Google DeepMind announced on 21 July that its software had cracked a set of maths problems at the level of the world’s top secondary-school students, achieving a gold-medal score on questions from the ...

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has said that inconsistency in artificial intelligence (AI) is a major reason why AI can perform exceptionally well in some areas but still fail at simpler tasks.

Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, announced a breakthrough in optical computing, published in Nature. The analog optical computer, developed by Microsoft Research, uses light for calculations instead of ...

See the world through the lens of science. Sign up for our free, daily newsletter Today in Science. As a child of the 1990s, I couldn’t avoid the game-turned-best-seller Tetris. Launched in 1984 by ...

It would take normal computer 10,000 years to solve the same problem. Google announced Wednesday it designed a machine that would take only 200 seconds to solve a problem that the world's fastest ...