Chance the Rapper performs in concert on the second day of week two of the Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park on Oct. 14, 2017 in Austin, Texas. SAN FRANCISCO -- Google is teaming up with Chance the Rapper to bring computer science education to Chicago's public schools. The Internet giant's philanthropic arm Google.org is giving $1 million to Chance the Rapper's SocialWorks organization and $500,000 to the schools. Chicago is the first national school district to mandate computer science education for all students. Chance the Rapper made a surprise appearance at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Academy on Wednesday where fifth-grade students were working on a coding activity with Google employees as a part of Computer Science Education Week.

On this busy Cyber Monday, one of Amazon's busy distribution centers show how they manage to keep up with the holiday rush. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has staked its brand on putting the customer above all other things, and the company's mission is to be "Earth's most customer-centric company." From its heady days as an online bookseller, Amazon has always sought to use the Internet to provide customers with convenience and low prices. Its Prime loyalty program may be the best example of this, as it offers free two-day shipping on millions of items, as well as a slew of other benefits including video streaming, music streaming, access to the Kindle Lending Library, and discounts at Whole Foods, all for just $99/year. Amazon has always experimented with ways to save customers money, but the company's latest move is like nothing you've ever seen.

Artificial intelligence has reached a new frontier: creating black metal music without the need for actual musicians. Two musical technologists named Zack Zukowski and CJ Carr have created an algorithm that can learn bits of existing music and then duplicate it to create a completely new song, the Outline writes. To prove it, Zukowski and Carr, under the name Dadabots, created a heavy metal album called Coditany of Timeness that sounds like a real metal album. That's because it is a real metal album--just one created by AI. Zukowski and Carr took small pieces of a 2011 album called Diotima by the death metal band Krallice, and, as the Outline explains, "Then they fed each segment through a neural network--a type of artificial intelligence modeled loosely on a biological brain--and asked it to guess what the waveform of the next individual sample of audio would be. If the guess was right, the network would strengthen the paths of the neural network that led to the correct answer, similar to the way electrical connections between neurons in our brain strengthen as we learn new skills."

When I look up, I can see wispy clouds passing overhead. Large photos hang on the gallery walls. They're pictures of a landscape devastated by war and portraits of men fighting in those wars. I hear footsteps behind me. I turn around and watch two figures enter the room and take up stations in front of the portraits.

Just about everyone has watched animated movies such as Frozen or Big Hero 6 or has at least heard about 3D computer games. It seems more fun to enjoy the movies and games rather than reading a Linear Algebra book. But it is because of linear algebra that we are able to watch a character move on the screen. Linear Algebra is the motivation of our new digital world. Through this article, we will learn matrix arithmetic and learn how to use numpy to carry out these operations in python.

Researchers at Netflix are experimenting with creating software-edited trailers personalized for individual subscribers to get more peeps to watch its films, according to a well-placed source familiar with the matter. The popular streaming service has over 100 million subscribers across hundreds of countries. It collects troves of data about its users and their behaviors, and uses a range of machine-learning algorithms to tweak and improve the way it streams and presents its content. The large datasets allow researchers to find effective ways to maximize the time your eyeballs are glued to its TV network. And one way to get more users to watch its original content could be to tailor trailers to their individual tastes. For example, an action movie may be more appealing if the romantic scenes are highlighted for people who watch more romance films or if the scenes containing a preferred actor or actress are included.

In 1961, the world's first industrial robot clocked in at a General Motors plant in Trenton, New Jersey. The 4,000-pound mechanical arm, named Unimate, was designed to weld cars and lift big pieces of metal. The robot was a huge success--even landing a spot on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Almost sixty years later, the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has seen machines leap from physical to mental labor. As computers step into roles that involve reasoning, a new wave of industries ranging from medicine to finance stands to benefit from--or get left behind by--AI.

"The advent of the internet and the subsequent information explosion has made it increasingly challenging for journalists to produce news accurately and swiftly." So begin the research and development team at the global news agency Reuters in a paper on the arXiv this week. For Reuters, the problem has been made more acute by the emergence of fake news as an important factor in distorting the perception of events. Nevertheless, news agencies such as the Associated Press have moved ahead with automated news writing services. These report standard announcements such as financial news and certain sports results by pasting the data into pre-written templates: "X reported profit of Y million in Q3, in results that beat Wall Street forecasts ... " So there is significant pressure on other news agencies to automate news production. And today, Reuters outlines how it has almost entirely automated the identification of breaking news stories.

The Power9 chips in the systems hitting the market now don't rev up to the top speeds provided by Intel's Xeon Scalable Processor line, but they offer blazing throughput aimed to give them an edge in machine learning and accelerated database applications.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has generated enormous hype in recent months, but opinions about the real impact of technologies like machine translation, autonomous vehicles, natural language processing, and computer vision vary widely. Optimists envision a world in which "driver" becomes a superfluous word; pessimists worry about the millions of truckers at risk of unemployment. But while often described with the futuristic fancy of Skynet in the "Terminator" movies, AI has very real near-term applications for the entertainment industry. Here are some of the most exciting examples. AI is poised to touch every facet of entertainment, even that most time-honored of parental traditions: reading stories to children before bed.