Every day and night, hundreds of thousands of intense, brief flashes of radiation suddenly flicker on and then off all…
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The simulated universe theory implies that our universe, with all its galaxies, planets and life forms, is a meticulously programmed…
In June, an IBM computing executive claimed quantum computers were entering the “utility” phase, in which high-tech experimental devices become useful.…
Viewed from the Voyager 1 space probe as it passed beyond the edge of the solar system, Earth and Venus…
In 1950, British computer scientist Alan Turing proposed an experimental method for answering the question: can machines think? He suggested…
On September 24 this year, a Nasa capsule parachuted down to Earth carrying a precious cache of material grabbed from…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, dropping off its sample of dust and pebbles gathered from the surface of near-Earth…
Cars with internet-connected features are fast becoming all-seeing data-harvesting machines – a so-called “privacy nightmare on wheels”, according to US-based research conducted…
Information is a valuable commodity. And thanks to technology, there are millions of terabytes of it online. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such…
It’s unlikely to be a bad omen, but NASA’s mission Psyche is currently due to launch on Friday 13 October.…