Every gamer has a tale of the worst game they ever played. It may have been the utterly catastrophic sequel to a much-loved classic, a rushed tie-in with a favourite movie, or an experimental new release from a favourite studio. But we've all had that moment of excitedly unwrapping the box, shoving the disc (or cartridge) into the machine and then ... then comes the horrific realisation that you have wasted £45 on the interactive equivalent of a late-career M. Night Shyamalan movie. To create this list, four veteran game writers gathered together to relive our own experiences of this gut-wrenching phenomenon. As hundreds of games are released every year, there are certainly thousands of unmitigated digital disasters that very few people have had to suffer because they sank faster than a pair of solid-iron water wings.

Google Play Music is getting a much-needed overhaul starting this week, both inside and out. Its Android, iOS and Web apps are getting a new interface that's powered by machine learning to recommend music based on what you're doing and where you are. TNW NYC is our New York technology event for anyone interested in helping their company grow. You've probably seen Google Now deliver contextual cards with information relevant to your location and activities like flying, visiting the gym and commuting. The company's music service will now use those smarts to bring you suitable playlists for every activity it can reliably detect.

Peter Drucker was prescient about most things, but the computer wasn't one of them. "The computer ... is a moron," the management guru asserted in a McKinsey Quarterly article in 1967, calling the devices that now power our economy and our daily lives "the dumbest tool we have ever had." Drucker was hardly alone in underestimating the unfathomable pace of change in digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI). AI builds on the computational power of vast neural networks sifting through massive digital data sets or "big data" to achieve outcomes analogous, often superior, to those produced by human learning and decision-making. Careers as varied as advertising, financial services, medicine, journalism, agriculture, national defense, environmental sciences, and the creative arts are being transformed by AI.

Robot" has been getting a lot of attention not just from viewers but also award-giving bodies. The latest to give a nod to the USA show is the Broadcast Film Critics Association's Critics' Choice Awards. The show created by Sam Esmail was nominated in three categories, according to Deadline. The show was nominated for Best Drama Series. Two of the show's actors were also nominated for their performances. Rami Malek was nominated for Best Actor for a Drama Series for his portrayal of Elliot Alderson. Christian Slater, meanwhile, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of Mr. Robot/Edward Alderson. The show was previously nominated for the Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Casting and Outstanding Sound Mixing categories at the Emmy Awards. Esmail was also nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. While they failed to grab the awards for the said categories, Mac Quayle won in the Outstanding Music Composition category, while Malek bagged the Outstanding Lead Actor - Drama award. Esmail has already taken to Twitter to share his joy over the show's nomination. The writer-director said: "This is such an amazing honor.

Google has just announced a brand new update to their music streaming service, Google Play Music. The new design and features will begin rolling out to Android, iOS and the web starting this week, and Google says it will be made available to 62 countries around the world. As with most of these app updates though, it will be rolled out gradually to users. So, you can either wait patiently for the update to be pushed to your device, or you can sideload the update when it becomes available. The first thing you'll notice about this update is its new design.

It's one thing to want to protect endangered animals, but another entirely to keep track of them. Case in point: the dugong, a medium-sized marine mammal often referred to as a sea cow. Cute they may be, but spotting them in large bodies of water is easier said than done. Since marine researchers want to do so to keep tabs on population sizes, conservation status, and their important habitat areas, that poses a bit of a problem. Fortunately, this is where Dr. Amanda Hodgson of Australia's Murdoch University comes in.

One of the coolest bits from from Arrival isn't the sci-fi movie's Lovecraftian aliens or its stunning cinematography (although, to be fair, those are both great), it's the Heptapods' language. Figuring out a way to communicate with beings without provoking a war is central to the first-contact story's plot. While their spoken language is basically a series of low-frequency grunts and groans, the inky "written" version of it resembles an ouroboros that's written and read from left to right and right to left, simultaneously. Throughout a series of tweets recently, writer/producer Eric Heisserer explained not only how the circular speech symbols came to be, but also the "bespoke logogram analytic code" that translated the language when the cameras were rolling. "In several shots in the film, the analytics you see are working in real-time to dissect a logogram," Heisserer writes.

As the deviously puzzling first half of HBO's "Westworld" has unfolded, sleuths on fan sites and reddit threads have spun elaborate theories about what is really going on in the futuristic, Wild West-themed amusement park of the title. We know that the park is an adult playground where human "guests" can carry out their most sadistic fantasies on the bodies of the grounds' life-like robot "hosts." We know that each day, after being raped, murdered, and otherwise violated for the pleasures of their guests, the robots are refurbished by Westworld staff, their memories wiped clean--but that, by a glitch in the system (or by some secret design), hosts like the obedient and good-hearted Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and the sharp-tongued bordello owner Maeve (Thandie Newton) are beginning to piece together their traumatic pasts. But there are so many essential things that we don't yet understand. Who was Arnold, the park's mysterious co-creator, who died somewhere within Westworld's borders and whose ghost seems to be haunting his android creations?

We now experience life through an algorithmic lens. Whether we realize it or not, machine learning algorithms shape how we behave, engage, interact, and transact with each other and with the world around us. Deep learning is the next advance in machine learning. While machine learning has traditionally been applied to textual data, deep learning goes beyond that to find meaningful patterns within streaming media and other complex content types, including video, voice, music, images, and sensor data. Deep learning enables your smartphone's voice-activated virtual assistant to understand spoken intentions.

Google Play Music is getting a much-needed overhaul starting this week, both inside and out. Google is revamping its Play Music streaming app for Android, iOS and Web to focus heavily on context and personalization. Using machine learning to figure out what music you want to listen to, the app will suggest songs and playlists depending on what time and day it is, where you are, what the local weather is, and other factors that could possibly affect your mood and musical preferences. The update will see a gradual global roll-out, starting this week on Android, iOS and the web version of Google Play Music. "When you opt in, we'll deliver personalized music based on where you are and why you are listening -- relaxing at home, powering through at work, commuting, flying, exploring new cities, heading out on the town, and everything in between," Google says in a blog post.