Over the past year, it's become pretty clear that machines can now beat us in many straightforward zero-sum games. A new study from an international team of computer scientists set out to develop a ...

Algorithms are a hot topic of conversation, as Facebook, er, Meta, finds itself criticized for employing algorithms that promote anger and strife for the purpose of increasing customer engagement with ...

Can we trust the algorithms behind dating apps with our hearts? In this episode of ITK: Behind the Screens, our host Niamh Adkins (@niamhadkins) sits down with expert Liesel Sharabi to learn how these ...

However, Fantasy Flight vowed that the game would return and showed off its next planned expansion – Winds of Exchange – which would be released as part of its relaunch. The next expansion is already ...

DeepMind has applied its mastery of games to a more serious business: the foundations of computer science. The Google subsidiary today unveiled AlphaDev, an AI system that discovers new fundamental ...

Today Valve released a new Steam feature to help point PC gamers towards titles they may not know about. Valve just published an interesting bit of insight into their hopes and plans for Steam as a ...

The AI-generated algorithms are already being used by millions of developers. DeepMind’s run of discoveries in fundamental computer science continues. Last year the company used a version of its ...

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