Ian digs into a series of bizarre headline from the past week to explain why the pace of progress is starting to feel downright surreal.

Brain Cells To Play Video Game Pong: In 2022, Australian biotech company Cortical Labs connected 800,000 brain cells in a petri dish to a computer and taught them to play the 1970s game Pong. Now, ...

How many brain cells does it take to play a game of Doom? In 2022, the team at Cortical Labs taught 800,000 brain cells in a ...

Pong, created by Allan Alcorn for Atari, was an instant success as a video game. It was later scaled down and offered for ...

Commercial software can’t keep pace with experimental precision when it comes to large-scale computer-algebra calculations in ...

A museum dedicated to the history of home video games and computers is taking shape in Penn Hills. In mid-February, Brendan Becker opened the first rooms of his Bloop Museum in the township’s former ...