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 ...

Shock Machine is the exciting new project of James Righton, once the keyboard player of 2007 Mercury-Prize-winning nu-ravers, Klaxons. Earning possibly the coolest prize in Christendom can never be an ...

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 -- ...

A company in California just proved that an exotic and potentially game-changing kind of computer can be used to perform a common form of machine learning. The feat raises hopes that quantum computers ...