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.

12 novels and nonfiction books to read and add to your TBR for spring

Some of our most talented writers are delivering novels, nonfiction and poetry in the coming months. If you want to lose ...
Semiconductor Engineering

AI Starting To Simplify Design Of Programmable Logic

AI is beginning to make inroads into designing and managing programmable logic, where it can be used to simplify and speed up portions of the design process. FPGAs and DSPs are st ...

Ukraine Wants to Join the E.U. Quickly. That Won’t Be Easy.

Negotiators agree that joining the bloc is critical to Kyiv’s future. But obstacles abound, and compromises might forever ...

With the flip of a switch, scientists harness light to program how particles interact and assemble

NYU scientists are using light to precisely control how tiny particles organize themselves into crystals. Their research, published in Chem, provides a simple and reversible method for forming ...

How to Use the Addition Rule for Probabilities

The addition rule for probabilities determines the chance of either mutually exclusive or overlapping events happening, using ...

Mamdani’s New Social Services Chief Worked to Reduce Street Homelessness

Mayor Zohran Mamdani selected Erin Dalton, a public official in the Pittsburgh area, to head New York City’s Department of Social Services.

AI chip startup MatX raises $500M in race to compete with Nvidia

AI chip startup MatX has raised about $500M in a funding round led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness, founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner.