The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

The web application can be compiled and run locally using Eclipse, or in a cloud development container like Github Codespaces or gitpod.io. Both of these services provide a number of free usage hours ...

A global leader in simulation programming for complex power electronics systems is donating software to Alfred University, which engineering students will use to model electrical circuits, power ...

Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream. They say their ...

Rizwan Virk owns shares in Google, and in various video game companies. He is also a venture partner in Griffin Gaming Partners, a venture capital fund dedicated to investing in video game-related ...

A computer simulation shows how urban life has eroded our ties to the outdoors—and how we could reverse it by 2050. A new study revealed that humanity's connection to nature has declined by around 60 ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...

The true nature of our universe as been an open debate for millennia, and recently, scientists and philosophers have pondered whether it might be a hyper-realistic simulation perpetuated by some super ...

Researchers at the quantum computing firm Quantinuum used a new Helios-1 quantum computer to simulate a mathematical model that has long been used to study superconductivity. These simulations are not ...

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