Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...

The long-debated idea that we might all be living in a computer simulation—popularized by science fiction films like The Matrix—has taken a major hit.

After a generation of record growth, Seattle's tech employers have not only pulled back on hiring but shifted billions into AI that could cut hiring even further.

The odds suggest humans are almost certainly living in a simulation, according to Nick Bostrom’s simulation trilemma and ...

This achievement makes India capable of quantum computing using the different properties of light-based particles, instead of relying on their interactions.

A neurotechnology start-up claims to have achieved something that sounds like science fiction, transmitting a word from one ...

Up until now, the simulation hypothesis, which has occasionally received backing from the likes of Elon Musk and Neil ...

In discussing where we went wrong, a panel of luminaries, including Vint Cerf and the Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle, sees three Cs: centralization, copyright, and competition.

This week in science: bright blue dogs spotted in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; the pros of going gray; a kind of computer ...

Shankar Raman says IITM Pravartak aims to bridge India’s research-to-industry gap by developing indigenous technologies in ...

If we become quantum tomorrow, data is lost today. Quantum comes down to size and efficiency. Current computers approach ...