At first glance, it looks like Fox and Breitbart began to tank compared to the competition. But Corcoran says not to jump to conclusions. "I wouldn't put this decline down to the content of the sites themselves," the analyst told HuffPost. "In the case of Breitbart, their likes and comments actually increased between June 2015 and March 2016. In the case of Fox, those numbers include all local affiliates to the Fox network, so it's a broad coalition of sites, many of which may be seeing challenges in the way that their content is engaged with in the News Feed."

Some AI proponents argue that Artificial Intelligence will usurp human intelligence or even make us obsolete. That kind of talk must stop, before we lose control of AI. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the leading Internet trends of 2016, particularly with large companies like Google and Facebook pouring resources into it. While there are many benefits to AI -- for example, Facebook using it to make our news feeds smarter -- the hype is getting hubristic. I'm particularly concerned about the language AI proponents are using.

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This isn't the first time Disney has bailed on in-house games. In 2013, it both closed Epic Mickey developer Junction Point and the legendary LucasArts studio. The interactive group has regularly struggled since then, too, leading to Disney cutting 700 jobs in 2014. In the second quarter, the segment's operating income sank 8 percent year-over-year -- an outlier for a corporation that's riding high on the successes of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and endless Marvel superhero movies. The writing may have been on the wall when Disney dropped the Apple TV version of Infinity just weeks ago.

The news and information ecosystem is in the midst of change -- again. Mobile-first consumption is on the rise, smart homes are becoming mainstream and connected cars will soon take over the roads of major cities around the world. Smart devices will require "smart content." It's only a matter of time before artificial intelligence becomes the backbone of the media industry of the future. Today, most people find information via search or social.

Maika Monroe and Ed Skrein have boarded Federico D' Alessandro's sci-fi thriller Tau, with Waypoint Entertainment financing under their first look deal with Addictive Pictures. David S. Goyer (Man of Steel) and Kevin Turen (The Birth of a Nation) will produce under their Phantom Four banner alongside Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder for Addictive Pictures. Bloom is handling international sales at Cannes with WME repping domestic rights. The story follows a street-smart grifter, Julia (Monroe), who is the latest victim kidnapped and held captive in a fatal experiment. The only thing standing in the way of her freedom is Tau, an advanced artificial intelligence developed by Alex (Skrein), her captor.

In a previous post I wrote about how to build a'People Who Like This Also Like ...' feature for displaying lists of similar musicians. My goal was to show how simple Information Retrieval techniques can do a good job calculating lists of related artists. For instance, using BM25 distance on The Beatles shows the most similar artists being John Lennon and Paul McCartney. One interesting technique I didn't cover was using Matrix Factorization methods to reduce the dimensionality of the data before calculating the related artists. This kind of analysis can generate matches that are impossible to find with the techniques in my original post.

Troparé has developed the ability for its clients to discover unbiased patterns, insights, and trends in their data; perform thorough analysis; and use this information to make accurate, micro-targeted predictions, all without having to write a single line of code. As a result, marketing and sales departments can attract, retain, and grow their most profitable customers and maximize campaign spending, without having to rely on IT. "Data has become the new life-line of modern day marketing. However, unless marketing departments have the tools to unify data and perform correct analysis on a large scale, simply having enormous amounts of data is useless without tremendous reliance on IT," said Greg Carpenter, CEO of Troparé. The second platform addition, (fuzzy) data matching & appending, is developed as an extension to the industry's widely-acknowledged struggle of data integration. The solution allows customers to easily combine, match, and append their own data with second and/or third party data derived from disparate sources.

Artificial intelligence and thinking computers are a prominent plot device for Hollywood. Movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, and Terminator come to mind, as well as current day examples such as I, Robot, Ex Machina, and Transcendence. These pop culture examples underscore the fears and challenges we face as we attempt to program natural behavior and interact with intelligent technology. I think about this whenever I read the growing list of examples of how bots are becoming more pervasive, especially after seeing an article that proclaimed "the bots are taking over." In reality, bots do not carry such hyperbolic doomsday results.

Rob Marvin is the Assistant Editor of PCMag's Business section. He was previously an editor at SD Times covering software, managing social media, and writing narrative-driven features on any offbeat story or trend he could find. He graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Rob is also an unabashed nerd who does occasional entertainment blogging on movies and TV, reads epic fantasy and historical fiction, and enjoys having his heart routinely broken by the...