Like many online spaces, League of Legends, the most widely played online video game in the world today, is a breeding ground for abusive language and behavior. Fostered by anonymity and amplified ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

One of the most interesting and useful slang terms to emerge from Reddit in my opinion is ELI5, from its subreddit of the same name, which stands for "Explain It Like I'm 5" years old. The idea is ...

University of Queensland researchers have used an algorithm from a video game to gain insights into the behavior of molecules within live brain cells. Dr Tristan Wallis and Professor Frederic Meunier ...

Over the past year, it's become pretty clear that machines can now beat us in many straightforward zero-sum games. A new study from an international team of computer scientists set out to develop a ...

The two constants in life are taxes and death…on Game of Thrones and now, one ambitious project has crafted an algorithm to determine the likeliness of a character surviving all six episodes of the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.