A dish of living human neurons has been taught to play Doom. No, it isn’t conscious or watching the screen the way players do. But it is learning to respond to signals in a way that produces ...

Someone spent a couple of hours with the AI-generated vibe-coded operating system Vib-OS, and it's about as bad as you'd expect, probably worse.

It could always be worse.

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

A biocomputer powered by lab-grown human brain cells has leveled up from Pong to Doom. While nowhere ready to handle the video game shooter’s most challenging levels, researchers at Cortical Labs in ...

In this guest article, historian Tony McMahon explores the numerous theories that the Holy Grail was brought to Britain, ideas he also investigated with Professor Alice Roberts in the Sky HISTORY ...

As Microsoft announced, the Python Environments Extension for Visual Studio Code is generally available after a one-year preview phase. It is intended to make the workflow for managing Python ...

Though there's been some debate about whether this is the real deal (it may have been enhanced using AI), what appears to be an officially licensed Avengers: Doomsday t-shirt has revealed arguably our ...

The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental. JITing, or “just-in-time” compilation, can make relatively slow ...

Rotational ball, trigger button, and air-puffs to tell the rat it's run into a wall make for a more immersive experience. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

165 workers at id Software, the studio behind the Doom and Quake franchises, have elected to unionize with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) in yet another wall-to-wall developer union ...