Scientists Taught a Petri Dish of Brain Cells to Play Doom—They’re Getting Better

In 2022, the team at Cortical Labs taught 800,000 brain cells in a petri dish connected to a computer how to play the 1970s ...
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A Petri Dish Full Of Human Brain Cells Just Learned How To Play Doom

Forget playing Doom on a calculator. Now you can play it with a clump of brain cells--no brainstem necessary.

Panic’s gaming ambitions hinge on the weird and whimsical

Big Walk is emblematic of how Panic operates its gaming business. Sasser says there are no “hard-and-fast rules” about how it approaches the titles it works on. “It’s really just like: What will this ...

How to run your 2026 March Madness pool: Play for prizes, plus create an NCAA Tournament game

The 2026 NCAA Tournament is one week away, with Selection Sunday arriving on March 15. Once brackets are revealed, there are only a few days before the tournament officially begins, so now is the ...

12 Years Later, Benedict Cumberbatch’s WWII Biopic Cracks the Free Streaming Code

Twelve years after its release, The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, is now streaming for free. Find out more about the WW2 biopic here.