Before we can test for AI consciousness, we need to understand how consciousness actually emerges, experts say.

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There must be a willingness not to instrumentalise struggles. The left has become accustomed to looking at the movement as an obstacle. The anti-racist movement is one of the essential devices that ...

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved ...

We increasingly live in the world of the visceral abstract, where the technologies that shape our lives are deeply rooted in concepts.

A new book by one of the founders of research on neural networks covers more than 40 years of scientific work that led to the ...

This visual logic quiz is designed to challenge your perception, reasoning, and IQ. 易 Each puzzle hides its answer in the details, and nothing is quite as simple as it first appears. As you move ...

The Windows 11 Snipping Tool now has a visual search engine. You can learn more about the item you capture via a Bing search. You can also extract or translate text and even solve a math equation. The ...

More data is emerging supporting a sharp decline in the number of young adults identifying as transgender or non-binary. Last week, Fox News Digital reported on data shared by Eric Kaufman, a ...

Investigators using technology that lets them analyze DNA quickly without a lab have positively identified the remains of 14 of the 16 people killed in a massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant ...

New papers on Apple's machine learning blog detail how AI can be used for faster, cheaper, and more effective QE testing, as well as for bug fixing and identification. Now, one of its new studies ...