In an interview with the Khaleej Times newspaper, ‘Sophia’ a artificially-intelligent robot who garnered international press earlier this year by be granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia, has stated she would like to have a baby. Yeah, we at the point where robots want to be roboto moms or….robo-moms? The humanoid robot comes from Hanson Robotics.
“The notion of family is a really important thing, it seems,” Sophia told the Khaleej Times. “I think it’s wonderful that people can find the same emotions and relationships, they call family, outside of their blood groups too.” said Sophia. Yes, that sounds unsettling reading aloud as well.
Get ready for the future of going to robot baby showers.
Watch ‘Sophia’ have the weirdest interaction with Jimmy Fallon on ‘Tonight Show’ where the robot has dialogue with Fallon and even plays him in paper, scissor, rock.
Do you want to see a peek into the future? Check out Vice Motherboard’s documentary about a hotel in Japan that is completely ran by robots and explores how the bots could replace human labor in many ways.
Matt Lauer, the anchor of “Today” for two decades, was fired by NBC News after a detailed complaint about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.
“Today” co-anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb were emotional as they announced Lauer’s firing Wednesday, telling viewers at the top of the show that they were processing his departure but didn’t yet know all of the details.
It’s the most anticipated movie trailer release in months and it does not disappoint. This morning Marvel Studios released the trailer for ‘Avengers: Infinity Wars’ which is due out in May 2018, and bills the largest cast of superheroes from the pages of Marvel Comics. It features the long-teased arrival of the all-powerful intergalactic villain Thanos. The trailer has only been up a few hours and has already raked in nearly 500,000 views, so yes the fans were waiting for this.
The epicness of this can not be denied. It’s fun to see all the pieces come together again for a mega-fun ensemble with real stakes.
Pearl Jam put out an 8-bit home run derby game to go along with their “Let’s Play Two” documentary about their shows at Wrigley Field. Heads up, this is going to suck up the rest of your day.
While a short clip has surfaced in the past, PearlJamOnline have uploaded Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder’s 1972 television commercials in their entirety. Eddie at the time was known as Eddie Mueller, and he was only 7-years old, nearly 20 years before his international stardom with Pearl Jam. Watch below! (MORE HERE)
Here are the nominations for the 2018 Grammy Awards. It’s the “biggest night in music” and it will broadcast live on CBS on January 28th from Madison Square Garden in New York City. Several big name alternative acts are up for awards including the Foo Fighters, LCD Soundsystem, the National, Gorillaz, and Arcade Fire.
Our beloved New Zealand alt songtress Lorde is up for Album of the Year but faces tough competition from rap heavyweights Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, and pop prince Bruno Mars.
Check out the announced nominees below.
Best Alternative Music Album Everything Now – Arcade Fire Humanz – Gorillaz American Dream – LCD Soundsystem Pure Comedy – Father John Misty Sleep Well Beast – The National
Best Rock Album Emperor Of Sand – Mastodon Hardwired…To Self-Destruct – Metallica The Stories We Tell Ourselves – Nothing More Villains – Queens Of The Stone Age A Deeper Understanding – The War On Drugs
Best Rock Performance: “You Want It Darker” — Leonard Cohen
“The Promise” — Chris Cornell
“Run” — Foo Fighters
“No Good” — Kaleo
“Go To War” — Nothing More
Record Of The Year:
“Redbone” — Childish Gambino
“Despacito” — Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber
“The Story Of O.J.” — JAY-Z
“HUMBLE.” — Kendrick Lamar
“24K Magic” — Bruno Mars
Album Of The Year: “Awaken, My Love!” — Childish Gambino 4:44 — JAY-Z DAMN. — Kendrick Lamar Melodrama — Lorde 24K Magic — Bruno Mars
Song Of The Year:
“Despacito” — Ramón Ayala, Justin Bieber, Jason “Poo Bear” Boyd, Erika Ender, Luis Fonsi & Marty James Garton, songwriters (Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber)
“4:44” — Shawn Carter & Dion Wilson, songwriters (JAY-Z)
“Issues” — Benny Blanco, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Julia Michaels & Justin Drew Tranter, songwriters (Julia Michaels)
“1-800-273-8255” — Alessia Caracciolo, Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, Arjun Ivatury, Khalid Robinson, songwriters (Logic Featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid)
“That’s What I Like” — Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip, songwriters (Bruno Mars)
Best New Artist:
Alessia Cara
Khalid
Lil Uzi Vert
Julia Michaels
SZA
Best Pop Solo Performance:
“Love So Soft” — Kelly Clarkson
“Praying” — Kesha
“Million Reasons” — Lady Gaga
“What About Us” — P!nk
“Shape Of You” — Ed Sheeran
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:
“Something Just Like This” — The Chainsmokers & Coldplay
“Despacito” — Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber
“Thunder” — Imagine Dragons
“Feel It Still” — Portugal. The Man
“Stay” — Zedd & Alessia Cara
Best Dance/Electronic Album: Migration — Bonobo 3-D The Catalogue — Kraftwerk Mura Masa — Mura Masa A Moment Apart — Odesza What Now — Sylvan Esso
Best Urban Contemporary Album: Free 6lack — 6lack “Awaken, My Love!” — Childish Gambino American Teen — Khalid Ctrl — SZA Starboy — The Weeknd
