An Australian man acquitted of murder last month after his Tinder date plummeted off a balcony to her death faced new criticism after he acknowledged in a TV interview that the woman had screamed "no" a reported 33 times before she fell. "Yeah, she was certainly trying to make a lot of noise," Gable Tostee commented in the interview, which aired on the Nine Network's "60 Minutes." Critics also lashed out after The Courier Mail claimed Tostee was paid a six-figure sum for the interview. A senior detective called it "disgusting". The detective continued, "There's a lot of anger among police about this. Of course we respect the court's decision to find him not guilty but for him to now do a paid interview after everything this poor girl's family has been through, is horrific."

A new human-like Android has confirmed everything sci fi taught us about robots – by purring, 'I will destroy humans' in a TV interview. The robot, Sophia, has cameras behind its eyes – and monitors people's facial expressions, and reacts to seem more human. Didn't Terminator do that, too, come to think of it? Sophia was on show at SXSW this year, exhibited by Hanson Robotics. In an interview with Dr David Hanson, her creator, Hanson asked, 'Do you want to destroy humans?'