Some say the odds are good that we're living in a computer simulation, and a few researchers think they might know how to find out the truth. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and ...

It's wonderfully exciting to think about the potential for harvesting humans for their energy--an idea made famous by the movie The Matrix. But leave it to science to ruin a perfectly good movie. As ...

In 1999, the Wachowskis released the first movie in an epic sci-fi trilogy: The Matrix. Our world — if it’s really our world —has never been the same since. The Matrix keenly foresaw the debates ...