The late ‘90s were a weird time. Home computing became increasingly common and the internet hatched into existence, still gooey and ill-mannered. As we turned the millennial page, technology promised ...

Are we living in “The Matrix” in real life? In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction. Dr. Melvin ...

Twenty years later, the Matrix is once again asking us to make an ultimate choice. Would you rather live comfortably in the ...

Do we live in a simulation? Philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed the “Simulation Hypothesis” in 2001, arguing that humanity could live in a constructed universe run by a computer simulation that ...

The Matrix as a franchise is dense with lore about various aspects of the Wachowskis' iconic universe, but there's still a big unanswered question about the inhabitants of the saga's titular ...

While we’re not quite living in “The Matrix” — at least in a falsifiable sense — it seems that something comparable to the film’s legendary slowed-down “bullet time” sequence can, under the right ...

A group of leading scientists, philosophers and astrophysicists have claimed there's a strong chance we could actually be living in a Matrix-style virtual reality. One which - like the film - we have ...