On this week's If Then, Slate's April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss the outrage at the largest TV-station owner in the country--Sinclair Broadcasting--after the media conglomerate forced its local-news anchors to read a script that echoes Trumpian talking points. They also unpack Trump's beef about Jeff Bezos owning what he calls the #AmazonWashingtonPost. Meanwhile, music streaming site Spotify went public this week in a totally new kind of way. The hosts take a look at its unorthodox move and what it means for the company's future.

Tablets may not be for everyone, but they're uncannily well suited to the kitchen. They can guide you through recipes or play Netflix shows without taking up as much countertop space as a laptop. And unlike the Echo Show and other screen-equipped smart speakers, you can move them anywhere you like while you prepare your meal. But how do you go shopping for a tablet with kitchen use in mind? It can be tricky, since some of the usual shopping advice goes out the window. Here's what you'll want to consider if you're buying a tablet as a cooking companion.

Commenting on the report, an Automotive Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market analyst one trend affecting this market is advent of infotainment systems powered by automotive AI. Automotive AI can be defined as the technological capability of the machine to make logical decisions based on certain parameters without the aid of a human. This report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the Global Automotive Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market. To calculate the market size, the report considers the revenue generated from the application of AI, such as human-machine interface, ADAS applications, and autonomous vehicles. Key questions answered in this report - What will the market size be in 2022 and what will the growth rate be? - What are the key market trends?

Setting new trends in the industry, this 20-storey, four-star hotel offers 269 guest rooms including 54 suites. Designed by the team that successfully relaunched the Hôtel Gault, Monville is redefining customer service by offering the latest integrated technological innovations. This robot, developed by the California firm Savioke, helps make a stay at Monville a truly unique experience, in harmony with the growing digital age. Guests can check in easily and quickly at electronic kiosks, where they will also automatically receive their room keys. Human receptionists can thus dedicate more time to helping guests discover Montréal's many attractions.

While Artificial Intelligence, AI, is making inroads into journalism, human journalists will not be replaced by robots. AI will mainly be used to assist humans in adapting to the latest technology trends to better suit the needs of new age media, said an expert. Lisa Gibbs, Director of News Partnerships of The Associated Press, was addressing the audience at the 17th edition of the Arab Media Forum being held at the Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai. Speaking about the role of'Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Press', Gibbs noted that Artificial Intelligence in newsrooms will enable it to scale up content, automate certain types of stories and authenticate and fact check leads that emerge out of social media. Urging media organisations to invest more towards developing algorithms that can help machines learn to perform certain automated tasks, she said, using the full potential of technology will allow its journalists to dedicate time for developing relevant and meaningful personalised content that resonates with readers.

Logan Marshall-Green stars in the upcoming ultra-violent sci-fi/horror/action film, Upgrade, directed by Australia's own Leigh Whannell. The film follows Marshall-Green's quadriplegic character Grey, as he's upgraded with a new form of artificial intelligence chip that restores all of his former functions – as well as turning him into a killing machine. He then uses his newfound gifts to seek revenge on the men that killed his wife. Here is another science-fiction premise that may have some actual future plausibility, with a mix of gory violence to spice up the entertainment factor. Judging by this trailer, Whannell looks to have hit the mark. While I think the red band trailer below may be revealing too much awesome action already, it does do plenty to get action/sci-fi/horror fans excited.

We live in an age when regular people of modest incomes have access to artificial intelligence that can automate their responses and minimize the amount of time they spend talking to boring people about boring things. But billionaire and chairman of the company that oversees CBS and Viacom Sumner Redstone had to do the normals one better. According to the Wall Street Journal, lately Redstone, who is 94 and in ill health, has taken to communicating via an iPad outfitted with clips of him saying "yes," "no," and "fuck you." Questions have surfaced in recent years about Mr. Redstone's mental standing. To help him communicate, some people who recently have met with him say that he has an iPad loaded with snippets of his voice, connected to buttons for words or phrases including "yes," "no" and "f-- you."

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has issued a list targeting 1,300 Chinese products, including industrial robots and telecommunications equipment. But the proposed tariffs wouldn't take effect before a public comment period ends May 11.

Cambridge AI decision making platform, PROWLER.io, will be centre stage in California in May as the award-winning startup holds a provocative thought leaders' summit. Business Weekly's newly crowned Startup of the Year is bringing together a cohort of great minds to push the frontiers of AI thinking for a one-day event in Palo Alto on May 9. Founder and CEO Vishal Chatrath says it will be the first of many such think tanks talking about "AI taking decisions – leaving today's discussions about perception and classification in our wake." Chaired by David Rowan, editor-at-large of WIRED magazine, the event is designed, in Chatrath's words, "to share bold provocations on the future of AI." Guests will be drawn from academia, big tech, government, complexity theory, finance, gaming, quantum, safety tech and regulation. Speakers will give a 15 minute talk, ending with "a bold provocation around decision making and AI. "We are deliberately curating a wide-ranging agenda for the first of an annual event series for PROWLER.io," said Chatrath.

The space race was in full swing. For the first time, a space probe had recently landed on another planet (Venus). And I was eagerly studying everything I could to do with space. Then on April 2, 1968 (May 15 in the UK), the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was released--and I was keen to see it. So in the early summer of 1968 there I was, the first time I'd ever been in an actual cinema (yes, it was called that in the UK). I'd been dropped off for a matinee, and was pretty much the only person in the theater. And to this day, I remember sitting in a plush seat and eagerly waiting for the curtain to go up, and the movie to begin. It started with an impressive extraterrestrial sunrise. But then what was going on? Those were landscapes, and animals. I was confused, and frankly a little bored. But just when I was getting concerned, there was a bone thrown in the air that morphed into a spacecraft, and pretty soon there was a rousing waltz--and a big space station turning majestically on the screen. The next two hours had a big effect on me. It wasn't really the spacecraft (I'd seen plenty of them in books by then, and in fact made many of my own concept designs). But what was new and exciting for me in the movie was the whole atmosphere of a world full of technology--and the notion of what might be possible there, with all those bright screens doing things, and, yes, computers driving it all. It would be another year before I saw my first actual computer in real life. But those two hours in 1968 watching 2001 defined an image of what the computational future could be like, that I carried around for years. I think it was during the intermission to the movie that some seller of refreshments--perhaps charmed by a solitary kid so earnestly pondering the movie--gave me a "cinema program" about the movie. Half a century later I still have that program, complete with a food stain, and faded writing from my 8-year-old self, recording (with some misspelling) where and when I saw the movie. A lot has happened in the past 50 years, particularly in technology, and it's an interesting experience for me to watch 2001 again--and compare what it predicted with what's actually happened. Of course, some of what's actually been built over the past 50 years has been done by people like me, who were influenced in larger or smaller ways by 2001. When Wolfram Alpha was launched in 2009--showing some distinctly HAL-like characteristics--we paid a little homage to 2001 in our failure message (needless to say, one piece of notable feedback we got at the beginning was someone asking: "How did you know my name was Dave?!"). One very obvious prediction of 2001 that hasn't panned out, at least yet, is routine, luxurious space travel. But like many other things in the movie, it doesn't feel like what was predicted was off track; it's just that--50 years later--we still haven't got there yet. Well, they have lots of flat-screen displays, just like real computers today.