The concept that we are all computer-generated characters occupying a world as real as the ones gamers explore on their PlayStation consoles isn't exactly a new one. As far back as 1999, Morpheus was ...

The new version of AlphaZero discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication, a core problem in computing that affects thousands of everyday computer tasks. DeepMind has used its board-game ...

Twenty-four years after it was released, sci-fi movie The Matrix is recognised for its groundbreaking special effects, Keanu Reeves’ ultra-cool central performance and, of course, its brain-melting, ...

In this week's It’s Debatable article, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate whether we're all living in a computer simulation like the Matrix. Rosen retired as a professor from the Texas Tech ...

These days, computers are everywhere — this show could be streaming on your laptop or a tiny computer you might know better as the smartphone. Back in 1981, when Kraftwerk released its album Computer ...