On a warm afternoon last fall, Steven Caron, a technical artist at the video-game company Quixel, stood at the edge of a redwood grove in the Oakland Hills. “Cross your eyes, kind of blur your eyes, ...

It’s old news now that Toyota wants to simulate a manual transmission in its fully electric vehicles with a shifter and clutch pedal, but what we didn’t know before is that it may retain one pesky ...

Artificial intelligence is often thought of as disembodied: a mind like a program, floating in a digital void. But human minds are deeply intertwined with our bodies — and an experiment with virtual ...

Honkai Star Rail Simulated Universe is a trial that lets you take on a series of fights in a rouge-like game mode. At the moment, there are seven Worlds in the Simulated Universe to choose from, each ...

Not to be confused with the Metaverse whatsoever, the Simulated Universe is one of Honkai: Star Rail’s many activities for earning the highly sought-after Stellar Jade resource. After all, most of us ...