Video games can add to kids’ learning during COVID-19 pandemic
As the cold weather approaches and we look for indoor activities, video games are both fun and educational. (Shutterstock)This year...
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Child’s play in the time of COVID: screen games are still ‘real’ play
ShutterstockPlay is a core part of a healthy childhood, through which children develop social, communication, cognitive and physical skills. Children’s...
Why is kids’ video game Roblox worth $38 billion and what do parents need to know?
RobloxWhen the children’s digital game Roblox launched on the New York Stock Exchange last week, the company’s share price rapidly...
Robots can outwit us on the virtual battlefield, so let’s not put them in charge of the real thing
DeepMind's artificial intelligence-powered AlphaStar (green) repels an attack in the virtual world of StarCraft II. DeepMindArtificial intelligence developer DeepMind has...
To engage LGBTQ+ people in data collection, we need to look at its harmful history
STILLFX / ShutterstockIn the 1950s, the UK government formed a committee to investigate fears of a homosexual “problem” in Britain....
Intel can’t even grow profits during a global chip shortage – where did it all go wrong?
Intel Inside no longer means what it once did. Slejven Djurakovic, CC BY-SAAmerican chip-making giant Intel is a shadow of...
A chess program helped this 8-year-old raise $240,000 and get his family out of a homeless shelter – here’s what to look for in a chess program for your child
Third-grader Tanitoluwa Adewumi was crowned as a New York State Scholastic chess champion on March 10. GoFundMeBefore he won the...
AI can now learn to manipulate human behaviour
ShutterstockArtificial intelligence (AI) is learning more about how to work with (and on) humans. A recent study has shown how...
We invited an AI to debate its own ethics in the Oxford Union – what it said was startling
'51 million wiki pages down, 3 million to go ...' Allies InteractiveNot a day passes without a fascinating snippet on...
To drive AI forward, teach computers to play old-school text adventure games
Ready player one? WikimediaGames have long been used as test beds and benchmarks for artificial intelligence, and there has been...
