A Seahawk USV participates in a U.S. Pacific Fleet exercise, April 2021. (CMCS Shannon Renfroe/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy is moving swiftly to integrate and deploy unmanned surface vessels, with three ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

Thomas Anderson – otherwise known as Neo – is walking up a flight of stairs when he sees a black cat shake itself and walk past a doorway. Then the moment seems to replay before his eyes. Just a touch ...

Rizwan Virk owns shares in Google, and in various video game companies. He is also a venture partner in Griffin Gaming Partners, a venture capital fund dedicated to investing in video game-related ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...

The true nature of our universe as been an open debate for millennia, and recently, scientists and philosophers have pondered whether it might be a hyper-realistic simulation perpetuated by some super ...

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If such a simulation were possible, the simulated universe could itself give rise to life, which in turn might create its own simulation. This recursive possibility makes it seem highly unlikely that ...

While on a 7,500-mile trip around the Pacific Ocean this past summer, a small surface drone caught an unexpected sight: a Chinese navy destroyer. That small vessel was Lightfish, an autonomous surface ...

EMGEPRON and TideWise have jointly developed the Suppressor 7 multi-purpose USV. (Victor Barreira) Brazil's state-owned company Empresa Gerencial de Projetos Navais (EMGEPRON) and local unmanned ...

Ocean services provider DeepOcean, with its joint venture partners Solstad Offshore and Østensjø Rederi, has taken delivery of a newbuild uncrewed surface vessel (USV), which will be used for subsea ...

What if gravity were informed by the way matter was arranged in the universe — and a sign that we were living in a reality composed by a giant computer? In a new paper published in the journal AIP ...