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 ...

Major tech companies have actively reoriented themselves around AI and machine learning: Google is now “AI-first,” Uber has ML running through its veins and internal AI research labs keep popping up.

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 -- ...