Garry Kasparov’s battle against Deep Blue is painted not just as a pivotal, but as a harbinger of the looming computer age.

The brain chip, which Musk describes as a “Fitbit for your skull,” was implanted in its first live patient at the beginning ...

Marc Olsen was just 18 when he started winning money at backgammon. Sitting at his computer in Copenhagen in 2004, he would ...

Sitting at his computer in Copenhagen in 2004, he would challenge players from all over the world on one of the first backgammon websites. By the end of an evening session he might have won $500 (£375 ...

Sifting the World's Chris DeMuth Jr. discusses value investing and his top thoughts for the new year (0:25). 2 stocks: Willis ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Shortest History of AI‎,‎ Toby Walsh, published by Picador India.

Classic Unix tools (ls, cat, ed, cal, dc) and games show modern OS lineage ...

The global chess body fined Iran €25,000 after its women’s team skipped a match vs Israel in Budapest, and warned of a ...

One of Go’s ten “golden rules”, attributed to Wang Jixin, a Tang-dynasty master, urges players to seek peace and avoid ...

Information pervades the universe, yet means nothing. Meaning emerged when matter organized into systems that could ...

Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...

Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik has filed a lawsuit against the world chess federation (FIDE) in a Swiss civil court after FIDE’s ethi.