With Watch Room, our goal is to contribute to the budding conversation around the promise and perils of Artificial Intelligence research, in a way that respects the complexities involved. As such, we've done our best to create a story that touches on everything from simulation theory, to brain emulation, to Roko's Basilisk... to that most hallowed of science fiction questions: "What makes us human?" Another goal of ours is to illustrate the possibilities within the realm of virtual reality. Of course, Watch Room's scientific roots drink deeply from rich dramatic soil. On one level, we're just plain old excited to make a film that's a joy to watch: smart and twisting in a way that respects the audience and keeps you guessing right up to the end.

IBM Watson wants to take your music to another level. Most people know Watson for its legendary performance on "Jeopardy!" But IBM's supercomputer has a host of other skills since its 2011 trivia debut. Watson's artificial intelligence can help doctors diagnose cancer, help teach a graduate level class, and even analyze characters in Harry Potter. And soon, IBM's Watson will be able to create entirely new music on a convenient app.

From striking aerial photography to monitoring hard to reach areas as part of search and rescue missions, the list of tasks that drones can do is ever growing. While most drones require a driver to control their movements from the ground, one new model can fly itself unaided. The Teal quad drone contains a supercomputer which allows it to fly autonomously as well as recognise images. The Teal quad is the brainchild of founder George Matus, who at only 18 years old, wanted to create a device that was'fast, versatile, smart and break the limits of what drones could do.' Mr Matus told MailOnline: 'In regards to flight speed, it depends on the environment, altitude, wind, and battery life, so we say 70 mph to cover all of that.' While this high speed could be seen as dangerous, on its website Teal states: 'Teal is built on both the hardware side and software side to make it as safe and easy as possible to fly, while still allowing mind-blowing manoeuvrability and speed.'

In a galaxy known as New York, in a drab age before Trekkies and light sabers, there lived a curious boy who liked comic books, time travel and Elvis. He read Isaac Asimov and tuned in to John Zacherle, this Phantom of the Opera-type guy with scraggly hair and a creepy laugh who introduced horror movies on Channel 9, which, if you were a kid at the time, was something close to splendid. This boy, let's call him Jeffrey Walker, who incidentally would later watch "2001: A Space Odyssey" 29 times, tended toward the imaginative. His mother was a beauty queen, his father a clothier. Walker grew up to be many things, including an actor who played poker with Jesus Christ, shot a nude scene with Al Pacino and was hugged by Natalie Wood.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Sure, with a top speed of 85 mph, it is twice as fast as a DJI Phantom 4 and it will leave almost every consumer drone eating its dust. But its appeal goes well beyond air speed. Buying a drone typically means having a specific activity in mind. There are aerial photography drones, racing drones, follow-me around drones--it can all be a little overwhelming, particularly for someone who's new to UAVs. Teal wants to solve this problem with a modular machine you can tailor to suit to your exact needs.

In the past few days, I've taught a machine learning algorithm how to write in the style of Harry Potter, Hamilton (the musical), and HBO's Silicon Valley. The mostly non-sensical, occasionally human-like, topically-flavored writing seems to be amusing not only to me, but to many others. Thus, I've made this quick tutorial to teach you how to create your own instances of "Deep Writing". This is not going to be an in-depth description of the underlying technology -- but instead, a step-by-step guide that anybody can follow (even if you have no coding or machine learning experience). Here is a very crude approximation of what is involved in the Deep Writing process. More than anything, this is meant to give you enough intuition and appreciation to follow along with the rest of the tutorial.

Comic-Con, that massive San Diego convention that spawned an international franchise for fans of sci fi and fantasy comics, films, television and genre books, began in 1970, in the basement of a San Diego hotel. The year before, the singular writer Ursula K. Le Guin had already published the best science fiction novel of the year: "The Left Hand of Darkness," a book not about ray guns or rocket ships, but about other planets, other cultures, other sexualities. As Comic-Con begins yet another flashy fest, one of alternative fiction's true masters -- author of children's books, poetry, novels and nonfiction -- is shaping her forthcoming book, "Words Are My Matter." Worlds too are her subject matter, the deep currents of politics, race, culture, ecology, sexuality -- our own earthly conundrums played out and spun out on alternative worlds. Le Guin's parents were the remarkable Berkeley anthropologists and ethnologists Alfred and Theodora Kroeber, a couple as influential in the field of anthropology as on the imagination of their daughter, and the planets and people of her creation.

Hi everyone, my name is Clara and I joined Dataiku's data science team a while ago for an internship. Today I'm going to tell you about a project that was inspired by an overheard conversation during lunch: Alivia Smith (who you are already familiar with if you are an avid reader of our blog) was struggling with the schedule of the Avignon Festival, a French theater festival; struggling because there are so many plays and events happening, but no real guide or documentation to help her decide on her schedule. Since we're a great big loving family at Dataiku, and we're always enthusiastic about playing with data, a couple of us data scientists figured we could use machine learning to build a play recommender for her, so she could have insights regarding which plays she might like, based on her tastes and the theater community's appreciation. We computed several recommendations for Alivia using a method known as collaborative filtering. Essentially, she gave us several plays she had already seen and liked, and from those we deduced a list of other plays she may like, with a score (i.e., an estimation of how much she would like them).

Sure, Facebook has "M", Google has "Google Now", and Siri's voice isn't always that of a woman. But it does feel worth noting that (typically male-dominated) engineering groups routinely give women's names to the things you issue commands to. Is artificial intelligence work about Adams making Eves? The response to this critique is usually about the voices people trust and find easy to understand. Adrienne LaFrance over at The Atlantic does a good job discussing those points, so go read her article.