IF you’ve seen slick casino dramas or heist films, you’ll know the scene: a clever player counts cards, wins big and then ...

Colin Jones has toiled in the cacophonous, windowless, artificially lighted corridors of casinos across the country in an effort to beat the house with math. He has worked to master the art of card ...

Update 4:19 pm: This story has been modified to include reaction from the creator of the card-counting iPhone app. Since the July 2008 launch of the App Store, Apple has maintained a sort of moral ...

There is considerable mystery and confusion online regarding card counting. Much of this is fueled by the movies and Hollywood’s version of reality. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, Zach Galifianakis in ...

Dear Mark: I'm puzzled by your historical avoidance of a whole area of gambling that would increase the pleasure and reduce the cost to every one of your readers. This area is card counting in ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from the Today @ PC World blog at PCWorld.com. A new card counting program in the iTunes App Store may be illicitly helping gamblers beat the casinos ...

Venture Capital (VC) can be a rewarding place you could invest your money. But nowadays, some are reconsidering whether to invest in VC as an asset class at all. A number of VCs have responded by ...

Finally, a useful application for machine vision! Forget all that self-driving nonsense and facial recognition stuff – we’ve finally got an AI that can count cards at the blackjack table. The system ...