Every year, the Fall TV season gets longer and longer. Though we're not quite at the point of doing away with it entirely (that's probably a distant one or two years off), shows are debuting so often, it's hard to pick which of the new crop you need to add to your DVR (or appointment calendar) ... particularly when you're trying to balance the 50 or 60 returning shows you're watching, too. Don't worry: TVGuide.com is here to help. We've sifted through the dozens of new pilots debuting through the end of November, and our editors have narrowed the list down to 10 shows we're eager to see more of. So check out our ranked list below, and also be sure to check out the list of your most anticipated shows of the Fall, based on data from TVGuide.com users who added new shows to their Watchlist.

As we all know, the question of whether or not having sex with a robot constitutes cheating is one that's troubled the scientific community for years. At long last, though, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson appears to have a solution. During an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Tyson was asked three science-based questions by fellow guest Andy Samberg: "Are we alone in the universe?"; "Now, I'm not an expert on this," he says in the clip above. "But if you have sex with a robot that does not look like your wife or your girlfriend, then yes, it's cheating... If they look like your loved one, it's just... until they get home."

Alicia Vikander in "Ex Machina," a sci-fi thriller about an eccentric inventor who designs artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) is all about getting a machine to mimic a human in every way: thought, speech, movement. That's why one of the tests for AI is the Turing test: whether a robot can fool a human into thinking it is conversing with another of its own species. An integral part of accomplishing this is making the AI recognize human emotions. So one research lab is working on the next iteration of virtual assistants, those that can recognize and react to emotional cues.

Tyrell Wellick (Martin Wallstrom) made a few appearances in "Mr. Robot" Season 2, and they say nothing about what exactly his participation in the 9/5 hack and Elliot's (Rami Malek) grand plan. He finally appeared in episode 11, much to Elliot's shock. The fsociety founder was already clinging on to the idea that he killed Tyrell, so seeing him has made him question whether he was just making the image of the former E Corp executive up. Whether the Tyrell Elliot saw was real or not has yet to be determined, but Wallstrom is confident that his character's return -- as an illusion or the real thing -- will bring "something exciting."

Nacho Vigalondo's Colossal, which stars Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis, is a charming if slight cautionary tale about the monsters that people become when they drink. Hathaway plays Gloria, who we meet just as her yuppie boyfriend (Dan Stevens, in a largely thankless role) throws her out of his apartment because she's a drunken mess who's "out of control." Broke and unemployed, she heads back home to New Jersey, where she crosses paths with Oscar (Sudeikis), an old classmate who inherited his father's dive bar where he entertains his two cronies, comic relief Garth (Tim Blake Nelson, funny) and plot device Joel (Austin Stowell, bland), while she stares longingly at the bottles behind the bar. SEE ALSO: Rihanna, Anne Hathaway join'Ocean's Eight' heist movie The intriguing hook at the center of Colossal is that Gloria's return home mirrors the return of a huge, Godzilla-like monster to South Korea, where it stomps its way through Seoul, killing hundreds of innocent people. It turns out that the monster is physical manifestation of a mental projection of drunk Gloria, who has the mysterious ability to control its movements when she stands in a public park at a certain time.

Overwatch brought some of the most lovable video game characters into the world, so it's not a surprise cosplayers ran the gamut of the game's colorful cast at DragonCon 2016 in Atlanta, one of the top events for cosplay in the world. The participants nailed each character perfectly, from the dozen-or-so Reapers to the lonely Torbjörn. The Bastion cosplay was probably the most impressive -- it's tough to make a person look like a robot death machine. Why Sirius Black has a bigger role in the'Harry Potter' books than the movies

Slate and Future Tense are discussing Mr. Robot and the technological world it portrays throughout the show's second season. You can follow this conversation on Future Tense, and Slate Plus members can also listen to Hacking Mr. Robot, a members-only podcast series featuring Lily Newman and Fred Kaplan. In this episode of Hacking Mr. Robot, Fred and Lily discuss Episode 11. Fred Kaplan is the author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War.

Large volume of networked streaming event data are becoming increasingly available in a wide variety of applications, such as social network analysis, Internet traffic monitoring and healthcare analytics. Streaming event data are discrete observation occurred in continuous time, and the precise time interval between two events carries a great deal of information about the dynamics of the underlying systems. How to promptly detect changes in these dynamic systems using these streaming event data? In this paper, we propose a novel change-point detection framework for multi-dimensional event data over networks. We cast the problem into sequential hypothesis test, and derive the likelihood ratios for point processes, which are computed efficiently via an EM-like algorithm that is parameter-free and can be computed in a distributed fashion. We derive a highly accurate theoretical characterization of the false-alarm-rate, and show that it can achieve weak signal detection by aggregating local statistics over time and networks. Finally, we demonstrate the good performance of our algorithm on numerical examples and real-world datasets from twitter and Memetracker.

This article was originally published on TechRepublic. Remember the famous scene in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey, when Hal 9000--the intelligent-turned-malevolent computer--regresses to his "childhood" and sings "Daisy Bell" as he's decommissioned by astronaut Dave Bowman? Its inspiration was a real-life Bell Labs demonstration of speech synthesis on an IBM 704 mainframe in 1961, witnessed by Arthur C Clark, who later incorporated it into his 2001 novel and screenplay. Although Bell Labs' involvement in the field stretches back to the 1930s with Homer Dudley's keyboard-and-footpedal-driven Voder speech synthesis device, it's undoubtedly the classic Kubrick/Clarke movie that cemented the ideas of artificial intelligence (AI) and conversing with computers into the public mind. Depending on how old you are, we're now familiar with computerised voices, thanks to devices like Texas Instruments' popular 1978 Speak & Spell educational toy, Stephen Hawking's speech synthesiser (memorably sampled in the Pink Floyd song Keep Talking), GPS navigational systems in your car, and any number of public information and call handling systems. More recently, the combination of automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural-language understanding (NLU) and text-to-speech (TTS) has come to mainstream attention in virtual assistants such as Apple's Siri, Google Now, Microsoft's Cortana, and Amazon's Alexa. To get a handle on how speech technologies work, we clearly need to know something about the mechanics of human speech and the structure of language. When we speak, air from the lungs passes through the vocal tract to produce "voiced" or "unvoiced" sounds (depending on whether the vocal cords are vibrating or not) that may then be modulated by the tongue, teeth and lips.

Lady Gaga has announced a new album, and her first under her birth name -- well, almost. The singer debuted the news of a new record on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 show Thursday. The LP, titled "Joanne," will come out Oct. 21 on Streamline/Interscope. The record is titled after Gaga's middle name (she was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta), one she shares with her late aunt. Her family also owns the NYC Italian restaurant Joanne Trattoria.