A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

But there’s one spec that has caused some concern among Ars staffers and others with their eyes on the Steam Machine: The GPU comes with just 8GB of dedicated graphics RAM, an amount that is steadily ...

Following months of rumors, Valve finally announced the new Steam Machine earlier this week. And while I might question the company's decision to ship a system with only 8GB of VRAM in 2026, I believe ...

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McDonald's is facing a $900 million lawsuit over its ice cream machines. Discover the alleged scheme with Taylor and Kytch's solution in this exposé. Man's dishwasher discovery prompts thousands to ...

Solving optimization problems is challenging for existing digital computers and even for future quantum hardware. The practical importance of diverse problems, from healthcare to financial ...

ABSTRACT: A 2023 paper discussed how the real numbers between 0 and 1 could be represented by an infinite tree structure called the “infinity tree”, which contains only a countably infinite number of ...

In 1950, Alan Turing proposed his famous test as a measure of intelligence. A human judge would chat through text with both a person and a machine. If the judge couldn’t spot the difference, the ...

The Post Correspondence Problem is an undecidable problem in which you’re given two lists of strings, and the goal is to find a sequence of indices such that the ...

The Post Correspondence Problem (PCP) is an undecidable problem. It asks whether a set of domino-like pairs of strings can be arranged in a sequence so that the top and bottom strings match. There's ...

Most people know that the famous Turing Test, a thought experiment conceived by computer pioneer Alan Turing, is a popular measure of progress in artificial intelligence. Many mistakenly assume, ...