WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they ...

What would it take to turn the entire cosmos into software-down to the rules that generate space and time? For decades, the simulation hypothesis has resided comfortably in the gap between philosophy ...

Elon Musk recently stated that he believes that humanity might be living inside a simulation, similar to the Keanu Reeves movie, The Matrix. The tech billionaire appeared on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast to ...

A new study has suggested that the idea of our universe being a simulation does not hold up at all, and it's not because of a lack of imagination. The theory that our lived experience is actually a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image credit: YouTube / @nikhil.kamath Elon Musk recently stated that he believes that humanity might be living inside a ...

(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 ...

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 ...

We like to think that the universe follows a strict set of logical rules, but every now and then, we stumble upon facts that ...

Rizwan Virk owns shares in Google, and in various video game companies. He is also a venture partner in Griffin Gaming Partners, a venture capital fund dedicated to investing in video game-related ...