As summer shows make their return, let us help with the memory jogging. Robot," USA Network, July 13 (10 p.m.): It was the finale that had our internal dialogue going haywire. Elliot (Rami Malek) faced the reality that the man he knew as "Mr. Robot" was actually his long-dead father. Season 2 picks up with Elliot trying to recall what transpired in the three days during the massive off-screen hack that unfolded.

We're delighted to announce the winner of IK Prize 2016, an annual award that celebrates digital creativity in all its forms. This year we challenged digital creatives to use a form of artificial intelligence to explore, investigate or'understand' British art in the Tate collection. Fabrica's winning idea, RECOGNITION, is an A.I. project that will uncover the hidden links between current events and art from the Tate collection. Imagine an intelligent machine searching the never-ending stream of news images on the internet, learning to analyse thousands of photographs in terms of composition, style and content. What if this image-hungry'brain' could learn to understand great artworks too?

This week, a lot of attention was given during the kick-off of the annual Google I/O conference to three of this year's key technologies: artificial intelligence, conversational interfaces and virtual reality. The attractive force of Google's technologies was in full display with the opening viewed by more than 1 million users in China alone. Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, kicked it off by demonstrating that Google had not missed out on the shift to mobile and that 50% of all search engine queries were already today made from phones, including 20% through voice recognition in the United States. Already, the results of a mobile study that were unveiled extend beyond a simple list of links to include "cards" used to preview related content (photos, results, artists) without having to exit the search engine. The head of Google went on to highlight his company's progress with respect to artificial intelligence and concrete applications for search engines.

Jimmy Kimmel took Donald Trump to task over the ongoing controversy over transgender bathroom use this week. Suffice it to say, Kimmel didn't get very far. Previously, Trump pledged to allow transgender people to use the restroom that best corresponds with their gender identity. The statement was enough to prompt Caitlyn Jenner to drop by the Trump Tower to use the ladies' room during a recent visit to New York, and capture the experience on video. But Trump quickly changed his tune -- or at the very least clarified it -- claiming that states should be the ones to decide if and how they want to implement trans rights.

The News and information ecosystem is in the midst of change -- again. Mobile-first consumption is on the rise, smart homes are becoming mainstream and connected cars will soon take over the roads of major cities around the world. Smart devices will require "smart content." It's only a matter of time before artificial intelligence (AI) becomes the backbone of the media industry of the future. Today, most people find information via search or social. And while these two channels are radically different in functionality, they have one thing in common -- any given article surfaced through these platforms is exactly the same for everyone in the world.

Three weeks after FX's Reagan-era spy drama "The Americans" was more or less ignored by Emmy voters last year (again!), the Television Critics Assn. You could view the award as a rebuke to the Television Academy or just read it at face value as a celebration of the show's artful, seamless storytelling and extraordinary acting. The question now is: Will Emmy voters remember that award, along with the Peabody that "The Americans" won last year, and finally nominate the program for drama series? As much as I'd like to think that Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields' show and its cast -- particularly leads Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys -- will finally break through for its fourth and, arguably, best season, I'm not optimistic. For this to happen, the 19,000-plus voting members of the academy (specifically, the ones who haven't been voting for "The Americans" the last three years) will probably need to know the events of its first three seasons for the current betrayals and soul-crushing disappointments to fully resonate.

Whether online gaming is bad for teens -- as many believe -- or actually maybe not so bad -- as others believe -- the one "take-it-to-the-bank" is that gaming has become a huge part of the entertainment industry and is not likely to go away anytime soon. And yes, some parents are concerned. A recent Common Sense study found that tech use is a primary cause of conflict between them and their gaming teenagers. Of the 1,200 study participants (both parents and teens), 59 percent of the parents believe that their teenagers were "addicted to their mobile devices." One-third of parents say they argue with their kids on a daily basis about device use, the study said.

It was as far back as 1991 – when Nirvana's Nevermind was riding high in the album charts, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was the must-see film in cinemas; and escalating tensions led to the first Gulf War – that we had a sneak preview of how networked connectivity would eventually impact our lives. That year, researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Labs invented the world's first webcam to solve their coffee problem. Frustrated by pointless trips down the hall to the coffee machine only to find the pot empty, they set up a video camera near the machine and networked it to a computer. Now they could see whether the coffee pot was full or empty in real time. Today billions of devices across the world are networked, sharing what they see, hear and otherwise sense with the internet.

Everyone had his or her favorite drink in hand. There were bubbles and deep reds, and the sound of ice clinking in cocktail glasses underlay the hum of contented chatter. Gracing the room were slender women with long hair and men dressed in black suits, with glints of gold necklaces and cuff links. But it was no Gatsby affair. It was the annual Imperial College quantum gravity cocktail hour. The host was dressed down in black from head to toe--black turtleneck, jeans, and trench coat.

If you think a career as a Film Composer could never be replaced by machines, you might want to listen to the music of composer Emily Howell. Listen to "her" music in the short film "Humans Need Not Apply". We're getting closer and closer to Ray Kurzweil's predicted day in 2029 where machine intelligence surpasses our own and is able to think of ideas and concepts that we do not possess the intelligence to fathom, a moment known as the Singularity (a term borrowed from the physics of black holes). Our progress in nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, genetics, and other technologies, is moving us ever closer to the point where we will be able to interface our minds with the digital cloud and vice versa. One day we may even be able to upload our entire consciousness into the digital ether, a moment referred to as Transcendence, a potentially inevitable part of the evolution of intelligence.