Even the most optimistic tech evangelist would concede that we're a long way from getting help from the likes of Rosie, the superbly efficient robotic housekeeper in The Jetsons. While today's household generally aren't life-sized and typically don't have mechanical limbs, they can take care of several chores we'd just as soon avoid, giving us more time to do things we enjoy like collapsing on the couch and chilling with Netflix. Some people find cutting the grass relaxing. Robomow is for that second group. This battery-operated mower can trim yards up to 23,000 square feet (1/2 acre) and can handle slopes of up to 20 degrees. Instead of just cutting once a week, it allows you to take care of your yard as often as you'd like.

Arrival Amy Adams stars in this elegant, involving science-fiction drama that is simultaneously old and new, revisiting many alien-invasion conventions but with unexpected intelligence, visual style and heart. Elle Paul Verhoeven's brilliantly booby-trapped thriller starring Isabelle Huppert is a gripping whodunit, a tour de force of psychological suspense and a wickedly droll comedy of manners. The Founder Michael Keaton gives a performance of ratty, reptilian brilliance as Ray Kroc, the American salesman who turned a California burger stand into the global fast-food behemoth that is McDonald's, in John Lee Hancock's shrewd and satisfyingly fat-free biopic. I Am Not Your Negro As directed by the gifted Raoul Peck, this documentary on James Baldwin uses the entire spectrum of movie effects, not only spoken language but also sound, music, editing and all manner of visuals, to create a cinematic essay that is powerful and painfully relevant. La La Land Starring a well-paired Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, writer-director Damien Chazelle's tuneful tribute to classic movie musicals is often stronger in concept than execution, but it's lovely and transporting all the same.

Do students learn as much when they read digitally as they do in print? For both parents and teachers, knowing whether computer-based media are improving or compromising education is a question of concern. With the surge in popularity of e-books, online learning and open educational resources, investigators have been trying to determine whether students do as well when reading an assigned text on a digital screen as on paper. The answer to the question, however, needs far more than a yes-no response. In my research, I have compared the ways in which we read in print and onscreen.

The idea of a robot covered in human skin, muscles and tendons, might sound like the main character of the latest horror film. But researchers from the University of Oxford have predicted that the gruesome bots could soon be used in medicine. They suggest that flesh-covered bots will be used in the near-future to grow tissue grafts for the injured and elderly. The Eccerobot, known as Ecci, was developed by scientists from the University of Zurich in 2011. It was the first ever robot to have'muscles' and'tendons', as well as the'bones' they help move.

Loyal readers know that I have frequently written about "the dawn of the robots" (which is the title of a Science Fiction book by famed author Isaac Asimov). A recent flurry of articles on the subject of our automated future has more than strengthened my belief that it will be A.I. 1 – Humanity 0 in the foreseeable future. It is not that I don't see the business benefits from automation or artificial intelligence. It is undoubtedly true that the Weather Channel app has become infinitely more accurate with the help of IBM's Watson. And now Watson will do my tax returns, too, courtesy of H&R Block.

How do you plan to kick off your summer this year? How do you plan to kick off your summer this year? If you're like me, you will attend the Starmus Festival Of Science And Arts in gorgeous Trondheim, Norway, between 18 – 23 June. The Starmus -- "stars" and "music" -- Science and Arts Festival was the brain child of astrophysicist Brian May, lead guitarist for the rock band Queen, and his dissertation advisor, Garik Israelian, an astrophysicist who led the team that discovered the first observational evidence that supernova explosions are responsible for the formation of stellar mass black holes. This festival is designed to bring together the sciences -- astronomy, physics, and the biological sciences -- with art, film, music and other performing arts, specifically to communicate science to the public.

It's hard to believe the first personal computer was introduced only 40 years ago. Captivated by the implications of this intelligent machine, the world began to speculate on the next big thing for IT. And while the idea of self-driving cars or the "smart" home seemed like science fiction back then, the future is now and these innovations are real. Fast forward to 2017 – technology is directly shaping how people live, work, and even think. State-of-the-art technology allows visions to become printed realities.

You've probably been hearing a lot about Google Home lately. Yes, it's the all-knowing oracle that tells you what's coming up your day is and fill the room with the sounds of whales if you so desire. But there's another Google Home you need to know about. It's an app that bears the same name, although it does way more than just work with your living room answer box. The Google Home app is essential because it does so many things, such as connecting to your physical Google Home device, finding apps for Chromecast, and giving you customization for what you get from the Google Assistant.

In 1945, Vannevar Bush published "As We May Think." In it he proposed a Memex, a massive microfilm storage device where users could navigate between documents to concepts throughout the database. His concept directly inspired the invention of hypertext by Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart. The hyperlinking that enables so much of our online experience-- such as this link regarding hypertext-- owes much to Bush's vision. What new media might arise as a result of advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

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