The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces ...

Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...

AI tools promise that anyone can build apps, so I put that claim to the test. After a few minor bumps, I built a custom ...

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

NORTH CHARLESTON — On a recent fall afternoon, a group of students at Malcolm C. Hursey Montessori Elementary leaned over a chessboard, their eyes fixed on coach Susan Key as she pointed at each piece ...

Exclusive: Daniel Naroditsky “felt weight on his shoulders” from cheating allegations, says Peter Giannatos, who found him dead at home in October.

With the current mania for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is much anguish about AI replacing jobs. Many university lecturers despair that the pinnacle of education, the ability of a ...

The room is mostly silent as two players muse intently over a chessboard, pondering their next moves. They take time to pause, think and strategize while their instructor watches. “I was always an ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Chess.com has disclosed a data breach after threat actors gained unauthorized access to a third-party file transfer application used by the platform. The incident occurred in June 2025, with the ...