By taking general relativity into higher dimensions, a trio of physicists has proven that a mathematical pattern of ripples ...

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On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge, sci-fi author, former professor, and father of the technological singularity concept, died from Parkinson's disease at age 79 on March 20, ...

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The term “artificial intelligence” was only just coined about 60 years ago, but today, we have no shortage of experts pondering the future of AI. Chief amongst the topics considered is the ...

'It will be the inflection point where we move into a different regime.' ...

The Singularity is back in the spotlight, thanks to a Time cover story focusing on inventor/futurist Ray Kurzweil and his forecast that "the end of human civilization as we know it" will come in about ...

In this video from FOSDEM’19, Eduardo Arango from Sylabs presents: Reproducible Science with Containers on HPC through Singularity. One of the biggest problems in scientific HPC is ensuring that ...