Automata theory and formal languages form the mathematical foundation of computation, characterising the capabilities and limitations of abstract machines and the languages they recognise. Rooted in ...

In a battered trunk full of his great-grandfather’s nitrate film rolls, a Michigan man discovered a relic of filmmaking history: a copy of “Gugusse and the Automaton,” a long-lost 45-second film by ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. After being lost for more than a century, a vision of the future from 1897 has finally been unearthed—in a rather unexpected place. But while this ...

It’s not every day you get to watch a nearly 130-year-old movie and feel the joy of new discovery. Thanks to the U.S. Library of Congress, a movie long-considered the first piece of science fiction ...

The Library of Congress recently discovered a copy of a “long-lost” film made in ~1897 by George Méliès called Gugusse and the Automaton (Gugusse et l’Automate), which “had not been seen by anyone in ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Helldivers 2's Machinery of Oppression update is tasking Super Earth's finest with conquering the "dark heart of socialism" and so far, things are not ...

Something odd is happening with the Helldivers 2 social media this week. It would seem the Automatons (an enemy faction of murderous robots in the game) have taken over the comms and are filling it ...

To commemorate the achievement, the lauded maker has devised an impressive and unique automaton clock—taller than most toddlers—that tells the time not only here on earth, but also across the solar ...

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules. Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on ...

NieR Automata fans just got some good news, courtesy of a new update from a lead developer on NieR Automata, and seemingly its sequel. The update specifically comes the way of NieR series producer, ...