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Researchers teach brain cells to play 'Doom'

Researchers teach brain cells to play 'Doom' Andrew Zinin Lead Editor Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the nineties shooter game "Doom" and say they are just scratching the surface of what the neurons could be capable of doing. It's the science-fiction work of biotech boffins at Cortical Labs, who researched and developed the technology that harnesses the workings of the brain's networking system.

Phys.org 10d ago

Bad Ideas About Juvenile Crime That Won’t Go Away

On the morning of October 3, 2012, a trio of unarmed 16- and 17-year-old boys in Elkhart, Indiana, banded together to commit a burglary in their neighborhood. To avoid a confrontation, they planned to hit a vacant home. After some dogs scared them off their first target, the teens called two more friends, who were 18 and 21, to help them break into another neighbor’s house, which seemed empty.

The Atlantic 4h ago

The retaking of Cuba

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Al Jazeera 2d ago

The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate

This week, the Roberts Court made clear that when it comes to drawing congressional districts, Black voters have no rights that anyone is bound to respect. For years, Alabama, where a quarter of the population is Black, had defied federal court orders, including one reaffirmed by the Supreme Court itself in 2023, to create a second majority- or plurality-Black congressional district. Alabama’s reasoning for not doing so was simple: Its Republican legislators didn’t want to, and they didn’t...

The Atlantic 5d ago

Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map that dilutes Black vote

The Supreme Court on Tuesday night said it would allow the state of Alabama to use a new map for congressional districts that a lower federal court had ruled was discriminatory to Black voters. The 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court is expected to result in Republicans in Alabama gaining one seat in the House of Representatives in November's midterm elections because of the dilution of Black voters in the district. The ruling by the Supreme Court's six-member conservative majority was unsigned.

CNBC 7d ago

Words of War

Decades ago, it was a truism that the 24/7 news cycle exercised a malign influence on policy making. It kept senior leaders fixated on a flickering television screen when their time would have been better spent weighing evidence, debating alternatives, and considering opposing views. But today we contend with 24/7 commentary, which is so ubiquitous that we barely notice it, even as it causes a kind of dry rot of our good judgment.Supporters of the Trump administration’s war against Iran...

The Atlantic 13d ago

World comes to China, Xi goes to North Korea: Why Kim Jong Un makes Beijing uneasy

Chinese President Xi Jinping has landed in North Korea for his first overseas trip of the year. While global leaders are making a beeline for Beijing — Xi has hosted 17 world leaders in just the first 4 months of 2026 — the Chinese president is personally courting Kim Jong Un during a two-day state visit starting June 8. The visit marks Xi's first trip to Pyongyang since 2019.

Times of India 2d ago