Arriving on the backs of the realistic animals in “Stuart Little 2,” the monsters of “Lord of the Rings” and the digital doubles of “Spider-Man” and “Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones,” ...

A man has been arrested in Japan on suspicion of carrying out a virtual mugging spree by using software “bots” to beat up and rob characters in the online computer game Lineage II. The stolen virtual ...

Computer characters and eventually robots could learn complex motor skills like walking and running through trial and error, thanks to a milestone algorithm developed by a University of British ...

A decades-old computer character standard has been updated with a symbol for bitcoin. The Unicode Consortium unveiled Unicode version 10.0 today, which includes the bitcoin "B" symbol. Overall, the ...