Thomas Anderson – otherwise known as Neo – is walking up a flight of stairs when he sees a black cat shake itself and walk past a doorway. Then the moment seems to replay before his eyes. Just a touch ...

One of the promises underwriting the AI boom is that software will be able to use computers on our behalf. At the low end, this looks like the “deep research” tools AI firms have already released that ...

Explore the physics of oscillation with this Python simulation! Watch as we model the motion of a mass on a spring, visualizing the forces at play and how they affect the system over time.

The idea that we’re living inside a simulation, as popularized by “The Matrix” franchise, has piqued the interest of scientists for decades. In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed in a highly ...

The true nature of our universe as been an open debate for millennia, and recently, scientists and philosophers have pondered whether it might be a hyper-realistic simulation perpetuated by some super ...

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Falcons head coach Raheem Morris believes the Patriots' defense simulated the snap count on a crucial play. Billie Weiss / Getty Images After suffering a crushing 24-23 loss on the road to the New ...

FOXBOROUGH – Did Patriots’ defensive play a role in a crucial mis-timed snap? The Atlanta Falcons believe so. Milton Williams disagrees. Michael Penix and his offense were near midfield with 2:09 left ...

A new technical paper titled “OmniSim: Simulating Hardware with C Speed and RTL Accuracy for High-Level Synthesis Designs” was published by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology. “High-Level ...

The Devils Hole pupfish is often described—probably accurately—as the “rarest fish in the world.” The fish is about an inch long and sapphire blue, with wary-looking dark eyes. It lives in only two ...

Quantum field theory (QFT) is a physics framework that describes how particles and forces behave based on principles rooted in quantum mechanics and Albert Einstein's special relativity theory. This ...

Procedural generation is a big part of game design these days. Usually you generate your map, and [Fractal Philosophy] has decided to go one step further: using a procedurally-generated world from an ...