Thomas Anderson – otherwise known as Neo – is walking up a flight of stairs when he sees a black cat shake itself and walk past a doorway. Then the moment seems to replay before his eyes. Just a touch ...

The idea that we’re living inside a simulation, as popularized by “The Matrix” franchise, has piqued the interest of scientists for decades. In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed in a highly ...

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 ...

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If such a simulation were possible, the simulated universe could itself give rise to life, which in turn might create its own simulation. This recursive possibility makes it seem highly unlikely that ...

The Rotary Club of Cookeville, in partnership with the Cookeville-Putnam County Chamber of Commerce, Upper Cumberland Human Resources Agency and Putnam County School System, recently hosted a ...

Astronomers have long relied on supercomputers to simulate the immense structure of the Universe, but a new tool called Effort.jl is changing that. By mimicking the behavior of complex cosmological ...

Abstract: The hybrid high-voltage DC circuit breaker (DCCB) is equipment with the typical nonlinear response in fault-clearing. As an alternative or prior step to drive and control system testing, it ...

While no one has figured out how to make money from generative artificial intelligence, that hasn’t stopped Google DeepMind from pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with a big pile of inference.

Nevada Sanchez, co-founder of Butterfly Network, talks to Machine Design about the organization making life-saving technology available to frontline healthcare workers in the developing world. In ...

In everyday life, many systems obey simple, linear rules: if you pull twice as hard on a spring, it stretches twice as far. However, when we introduce very large forces or complicated interactions, ...