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For all of the recent advances in artificial intelligence, machines still struggle with common sense

Salon recaps the best video games that came out this year

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The argument between talent versus practices deepens with the release of a new study

We reviewed three decades of research

Americans have been speaking reverently about emerging technologies for centuries. Is AI hype too?

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Computer scientists have solved the game of checkers, showing that if two players play perfectly, the game will result in a draw. No human can beat their machine.

A new documentary examines how the painter achieved incredible photo-realism 150 years before the camera

David Pulizzi reviews the Rolling Stone tribute album.

While identifying gifted children has helped some receive needed attention, it has sent us down a dangerous path

One warrant accounted for last summer's Mar-a-Lago search but it's unclear what the others were for

The yellow-skinned queen of Springfield has a new makeup line -- following her Playboy spread a few years back

The authors "The Municipalists" and "Famous Men Who Never Lived," discuss writing about immigration, AI and more