2017 is probably the first year since the late ‘90s where we could actually justify a list of the best new pinball machines of the year. Since Stern became the last player in the game in 2000, there ...

The quest to give machines a mind of their own occupied the brightest AI specialists in 2017. Machine learning (and especially the newly hip branch, deep learning) practically delivered all of the ...

Machine learning is changing everyday activities through improvements in functions such as voice recognition, object detection, and image perception. The spheres of medicine, transportation, finance, ...

Language acquisition in young children is apparently connected with their ability to detect patterns. In their learning process, they search for patterns in the data set that help them identify and ...

Thom Yorke meets BB-8 on the red carpet. Credit: Getty Images for Disney This was, of course, a light mockery of modern robots. Machines -- while capable of extremely impressive automated feats -- ...