Robot" found its way online, but for a limited time only. In contrast with HBO and Starz, the latest networks to make show premieres, including "The Night Of" and "Outlander," available to stream ahead of time, USA made the "Mr. The episode's availability was announced with little fanfare via a video within the "Mr. Robot" Facebook Live event held Sunday night with members of the cast, including Rami Malek and Christian Slater. The pretense of the video was a security breach as perpetrated by fsociety, the fictional hacking group from the "Mr. Robot" Twitter feed posted a schedule listing times and locations where the episode would be streaming, noting that it would be the only opportunity available until the official Wednesday airing.

Robot" begins a second season on USA on Wednesday night with a two-part opener broadcast back to back. A conspiracy thriller set in the present day – it's still 2015 on the series' clock – it's science fiction in the sense that it involves technology, but not in the quasi-supernatural manner of flying saucers, Godzillas, time travel or synthetic human or mutant superheroes and such. Still, it shares with much sci-fi a sense of the ordinary world pushed a click toward the uncanny. Into every generation a confused and disaffected hero is born. Robot" it's Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek), a cyberwhiz who was recruited – Season 1 spoilers ahead – to the underground hacking collective fsociety by a person (Christian Slater) who turned out to be his father, who turned out to be dead, a figment of his imagination projected wholly into his world, though invisible to everyone else – a "Sixth Sense" move, dramatically. Robot' season premiere hit online three days early, then got pulled back » Of course, imaginary characters have as much substance in fiction as "actual" ones, so things do get muddled, and I would not be surprised to learn that I have got things in this show upside-down or backward.

We've previously reported how AI is developing rapidly and gaining the ability to do things like defeat human champions at the game of Go, describe photos in words for vision-impaired users, detect cyber attacks and even write novels and financial reports. That's old hat – there's now an AI that can write screenplays. It's named itself Benjamin and its first film, a sci-fi short, has just been released on YouTube for the world to enjoy. Our new event for New York is focused on quality, not quantity. 'Sunspring' was directed by Oscar Sharp and stars Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch.

The term "artificial intelligence" is being thrown around a lot lately. But what is artificial intelligence, really? With A.I.'s like Siri, Cortana, and more, the world is approaching what is known as The Singularity, the era of the machine. Though these A.I. are nothing like James Cameron's Skynet in the 1984 sci-fi smash hit The Terminator, it is imperative to understand where artificial intelligence came from in order to fully comprehend where it is going next. Many filmmakers and authors were afraid of the rise of artificial intelligence and attempted to capture this fear in many notable and influential works of fiction that are still relevant today. That being said, not every artificial intelligence system wants world domination, unlike how A.I. has often been portrayed in these works.

Look closely at Zhang Wei's portrait of Michael Jackson and you'll see something it isn't quite right. The eyes are wrong, the lips are a bit thin, the hair too straight. The image is among the 72 portraits in Artificial Theater, Wei's sharp commentary on the influence of Western pop culture on China. Wei, who lives in Beijing, has pondered China's changing cultural identity for awhile. He was born not long after the country opened to foreign trade in 1978, and has since seen outside influences pour in.

Rave reviews of games on YouTube might not be all that they seem, according to a new ruling, after developers have been told off for not disclosing that it had paid vloggers to rave about its games. The US Federal Trade Commission announced that it has reached a settlement with Warner Brothers Entertainment after allegations arose that the publisher had failed to adequately disclose that it had paid high profile gaming YouTube personalities to give positive coverage of its title Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor. The FTC had complained that Warner Bros had hired a third-party marketing company which paid YouTube gaming "influencers" sums ranging from "hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars" to cover the game. The conditions of the payment were that the coverage had to be positive, should not report any bugs or glitches that might have been uncovered, and that at least one Facebook post or Tweet had to be posted to promote the video. The sponsored videos generated over 5.5 million views and according to a press release from the FTC regarding the settlement one of the most high earning YouTube personalities in the world, PewDiePie's sponsored video made up 3.7 million of these views.

Customer attrition, also known as customer churn, customer turnover, or customer defection, is the loss of clients or customers. Banks, telephone service companies, Internet service providers, pay TV companies, insurance firms, and alarm monitoring services, often use customer attrition analysis and customer attrition rates as one of their key business metrics (along with cash flow, EBITDA, etc.) because the cost of retaining an existing customer is far less than acquiring a new one. Companies from these sectors often have customer service branches which attempt to win back defecting clients, because recovered long-term customers can be worth much more to a company than newly recruited clients. Churn prediction is one of the most popular Big Data use cases in business. It consists of detecting customers who are likely to cancel a subscription to a service.

Netflix memberships are like a bag of chips. Sharing a Netflix password may be a criminal act, according to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. It issued a ruling last week that declares password sharing without authorization is a crime that can be prosecuted under the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It's unlikely you're going to be arrested for watching "Orange Is The New Black" using your friend's Netflix account, even though it violates the company's terms of use. Netflix terms of use allow only the primary account owner to have "exclusive control" of the account, and say that person should not reveal their password.

The Walt Disney Co. is kicking off the third session of its corporate accelerator this week, and revealed 9 new companies admitted to the program. A full list follows at the end of this post. The companies are developing everything from cinematic virtual reality and holographic content, to robots with human-like facial expressions. Because alumni of the Disney Accelerator have scored big partnerships with the media and entertainment juggernaut in the past, it is seen as one of the more desirable corporate accelerators out there. According to research by Future Asia Ventures, there are 131 active corporate accelerators worldwide today, with 13 new programs launching in the first half of 2016.

Netflix is premiering a few movies this week with Gridlocked, Rebirth and Rolling Papers, plus a new Tony Robbins special and the first season of Stranger Things, as Hulu kicks off a new season of Difficult People. Look after the break to check out each day's highlights, including trailers and let us know what you think (or what we missed).