It's the 4th of July weekend here in the States, which means many of you will spend the three-day break with family and enjoying the outdoors. On the other hand, if you see the long weekend as an excuse to hunker down and savor some personal time with the Android device in your life, we've got you covered with five intriguing new apps and games. Her Story leads the lineup this week, as the celebrated indie game challenges you to piece together a twisted murder mystery by watching police interviews, and it's joined by Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius, a brand new role-playing quest in the legendary series. Otherwise, we've got Google's new Expeditions app for Cardboard VR, Sony's PlayStation Vue streaming television service, and Red Bull's Clashem social video-battling app. Be sure to load up your device before the holiday rolls around!

"Orange is the New Black," is probably most Americans only peek into what life is like behind bars. The Netflix show offers a complicated look at a women's prison, showcasing how relationships develop between inmates, guards interact with prisoners and the often difficult living conditions behind bars. But is everything the action-packed show depicts accurate? Here is a fact-check of eight of Season 4's biggest storylines: In "Orange is the New Black" Season 4, celeb-chef Judy King, played by Blair Brown, gets a private room when she shows up to Litchfield Penitentiary for tax evasion. However, Martha Stewart, the celebrity chef and television personality that inspired King, did not have it so easy. While serving five months for insider trading, Stewart mopped floors and cleaned toilets.

Cortana in Windows 10 is a great tool to take a quick look at news headlines on your PC, but compared to competitors like Google Now I sometimes find Microsoft's choice of news sites lacking. Recently, Microsoft added a new capability to fix that--at least a little bit. Cortana now lets you banish news sites you don't like from your feed?. There are some reports that this is a U.S.-only feature for now. First, if you're not using Cortana to deliver news open the personal digital assistant on your PC.

The rise of the machines continues this week with news that the Associated Press (AP) is expanding its baseball coverage through automated stories generated by algorithms. The New York-based nonprofit news agency has ramped up its partnership with Automated Insights, a Durham, Carolina-based company that uses artificial intelligence to analyze and transform big data into stories. The AP has worked with Automated Insights for a number of years already, with more than 3,000 computer-generated corporate earnings reports created over the past couple of years based on data supplied by Zacks Investment Research, and it has used automation in sports reports too. The AP also participated in a 5.5 million funding round into Automated Insights back in 2014. Automated Insights offers its Wordsmith A.I. platform to a number of big-name media companies, including Yahoo, and to the casual observer it may be difficult to know that a report wasn't written by a human.

If you're old enough to have had an AOL Instant Messenger account, then you may remember Jill020306, a curious teenager who kept getting creepy phone calls she couldn't resist answering. As part of the marketing campaign for the 2006 horror flick When A Stranger Calls, the ad agency Universal McCann built a chatbot that would play the part of Jill Johnson in an AOL Instant Messenger conversation. What's old is new again and today Sequel, "the chatbot platform that enables creators and brands to build conversational personas for entertainment and media," has launched an experience to help market Now You See Me 2. Things have changed, technologically and otherwise, in the past ten years. Sequel's bot focuses on Kik and Facebook Messenger, not AOL. Besides the platform changing, the bigger question worth answering is, has the technology powering chatbots improved to a point where they might offer something more than a mildly amusing piece of marketing campaign?

In this image from video, Frank Baressi speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his home in Palm Harbor, Fla. Thursday, June 30, 2016. Baressi, 62, was the driver of the truck that was hit by a Tesla that Joshua D. Brown, of Canton, Ohio, was operating in self-driving mode, and who was killed in the May 7 accident in Williston, Fla. Baressi said the driver was "playing Harry Potter on the TV screen" at the time of the crash and driving so quickly that "he went so fast through my trailer I didn't see him."

It was an accident waiting to happen. Up until then, I had been rather bored. So it was Wednesday, and the third "Press Talk" at the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. And the topic was artificial intelligence (A.I.). Müller-Jung, who's the head of science and nature at the German daily newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung," had repeatedly said during his long and winding introduction, "We're not going to talk about self-driving cars or'rogue A.I.' here!"

In this June 1, 2016 photo, a worker adjusts a welding robot at a subsidiary of China Offshore Oil Engineering Co. Ltd. in Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong province. An official survey of Chinese manufacturing release Friday, July 1, 2016, shows that activity was flat in June, signaling further weakness in the world's No. 2 economy as it undergoes a prolonged slowdown.

The companies have integrated the automation technology into Watchwith's data-driven advanced advertising products. "What used to potentially require thousands of man-hours is now an automated process within the Watchwith platform," Watchwith says in a statement. By embedding artificial intelligence into the video advertising inventory creation process, Watchwith MAF gives TV networks and premium video publishers the power to create, manage and sell contextually relevant native video advertising at scale. "And the result is the highly scalable, native digital video advertising solution the TV industry needs to compete with Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat and other native digital video distribution platforms."

Watchwith has acquired the Arris Media Analysis Framework (MAF), a cloud-based machine learning and automated metadata generation platform. MAF was developed in Arris research labs, and the technology analyzes, tags and describes video at a frame level, which eliminates manual tagging. The companies have integrated the automation technology into Watchwith's data-driven advanced advertising products. "What used to potentially require thousands of man-hours is now an automated process within the Watchwith platform," Watchwith says in a statement. The combined solution is able to automatically determine the optimal timing and location within a TV episode to deliver in-program advertising and tune-in messages.