Activision has released a new trailer for Singularity, featuring the deadlock function of the Time Manipulation Device, and how it slows the momentum of moving objects. It's below the break, courtesy ...

Over at Sylabs, Ian Lumb writes that Singularity containers can liberate EDA toolchains from specific operating systems, making this engineering process more sustainable over the long term. At many ...

The theory of technological singularity predicts a point in time when humans lose control over their technological inventions and subsequent developments due to the rise of machine consciousness and, ...

The 2009 Singularity Summit is coming up this weekend (October 3-4) in New York City. If previous years are any guide, the next week or so will be filled with breathless articles on tech sites and ...

In 1993, Vernor Vinge, a computer scientist and science fiction writer, first described an event called the Singularity—the point when machine intelligence matches and then surpasses human ...

So what happens when computers transcend us? The notion of the singularity, popularized by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, is that it will be such a profound transformation of our technology, ...

Many computer scientists take it on faith that one day machines will become conscious. Led by futurist Ray Kurzweil, proponents of the so-called strong-AI school believe that a sufficient number of ...