‘Cannon Arm’ and his quest to play an arcade game for 100 hours
Director of extraordinary documentary talks about eccentric obsessives who inspired it
Synonyms of the Fathers – Frank McNally on the complicated ‘fossil history’ of Irish surnames
An Irishman’s Diary
How does a cat get its stripes? A biological puzzle is solved
Geneticists have identified a gene in domestic cats that plays a key role in the pattern
Goldbach’s conjecture: if it’s unprovable, it must be true
Falsehood of the conjecture is incompatible with unprovability
Brexit agreement explainer: Who got what
Among areas covered by deal are trade, services, fisheries, level playing field and security
Tail with a twist – Frank McNally on the unsuspected role of a Kerry cow in the birth of artificial intelligence
An Irishman’s Diary
A week of number-crunching with Alan Turing, John King, and Sam McConkey
An Irishman’s Diary: Numb and numbers
How robotic technology can mimic repetitive business tasks
Automatic tools monitor and learn the behaviour of back-office staff
Johnny Watterson: Jack Charlton was forged from rough, tough raw material
He was a chip off the same granite block as Matt Busby, Bill Shankly and Brian Clough
Computing’s great leap forward not matched by safeguards
Software errors can be perilous – as the airline and motor industries have discovered
Maybe the Rationalists are right – AI could go terribly wrong
An influential minority in tech now think AI going rogue is a pressing problem
Will Eaves wins Wellcome Book Prize for Alan Turing-inspired novel Murmur
Fictionalised story about the arrest, chemical castration and harrowing end of Turing ‘restores faith in human beings’, say judges
When it comes to LGBTQ in tech, inclusivity is a win-win situation
Efforts are being made to engender an all-embracing culture, but it’s an uphill struggle
Can the inventor of the web save its future?
On system’s 30th birthday, Tim Berners-Lee hopes to ensure it stays safe and open
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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