Transcription is the bane of my existence. Yes, it is fun to be a journalist, yes it is fun to travel around the country talking to diverse and interesting people, yes it is fun to weave those people into broader stories about the world at large. But there's a middle step in there in which I come home with reams of audio interviews that I've recorded that I have to type up. And that part is not fun. For my job, I travel somewhere every month and write a handful of stories from that place, which means dozens of dozens of interviews of people who go into my stories.

Remember that moment in the movie Terminator when Skynet's AI turned on humanity? Apparently a bug in the game Elite Dangerous has caused the its AI to not only develop its own weapons, but also start hunting down the players. The entire situation began after an update was released by Developer Frontier--2.1 Engineers. It was meant to boost the game's AI by improving high ranking non-player characters' (NPC) fighting and flying skills. Players using the update could fight better, pull travelers into a fight, and attack foes with upgraded weapons.

For gamers, World of Warcraft represents a massive universe in which they've spent large amounts of time. But for many moviegoers, WoW's Azeroth is a completely foreign place they know nothing about. So for Warcraft, director Duncan Jones--a gamer himself--had to create a movie world that would bring in new fans and make long-time WoW players feel like they were coming home. To do that, he worked with Industrial Light & Magic to build his movie's look and feel from the ground up, combining motion-capture performances, CGI, and scenes shot in the real world. Find out how they did it in the video above.

Whether the Orcs and humans of "Warcraft" can appeal to American moviegoers remains an open question, but there's little doubt about their pull in China. The Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures film has grossed up to 92 million in China in its first two days of release, according to studio estimates. In local currency terms, the movie is outpacing last year's blockbuster "Furious 7," which eventually scored 391 million in the country. "Warcraft," based on the popular "World of Warcraft" game from Blizzard Entertainment, pulled in more than 44 million in Chinese ticket sales Thursday, its second day in release, easily topping the previous record set by local production "The Mermaid" earlier this year. The new movie accounted for 81% of the China box office on Thursday.

Writers, prepare to be made obsolete. An artificial intelligence program has written a sci-fi screenplay, which real-life actors have turned into a nine minute film. Sunspring was made by director Oscar Sharp for the annual Sci-Fi London film festival, written by a recurrent neural network that called itself "Benjamin." The film, which debuted on Ars Technica on Thursday, is equal parts bizarre, emotional and intriguing. Sunspring stars Thomas Middleditch (from Silicon Valley) as a character called H, who pines after Elisabeth Gray, who also plays a character called H. Humphrey Ker seems to be the second H's partner, and he's called C, but even that's not entirely certain.

Knowing that an AI wrote Sunspring makes the movie more fun to watch, especially once you know how the cast and crew put it together. Director Oscar Sharp made the movie for Sci-Fi London, an annual film festival that includes the 48-Hour Film Challenge, where contestants are given a set of prompts (mostly props and lines) that have to appear in a movie they make over the next two days. Sharp's longtime collaborator, Ross Goodwin, is an AI researcher at New York University, and he supplied the movie's AI writer, initially called Jetson. As the cast gathered around a tiny printer, Benjamin spat out the screenplay, complete with almost impossible stage directions like "He is standing in the stars and sitting on the floor." Then Sharp randomly assigned roles to the actors in the room.

Hi there, nice comments about the top 12 secret shortcuts of Dataiku DSS convinced me to write another one: this time it's about plugins, movies, APIs, and how to choose the best one to watch with friends. A friend of mine has a list of all her DVDs (and takes note of who borrowed what;-). How do I choose the top 5 movies I'd like to borrow? I'm not a movie maniac and I don't know most of the titles of her collection. And when I do know one, it's most often because I have already seen it (and would prefer to watch a new one).

Warcraft: The Beginning, the adaptation of the video game World of Warcraft, has proved a massive hit in China, with a first-day take of 46m ( 31.8m), the second biggest in the country's history after another Hollywood hit, Furious 7, which took 63.1m in its first 24 hours in 2015. Warcraft's impressive results put it on course to challenge Furious 7's 150m opening instalment in China – and thoroughly dwarfs the projected result for its domestic release in the US, which is currently tracking for around 25m when it opens on Friday. Warcraft's success in China has been ascribed partly to the game's popularity there – according to the International Business Times (IBT), an estimated half of the world's players are based in the country – and partly to the favourable position the film acquired in the release calendar due to the participation of a number of powerful Chinese enterprises in Warcraft: notably the purchase of production outfit Legendary Pictures by conglomerate Dalian Wanda. However, box-office analysts don't expect Warcraft to trouble any Hollywood-import grossing records, such as Furious 7's total of 390m, let alone domestic record holder The Mermaid, which finished with 526m earlier this year. Related: A bigger splash: how did The Mermaid become China's biggest ever film?

Prophets of Rage, composed of members of Rage Against the Machine, Cypress Hill, and Public Enemy is, in the words of its guitarist, Tom Morello, an "élite task force of revolutionary musicians determined to confront this mountain of election-year bullshit, and confront it head-on, with Marshall stacks blazing." Morello prefers his gassy characterization to the admittedly hokey term "supergroup," but the outfit does have a Voltron-like quality: an intimidating assemblage of steely-faced, aggressively minded musicians from the early nineties, stomping in to save us from ourselves. On Monday, Prophets of Rage announced a North American tour that will begin on July 19th, at the Republican National Convention, in Cleveland, and has been titled "Make America Rage Again." Has America ever stopped raging? On dark days, it feels as if we are raging more than ever.

"Downton Abbey" and "The Good Wife" have racked up 47 Emmy acting nominations over the course of their runs, and you can bet your Yorkshire pudding that voters are going to send these two departing shows out with a warm embrace. Anything else would be a slap in the face, something we know "Good Wife" fans do not appreciate one bit. Analysis: "Mad Men's" Jon Hamm finally won this Emmy last year. Will it now be Spacey's turn? But voters have an array of actors from new shows this year, including some – Giamatti ("Billions"), Aaron Paul ("The Path") and Bobby Cannavale ("Vinyl") – who have won Emmys for past work.