Hoping to go to Google's annual developer conference this spring? If you are, mark your calendar for Feb. 22. That's the day when you can first apply for tickets to Google I/O. Google announced on its events page that the window for submitting ticket applications is between Feb. 22 at 1 p.m. ET and Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. ET. The conference is being held May 17-19 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif. This is the second year that the event will be held in Mountain View.

TheTake, a site which launched as a way for consumers to buy that thing they saw in that movie, is set to begin selling an automated version of its service directly to businesses. The New York-based company is pitching studios and entertainment sites on a machine learning system that can identify products and locations as a way to generate revenue from product placements and experiential travel based on set locations. The new product is based on a year's worth of work that TheTake's development did to train a proprietary machine learning algorithm to identify images using a different technique than the industry standard, according to TheTake's chief executive Ty Cooper. Initially, the team behind TheTake would manually enter all the datasets and use an off-the-shelf computer visualization tool to identify images that fit the pre-defined parameters set by the company's staff. Companies like Universal Pictures, Comcast, Bravo, E!, Fandango, Sony Pictures and the Hallmark Channel, are testing out the AI-based service now, according to an email from Cooper.

While I am still not sure that Scarlett Johansson is the best person to play the Major in the upcoming live-action Ghost in the Shell movie, the latest trailer confirms my suspicions that it is the film's narrative that could be more of an issue. I've already explained why I think the new changes to this Ghost in the Shell adaptation are problematic in a narrative sense but this latest trailer really emphasizes how far the plot is deviating from the host material. The reason why this is an issue, is that one of the main core aspects to the Major's character is that she is battling with her machine self in order to retain her humanity. It is a core aspect to almost all of Masamune Shirow's cyberpunk related work. In that, do you lose your humanity when part or even most of your body is a machine. You could say that's the whole point of what Ghost in the Shell actually means; that your spirit or "ghost" is trapped within the "shell" of a machine.

One of the greatest features of having a voice-powered speaker in our homes is the ability to play a song when the moment strikes. Google Home has always included support for Spotify, YouTube Music, Pandora, and TuneIn, letting you fill your house with music just by asking, but now it's making its own service a whole lot smarter. Subscribers to Google Play Music can now tap into a new personalized world of music with Google Home. Where you previously had to meticulously create your own playlists for workouts or dinner parties, Google will now let Assistant be your DJ, as the service combines "machine learning and information like weather, activity, and location" to deliver the perfect playlist for whatever you happen to be doing: "Say you're making pizza and your hands are covered in flour. Just say, 'Ok Google, play music for cooking' and we'll serve up the perfect tunes, like our R&B Kitchen Dance Party playlist. If you've had a long day at work and are too tired to move a muscle, say'Ok Google, play music for relaxing' and get a playlist like Mellow Pop without lifting a finger."

The result, after some work by crack film editor Alex MacKenzie, was the 45 minute documentary Singularity or Bust -- a uniquely edgy, experimental Singularitarian road movie, featuring perhaps the most philosophical three-foot-tall humanoid robot ever, a glance at the fast-growing Chinese research scene in the late aughts, and even a bit of a real-life love story. The film was screened in theaters around the world, and won the Best Documentary award at the 2013 LA Cinema Festival of Hollywood and the LA Lift Off Festival. And now it is online, free of charge, for your delectation. Singularity or Bust is a true story pertaining to events occurring in the year 2009. It captures a fascinating slice of reality, but bear in mind that things move fast these days.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Since 1984, kids and adults have been following the adventures of a primary-colored robot comprised out of five lion-shaped mecha. Japanese kids called it GoLion, Americans, Voltron.

The live-action remake of Ghost in the Shell is fast-approaching theaters, so of course Hollywood's marketing machine is churning out more trailers in anticipation. The latest teaser is a two-minute affair diving into "The Major" and her mysterious origins. Little is revealed but there are plenty of hints concerning her previous life. While the government has given her one story, the film's shady villain, a damaged but dangerous cyborg called Kuze, is offering another, quite different version. Much of the movie, it seems, will focus on The Major hunting Kuze and the truth simultaneously.

The world's first artificially intelligent attorney, Ross, has been hired by its first official law firm- Baker & Hostetler. Other firms will shortly be making their announcements on hiring Ross as well. The law firm Baker & Hostetler have announced they will be hiring the world's first artificially intelligent attorney, Ross, for its bankruptcy practice- where almost 50 lawyers are employed. According to Baker & Hostetler's CEO and co-founder Andrew Arruda, other law firms have also signed licenses with Ross and will soon be making their announcements as well. Baker & Hostetler chief information officer Bob Craig explains why they hired the AI: "At BakerHostetler, we believe that emerging technologies like cognitive computing and other forms of machine learning can help enhance the services we deliver to our clients."

Do you think you can tell a piece of music composed by artificial intelligence (AI) from one created by a human composer? Before you read any further, let's find out. The following audio consists of two fragments, one written by AI, the other by a human. Last year, Facebook's VP of Design thought the TNW Conference main stage was the best she'd ever been on. If you didn't get it right the first time, no worries--we'll have a couple more mini-quizzes like this below.

The EU is to force people to watch Netflix libraries from other countries. The European Parliament is finalising legislation that would let people access their online media, like games or films, from their own country. At the moment, doing so is either impossible or very hard, because of restrictions that companies like Netflix put on the use of VPNs and other services. Under the new rules, the parliament will stop content providers from using an IP address as a way of identifying where people are. 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.