When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him.

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...

For nearly two centuries, textbooks blamed icy spills on pressure and friction, but new simulations tell another story. The ...

From this chilly vantage point, Villareal can see his monitor and also the top half of 270 Park Avenue, the new JPMorgan Chase tower. At dusk, he takes the controls. Villareal works principally in the ...

Here’s a look back over Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2024. The threat AI brings to jobs in the sector is a good starting point. Various reports are predicting that banks will get fast ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new information.

If there was ever a demonstration of Jevons' paradox, it's the supercomputing sector. According to this law of economics, ...

Robert Bingham started his career making $35,000 in the Navy — now he makes more than $150,000 as director of IT at a cyber-risk management company.

Even if quantum machines capable of breaking Bitcoin’s cryptography are decades away, the work required to update software, ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...

Investors might be able to take advantage of the recent crypto market downturn in order to lower their taxable income.