The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A few centuries ago, the swirling polychromatic chaos of Jupiter’s atmosphere spawned the immense vortex that we call the Great Red Spot ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

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As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious. By Kevin Roose Reporting from San Francisco One of my most deeply held ...