Over the course of the six movies and nearly 30 years leading up to this one, Mission: Impossible's Ethan Hunt has fought double agents and shadowy terrorist networks, scaled skyscrapers, and thrown himself out of planes. But he's never fought an adversary like the Entity, the rogue artificial intelligence he takes on in Dead Reckoning Part One. For one thing, it has no physical form, which means Tom Cruise can't catch it no matter how fast he runs. And for another, the Entity doesn't just want to defeat Ethan: It wants to replace him. In a briefing of the U.S. top intelligence officials in which exposition is passed from one actor to the next like a red-hot baton, one alphabet-agency higher-up describes the Entity as a "godless, stateless, amoral" being that can infiltrate any system in the world--not unlike the Impossible Mission Force itself, which, though nominally a branch of the U.S. government, doesn't take orders from the military-industrial complex so much as consider its suggestions.

Set in undetermined future society where robotics are a major part of everyday life, from performing household chores to construction and more, Runaway follows Officer Jack Ramsay (Tom Selleck), head of the so-called'Runaway Squad'. His hi-tech unit deals with out of control robots, intervening where humans may be endangered by the machines' malfunctions. When Ramsay discovers a plot by criminal genius Luther (Gene Simmons) to sell advanced microchips and cutting edge weaponry to the highest bidder, he finds himself taking on not only Luther, but also the dangerous killer's deadly robotic creations. Written and directed by the late Michael Crichton, Runaway continues the theme of the dangers of technology affecting the lives of humans that had been previously visited in his previous works Westworld and Looker. Reviewing Runaway now, thirty years after it's original release, is a real eye opener to Crichton's foresight.

As the world embraces greater technological evolution, what role will spirituality play? In the 1400s, Johann Gutenberg's invention of the printing press had a major effect on European society. Along with providing the groundwork for the Protestant Reformation and the Renaissance, it was instrumental in igniting the scientific revolution. Until then, written records were expensive, difficult to come by, and most people were illiterate. They had to rely on the learned minority – professors and priests – to hear the news and understand sacred truths.

Do you often forget things when you don't write it down? Most people can't remember what they said 30 seconds ago. If this is the case, Luther.AI has come to aid humans and augment our unreliable memory. Luther.AI is a startup that builds your Artificial intelligence intending to'Retains, Reinforce, Recall- augmenting your human memory.' This new technology works like personal Google for all the thoughts and ideas that you have.

When it comes to pop culture, a company executive or history questions, most of us use Google as a memory crutch to recall information we can't always keep in our heads, but Google can't help you remember the name of your client's spouse or the great idea you came up with at a meeting the other day. Enter Luther.AI, which purports to be Google for your memory by capturing and transcribing audio recordings, while using AI to deliver the right information from your virtual memory bank in the moment of another online conversation or via search. The company is releasing an initial browser-based version of their product this week at TechCrunch Disrupt where it's competing for the $100,000 prize at TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield. Luther.AI's founders say the company is built on the premise that human memory is fallible, and that weakness limits our individual intelligence. The idea behind Luther.AI is to provide a tool to retain, recall and even augment our own brains.

A computer science professor has built a tool that could allow people to identify Civil War veterans in their families with the help of artificial intelligence. Kurt Luther, an assistant professor at Virginia Tech, developed a platform called Photo Sleuth after he discovered a picture of a distant relative who had fought in the Civil War. "Seeing my distant relative staring back at me was like traveling through time," said Luther in a statement. "Historical photos can tell us a lot about not only our own familial history, but also inform the historical record of the time more broadly than just reading about the event in a history book." The professor, who considers himself a history buff, was inspired to create the software when he visited the Heinz History Center's exhibit called "Pennsylvania's Civil War" in Pittsburgh in 2013.

Facial recognition is being used to identify American Civil War soldiers who may have otherwise been lost in the sands of time. Computer scientist and history buff Kurt Luther created a free-to-use website, called Civil War Photo Sleuth, that uses facial recognition technology to cross-reference vintage photographs with a database and hopefully assign a name to unknown subjects. Luther was inspired to launch the website after he stumbled upon a wartime portrait of his great-great-uncle, who was a Union corporal in the Civil War. Then, the site's facial recognition technology goes to work, mapping as many as 27 'facial landmarks.' It uses those facial landmarks to compare the photo to the more than 10,000 identified photos in the site's archive.

"Justice League" opens in theaters today.Courtesy of Warner Brothers. Once upon a time, in the long long ago, this bad guy from a lava planet comes to Earth with these three magic boxes and tries to turn our pretty blue marble into a red marble, but is defeated by some people who live in the sea (Atlanteans), some warrior women who live on an island (Amazons), and "the tribes of man" (you, me and the bourgeoisie). The bad man escapes and loses these three precious boxes he really adores. One goes under the sea, one goes to the island, and then the humans bury one in some ditch in a forest. Are you still with me?

BlessU-2, the name of the robot priest in Germany, can give blessings in five languages and beams light from its hands. The bot was created in honor of Martin Luther, the Guardian reported Tuesday. Five hundred years ago, revolutionary printing presses helped spread the word of the Protestant Reformation. The robot was configured by the Protestant church in Hesse and Nassau in Wittenberg, Germany, half a millennium after Luther nailed his 95 Theses to a church door. The creators wanted to ignite a conversation about how artificial intelligence could possibly be a part of religion's future.

Five hundred years after revolutionary printing presses spread news of Martin Luther's radical call for church reform across Europe, technology is again challenging religious tradition in the small German town of Wittenberg. A robot priest that delivers blessings in five languages and beams light from its hands has been unveiled as part of an exhibition to mark the anniversary of the start of the Reformation, a Europe-wide religious, political and cultural upheaval sparked when Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in the town. Half a millennium later, the robot, called BlessU-2, is intended to trigger debate about the future of the church and the potential of artificial intelligence. "We wanted people to consider if it is possible to be blessed by a machine, or if a human being is needed," Stephan Krebs of the Protestant church in Hesse and Nassau, which is behind the initiative, told the Guardian. The robot has a touchscreen chest, two arms and a head.