Card counting in blackjack is a legal yet contentious strategy that uses mental tracking of cards to shift the odds toward the player. While it doesn’t break gambling laws, casinos see it as a profit ...

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 ...

Q. Why does counting cards help a blackjack player? Does it help them to know what’s coming next? A. No one can know what’s coming next, but card counters don’t need such specific information to gain ...

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 ...