In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, "The Matrix," a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn't real. It's a virtual reality, created ...

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A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s ...

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PROJECT GENIE, an experimental artificial-intelligence model released by Google in January, is a jaw-dropping technical achievement. Give the tool a prompt—an image, say, or a brief snippet of ...