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 the 1999 movie The Matrix, humans are used as power sources to generate energy for robots who control the realm of the matrix. Morpheus, as played by Laurence Fishburne, said in the film: "The ...