Welcome to Time Machines, where we offer up a selection of mechanical oddities, milestone gadgets and unique inventions to test out your tech-history skills. Machines may need to start a union. After ...
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In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google’s parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers of chess. A year earlier, on ...
If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. While Neo slugs it out with Agent Smith on the silver screen, chess champ Garry Kasparov is about to face off ...
In the spring of 1997, a supercomputer built by a team of IBM scientists stunned the world by beating grandmaster Garry Kasparov, considered one of the greatest chess players in history. Deep Blue, as ...
HAIFA, Israel --As world chess champion Victor Kramnik sat down to play the Deep Fritz chess program in Bahrain this week, Haifa University held a two-day symposium to address one question: What's the ...
Set sometime in the ’80s, mumblecore maven Andrew Bujalski’s fourth feature, Computer Chess, is an adventurous and peculiar period piece. Chronicling a tournament of computers competing in chess and ...
Gaby Wood, a writer for the Observer in London, is the author of "Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life" (2002, Alfred A. Knopf). Some days ago in New York City, Garry ...