Google's top AI researcher, Geoff Hinton, discusses a controversial Pentagon contract, a shortage of radical ideas, and fears of an "AI winter."

It's 2019 and Python 2 is slowly trickling out of the PyData stack... e.g. matplotlib v3.0 & ipython v6.0 dropped Py2 support already, and the current release of SciPy (v1.3) and next release of numpy (1.16) will be the last to support Python 2. More at …

A new report finds gaming is now more lucrative in the UK than video and music combined.

We keep getting older, the games stay the same (and science backs that up).

The closing of the subway tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn would have been one of the largest disruptions New York City had faced in recent years.

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In 1952, well before developmental biologists spoke in terms of Hoxgenes and trannoscription factors, or even understood DNA’s structure,…

The same codes needed to thwart errors in quantum computers may also give the fabric of space-time its intrinsic robustness.

PyPy for low-latency systems Recently I have merged the gc-disable branch, introducing a couple of features which are useful when you need...

In "Red Dead Redemption 2," a birder finds joy and despair in a realistic portrayal of wildlife in the pre-conservation era.

Don’t rub the money directly on your face.

Stretching more than 1,200km between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Pamir Highway is one of the world's wildest roads – and for the intrepid traveller, one of the most epic road trips.

Florida man’s got nothin’ on these dirty primates.