What if reality is not reality at all, but a simulation so advanced that no one inside it could ever tell the difference? That is the core of simulation theory, one of the most unsettling ideas to ...

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Anthropic is joining the increasingly crowded field of companies with AI agents that can take direct control of your local computer desktop. The company has announced that Claude Code (and its more ...

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science. Those water-logged scientists, Charles Bennett and Gilles ...

AI startup Manus has released its answer to OpenClaw and Perplexity’s Personal Computer. The similarly dubbed “My Computer” system runs on your Mac or PC, turning your machine into a personal AI agent ...

Quantum mechanics is both the most powerful theory physicists have ever devised and the most baffling. On the one hand, countless experiments have confirmed its predictions; the theory undergirds ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...

Michel van der Aa’s “Theory of Flames” originates from a question: “How can we relate to people if we don’t believe in the same reality?” Michel van der Aa’s film opera “Theory of Flames,” premiering ...

If you imagine the story of the universe as a film endlessly in post-production, cosmologists would be its obsessive editors, constantly tweaking the narrative. The version they are working with is an ...

First look: Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs has crossed another boundary in biological computing. Its latest hardware platform, the CL1, uses living human neurons as the core of a fully ...

Don’t judge, but I’ve been traveling for 30-plus years and have checked a bag on nearly every trip. (Surprisingly, my luggage has only gone missing once.) I didn’t want to lug my suitcase through a ...