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Robot" Rami Malek has been nominated as best male actor in a drama series for his performance as Elliot Alderson in the hit USA Network series at the 23rd SAG Awards. The actor took to Twitter to share his delight over the nomination. "Gotta thank my peers for the love and respect they've showed me with this @SAGawards nomination," Malek said. Fans will know if Malek won the award when the ceremony airs on Jan. 29, 2017. Aside from a possible win from Malek, fans can also expect to see the actor in a project that has been waiting to be made for years now. The actor was tapped to replace Sasha Baron Cohen in the long-gestating Queen biopic titled "Bohemian Rhapsody," according to Variety. During an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Malek opened up for the first time about playing the legendary musician Freddie Mercury. Who doesn't know that music? Of course I have to prepare," Malek said about the status of the film.

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"Westworld" star James Marsden is visibly thrilled over the 2017 Golden Globe nomination of the show in the Best Television Series category, so much so that he treated his girlfriend Edei (real name Emma Deigman) to a shopping spree in Beverly Hills. Marsden, who plays host Teddy Flood in the HBO sci-fi series, sported a khaki bomber jacket, according to the Daily Mail. His girlfriend wore an all-black ensemble comprised of ripped leather trousers, a denim jacket and baker boy hat. Prior to dating British singer Edei, Marsden was married to Mary Elizabeth Linde, the daughter of country music songwriter Dennis Linde, for 11 years between 2000 and 2011. They have two kids together: Jack Holden, 15, and Mary James, 11.

You might find yourself wishing for a silent night after you hear the first Christmas carol written by artificial intelligence. The new tune makes its holiday season debut courtesy of a team of computer scientists in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. The researchers fed 100 hours of pop songs to a type of artificial intelligence (AI) known as a recurrent neural network, which learns and performs by building connections between input data, much like the human brain does. In this case, the uploaded songs taught the neural network about the general structure of pop music. The researchers then tested its ability to generate a song about an image -- a decorated Christmas tree surrounded by wrapped presents -- using a process called "neural story singing," which they described in a study currently under review for a conference presentation. To write the song, the researchers first had the computer produce a story about the festive image.

That's because most automated recognition systems, whether they process audio or visual information, are the result of machine learning, in which computers search for patterns in huge compendia of training data. Usually, the training data has to be first annotated by hand, which is prohibitively expensive for all but the highest-demand applications. Sound recognition may be catching up, however, thanks to researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). At the Neural Information Processing Systems conference next week, they will present a sound-recognition system that outperforms its predecessors but didn't require hand-annotated data during training. Instead, the researchers trained the system on video.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us. Unlike the Terminator robots, AI exists in subtle ways, embedded in our daily activities thanks to the rise of big data and machine learning. When Facebook tries to connect users with new friends or businesses, Netflix suggests a new TV series to watch, or Amazon recommends a book, these are all examples of AI presented to people via machine learning – a statistical method that finds patterns and makes predictions based on vast volumes of data. After years of hype, most organisations now have a solid understanding of the potential of big data. In fact, the majority of them are actively pursuing means to capitalise on all the information they capture.

On Dec. 7, a bag of popcorn, along with an Amazon Fire TV stick, left a Cambridge warehouse in the U.K. and 13 minutes later, both were accepted by an Amazon customer, one of two who had agreed to be part of the test program.

On this week's Slate Culture Gabfest, the critics are joined by Brow Beat editor Sam Adams to discuss Jackie, the new film starring Natalie Portman and directed by Pablo Larraín. Is it a successful portrayal of iconic first lady Jackie Kennedy, or is Portman's acting overblown? Next, the critics discuss the new Netflix series 3%, a Brazilian-made Netflix original series set in a post-apocalyptic world, and dissect how the show succeeds in telling a dystopian narrative without a massive Hollywood budget. Last, the critics talk about Laura Miller's piece in Slate, "How Video Games Change Us," an exploration of Battlefield 1, its World War I setting, and whether violence in video games actually makes us crueler people.

Johann Sebastian Bach is widely considered one of the great composers of baroque music. Bach lived and worked in Germany during the 18th century and is revered for the beauty of his compositions and his technical mastery of harmony and counterpoint. One form of music that Bach excelled in was a type of polyphonic hymn known as a chorale cantata. These are based on Lutheran texts and sung by four voices. The composer starts with a well-known tune which is sung by the soprano and then composes three harmonies sung by the alto, tenor, and bass voices.