Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help researchers understand the tractability of problems in other areas.

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a ...

The review embargo for Valve’s Steam Machine is finally up, and after reading through impressions from major publications, one thing becomes immediately clear: the reviews aren’t nearly as mixed as ...

We surrendered our attention to the feed. We surrendered our memory to the search engine. We surrendered our solitude to the notification. Why remember what can be retrieved?

The long-awaited Steam Machine console is now available to pre-order ahead of its June 30th launch date. Sort of. The 512 GB model starts at $1,049, and it gets up to $1,428 for the 2 TB model with a ...

As PlayStation continues to make headlines due to the fallout from its physical media controversy, a former PlayStation boss, Shuhei Yoshida, has weighed in on the non-physical media playing on the ...

The Steam Machine is finally here after looming on the horizon for the last eight months or so. And while Valve has been adamant that the Steam Machine is an entry-level gaming PC, rather than a new, ...

Before intelligence can be programmed, it must first be understood as a process, one that nature has been refining across three distinct timescales. This video traces the deep logic connecting ...

To coincide with this year's Reith Lectures, entitled the Triumph of Technology, You and Yours asked what has been the most significant technological innovation since 1800. From the hundreds of ...

Michelle Sisto, director of the EDHEC AI Centre, opens a London panel on AI and the future of work with a keynote on how AI ...