This is part 1 of a five-part series on artificial intelligence — reading historian Yuval Noah Harari's recent concepts through Rwanda's own experience of building institutions from scratch. ALSO READ ...

It’s been almost three decades since Garry Kasparov, one of the world’s most brilliant chess grandmasters, lost a match to ...

The world of quantum video games is vast – there are hundreds that are either inspired by quantum mechanics or use quantum computers in their development. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan explores ...

Physical Intelligence is drawing on the broad knowledge of large language models to help robots understand instructions and learn to carry out any task independently ...

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Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...

Watching a game of chess can be a thrilling experience – even for a novice with only a basic grasp of the game. Like Test cricket, classical chess is slow, contemplative, epic, thrilling and crushing.

The story of the confrontation between man and machine in chess is not just a plot for science fiction. It is a real, dramatic saga, where human intuition, emotions and experience competed with ...

A series dramatizes the 1997 chess match between a world champion and an IBM computer, a precursor of modern anxieties about artificial intelligence. By Dylan Loeb McClain It is rare that chess grabs ...

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We present an extract from To Avenge A Dead Glacier, the debut short story collection by Shane Tivenan, winner of the RTÉ Francis McManus Short Story Prize and the John McGahern Award - read an ...