Hollywood movies such as'Jurassic World' and'The Wolf of Wall Street' have used aerial track shots provided by drone helicopters with cameras. However, those shots require careful planning to avoid collisions, and separate operators for the drones and cameras. But MIT researchers have developed a camera-equipped, autonomous drone that can maintain a shot's framing - which figures or faces appear where - as people move, all while avoiding collisions. The drone allows, for example, a movie director to specify a shot's framing, and then while flying, it generates control signals for a camera-equipped autonomous drone, which preserve that framing as the actors move The new drone system will be presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation later this month. With the new drone system, users can specify how much of the screen a face or figure should occupy, what part of the screen it should occupy and what the camera's orientation towards the subject should be - straight on, profile, over the shoulder or other orientations.

Amazon's Alexa has made it onto a lot of platforms in the past year and its latest jump will make it easier to find your favorite movies or TV shows. Satellite TV provider Dish announced Monday its digital video recorders can now be paired with Amazon's Alexa in the home. The feature, which is available on Dish's Hopper or Wally DVR models, allows users to give voice commands to Alexa from the Echo, Echo Dot and Amazon Tap to control their TVs. Functions can be used across Dish's live, recorded and on-demand titles and also work with Netflix's catalog. Through Alexa, users can control the playback of a show with functions like time skipping, rewinding, pausing and restarting programs.

Executives from three media companies shared data strategies and insights at the 2017 INMA World Congress on Monday. "We're very lucky at the South China Morning Post to be at the very start of this transformation," said Chief Executive Editor Gary Liu. The company recognises data as an asset to treasure, Lui said, but added that it is only an asset if it is taken advantage of. "Being able to capture and collect that data doesn't do us any good if we don't know how to utilise it," he said. Liu then gave a brief overview of the components driving SCMP's data strategy.

Digital music service Spotify recently acquired machine learning startup Niland to improve its recommendation and personalization technologies. In other words, Spotify wants to better connect its users to music they will like. The heart of this concept is nothing new. Netflix and Amazon, too, use machine learning – a type of artificial intelligence (AI) in which machines learn when exposed to new data without being programmed – to suggest content and products their respective users might like. And while this ability to tap into AI – machines that perform smart, human-like tasks – to analyze internal data is increasingly common, it's a bit more complicated when it comes to using AI to capture consumer attention externally, like, say, in search.

Bill Condon is ready to take on a new monster of a project. After helping Disney's live-action "Beauty and the Beast" spin box-office gold, the 61-year-old director has been tapped to breathe new life into "Bride of Frankenstein." Universal Pictures announced on Monday that Condon's remake will hit theaters in February 2019, making it the second film in its newly coined "Dark Universe" series. Universal has long planned to draw on its own library of classic monster characters for a run of films. First up in the Dark Universe series is this summer's "The Mummy" reboot, starring Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella and Russell Crowe, which debuts in theaters on June 9.

Today in Entertainment: Billy Bush regrets that'Access Hollywood' flap; 'Twin Peaks' fans left slack-jawed over the reboot And in today's installment of Netflix vs. Cannes Film Festival... Billy Bush says his daughter was especially upset about that'Access Hollywood' tape'Twin Peaks' fans pretty much loved every minute of Sunday night's premiere'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' sparked serious debate at the Cannes film fest John Oliver has a name for Trump's week of scandal: 'Stupid Watergate' Billy Bush says his daughter was especially upset about that'Access Hollywood' tape'Twin Peaks' fans pretty much loved every minute of Sunday night's premiere'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' sparked serious debate at the Cannes film fest John Oliver has a name for Trump's week of scandal: 'Stupid Watergate' Universal Pictures doesn't want to be the only Hollywood studio without a sexy film franchise that it can spin off forever and ever until there's nothing left but action figures and ash. Warner Bros. has its rapidly expanding DC Comics world, Disney has the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and now Universal has its newly remodeled monster-verse. The studio is reviving the classic Universal monsters for a scary new world officially titled the Dark Universe. We know only a little about who (or what) Universal will be resurrecting from its vault (which includes a plethora of creepy crawlies from the Wolfman to Frankenstein). However, the official press release confirms that this new world will officially kick off June 9 with the Tom Cruise action film "The Mummy."

It was just about a month ago that Christopher Trout put up a post on Engadget introducing himself as our new editor-in-chief. Since then, we've been busy drilling down into the areas we cover best: consumer electronics ("gear"), gaming and entertainment, with the odd story on politics, culture or science, when it makes sense. So often, consumer tech is about the near future: iterative updates and products you can buy now or very soon. With Tomorrow, we turn our attention to the unknown. Tomorrow shines a light on the products, technologies ideas and people that will drastically change the way we live.

Drone delivery in China and other countries faces hurdles including airspace restrictions and the need to avoid collisions with birds and other obstacles. In the United States, regulators allow commercial drone flights only on an experimental basis.

A Kodi add-on has been discontinued because of the legal issues surrounding people's use of the open-source software. Kodi itself isn't illegal, but third-party add-ons built by developers can allow users to access illegal streams for sports events, TV shows and films through it. Users can download Kodi and find and install these add-ons themselves, but the process isn't straightforward. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

The world's largest private equity fund, backed by Japan's SoftBank Group and Saudi Arabia's main sovereign wealth fund, said on Saturday it had raised over $93bn to invest in technology sectors such as artificial intelligence and robotics. "The next stage of the Information Revolution is under way, and building the businesses that will make this possible will require unprecedented large-scale, long-term investment," the SoftBank Vision Fund said in a statement. Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, chairman of SoftBank, a telecommunications and tech investment group, revealed plans for the fund last October and since then it has obtained commitments from some of the world's most deep-pocketed investors. The new fund made its announcement during the visit of President Donald Trump to Riyadh and the signing of tens of billions of dollars worth of business deals between US and Saudi companies. Son was also in Riyadh on Saturday.