Don't underestimate the power of a yes-or-no question. Some of the toughest computing problems boil down to thousands of tiny ...

I planted seeds, worked the land, and feared for my character's safety during a creepy Summer Game Fest demo. During a Summer Game Fest demo, I plowed famous cars through crates and jumped ramps to ...

Playing board games can be fun, challenging, infuriating and a great way to pass the time. They can also help scientists ...

Meta recently open-sourced Brain2Qwerty v2, a noninvasive Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) that can decode sentences from ...

A quantum computer has been used to create a horror video game called Quantum Backrooms – and it’s available to play online. The game draws inspiration from “the Backrooms,” a horror legend developed ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

A federal civil-rights complaint alleges that the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, has shut Jewish members out of union leadership and policy positions, and created a ...

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Aleshia Hayes built her career at the intersection of computer science, game development and education. Now her work is helping shape how universities teach AI to broad campus audiences, emphasizing ...

Large-scale reproducibility studies strengthen science by testing the reliability of published findings, thereby promoting self-correction and informing policymaking. However, such efforts have rarely ...

No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...

Clumps of mouse brain cells about the size of peppercorns can gain the knowhow to perform a virtual circus trick. With some coaching, these mouse brain organoids learned to keep a pole upright on a ...