The history of computing could arguably be divided into three eras: that of mainframes, minicomputers, and microcomputers. Minicomputers provided an important bridge between the first mainframes and ...

A team of theoretical physicists working with Microsoft today published an amazing pre-print research paper describing the universe as a self-learning system of evolutionary laws. In other words: We ...

DALL-E / DALL-E Not to be self-pitying, but these are hard times to be a professional critic. With the advent of social media, anyone who imagines themselves a critic (which is to say, everyone) now ...

PART TWO: This is part two of a series on my journey to appreciating TAR. Part one addressed defined TAR, described how it worked and provided tips on when you should consider using TAR. Part two ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Twenty years ago, a young artificial intelligence researcher named Eliezer Yudkowsky ...

What did you dream of doing when you were 16 years old? I wanted to drive a car and travel the world. But American mathematician Ray Solomonoff had more ambitious goals at that age. He wanted to find ...

What do the HP-1000 and the DEC VAX 11/730 have in common with the video games Tempest and Battlezone? More than you might think. All of those machines, along with many others from that time period, ...