In this week’s edition of The Prototype we look at the biggest tech breakthroughs of 2025–and the year’s best music.

In an age of endless low-quality information, it’s time to fight our instinct to seek out and absorb all we can. It takes ...

Researchers at Google have used their Willow quantum computer to demonstrate that "quantum contextuality" may be a crucial ...

We use algorithms every day for things like image searches, predictive text, and securing sensitive data. Algorithms show up ...

Understanding the chemical properties of a molecule is an inherently quantum problem, making quantum computers a good tool ...

IIT Hyderabad student Edward Nathan Varghese achieves highest-ever Rs 2.5 crore package with Optiver after converting summer ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

On the outskirts of Beijing, young Chinese entrepreneur Cheng Hao sits on an indoor soccer pitch – but this turf isn’t for humans. It’s where engineers working for his start-up, Booster Robotics, ...

Researchers have proposed a unifying mathematical framework that helps explain why many successful multimodal AI systems work ...

You might type, “A cyberpunk city with neon samurai and holographic geishas,” or perhaps something more abstract like “A ...

Eduardo Filgueiras/Unsplash This year, Australian drowning deaths reached their worst level in three decades. Tragically, 357 ...

From the Ozempic story to books on power, money and the new world order — plus fiction by Julian Barnes, Amitav Ghosh and ...