What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic. Although ...

After Analogue’s Nt, Super Nt, and Pocket, one may logically ask oneself if they really need another high-end Nintendo clone. Nintendo already offers a convenient, if impermanent, way to play many of ...

Re “What Is It Like to Be a Computer?,” by Barbara Gail Montero (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 10): Dr. Montero’s essay argues that artificial intelligence may one day become conscious. But I wonder if ...

The 'Dark Knight' and 'Inception' director wants his 2026 release to be an epic on a scale Hollywood has never seen. Reading time 2 minutes When Christopher Nolan, a filmmaker known for making films ...

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...

Consciousness is the ultimate question of existence. Nothing is more essential than our experience. Yet we have no consensus, and perhaps no clue, about what it actually is. The trouble, in part, is ...

If you don’t know anything about neuroscience, that’s okay — one researcher’s striking theory might send us all back to the start anyway. Consciousness is typically defined as immediate awareness of ...

During Meta Connect this week, the company released an exclusive 3D trailer of James Cameron’s upcoming film Avatar: Fire and Ash. There’s no confirmation yet that we’re getting the full thing, ...

A new technical paper titled “Leveraging 3D Technologies for Hardware Security: Opportunities and Challenges” was published by researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Columbia ...