A quantum computer has been used to create a horror video game called Quantum Backrooms – and it’s available to play online. The game draws inspiration from “the Backrooms,” a horror legend developed ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. It’s coming later this month, and IO Interactive has announced the ...

The Cardinals lost their six-game winning streak last week along with two of three games as the Northeast A League started its sprint to the finish. “We only have nine games, so everyone is important, ...

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Large-scale reproducibility studies strengthen science by testing the reliability of published findings, thereby promoting self-correction and informing policymaking. However, such efforts have rarely ...

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 ...

When Donald Trump reassumed the presidency in January of 2025, arts organizations around the country anticipated changes at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)—particularly those the president ...

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Here’s yet more proof that AI is playing 3D chess while we’re playing checkers. A gameplaying AI system has cracked a cryptic, Roman-era board game that has baffled scientists for a century, as ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...