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

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 ...

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Researchers at a Melbourne start-up have taught their “biological computer” made from living human brain cells to play Doom.

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 ...

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Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications ...

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Playing "Pong" during the Midwest Gaming Classic trade show at the Baird Center in Milwaukee in 2024. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images) The ceiling of the lobby in One Liberty Plaza in New York’s ...

MILAN, Italy — Team USA has had a largely disappointing performance at the Winter Olympics, despite sending one of its strongest teams ever. But it wasn't the case for Tuesday's short program, where ...