I’ll start this off with a question, and it may take you some time to connect it to the bulk of this column’s subject matter. But I promise we’ll get there. The question is this: who’s the most famous ...

His new book, about the mystery of consciousness, strengthens the case that technology will never truly replicate humans.

The resulting outcome is that you have A.I. systems that have learned what it means to solve a problem that takes quite a ...

Allyn Meyers, the newly elected chairman of the Rhode Island Republican Party, aims to build a professional, election-ready ...

Both boosters and sceptics have strongly held opinions on AI tools like ChatGPT, but after an experiment in vibe coding, I have realised that both camps are wrong, says Jacob Aron ...

Avalanche is a high-speed, multi-chain platform: It is a system of many blockchains designed to solve scalability issues by ...

The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.

Before social media rose up to feed us the latest in-jokes, a staple of late-'90s television made history by featuring one of ...

Large language models (LLMs) can suggest hypotheses, write code and draft papers, and AI agents are automating parts of the research process. Although this can accelerate science, it also makes it ...

Adam Holloway initially assumed his shoulder pain was a simple strain caused by regularly playing an energetic new virtual reality (VR) computer game. The pain came on ‘very gradually’ and while the ...

A major YouTube outage left over 800,000 users affected as Google confirmed a recommendations system issue, sparking ...