The unbeatable poker playing machine (BBC news)

Researchers at the University of Alberta have created a program that is unbeatable at the game of Texas hold'em poker.

The algorithm, called Cepheus, is able to learn from each playing hand and over time improve its decision making and strategy.

It is even available online for people to test, query and even play against.

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Computers 'judge personality better than friends

Computers can be better at predicting our personality than our friends and family, an experiment with tens of thousands of volunteers has indicated.

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Warriors of the net

This video will help you better understand how data is transmitted on a network

A boy oversleeps on train, uses Google Maps to find family 25 years later

Wildern hour of code 2014

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The greatest machine that never was

Computer science began in the '30s ... the 1830s. John Graham-Cumming tells the story of Charles Babbage's mechanical, steam-powered "analytical engine" and how Ada Lovelace, mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, saw beyond its simple computational abilities to imagine the future of computers