Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In our AI-powered age of Alexa and ChatGPT, the idea of a mechanical automaton may seem out of step with the ...

tea-carrying dolls are famous, but in the West, many ``automata'' dolls with advanced driving functions, such as ``dolls that write specified sentences by hand,'' have been created. Timeline, a ...

There’s an old puzzle that requires the solver to form as many whole numbers as possible, starting with 1, using only the digit 4 exactly four times, together with ordinary arithmetic and algebraic ...