In 2024, researchers completed the first-ever map of the circuitry of a fruit fly’s brain. Despite its diminutive size, the organ packs almost 500 feet of wiring and 54.5 million synapses into the ...

Just when you thought the circular deals couldn’t get any more circular, OpenAI has invested in CEO Sam Altman’s brain computer interface (BCI) startup Merge Labs. Merge Labs, which defines itself as ...

What would it mean to simulate a human brain? Today’s most powerful computing systems now contain enough computational firepower to run simulations of billions of neurons, comparable to the ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s new brain-computer interface startup, Merge Labs, is being spun out of the Los Angeles–based nonprofit Forest Neurotech, according to a source with direct knowledge of the ...

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FileMaker Pro is the biggest Windows app that Apple makes, it and its Mac version are a crucial part of businesses large and small — and it was nearly owned by Microsoft. Here's the story of the huge ...

The University of Texas’s School of Information could merge into a new school housed within the College of Natural Sciences, according to an email sent by university administrators to students in ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio may start paying its small towns and villages to merge. A new bill at the statehouse would create a $25 million grant program to reward local governments that combine into one ...

St. Louis-based Matter Family Office and Denver-domiciled IWP Family Office have decided to combine to create a multifamily office under the Matter name, overseeing more than $10 billion in client ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using just a laptop. The team created a system that dramatically speeds up how ...

American Water Works and Essential Utilities agreed to merge in an all-stock deal, creating a water-and-wastewater utility company with a combined market capitalization of about $40 billion. The ...