Personal Tech: The Messy, Confusing Future of TV Is Here

The latest technology news and reviews. View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Thursday, August 17, 2017 [NYTimes.com/PersonalTech »]( [Cord-cutters often find themselves confronting a jumble of on-demand services that, added up, cost more and often offer less than the old cable bundle.]( Cord-cutters often find themselves confronting a jumble of on-demand services that, added up, cost more and often offer less than the old cable bundle. Dan Goodman/Associated Press [The Shift]( [The Messy, Confusing Future of TV? It’s Here]( By KEVIN ROOSE We’ve rushed headlong into a hyper-fragmented mess, with a jumble of on-demand services that, added up, cost more and often offer less than the old cable bundle. ADVERTISEMENT [Using YouTube as an Accelerant for Video Games]( By LAURA HUDSON Getting YouTubers or Twitch streamers to share their thoughts on a new game can have a powerful effect on its success. Tech We’re Using [The Technology Our Personal Finance Columnist Trusts His Money With]( By RON LIEBER The Times’s Your Money columnist on his favorite finance apps, the gadgets he would love to dream into existence and his Spotify singalong sessions. [Hackers Briefly Take Over HBO Twitter Accounts]( By JOHN KOBLIN Although the damage appeared limited to a few taunting posts, it came after a string of deeper, but apparently unrelated, breaches. [Microsoft Teaches Autonomous Gliders to Make Decisions on the Fly]( By CADE METZ Microsoft is building gliders that adapt to surprises. The goal is to teach autonomous vehicles of all sorts to deal with uncertainty the way humans do. [Can Artificial Intelligence Fly a Plane?]( By CADE METZ, JEAN YVES CHAINON AND JOSHUA THOMAS Microsoft is building an autonomous glider guided by artificial intelligence, part of an effort to help machines make decisions when faced with uncertainty. [How A.I. Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art]( By CADE METZ Project Magenta, a team at Google, is crossbreeding sounds from different instruments based on neural networks and building networks that can draw. ADVERTISEMENT INTERESTED IN ALL THINGS TECH? The daily Bits newsletter will keep you updated on the latest from Silicon Valley and the technology industry, plus exclusive analysis from our reporters and editors. You can sign up [here](. Tech Tips From J.D. Biersdorfer Tech Tip [Taking Your Data Plan to a New iPad]( By J. D. BIERSDORFER If you have a cellular data plan you’d like to bring along from your old tablet, you might be able to move it yourself. Tech Tip [Safely Snapping the Sun’s Disappearing Act]( By J. D. BIERSDORFER If you want to capture your own images of next week’s solar eclipse, be sure to protect your eyes and your camera first. Tech Tip [Pinpointing Your Whereabouts on Twitter]( By J. D. BIERSDORFER Twitter strips the geographic data from the photos you add to your posts, but you can always volunteer to share your location. Tech Tip [Getting Microsoft Word to Call You by Your Real Name]( By J. D. BIERSDORFER If you find that Microsoft Office programs have grabbed the wrong name to use for your document comments, you can correct the record. HOW ARE WE DOING? We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please email thoughts and suggestions to [personaltech_newsletter@nytimes.com](mailto:personaltech_newsletter@nytimes.com?subject=Personal Tech Newsletter%20Feedback). LIKE THIS EMAIL? Forward it to your friends, and let them know they can sign up [here](. FOLLOW NYTimes [Facebook] [FACEBOOK]( [Twitter] [@NYTimes]( [Pinterest] [Pinterest]( ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's Personal Tech newsletter. [Unsubscribe]( | [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Change Your Email]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Contact]( | [Advertise]( Copyright 2017 The New York Times Company 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018