Sky has finally rolled out voice search, letting people control their TV just by talking to it. Until now, the feature had only been hinted at by a strange, mysterious button on the side of the remote. Now, when that's pressed, people will be able to ask their TV for whatever they want to watch. That doesn't simply mean asking for the name of films and TV shows, though the Sky Q box will handle those. They can also ask for something like the "Liverpool game", categories like "films featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone", or even asking for ratings, such as "Tom Hanks movies rated five stars".

Snapchat is getting more diverse. The short video sharing site, whose Stories feature, social networks such as Facebook and Twitter have tried to replicate, is now working on TV-style programming for its users on its Discover platform -- MGM Television announced a deal with Snapchat parent Snap Inc. to create TV-like video content Tuesday. "The team at Snap is thinking about mobile TV differently than anyone else in this space. They are innovators, and it presents us with a unique opportunity to flex our development and production muscle in a whole new way. We are excited to create content for their vast and hard to reach audience that consumes entertainment in a very specific fashion," Barry Poznick, president of unscripted television, MGM saidTuesday.

But at its heart, Back to the Future is a sci-fi movie--and one of the most perfect examples of the genre. Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is your typical cool '80s teen who just so happens to pal around with a mad scientist, Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), who invents a time machine. Through a series of unfortunate events, Marty ends up getting sent back to 1955, where he befriends the teenaged versions of his parents and does his best to dissuade his mom from having the hots for him. By messing with history, Marty's messing with his own future and slowly being erased. But he manages to right the past, find his way back to 1985, and give those fun-loving kids a taste of what rock'n' roll should sound like.

Digital assistants like Alexa, Siri, Google Now, are all examples of artificial intelligence in action. Self-driving cars, video games, music recommendations, smart home devices, and programs that make purchase predictions use artificial intelligence as well. News organizations are using artificial intelligence to draft simple news stories and summaries right now. There are also new, helpful bots that live inside of applications you use every day including Slack, Facebook, and Twitter. These tools create new possibilities and new levels of productivity for the entrepreneurs that know how to wield these helpful ghosts that live in the cloud and on your machines.

In early 2016, streaming giant Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) announced that it had rolled out its service to 190 countries around the world. As the top provider of streaming content in the U.S., one of the biggest questions regarding the company's ability to succeed elsewhere was the issue of bandwidth. With slower internet speeds in many countries, would streaming performance suffer as a result? With worldwide growth at stake, this was a question that the company needed to answer. Turns out Netflix has a variety of tools it uses to navigate markets with underdeveloped bandwidth.

The /pol/ - Politically Incorrect message board, which pro-Donald Trump, revealed the apparent move in a Twitter update, alongside screenshots supposedly showing off webcam footage. "How did I just find out that we can watch the border and report illegals trying to cross from the comfort of our homes and/or basements," a 4chan user wrote in a post over the weekend. 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 ...

Aldi customers have been warned to stay away from hoax vouchers circulating on email and social media which trick shoppers into thinking that they can save money. The German retailer said the £65 vouchers, that circulated on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, are worthless and will not be accepted as legal tender at their stores. Aldi said it was investigating the scam and urged customers not to share their personal details, which could help scammers to commit identity fraud. "We advise customers to ignore these adverts and not to share any personal information," the supermarket said in a statement sent to the Independent. On Twitter, the supermarket said: "We are aware that there is a hoax £65 Aldi voucher being circulated. This voucher is fraudulent and cannot be redeemed in store."

In online discussion communities, users can interact and share information and opinions on a wide variety of topics. However, some users may create multiple identities, or sockpuppets, and engage in undesired behavior by deceiving others or manipulating discussions. In this work, we study sockpuppetry across nine discussion communities, and show that sockpuppets differ from ordinary users in terms of their posting behavior, linguistic traits, as well as social network structure. Sockpuppets tend to start fewer discussions, write shorter posts, use more personal pronouns such as "I", and have more clustered ego-networks. Further, pairs of sockpuppets controlled by the same individual are more likely to interact on the same discussion at the same time than pairs of ordinary users. Our analysis suggests a taxonomy of deceptive behavior in discussion communities. Pairs of sockpuppets can vary in their deceptiveness, i.e., whether they pretend to be different users, or their supportiveness, i.e., if they support arguments of other sockpuppets controlled by the same user. We apply these findings to a series of prediction tasks, notably, to identify whether a pair of accounts belongs to the same underlying user or not. Altogether, this work presents a data-driven view of deception in online discussion communities and paves the way towards the automatic detection of sockpuppets.

Beijing authorities aren't messing around when it comes to stopping the theft of toilet paper. Facial recognition technology has been deployed at one of the city's busiest tourist spots to prevent what The South China Morning Post referred to as "toilet paper kleptomania." High-definition cameras installed at the city's Temple of Heaven restrooms capture facial images and then reportedly prevents any one person from taking more than 60 centimeters (or about 23 inches) of paper within a nine-minute period, according to the report and other news outlets. If the same person appears during that period, the toilet paper dispenser stops working. Presumably, this photo session takes place at the entrance to the restroom, so some degree of privacy is maintained while patrons go about their business.

On a bet from peers in his high school programming club, a teenager in West Virginia taught himself to build an artificial intelligence program that can rap like Kanye West, according to news reports. Seventeen-year-old Robbie Barrat thought that artificial intelligence (AI) could accomplish tasks better than humans, and his high school programming club told him to prove it, reported Quartz. Using open-source code and 6,000 Kanye West lines, Barrat built a neural network that could mimic the superstar rapper. Barrat completed the project in a week and showed the program to his peers at their next club meeting, according to Quartz. It took one afternoon to write most of the code, Barrat said, but a few more days to optimize the AI's results.