The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

Researchers have discovered that optimizing nanotube shapes can amplify energy fields by 30 times, paving the way for ...

It’s so new, it’s generally deemed pre-commercial. Revenues are above zero, but barley so. And rather than being normal sales ...

Quantum computing has long lived in the realm of lab demos and bold PowerPoint slides, but two of the industry’s biggest ...

Soft robots that run on air instead of electricity are starting to behave less like simple inflatable toys and more like ...

Meta's v21 update turns Ray-Ban smart glasses into hearing aids with "Conversation Focus," challenging Apple's AirPods Pro 2.

Researchers from CIC nanoGUNE, in collaboration with the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the Center for ...

OpenAI alum Andrej Karpathy wrote on X that his failure to fully claim the 10x boost of new tools felt like a "skill issue." ...

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

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Research reveals why AI systems can't become conscious—and what radically different computing substrates would be needed to ...