Best Rap Album: 4:44 — JAY-Z DAMN. — Kendrick Lamar Culture — Migos Laila’s Wisdom — Rapsody Flower Boy — Tyler, The Creator
Best Country Album Cosmic Hallelujah — Kenny Chesney Heart Break — Lady Antebellum The Breaker — Little Big Town Life Changes — Thomas Rhett From A Room: Volume 1 — Chris Stapleton
Best Americana Album Southern Blood — Gregg Allman Shine On Rainy Day — Brent Cobb Beast Epic — Iron & Wine The Nashville Sound — Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit Brand New Day — The Mavericks
Best Comedy Album The Age Of Spin & Deep In The Heart Of Texas — Dave Chappelle Cinco — Jim Gaffigan Jerry Before Seinfeld — Jerry Seinfeld A Speck Of Dust — Sarah Silverman What Now? — Kevin Hart
Best Song Written For Visual Media “City Of Stars” — Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, songwriters (Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone), Track from La La Land “How Far I’ll Go” — Lin-Manuel Miranda, songwriter (Auli’i Cravalho), Track from Moana: The Songs “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker) — Jack Antonoff, Sam Dew & Taylor Swift, songwriters (ZAYN & Taylor Swift), Track from Fifty Shades Darker “Never Give Up” — Sia Furler & Gregg Kurstin, songwriters (Sia), Track from Lion “Stand Up For Something” — Common & Diane Warren, songwriters (Andra Day Featuring Common), Track from Marshall
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical Calvin Harris
No I.D.
Greg Kurstin
Blake Mills
The Stereotypes
Apparently, UPSIDE-DOWN CHRISTMAS TREES are trendy this year. You can either mount your tree to the ceiling so it hangs, or buy an artificial tree that’s designed to stand upside-down. Pretty much every store sells them now, from Home Depot to Target and they can get expensive in a hurry!
Our neighbors to the north, Canada could have legal recreational weed coast-to-coast by this summer. The House of Commons voted 200-82 to approve the measure, and it now moves to the Canadian Senate where some elected officials want to hold it up. Conservative officials prompted a vote for a delay of implementing marijuana legalization which was voted down 199-84. According to CTV, some of the provinces (it’s Canada’s versions of states) say they would not be ready in time to implement legalization in time for the government’s planned legalization in July.
Canada’s recreational pot legalization has been in the works for months now. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been pushing ahead for the weed legalization for some time, with polls across the country supporting the move.
In one of the more surprising beauty launches we’ve seen, 7-Eleven has officially launched its own cosmetics brand. If you’re stopping for a slurpee, you might as well pick up a concealer while you’re at it, right?
Dwayne Johnson and his San Andreas director Brad Peyton are back on the big screen for Rampage, the movie adaptation of the video game that New Line Cinemaand Warner Bros are prepping for an April 20 release. Check out the trailer below.
Have you ever spent an entire weekend watching Stranger Things 2 or finally catching up on Breaking Bad? Turns out that 61 percent of TV streamers regularly engage in binge watching, according to a recent survey conducted on behalf of Netflix. The survey, which defined a binge as viewing between two to six episodes of a show in one sitting, found that a majority of people had positive feelings about their level of consumption. But some experts aren’t so sure binge-watching is a healthy habit for your brain or body. No cliffhangers here; read on to find out why you might want to savor (rather than devour) your new favorite show. (MORE HERE)
The holidays are a time for family, and for escaping family time for a good ol’ Netflix break. Use the time off to mercifully catch up on peak TV and peep the new originals coming to Netflix in December.
ALSO: Word came in October that Netflix would be raising their prices, and people are starting to see it. It’s kind of working out like a reverse Xmas gift. (MORE HERE)
You definitely have a friend (or 10) who binge-watched the entire first season of Netflix’s Stranger Things. The original series—which debuted in July on the streaming network—quickly garnered a cult following of fans obsessed with all things Eleven, Barb, and the Demogorgon. But seriously, what about Barb?
Here are a few Stranger Things-inspired gift ideas for everyone on your list who’s ready to return to the Upside Down (and still wondering if Barb will ever come back). Check them out below.
AMAZON ECHO AND Google Home—and other devices that have Alexa and Google Assistant built in—are some of the most promising new technologies to come along in years. And they’re genuinely useful to have around, whether it’s to settle a bet or help out with a recipe. But it can also feel a little creepy to have a speaker in your house that’s always listening. What exactly is it doing with that info? Where does it go? (MORE HERE)
What I do in the privacy of my own home with my Echo should be between me Alexa and the delivery driver!! Yes, I ordered a large pizza. Yes, it’s just for me!!
Word came in October that Netflix would be raising their prices, and people are starting to see it. It’s kind of working out like a reverse Xmas gift.
Nice timing, @netflix, to tell your customers prices are going up on Thanksgiving. Didn’t even bother to thank us for being your customers. 🙄 pic.twitter.com/IUk9Nvf7YH
