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Poker pro takes on AI

Technology

Poker AI competes to beat top players in no-limit game

Artificial intelligence could be close to conquering poker, as one system takes on four top players, while another has already beaten humans, it is claimed

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microscopic metal membrane

Technology

Squeezed light cools tiny drum to coldest temperature ever

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Physics

Physicists can't agree on what the quantum world looks like

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Turing running

Humans

The Turing Guide: Last words on an enigmatic codebreaker?

Culture

floating man

Physics

Antigravity: Discovering if antimatter falls upwards

Features

Machine learning lets computer create melodies to fit any lyrics

Technology

Machine learning lets computer create melodies to fit any lyrics

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Quantum computers ditch all the lasers for easier engineering

Technology

Quantum computers ditch all the lasers for easier engineering

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Quantum photocells, which look like an arrangement of grey squares on a darker background

Life

Quantum solar cells could explain why plants are green

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People's online searches could reveal problems with their drugs

Technology

Spikes in search engine data predict when drugs will be recalled

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Starfield where the neutron stars observed are located

Space

Quantum particles seen distorting light from a neutron star

Astronomers have at last observed polarisation of light by virtual particles in a neutron star's magnetic field, a long-expected quantum effect

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Physics

Physics may be a small but crucial fraction of our reality

Culture

Space

Gravity may have chased light in the early universe

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Physics

The world in 2076: The theory of everything is here – we think

Features

Space

The inventions of our lifetime, picked by the people who know

Features

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