AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer

Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio warns against granting legal rights to cutting-edge technology

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I learned the language of computer programming in my 50s – here’s what I discovered

A writer with no technical background recounts his incredible journey into the realm of coding and its lessons about the modern world

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Number of girls in England taking computing GCSE plummets, study finds

Introduction of new syllabus may be reason number of girls taking subject more than halved in eight years, academics say

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Can you solve it? The word game at the cutting edge of computer science

A crossword puzzle with a twist

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Did you solve it? The magical maths that keeps your data safe

The solutions to today’s problems

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Creator of copy and paste command, Larry Tesler, dies aged 74

Scientist copied the printing technique of physically cutting and glueing printed text