The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

Build an empire, pilot a jumbo jet, or try your hand at industrial power-washing with these engrossing sim and sandbox games. In 2014, I began my career at PCMag as a freelancer. That blossomed into a ...

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 ...

Scientists at the University of British Columbia Okanagan say they’ve found a mathematical limit that shuts down the Simulation Hypothesis entirely. Drawing on Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, their ...

For two decades, scientists have seriously considered whether we’re living in a simulated universe. A computer scientist at the University of Louisville explores ways that humans could try to hack our ...

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...

What if gravity were informed by the way matter was arranged in the universe — and a sign that we were living in a reality composed by a giant computer? In a new paper published in the journal AIP ...

A new technical paper titled “Modeling and Simulating Emerging Memory Technologies: A Tutorial” was published by researchers at TU Dortmund, TU Dresden, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and FAU ...

In the television show Black Mirror, a socially awkward genius traps his coworkers’ cloned consciousnesses aboard a digital spaceship, the USS Callister. The clones—castrated and obedient to their ...

Unless you, dear reader, are a web-scraping software bot quietly pulling this text into a data-hungry LLM, you’re probably a human. And though you’ve likely never seen me in person, you have good ...