From the team behind Computer Science for Fun (cs4fn), The Power of Computational Thinking shows that learning to think can be fascinating fun. Can you become a computational thinker? Can machines ...

Other projects include developing tools to help visually impaired people navigate video games Parents are constantly being told to limit their children’s screen time. But when it comes to deciphering ...

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A new video explores a neural interface that claims to turn brain activity into working code. The technology suggests a future where programming may rely less on keyboards and more on signals captured ...

Sarah and JVL talk about the ongoing meltdown of Trump’s Freedom 250 event; the inappropriateness of putting a UFC cage fight on the White House lawn; John Cornyn’s sudden understanding of what Trump ...

Researchers are exploring a neural interface that could transform how humans interact with computers. The experimental system captures brain activity and attempts to translate those signals into ...

In 1988, a London pre-teen with a penchant for programming and gaming wrote a version of the classic board game Othello—also known as Reversi—for his Amiga 500 home computer. Teaching a piece of ...

Social network Bluesky saw some intermittent service disruptions on Monday. On its own, this fact isn’t that noteworthy—Bluesky has seen similar service disruptions in the past, and this one coincided ...

In February Cortical Labs, an Australian startup, announced that a programmer had taught one of its “biological computers”—made of 200,000 human brain cells mounted on a silicon chip—to play “Doom”, a ...

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 ...