If you’ve spent any time on Facebook recently, then you may well have seen a glimpse of the future of the internet: rows and ...

The Singularity Theory predicts a moment when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence. Not gradually but ...

Close observers of the AI development community may have noticed a particular idea discussed within the field that goes beyond workflow automation and data analytics into something much more esoteric: ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar feature: the singularity at the center—a point, hidden behind the event ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vernor Vinge is one of the first thinkers to popularize a technological Singularity. Vernor Vinge, prolific science-fiction writer ...

According to Ars Technica, Vinge, a professor and computer scientist who was well-known for his hard science fiction novels such as A Fire Upon the Deep and Rainbow’s End, passed away yesterday. A ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time ...