"I don't kill anyone who doesn't deserve it," says Sam (Ben Whishaw), the self-described "triggerman"--hit man--in the new Netflix spy thriller Black Doves. Sam, like the series' other main character, Helen (not her real name, played by Keira Knightley), works for Black Doves' eponymous organization. They are spies, more or less, but spies for hire, and when you get right down to it, most of Sam's gigs seem to be carrying out hits for drug dealers. Sam isn't the only hit man featured in a sleek, starry TV thriller this winter. On Peacock, Eddie Redmayne plays Alex in a new adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel The Day of the Jackal.

After decades of serving as the named inspiration for the beloved franchise The Legend of Zelda, the series' titular princess is finally getting her own game. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, releasing September 26 for Nintendo Switch, gives Zelda her very own hero's journey after Link goes missing. But it does not, sadly, give her her own sword. Players have been clamoring for Hyrule's favorite princess to take the lead in a Zelda game for years now, or at least to be playable in games like Tears of the Kingdom. Excitement around Zelda's triumph was immediately evident on X after Nintendo announced the game Tuesday during one of its Direct presentations.

Gorillaz may be the most famous example of a virtual band, at least in the west. Elsewhere, virtual idol Hatsune Miku is omnipresent, her personality projected on to her by fans. Four-piece outfit OFK are different: before you've heard a note of their music, you're going to find out exactly who they are. The band itself is not real – it is an invention of the songwriters, composers and game designers working together at LA developer Team OFK – but the music is, and this is a novel and intriguing way to experience it. We Are OFK is a band biopic delivered over five animated episodes.

Professional speedrunners and Metroid fans have already cracked open the game, finding what's called "sequence breaks" in which players discover new ways to navigate the planet and earn power-ups to access more areas of the map at earlier points in the game. While I'm still chasing a run under four hours, players like Samura1man, a Finnish speedrunner, have beaten the game in under an hour and a half and are still finding new ways to shave off time. Just on Monday, Samura1man achieved what was then the world record, beating "Dread" in one hour and 27 minutes. That record was beaten by approximately half a minute later that same day. On YouTube, his latest run clocks in at one hour, 26 minutes and 9 seconds.

But the 2007 release of "Super Paper Mario" on the Wii and its choice to drop encounter-based battles heralded a split in fan reception early in the series' lifespan. The major rift came in 2012 with the release of "Paper Mario: Sticker Star" on the Nintendo 3DS. Gone were the charming personalities, the leveling system and the emotional story elements; in its place, the game featured a roster of generic characters thrown into a dumbed-down version of the original game's combat system that was stripped of player experimentation. And although the 2016 entry "Paper Mario: Color Splash" made an effort to home in on the series' trademark humor, the Wii U game's remix of the series' classic battle system ultimately fell flat.

Any game that has an animated intro always impresses me, even to this day. Obviously things were even more impressive back in the day, as there were very few games that went all-out on animation due to hardware/software restrictions. Capcom in particular, for a short amount of time, seemed to love using animated intros and cut-scenes for Mega Man games. Those animated segments were definitely fantastic, but their low-resolution look doesn't do them many favors nowadays. That's why a fan has taken to remastering these animated segments for today's audience.

I had worried that The Elder Scrolls Online had played its best hand too soon when it released Morrowind as its first "chapter" (or expansion) in 2017, but I'd forgotten about the dragons. The beasts, so loved from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, take flight in ESO's upcoming Elsweyr expansion, and earlier today ESO's creative director Rich Lambert showed audiences on Twitch how dragons would spend the game's next chapter burninating the homeland of the cat-like Khajiit. The new chapter launches for pre-orders buyers on May 20, and here are five good reasons why you'll want to be around in May when the fur and fire starts to fly. Here there be dragons, and frankly it's about time. I'm a little surprised to see them.

This guide is intended to be accessible to anyone. Basic concepts in probability, statistics, programming, linear algebra, and calculus will be discussed, but it isn't necessary to have prior knowledge of them to gain value from this series. Artificial intelligence will shape our future more powerfully than any other innovation this century. Anyone who does not understand it will soon find themselves feeling left behind, waking up in a world full of technology that feels more and more like magic. The rate of acceleration is already astounding.

AR&A techniques have been used to solve a variety of tasks, including automatic programming, constraint satisfaction, design, diagnosis, machine learning, search, planning, reasoning, game playing, scheduling, and theorem proving. The primary purpose of AR&A techniques in such settings is to overcome computational intractability. In addition, AR&A techniques are useful for accelerating learning and summarizing sets of solutions. The Fifth Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation (SARA-2002) was held from 2 to 4 August 2002, directly after the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2002). It was chaired by Sven Koenig from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Robert Holte from the University of Alberta (Canada) and held at Kananaskis Mountain Lodge, Kananaskis Village, Alberta (Canada) between Calgary and Banff in the Rocky Mountains.

ORIGINALLY IT WAS Complex Information Processing. I thank John McDermott, Alan Perlis, Raj Reddy, and Herbert Simon for comments on an earlier draft. CMU have entered into it with the usual spirit and perseverance. CMU has never had an Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In the earliest to go around, and rather than becoming something separate, work on complex information processing simply became one more aspect of the new look in the science of decision making.