NYT Pips hints, answers for March 5, 2026

Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue. Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could ...
IFLScience

"They Are Learning": Cortical Labs Makes 200,000 Living Human Brain Cells Play DOOM

After training neurons to play Pong, the team is back, and this time the brain cells are slaying demons with super shotguns.
Hackaday

Back To Basics: Hacking On Key Matrixes

A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that you want to repurpose ...
ZME Science

200,000 Living Human Brain Cells Just Learned to Play Doom and This Is Just the Start of It

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 ...
PCMag

Sick of Babysitting Claude? 100K Coders Are Asking an Orc to Do It

Gary Sheng's Warcraft III-inspired tool brings playfulness to vibe coding. It's part of a bigger open-source movement shaping AI development.

Researchers teach ‘biological computer’ made from human brain cells to play Doom

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

A Petri Dish Of Human Brain Neurons Just Learned How To Play Doom

In a wild experiment, it turns out a few human neurons linked up to some custom silicon can actually play Doom.
IEEE

A Web-Based Pong Game Against a Multilayer Perceptron Controlled Agent Using Motion Sensing

Abstract: This study explores the area of integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) with traditional video game paradigms. A web-based Pong clone is developed using the MPU6050 Motion Sensor, which ...
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Using Canva Code to Create Learning Games

Did you know you can create engaging educational games for your class using Canva Code? And no, Code here doesn’t mean coding. There’s no programming involved. No tech headaches. Just you, your ...
Wall Street Journal

Key Moments in the History of Videogames (and No, ‘Pong’ Wasn’t First)

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. To many people, videogames are a ...
The Washington Post

The video game that started it all

Playing "Pong" during the Midwest Gaming Classic trade show at the Baird Center in Milwaukee in 2024. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images) The ceiling of the lobby in One Liberty Plaza in New York’s ...
Scientific American

Rules of mysterious ancient Roman board game decoded by AI

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist ...