Right now, jumping into a simulated world takes a headset and a few minutes. Augmented reality goes the other way, dropping ...

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality itself, researchers argue. Reading time 3 minutes How do we know we’re not ...

Is it possible we’re living in a virtual simulation? Professor Catherine Heymans, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, does the ...

Remember The Matrix? The 1999 film introduced millions of people to the idea that reality as we know it might just be a ...

SERIAL entrepreneur Elon Musk has made the sensational claim we are most likely living in a computer simulation, and warned that if we aren’t, our world will probably end soon. The tech genius, who is ...

Astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize winner George Smoot has presented some convincing arguments on why he believes we already living in a simulation. He says that the progress of video games ...

Elon Musk says the likelihood that we are not actually all living in a simulated world is ‘one in billions’. In this episode of Chips with Everything, philosopher and cognitive scientist Dr David ...

Virtual reality (VR) is simply an artificial experience that tricks your mind into thinking it is somewhere else by stimulating your senses. This could be through sight, sound or even touch - and it's ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...