The movie ‘The Matrix’ thrilled viewers with a digitized world, but the notion that our own cosmos might be a simulation has been kicked around by every generation of philosophers since Plato.

Arthur C. Clarke must have smiled when he heard about this:

Attorney Martine Rothblatt, partner in Mahon Patusky Rothblatt & Fisher, filed a motion on Tuesday for preliminary injunction to prevent a corporation from disconnecting a conscious computer.

Is there an “active tattoo” in your future? One member of the Association for Computing Machinery thinks so:

“Such notions as active tattoos will probably contain sensors and ID tags at first, but will begin to contain active memory and computation.”

Cell-phone systems may soon be used to locate and track a car, boat, or plane — even if no one inside is carrying a wireless phone.

Citing growth in no-frills carriers, Singapore Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said the country will build a dedicated passenger terminal to serve them at Changi Airport.

Some people may be aware that a scene they are looking at has changed without being able to identify what that change is. This could be a newly discovered mode of conscious visual perception, according to the psychologist who discovered it. He has dubbed the phenomenon “mindsight”.

Tiny particles that can be delivered through an asthma-style inhaler have destroyed lung cancer cells in a lab dish and will soon be tested in animals.

Throw out the farmed salmon: Genetic engineering has turned mice into a source of healthy omega-3 fat and could let humans produce it themselves.

Good news for spammers, the smart filtering software used to catch spam can be beaten.
With a little ingenuity it is possible to create messages that get past anti-spam filters every single time.