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Scientists get Doom running on chips powered by 200,000 human neurons, and those clever little cells are playing it too

Scientists get Doom running on chips powered by 200,000 human neurons, and those clever little cells are playing it too

You’ve seen Doom run on a McDonald’s cash register. You’ve seen it run on a lawnmower. You’ve seen it run on Google’s search bar. Now you can see it running on some lab-grown brain cells fused to a microchip. Perhaps a glimpse into our distant cyborg future, the company behind some of the world’s most advanced biological computers has got a load of them not only running id Software’s iconic FPS game, but actually playing it. Not very well, mind you.

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