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, ...

Biological computing is messy and gassy – It’s now cloudy, too At the start of the working day at Cortical Labs’ datacenter in Melbourne, Australia, technicians top up the resident computers with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

How many brain cells does it take to play a game of DOOM?

Researchers have demonstrated that human brain cells can play DOOM, showcasing a major breakthrough in the advancements of wetware technology.

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

What if 45 square feet of fiberboard contained the key to a better life? For centuries, humans have sought ways to optimize their minds, enhance their physical well-being and prolong their lives. It ...

March 13, 2026: We had another look around for new Etheria Restart codes. What are the new Etheria Restart codes? As is standard practice with gacha games these days, Etheria Restart is overflowing ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...