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

Researchers have laid out a new approach to enhance artificial intelligence-powered computer vision technologies by adding physics-based awareness to data-driven techniques. The study offered an ...

The death of US computer scientist and physicist Edward Fredkin this June went largely unnoticed, except for a belated obituary in the New York Times. Yet despite never quite becoming the household ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

LeCun, who currently teaches at NYU and formerly served as the Chief Scientist at Meta AI, pointed out a significant weakness ...

In preparation for the transition of KJSEA candidates to senior schools, the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) ...

It might be possible, physicists say, but not anytime soon. And there’s no guarantee that we humans will understand the result. By Dennis Overbye Once upon a time, Albert Einstein described scientific ...

Black holes — remnants of collapsed stars — have immense mass that curves spacetime so all paths lead inward. They also ...

As a teenager in the Czech Republic, Lenka Zdeborová glimpsed her future in an Isaac Asimov novel. A character in Asimov’s “Foundation” series invents a mathematical method for predicting the path of ...

Leonard Sax, everyone’s favorite advocate of gender-based education, has a commentary in this week’s Ed Week, “Where the Girls Aren’t: What the Media Missed in the AAUW’s Report on Gender Equity.” ...