Marc Olsen was just 18 when he started winning money at backgammon. Sitting at his computer in Copenhagen in 2004, he would challenge players from all over the world on one of the first backgammon ...

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

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

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash ...

In a world-first for national-level sports, Han Binbin, a player with cerebral palsy, competed in a Chinese chess tournament using a non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) device.

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

China's Lenovo, the world's largest personal computer maker, said Tuesday (January 6) that it has teamed up with U.S. AI chip ...

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New paper applies cutting-edge AI technique to the game of Liar’s Poker, testing it against some of the best human players ...

Lia Smith was a senior at Middlebury College, a transgender woman and, for a time, an athlete on the school’s diving team.