People will get the chance to see rarely-viewed art from the Tate's collection in a new exhibition that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to match historic paintings with modern photos. The display at Tate Britain will use cutting-edge technology to study the latest pictures from global news agency Reuters and compare them with one of 50,000 pieces in the gallery's archives based on their colours and themes. The creators of Recognition, which will run 24 hours a day online as well as in the Tate, hope the digital project will not only unearth some pieces of art that people rarely see, but also create a virtual gallery of its own. "The Tate archive is very difficult to explore, and this makes it easy," said Isaac Joseph Vellentin, 22, one of the creators of Recognition. "In our digital age, there is so much content. We are juxtaposing these images to get more out of them. We are taking two things that are close but far apart in their time frame. But we are also looking at human life. It's more what people take away for themselves."

September 8, 1966 was the day Science Fiction on television changed forever. It was the day Star Trek entered our public consciousness. In many ways, Star Trek was the right show, at the right time, this despite the fact that only after its initial run of 79 episodes, and a legendary letter writing campaign by its fans to try to save it, it was canceled by NBC for poor ratings. It came at a moment in our country's history when we were enjoying unprecedented technological advances and yet were experiencing social and political turmoil that threatened to rip apart the fabric of our nation and also potentially destroy our way of life as we knew it. This disparity between technology and humanity were themes that would define Star Trek in its various incarnations for the next fifty years -- and perhaps, if its fans see to make it so, for decades more.

Amazon's boosting the features of Fire TV and Fire TV Stick with several convenient tweaks designed to make it easier to find the shows you actually want to watch. On Wednesday, the company announced you will soon be able to find content with your voice on more than 75 apps and channels. This includes big name services such as Netflix and HBO Go. HBO Now support is coming soon. Perhaps even more handy than the new voice search are new interface convenience features for Fire TV devices.

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Last week, recently released sci-fi movie Morgan unveiled a new trailer. But there was a twist: the trailer was created by an Artificial Intelligence. Producers enlisted the help of IBM's Watson – an advanced data processing AI – to come up with the clip. Watson poured over hundreds of sample trailers, analysed them all, and used machine learning to come up with an idea of how the perfect trailer should look and sound. Watson was allegedly able to determine what makes a moment eerie, how the music and actors' tone of voice changed the mood, and how technical aspects came together to make a complete trailer.

Synopsis On the brink of extinction, humanity flips the switch on artificial intelligence, the Hail Mary of a collective species. AI solves every problem conceivable, even mortality. But what happens when humanity attains digital immortality? Follow Sonova on her journey into discovering what makes us, human. Background "It is no longer a question of whether AI turns out good or bad, the question is, will AI love humanity?"

It's all over but the waiting for Apple fans, who should get to see two new models of the iPhone unveiled Wednesday in San Francisco. The launch event may provide some clues about Apple's future, as the company deals with a slowing smartphone market. Apple's iPhone sales have dropped over the past year for the first time in the device's history. As a result, the company has poured more effort into services such as Apple Music, its voice assistant, Siri, and smart-home management -- all as a way to make users even more reliant on iPhones, regardless of whether they are the latest model. Consumers may already have seen a glimpse of Apple's future this summer when the company showed off how its mobile operating system, iOS 10, which will allow outside developers to use Siri more deeply for their own apps and create new functions for Apple's Messages service.

Australia's Macquarie Bank has deployed a new digital banking service, inspired by the data strategies used at the likes of Spotify and Netflix and tapping DataStax Enterprise and the NoSQL database. This includes search-how-you-speak technology; the ability to tag and track transactions; upload receipts and warranties; set saving and spending goals; and automatically categorise spending through machine learning technology. "We looked at the experience consumers receive from popular social media sites, search engines and video and music streaming services, and saw an opportunity to use leading edge technology to bring the same personalised and intuitive experience to banking," says Luis Uguina, Chief Digital Officer for Macquarie's Banking and Financial Services Group, who joined the FI in 2014 from Spain's BBVA. "To do this, we needed a scalable technology platform able to provide real-time value, and working with DataStax Enterprise has enabled us to be more nimble and utilise the most up-to-date technological capabilities available."

With autumn comes a round of media events hosted by the London Press Club, the Media Society and Polis, the LSE's media think-tank. The Press Club is devoting its first monthly gathering of the season to a seminar on artificial intelligence. Toby Simpson, chief technology officer of the global learning company Ososim, will lead the discussion. He will talk about biologically inspired intelligence, digital genetics and other aspects of machine intelligence. He has become something of a pioneer in the field after starting out in the early 90s as a creator of computer games.

Will smart automation, intelligent software bots and brainy robots take away our jobs anytime soon? Pose this question to any Indian working in a company where unions are strong, or to any Indian who has a government job, or to the majority of Indians who work in the unorganized sector--those who drive taxis, trucks pull handcarts, hawk goods on footpaths or are employed as maids--and you will, in all probability, be looked at askance or even dismissed as an uninformed prophet of doom. The reaction may not be surprising in emerging countries like India, given that a majority of such employees would never have heard about the Industrial Revolution, or terms like disguised unemployment, cloud computing, machine learning, deep learning, automation or artificial intelligence (AI)-driven software bots. They would perhaps have also never heard of drones taking photographs and doing surveillance; of robots delivering pizzas and packages; of assistive robots taking care of the elderly; of robots making hamburgers and others like the Roomba robots that mop floors; of software bots writing articles and movie scripts; of three-dimensional or 3D printing revolutionizing the manufacturing sector; of driverless cars and trucks--all of which would make it very hard for them to imagine the future impact of these technologies that have not yet directly touched their lives or their jobs. They would have surely seen humanoid robots in sci-fi films like actor Rajnikant's Enthiran in Tamil or Robot in English, or a movie like Terminator or Transformers.