All the world’s a stage. Or is it a simulation? The idea that what we consider reality is actually a simulation was first proposed by scientist Nick Bostrom, and it is frequently addressed in fiction ...

That hypothesis, famously probed in the 1999 film The Matrix, is the subject of a new book by Rizwan Virk, a computer scientist and video game developer who leads Play Labs at the Massachusetts ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Edward Segal is a PR expert who covers crisis-related news and topics. Like pilots, some business executives are using computer ...

In this week's It’s Debatable article, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate whether we're all living in a computer simulation like the Matrix. Rosen retired as a professor from the Texas Tech ...

Computer simulations have allowed researchers to view the very large and very small with unprecedented ability; however, it often comes at a cost. As I have written previously, if one is to 'truly' ...

Much like Neo in The Matrix, one computer scientist explores how humanity could hack its way out of its own simulation.

Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space rockets, mathematical puzzles, dinosaur bones, black holes, supernovas, and sometimes, the drama of philosophical ...

Ray Kurzweil has spoken about how current Deep Learning systems needs billions of examples to get trained to human level of capabilities or beyond. The Deep learning system AlphaGop Zero taught itself ...

Important tasks like water desalination, dehumidification, and nuclear waste processing all involve expensive separation ...