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Introduction The inaugural installment of this piece was necessarily foundational, providing the background to the emergence of AI; how it transformed the digital space; applicable regulatory ...

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A 2,000-year-old loom found in a Chinese tomb may hold the key to the origins of computing.

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A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.