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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...