In September 2025, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research published its most comprehensive assessment to date of Earth's planetary boundaries. The headline number has already circulated: ...

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a ...

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

We surrendered our attention to the feed. We surrendered our memory to the search engine. We surrendered our solitude to the notification. Why remember what can be retrieved?

Before intelligence can be programmed, it must first be understood as a process, one that nature has been refining across three distinct timescales. This video traces the deep logic connecting ...

Quantum computing is advancing fast, and nations are racing to field the first machines powerful enough to break modern encryption. This race has direct consequences for the commercial space industry, ...

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help researchers understand the tractability of problems in other areas.

For years, Russia's military appeared capable of sustaining a long war through manpower, equipment, and sheer industrial output. But beneath the surface, analysts, economists, and military observers ...

The long-awaited Steam Machine console is now available to pre-order ahead of its June 30th launch date. Sort of. The 512 GB model starts at $1,049, and it gets up to $1,428 for the 2 TB model with a ...

The review embargo for Valve’s Steam Machine is finally up, and after reading through impressions from major publications, one thing becomes immediately clear: the reviews aren’t nearly as mixed as ...