A dish of brain cells learned to play the 1970s video game Pong. The research could help computers become more intelligent A dish of living brain cells has learned to play the 1970s arcade game Pong.

MARTINEZ: That's right - the original table tennis arcade game from the 1970s. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports that this novel achievement is part of a larger effort to understand how brain cells learn.

Happy birthday, Pong, and thank you for inspiring countless sequels and knockoffs, as well as the careers of an entire generation of video game designers. BRANDON QUINTANA: "A game that is easy to ...

Computer games have been the main engine of progress for both central processors and graphics subsystems for many years. But lately, the pace of growth in computing power and the introduction of new ...

Allan Alcorn is a one of the wizards of Atari and one of the fathers of the video game industry. Back in the early 1970s, he got together with Nolan Bushnell to create coin-operated video games, such ...

A research team out of Melbourne, Australia, has successfully taught lab-grown brain cells to play the 1970s video game Pong. In the game, which they chose for its simplicity, two players hit a ball ...

Good morning. I'm A Martinez. "Pong" was one of the first arcade games in the 1970s, which eventually spawned Atari's "Home Pong." An original prototype of the video game system was auctioned off for ...

In 2021, a dish of living human brain cells figured out how to play the 1970s arcade game Pong. It took just five minutes for the collection of neurons, called DishBrain, to learn how to move the ...

The video game market is an important pillar of the modern entertainment industry. At-home gaming is an increasingly popular pastime, with blockbuster names like "Fortnite" and "Call of Duty" ...

Bring a little bit of nostalgia to your wrist today with the new Apple Watch game, A Tiny Game of Pong. Based on the 1970’s classic game, A Tiny Game of Pong lets players compete to beat the computer ...