were adequate mental preparation for any other redesigns were likely surprised by Alpha's new design. To borrow some words from Alpha: "Ay yi yi yi yi." Revealed by IGN, this new take on the Power Ranger ally is more than a bit of a departure from the character's original look. In the TV series, Alpha was Zordon's panicky but devoted robotic assistant who served as the Rangers' adviser and friend. While the new Alpha retains the gold saucer-shaped helmet as well as the red body, not much else is recognizable.

Today's Web--characterized by social media and user-generated content--is a powerful, open medium that gives everyone a voice. Unfortunately, some use their voices to bully or harass other users. Social media platforms, online bulletin boards, blog sites, media companies, and anyone else who opens up posts to comments, struggle to identify and deter online harassment. So Intel has joined with a number of other organizations to create Hack Harassment--a collaborative effort to reduce the prevalence and severity of online harassment through increasing awareness and accountability, advancing anti-harassment technology solutions, and effecting change for individuals and communities. Online harassment is a large and growing problem.

TV series "Humans" shows robots taking over simple human tasks Photo: Channel 4 Over the last decade, the types and definitions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have ranged across a wide spectrum. A future of smart homes and smart cars, driven by AI, is no longer a distant reality. This future poses questions to businesses; principal among them is how businesses can adapt to AI. The practical impact on companies, and their workforces, is an increasingly pressing issue around the boardroom. The International Federation of Robots (yes, a real thing, not a Star Wars coalition) reported last year that robot sales in 2014 increased by 29% – the biggest increase ever recorded within a year, and this trend is expected to continue.

Behind the scenes, AI engines in the form of smart algorithms "work" on stock exchanges, offer up suggestions for books and films on Amazon and Netflix and even write the odd article. But AI does not have the greatest public image - often due to sci-fi films that display dystopian visions of robots taking over the world. Hal is perhaps the most famous AI turned bad. Created by Arthur C Clarke for the book and film 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hal stands for Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer. A recent survey of business and technology professionals and found that 58% of them are researching AI, but only 12% are using AI systems.

This year has been a pivotal one for artificial intelligence, which has gone from an abstract and esoteric concept understood primarily through it's portrayal in sci-fi movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Terminator series (no wonder it's typically regarded as malevolent) to the centre-piece of todays zeitgeist as the singularity (the point when artificial intelligence becomes indistinguishable from human) draws near. Hyper personalisation and proactive intelligence have become expectations of software in 2016, and the big players in mobile and digital are striving for this through AI. The result is that we're tipping into another fundamental paradigm shift akin to the explosion of mobile. Let's take a look at some of the best of AI in 2016 and what we can expect in 2017 and beyond for industry, creativity and humanity. Greek mythology talks about mechanical humans, robots and artificial intelligences and it was all the way back in 1951 that the first AI capable of playing chess was shown off courtesy of the university of Manchester.