A viral theory claims world ended in 2012 and humanity now lives in a simulation. The idea is linked to Mayan calendar and ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, "The Matrix," a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn't real. It's a virtual reality, created ...

Simulation theory proposes that our reality is a sophisticated computer simulation, raising profound questions about the nature of consciousness and existence. Simulation theory is a fascinating ...

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...

Physicists have long struggled to explain why the universe started with conditions suitable for life to evolve. Why do the physical laws and constants take the very specific values that allow stars, ...

Elon Musk thinks we’re living in the Matrix. “If you assume any rate of improvement at all, games will eventually be indistinguishable from reality,” he told Joe Rogan in 2018, before somehow ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Comixology Originals and Dark Horse Comics are teaming up to bring not one but two series from ...

Between books like Youth and Lost Falls, writer Curt Pires is one of the most compelling reasons to be reading the Comixology Originals library. Now Pires is debuting three new series on Comixology in ...

(The Conversation) — In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, “The Matrix,” a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn’t real. It’s a ...