March 25, 2016

Microsoft wants to bring HoloLens users into a conversation with other folks who aren’t in the room, using a technology developed by its research division that enables “holoportation.” It’s a product of Microsoft Research’s Interactive 3D Technologies group, which released…

March 24, 2016

Microsoft, owner of the popular video game, revealed that computer scientists and amateurs will be able to evaluate and develop AI software using its virtual landscapes from July. The company says Minecraft is more "sophisticated" than existing AI research simulations…

March 24, 2016

Loved by millions around the world as a game and as a creative way to learn how to code, Minecraft will become an advanced AI playground for developers this July.

March 23, 2016

Sleep apnea and smartphone interfaces don’t immediately sound related but as Shyam Gollakota, a computer science professor at the University of Washington, and his fellow researchers discovered, the technology used to track the former can mitigate some problems with the…

March 22, 2016

An ambitious plan is underway to give a million schoolchildren a tiny device designed to inspire them to get coding.

March 18, 2016

An artificially intelligent program developed by Google called AlphaGo has now beaten the reigning human player of the board game Go. AlphaGo joins Deep Blue and Watson, which have both overcome their human competition to become the champions of the…

March 14, 2016

Scientists can now use the popular game to let artificial intelligence systems learn how to do things.