New Scientist

Cheating just three times massively ups the chance of winning at chess

Using a chess computer to advise you on just three moves during a game dramatically increases your chances of winning in a ...

A new book follows four Indian chess prodigies to reveal the grind behind the performance

Chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa competing in a 2017 tournament as a 12-year-old. | Vysotsky/CC BY-SA 4.0 Playing one’s natural ...
Wyoming Tribune Eagle

Computer whizz builds Wordle bot that solves game in four guesses

A computer whizz has built the "world's best" Wordle bot - but the starting word is rude. Alex Walker, 27, created a bot he ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Why the Computer Scientist Behind the World’s First Chatbot Dedicated His Life to Publicizing the Threat Posed by A.I.

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...

Stewart Cheifet, Host of TV’s ‘Computer Chronicles,’ Dies at 87

He spent two decades hosting the PBS series, during the formative years of personal computing. It was seen in more than 300 ...