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Australian biological computing startup Cortical Labs has unveiled a biological data center prototype in Melbourne. The facility has been designed to process information using what the company calls ...

Researchers at Melbourne start-up Cortical Labs have taught their "biological computer" made from living human brain cells to play Doom. They say it brings biological computers a step closer to ...

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Cortical Labs is building two data centres that will house its neuron-filled chips. The technology is still in the very early stages of development ...

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Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

Modern computers are a triumph of technology. A single computer chip contains billions of nanometer-scaled transistors that operate extremely reliably and at a rate of millions of operations per ...

Here's one for you: when is a 'body in a box' not as macabre as it sounds? Simple—when it's a tech startup. Wait! Put the ...

Bioengineers at Stanford University have created the first biological transistor made from genetic materials: DNA and RNA. Dubbed the "transcriptor," this biological transistor is the final component ...

Researchers at a Melbourne start-up have taught their “biological computer” made from living human brain cells to play Doom.