Russian author Boris Zhitkov wrote the 1931 short story Microhands, in which the narrator creates miniature hands to carry out intricate surgeries. And while that was nearly 100 years ago, the tale illustrates the real fundamentals of the nanoscience researchers are working on today. Nanoscience is the study of molecules that are one billionth of a metre in size. Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has made millions of mouths water over the years, thanks to the author's vivid descriptions of quirky tastes and inventive sweets. In reality, there aren't chewing gums that taste like a three-course dinner just yet, but food manufacturers have been working on ways to change tastes and textures using molecular tech To put this into perspective, a human hair is between 50,000 and 100,000 nanometres thick.

Late last year, a team of Sony researchers based in Paris released a pair of new pop songs. One, called "Daddy's Car," straightforwardly echoed the soft '60s psychedelia of The Beatles; the other, "Mr. Shadow," was an electro-ish update on classic jazz à la Duke Ellington or Cole Porter. The songs were just fine (if that), from a critical standpoint. What made them major events was the fact that they were composed using artificial intelligence, specifically using the Flow Machines software developed by Sony's Computer Science Laboratory.

We bet you didn't expect to see one of these "best of…" headlines until sometime in mid-December. But the way we figure, in the middle of February we can all use more frequent doses of the warm and fuzzies. Plus, there's enough gold on the internet to warrant nostalgia-inducing updates a bit more often than simply once a year. So in 2017, we'll be rounding up some of the top trends, stories and headlines every month, as well as offering our predictions on future trending topics that are on the verge of taking off. Below are a few of the internet's top stories from the year thus far.

The first of many planned IMAX theaters dedicated to virtual reality has opened in Los Angeles. Trading large, wraparound screens for small, immersive headsets, the facility allows anyone to experience VR without buying a high-end gaming PC or video game console. As UploadVR reports, the LA center has a mixture of HTC Vive and Starbreeze StarVR headsets. They're stored in 14 isolated "pods" which also contain a Dbox cinema chair, a vibration-emitting Subpac vest and a variety of physical controllers. You can buy experiences individually, such as John Wick Chronicles, or grab a "sampler" if you want a broader taste of VR.

The dataset consists of about 12,000 headlines half of which are clickbait. The clickbait headlines were fetched from BuzzFeed, NewsWeek, The Times of India and, The Huffington Post. The genuine/non-clickbait headlines were fetched from The Hindu, The Guardian, The Economist, TechCrunch, The wall street journal, National Geographic and, The Indian Express. Some of the data was from peterldowns's clickbait-classifier repository I used Stanford's Glove Pretrained Embeddings PCA-ed to 30 dimensions. This sped up the training.

Tokyo's underground consists of miles of pedestrian walkways, extensive shopping arcades and a subway network. It stretches for hundreds of kilometers between more than 200 subway stations. Even with a map and a good sense of direction, it is not necessarily an easy place to navigate. And for the visually impaired, the challenge is even greater. So, this month, a unique voice navigation field experiment led by civil engineering and general contracting firm Shimizu Corporation, IBM Research and real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan is taking place in an underground pedestrian walkway and COREDO Muromachi shopping park buildings 1, 2, and 3 in Nihonbashi-Muromachi, a popular downtown district with history that dates back to the Edo period of the 1600s.

I met Aman Naimat, Senior Vice President of Technology at Demandbase at their headquarters in San Francisco on my recent visit to California for Social Media Strategies Summit. Aman is working on leveraging the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data science for marketing and sales platforms. On this podcast, episode 150, Aman and I discuss how AI functions in account-based marketing (ABM). Before working with Demandbase Aman was previously founder and CTO of Spiderbook, a data-driven sales engine for account-based targeting. Aman has been building CRM systems since he was 19 and was the architect for the Oracle CRM Applications.

Apple's digital assistant will surprise you with references to The Lego Batman Movie if you pretend she is the Batcomputer. The gimmick works if you say "Hey'Puter" or "Hey Computer" (gravely Will Arnett voice not required). When you do, Siri will respond with a handful of Batman-appropriate responses like, "How can I help you, Lego Batman" and "Welcome home, sir. FYI, Robin is trying on costumes in the Batcave again. Here's a look at some of the responses we got when we tried it out: This isn't the first time Siri has gotten a timely pop culture-inspired update.

The World Is Not Only For Humans: Rajinikanth, Salman Khan, Amy Jackson and Akshay Kumar promoting 2.0, India's most hotly-anticipated film (Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images) At the age of 17, Allirajah Subaskaran came to Europe to escape war-torn Sri Lanka, helping out at his family's Paris restaurant and then at its corner shop. Now Lyca Productions, part of his Lycamobile telecommunications and media group, is making 2.0, a science fiction film starring Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar and Amy Jackson. Directed by Shanmugam Shankar, the highest-paid movies director in India and promoted under the banner "The World Is Not Only For Humans," it claims to be a spiritual successor to 2010's Enthiran {"Robot"]. It's the sort of story that could be the subject of a Bollywood or Hollywood movie itself. Yet, Subaskaran's creation of a billion dollar-revenue multinational company is no work of fiction.

The 1979 film "Apocalypse Now" is getting the video game treatment, but the people behind the adaptation really need financial help to realize the project. Surprisingly, the Kickstarter project for first-person perspective survival and horror RPG was canceled this Tuesday. Game director Montgomery Markland of Erebus LLC -- the studio working on the game alongside film director Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope -- broke the news on the Kickstarter page for the game. The cancellation of the Kickstarter shouldn't come as a surprise to backers. Despite managing to accumulate $172,514 from the 2,718 backers who pledged for the game's completion, the project was just too far from its $900,000 initial goal.