Apple's logo — a silhouette of an apple with ... Is it an obvious nod to Isaac Newton and his theory of gravity, or is it a link to Alan Turing, a man who many consider the father of modern ...

Alan Turing was found dead in bed by his cleaner on 8 June 1954. He had died from cyanide poisoning the day before. A partly eaten apple lay next to his body. The coroner’s verdict was suicide.

Two trailblazing computer scientists have won the 2024 Turing Award for their work in reinforcement learning, a discipline in which machines learn through a reward ...