The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals ...

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...

Conspiracy theories are nothing new on TikTok, and another one of them has gone viral, offering alleged proof we are all living in a simulated universe created and controlled by some unknown power we ...

What if everything we know about the world is just a simulation? This thought-provoking question has been at the center of the Simulation Theory, a concept that has become increasingly popular in ...

If we’re all living inside a complex computer simulation, we should probably accept our fate — lest our universe get unplugged. Greene invokes the idea of a double-blind clinical trial, the gold ...

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 ...

The idea that reality—the universe, our world, and everything we perceive—is a simulation has fascinated philosophers and scientists for millennia, but new findings suggest that the theory, despite ...

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...

Rizwan Virk owns shares in Google, and in various video game companies. He is also a venture partner in Griffin Gaming Partners, a venture capital fund dedicated to investing in video game-related ...