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In his new book, “A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness,” the science writer Michael Pollan takes us on a tour of ...

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For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions about whether Sam Altman, OpenAI’s C.E.O., and Greg Brockman, his second-in ...

We humans are complex creatures, and nowhere is this clearer than on social media. A veritable buffet of the best and worst of humanity, social media is a cultural ...

One would think Rowling-bashing had become a redundant activity, one that would make Caesar say ad nauseam, like Marvel sequels, but we still keep getting them every other day. The latest brave ...

Under Pichai, the company that invented modern AI is finally winning the race to deploy it—and making ‘AI everywhere’ a ...

Marx nailed capitalism’s flaws—but his “dictatorship of the proletariat” delivered tyranny instead of freedom. The real ...

Hoare is the man who developed quicksort at the age of 26. Quicksort is an algorithm that repeatedly selects one random piece of data from randomly arranged data, sorts the data by whether it is ...

Future quantum computers will need to be less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages.