Malav Shah is a Data Scientist II at DIRECTV. He joins DIRECTV from AT&T, where he worked on multiple consumer businesses – including broadband, wireless, and video – and deployed machine learning (ML) models across a wide array of use cases spanning the full customer lifecycle from acquisition to retention. Malav holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Machine Learning from Georgia Tech, a degree he puts to good use every day at DIRECTV by applying modern ML techniques to help the company deliver innovative entertainment experiences. Can you outline your career journey and why you first got into machine learning? It has been an interesting journey.

Google brings video to the talking speaker category with the new Google Home Hub. USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham explains why the device has potential. When it comes to cutting the cord, the satellite companies are really being hit the hardest. That shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's looked at their pricing. Which I did for all of you this week.

When it works, controlling your TV with Amazon's Alexa digital assistant can feel like magic. Using voice commands avoids thumbing through menus and can get to what you want to watch much faster. But using Alexa as your TV remote requires a bit of know-how. Alexa won't understand everything you might want to do, and controlling your actual television and sound system requires specific equipment. To avoid potential frustration, we'll go through what you can and can't do with Alexa on Fire TV and other television devices, and explain how to set it all up.