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‘Sentient’ cells in a petri dish taught to play Pong

Next time you’re getting your ass kicked at Fortnite or online chess, it could be at the metaphorical hands of a petri dish of brain cells.

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Virtua Fighter’s ancient polygon graphics get modern AI makeover

A nerd fed a bunch of screenshots from 1993’s Virtua Fighter into an AI to see what they’d look like in a modern game.

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Violent extremists the Taleban to ban PUBG: Battlegrounds for being too violent

PUGB: Battlegrounds is also apparently a “waste of time”, which is arguably true.