Left: Given movie poster, Right: New movie title generated by MC-GAN. Text is a prominent visual element of 2D design. Artists invest significant time into designing glyphs that are visually compatible with other elements in their shape and texture. This process is labor intensive and artists often design only the subset of glyphs that are necessary for a title or an annotation, which makes it difficult to alter the text after the design is created, or to transfer an observed instance of a font to your own project. Early research on glyph synthesis focused on geometric modeling of outlines, which is limited to particular glyph topology (e.g., cannot be applied to decorative or hand-written glyphs) and cannot be used with image input.

The feature appears to work by asking the app to play an artist, album, song, genre or playlist. Hunter found it by pulling up Spotify's search screen. In the bottom right-hand corner, there was a microphone button. Hitting it brought up entirely new voice options. This venture makes sense, given Spotify's hardware ambitions.

Jenna Dewan Tatum, Laverne Cox, Ashanti, Eve and Iggy Azelea discuss their fashion choices on the red carpet at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. Pharrell Williams and Shay Haley of the band N.E.R.D. perform their song "Lemon" during the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards in Inglewood, Calif. The nation's largest radio station operator iHeartMedia has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to shed billions of debt it has been saddled with for more than a decade. The San Antonio-based company, which has more than 850 radio stations, says it will continue to keep operating after reaching an agreement with creditors for more than $10 billion of its $20 billion in debt. That means its popular iHeartRadio streaming radio app, which has 270 million monthly listeners, will continue to be found on smartphones, video game consoles and other devices.

Spotify may be about to take on the smart speaker market. The music streaming site is testing an in-app assistant, dubbed'Spotify Voice', that allows users to control their music with their voice. The trial has sparked rumours that the firm is about to release a smart speaker to take on the likes of Apple's HomePod and Amazon's Echo. If the rumours are true, it would allow Spotify to put a microphone and potentially camera in every user's home. Spotify may be about to take on the smart speaker market.

Virtual reality, as it's been promised to us by science fiction, is a singular realm of infinite possibility. Star Trek's Holodeck, Yu-Gi-Oh!'s Virtual World, Snow Crash's Metaverse: Each is the all-powerful experience generator of its world, able to accommodate a character's any desire. Novelist Ernest Cline sharpened this vision in his 2011 debut, Ready Player One, which hits theaters in March courtesy of Steven Spielberg. While the story is set in the strife-torn meatspace of 2045, most of its action unfolds in a vast network of artificial worlds called the OASIS. And in the tradition of reality playing catch-up to sci-fi, the OASIS has become the endgame for real-world VR developers, many of whom are actively trying to replicate its promise.

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Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society. A brief scan of the lyrical landscape reveals what the car represents in American culture. There's machismo, naturally, as with the sunny bravado as the Beach Boys bop: "We always take my car, 'cause it's never been beat/ And we've never missed yet with the girls we meet." Commitment: "I drove all night to get to you." Luxury and power: "Pull up in the monster, automobile gangsta/ With a bad bitch that came from Sri Lanka/ Yeah, I'm in that Tonka, color of Willy Wonka/ You could be the king, but watch the queen conquer." There's liberation, "Ridin' along in my automobile/ My baby beside me at the wheel," sometimes salted with limitation, "You got a fast car/ Is it fast enough so we can fly away?"

Spotify is experimenting with a voice-control interface, looking to free itself from reliance on Siri and Alexa and pave the way for the company's forthcoming smart speaker. Users of the service have spotted the new feature hiding in the search bar of Spotify's iOS app. After tapping the magnifying glass to search for a track or playlist, testers see a microphone icon inside a white bubble, according to the Verge. After users tap on the icon, Spotify suggests a number of typical requests for a voice-controlled music system: "Show Calvin Harris", "Play my Discover Weekly" and "Play some upbeat pop", for instance. The move comes as Spotify ramps up its efforts to build a smart speaker to challenge Apple, Amazon and Google in the hardware field, all of which have their own music services. A trio of job adverts posted in February confirmed the company's intentions, with Spotify elaborating on its goals to build a "category defining" product "akin to Pebble Watch, Amazon Echo and Snap Spectacles".

If the robot uprising hasn't put Rosie from "The Jetsons" in every home, and it hasn't taken all our paychecks, what does the future really hold? For years, futurists have been warning anyone who will listen about the impending robot uprising. It's 2018 -- so where are all the robots? Although we still don't have robot butlers in every house, small, single-function robots are everywhere. The real question is, where are all the intelligent robots?

Artificial intelligence is going to make legal work faster and more efficient, but it needs help from lawyers and legal professionals to do so. As a Research Director in Thomson Reuters Research and Development group, I work firsthand with technologies like machine learning, natural language processing and artificial intelligence (AI). Since we work on creating solutions for customers, I also meet many intelligent and experienced legal professionals. I'm often asked whether the technologies we work on – particularly AI – are going to send these professionals to the same part of history books as milkmen and stenographers. To allay any remaining concern, expanding on that short answer may be helpful.