TWC NEWS VIDEO: In this Tech Talk report, Time Warner Cable News' Adam Balkin looks at how NYU Tandon School of Engineering is teaming up with ff Venture Capital to create what is believed to be the very first U.S. coupling of a university and a venture fund to help accelerate startups working on artificial intelligence. Inside what'll be called the AI NexusLab, five chosen companies, for four months, will get all sorts of AI support, funding, legal advice, whatever they need in order to accelerate their growth to more quickly enter your life.

British actor Kenny Baker, who starred as R2-D2 in six Star Wars films, has died aged 81 after a long illness, his niece has confirmed. Baker made his name as the robot in the first Star Wars film in 1977 alongside Anthony Daniels's C-3PO character. Star Wars creator George Lucas paid tribute to a "real gentleman" and Mark Hamill - Luke Skywalker in the films - said he had lost "a lifelong friend". Born in Birmingham, Baker's other films include Time Bandits and Flash Gordon. After starring in the original Star Wars film he went on to appear in the sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and the three prequels between 1999 and 2005.

There may be bad news for horror film writers - computers could soon be taking your job. A new independent horror film called'Impossible Things' has been produced in part by an artificial intelligence tool. The creators have billed the film as the'the scariest and creepiest horror film out there.' The AI software was used to develop'perfect plot twists' for the film, which is about a grieving mother who, after the death of her daughter, is driven to insanity by a supernatural being Impossible Things is a horror film which was reportedly produced by an artificial intelligence (AI) software tool. The tool analysed audience response data to help the writers craft plot points that connect with viewer demand.

Unless you have a selfie stick or a longer than average arm, your selfies are sure to misrepresent or distort your facial features. Now, Princeton University has invented a tool that transforms photos to look like a professional photographer snapped them at a farther distance - for a more realistic shot. This editing technology can also alter an apparent pose as if the camera were placed higher, lower or at an angle for the perfect selfie to share online. Princeton University has invented a tool that transforms your original selfie (left) to look like a professional photographer snapped the image (right) at a farther distance. Princeton gathered the data from a database of 150 people that were each photographed in 20 different poses.

It may be many men's dream to have Scarlett Johansson tend to their every need. But one man has come close to making this fantasy a reality by building a look-a-like robot. He now plans on sharing his designs in a handbook, so other fans can create their own sexy androids too. The life-size robot was created by Hong Kong designer Ricky Ma, based on a famous Hollywood actress. A 3D-printed skeleton lies beneath Mark 1's silicone skin, wrapping its mechanical and electronic parts.

Intel is a company that powers the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices. Thanks to the pervasive reach of cloud computing, the ever decreasing cost of compute enabled by Moore's Law, and the increasing availability of connectivity, these connected devices are generating millions of terabytes of data every single day. The ability to analyze and derive value from that data is one of the most exciting opportunities for us all. Central to that opportunity is artificial intelligence. While artificial intelligence is often equated with great science fiction, it isn't relegated to novels and movies.

Can artificial intelligence be emotionally intelligent? In Boston, researchers have programed BB-8, the little droid from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," to detect expressions and determine how people are feeling. And that technology is being adapted for marketing, video games, even therapy for children diagnosed with autism.

You don't need to have aced physics at school to understand and predict how objects behave in the real world. Now scientists have discovered why we possess this innate ability, by pinpointing the brain's'physics engine'. The'engine' comes alive when we watch physical events unfold – such as a ball being thrown towards us – and is not in the brain's vision centre, but in a set of devoted to planning actions. Scientists have discovered the brain's'physics engine' (coloured in this illustration). The'engine' comes alive when we watch physical events unfold, the scientists said The physics engine is located in several regions of the brain.

Three of my movie recommendations this time around are about thinking: There's an aging detective trying to recover the memory of his last case, a wife who discovers the true nature of her relationship after repeatedly lying to him, and a group of smart people who sit around drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, and talking about life. Since we're in the midst of the Olympic Games, I'd also encourage you to catch T-Rex, a documentary that's not about a terrible lizard, but a terrific female middleweight boxer named Claressa Shields. Other new and notable movies this week involve physical activities of their characters and subjects, whether it's making punk music or folk music, shooting an erotic movie, exploring a terrifying underworld, or defending yourself with a machete. Sometimes the act of escaping can be physical, with the fear of getting caught increasing the adrenaline flow. Characters this week escape from a tyrannical dystopian future and with a stolen baby.

If only walking through the airport always looked this dreamy. When everyone wants their 30 seconds of Internet fame, what happens to our IRL relationships? A whole lot of drama and angst, as imagined by Dmitry Nikiforov and Aleksei Korneev, the makers of Delete My Photos, a Russian film following a young man's dreams of developing a new dating app. As many parts of our lives are these days, their trailer is bathed in filters -- a unique approach to a tool that's as become second-nature as selfies. They ran key scenes through mobile photo editor Prisma, which uses convolutional neural networks to combine photos with artistic styles, modeled on, for instance, Van Gogh and Roy Lichtenstein.