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 ...

Curated by Canadian distribution veteran Charles Tremblay, the seven-day industry sidebar is set to run Sept 10-16, alongside the Toronto International Film Festival. TIFF has revealed the outline of ...

The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Han is not just a programming language. It is an experiment with three goals: 1. Hangul is one of the most scientifically designed writing systems ever created Each character encodes the exact shape ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

(Nanowerk News) By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell — from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division — scientists have opened a new frontier of ...

This past Christmas, I helped my parents choose a water filter. The latest “smart” models all came with a smartphone app that promised to monitor filter life, track water quality and automatically ...

After two seasons focused on the NASCAR Cup Series championship fight, “Full Speed” turns its 2026 attention to a single event – the Daytona 500. “Full Speed: The Daytona 500” premieres Thursday ...

After years insisting it wasn’t interested in the creator economy, Netflix is diving into video podcasts to win back the stray minutes of viewers’ days (Christopher Smith/TheWrap) Netflix Chief ...

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