Quilter's AI designed a working 843-component Linux computer in 38 hours—a task that typically takes engineers 11 weeks. Here's how they did it.

Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM are all racing to build a quantum computer. But the technology's feasibility is as hazy as its physics.

It remains an open question when a commercial quantum computer will emerge that can outperform classical (non-quantum) machines in speed and energy efficiency while solving real-world combinatorial ...

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

Tech mogul Elon Musk believes humanity likely lives in a simulation, citing the rapid evolution of video games from simple graphics to photorealistic experiences. He argues that if this trend ...

The FLAMINGO super simulation maps the universe from its earliest moments but finds galaxies cluster less than cosmological ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human. By Shafik Quoraishee Shafik Quoraishee is a machine-learning engineer ...

Billionaire Elon Musk, on the latest episode of Zerodha cofounder Nikhil Kamath's WTF podcast, said he believes there is a “pretty high” chance we are living in a simulation. Simulation theory ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a black hole, they glow with fierce intensity across the light spectrum. Now, a ...