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

In conventional computing, we can draw a clean line between software and hardware. In brains, there is no such separation of different scales. In the brain, everything influences everything else, from ...

But there’s one spec that has caused some concern among Ars staffers and others with their eyes on the Steam Machine: The GPU comes with just 8GB of dedicated graphics RAM, an amount that is steadily ...

"We have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of quantum gravity," says Dr. Faizal. "Therefore, no physically complete and ...

A rotating cylinder with its side cut away to expose the core, showing patches of purple, blue, green, yellow, and orange that are dense in the middle and more diffuse toward the edges. This rotating ...

In an increasingly digital environment where data and advanced analytics challenge traditional economic modeling, the Bank of England is applying a fusion of machine learning (ML) with economic theory ...

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We came across a bullish thesis on International Business Machines Corporation on wallstreetbets subreddit by Gambler_Addict_Pro. In this article, we will summarize the bulls’ thesis on IBM.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

A self-verifying proof that the Thiele Machine is a universal model of computation which strictly contains the Turing Machine as a blind, special case.

Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107 and — wait for it — 47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. These are the first five busy ...