Things to Do in L.A. She thought she talking to her favorite celebrity. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Abigail Ruvalcaba was intrigued when a handsome daytime soap opera actor she'd been watching for years reached out to her in a Facebook message. His rugged exterior softened by his piercing blue eyes and an almost shy smile disarmed her.

Origins With Cush Jumbo Widely available, episodes weekly Cush Jumbo is always good fun when doing press interviews for her work (The Good Wife, Criminal Record, Hamlet) – and she's just as great now the tables are turned in her first podcast. She speaks to stars about their origin stories, including Kate Nash, Harlan Coben, David Schwimmer and, in episode one, Anna Wintour, who says she hates people who waffle and recalls getting fired from Harper's Bazaar because she couldn't pin a dress. Rebel Spirit Widely available, episodes weekly Comedian Akilah Hughes gives her serious mission a light touch as she returns to her Kentucky home town to try to change her high school's racist mascot from a Confederate general to a biscuit. Can she drag the school into the modern age – and what will the change mean to her and other pupils? Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club Widely available, episodes weekly Sara Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd go beyond the usual selections with season two of their book club for people who don't want to discuss reading over cheese and wine.

The people of San Francisco haven't always been kind to Waymo's growing fleet of driverless taxis. The autonomous vehicles, which provide tens of thousands of rides each week, have been torched, stomped on, and verbally berated in recent months. Now Waymo is striking back--in the courts. This month, the Silicon Valley company filed a pair of lawsuits, neither of which have been previously reported, that demand hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages from two alleged vandals. Waymo attorneys said in court papers that the alleged vandalism, which ruined dozens of tires and a tail end, are a significant threat to the company's reputation.

An expert in computing responds to Tara Isabella Burton's "I Know Thy Works." In 2018 researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, Harvard University, the University of British Columbia, and Université Toulouse Capitole shared the results of one of the largest moral experiments conducted to date. They recorded 40 million ethical decisions from millions of people across 233 countries. The experiment's "Moral Machine" posed to users variations of the classic trolley problem, imagining instead the trolley as a self-driving car. Should the car swerve and collide with jaywalking pedestrians or maintain its current trajectory, which would yield inevitable doom for the passengers inside?

Joe Burton, CEO of digital identity authentication company Telesign, spoke with TechRepublic about how the "fuzzy" realm between statistical analysis and artificial intelligence can fuel global, fast and accurate identity management. Telesign may have been instrumental in the development of two-factor authentication, but it has a marginal share of a market dominated by companies like Persona, OpenID, Okta, Duo Security and LastPass. Burton said the company is looking forward, with big plans to use new technologies and services powered by AI to set itself apart from competitors. A key approach since 2019 has been evolving its Communications Platform-as-a-Service leadership, dispensing with passwords and focusing on mobile numbers for identity verification, data modeling and customized communications. SEE: 1Password's Steve Won: Passwords will soon be past tense.

If the world's most famous film directors designed a car, what would it look like? Thanks to artificial intelligence, we now have the answer. A car scrap collection firm based in the UK used DALL-E-2 - an AI platform that creates images based on text inputs - to imagine what cars designed by Wes Anderson, Christopher Nolan, Alfred Hitchcock and James Cameron, among others, would look like. The results show how powerful this particular artificial intelligence system, which was built by OpenAI, can be when given this type of assignment. British-born director Christopher Nolan is recognized for his work on the Batman trilogy as well as films like Interstellar, which explored many quantum physics themes, and the World War II film Dunkirk.

Funko, which is best known for its Pop vinyl figurines, is about to venture into new territory. The studio is led by Jon Burton, the founder of Traveller's Tales and TT Games. "By partnering with 10:10 Games and utilizing the best creators in the business, we will have the talent to deliver games that reflect Funko's unique look and feel across its lines and varied products," Funko CEO Andrew Perlmutter said in a statement. The first game under the partnership is an action platformer that's coming to PC and consoles in 2023. Funko says the untitled game will have "major third-party studio integration," which probably shouldn't be a big shock given the high-profile licensing deals Funko has for collectibles and Burton's experience with the various Lego games.

Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. "Jeopardy!" is once again looking for a host. A nearly-exhaustive search for late host Alex Trebek's replacement began not long after his passing with a slew of guest hosts taking a swing at the gig. After months of consideration, executive producer Mike Richards was offered the reigns with actress Mayim Bialik taking over the show's spin-off events.

Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. Countless Americans watched with awe as NASA's latest robotic explorer, the Perseverance rover, landed safely on Mars earlier today. While you might not be on a mission to Mars personally, you can still make a sojourn to the Red Planet without ever ditching your sweats (or more importantly, leaving the couch), courtesy of these five movies streaming now on major platforms like Hulu and Disney . From green-suited space invaders firing ray guns to survival sagas pitting man against an inhospitable wilderness, these movies about Mars are an absolute must-watch for anyone who's still got space travel on the mind tonight. If Martians actually landed on Earth, would they be friends... or foes?

ModalityIQ, a community-based knowledge sharing and learning platform, is pleased to announce the acquisition of The Machine Learning Conference ("MLconf" and "MLconf.com"), a leader in serving the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence community. Founded by Courtney and Shon Burton in 2012, MLconf has gathered thousands of members of the machine learning community to coalesce and share lessons learned through a series of 20 conferences that showcase the latest innovations in machine learning tools, techniques and algorithms attracting Data Scientists, Machine Learning professionals and others who have a vested interest in ML/AI. "Sharing lessons learned that help advance the ML/AI community is at the core of ModalityIQ's mission and is why the acquisition of MLconf made sense for us," said Richard Rivera, Founder & CEO of ModalityIQ. "Courtney's years of service and her dedication to providing a platform for the ML/AI community to share, learn, and inspire one another made her the obvious person for us to partner with. We look forward to working with her and the MLconf team to continue to facilitate the sharing of knowledge within the ML/AI community today and in the years to come." In addition to hosting annual conferences, MLconf also has a vibrant online presence through a community blog and job board at mlconf.com, a monthly newsletter, and via social media in addition to a prolific YouTube channel with hundreds of videos highlighting current and past MLconf presentations.