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, ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Moore’s Law was a ten-year forecast on transistors that instead held true for decades. We are reaching the physical limit of how powerful the same size of computer chip can be. For those who seek the ...

Let's face it. Most what we think we know about the Universe may come from science, but most of what we think we know about the future comes from science fiction. So it only makes sense that the New ...

Many computer scientists take it on faith that one day machines will become conscious. Led by futurist Ray Kurzweil, proponents of the so-called strong-AI school believe that a sufficient number of ...

Australian metalcore outfit Northlane have spent a majority of the year touring around the world in support of their latest disc ‘Singularity.’ Loudwire managed to get a few minutes to chat with ...

In this video from the 2017 HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference, Greg Kurtzer from LBNL presents: Singularity: Containers for Science, reproducibility, and HPC. “Explore how Singularity liberates ...

No human is an island, so why should research scientists be any different? YCombinator backed startup, Science Exchange, helps researchers hire the expertise, equipment, and labor of other scientists ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Univa®, a leading innovator in workload management and optimization solutions for high-performance computing (HPC) and enterprise customers, today announced a partnership ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This essay presents the argument that black speculative fiction can be construed generally as a dialectical riposte to the broader sf megatext ...