
Lab grown brain cells can play pong
What is your excuse?
Boffins have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game, Pong.

Mini-brains play Pong
Even a brain on a petri dish can play pong
Researchers at the biotechnology startup Cortical Labs have created "mini-brains" consisting of 800,000 to one million living human brain cells in a petri dish.

Gaming use rises along with the pong
British gamers under lock down are getting ripe
While much of the UK is in lockdown, a new survey commissioned by AV outfit, BullGuard, has revealed that gamers are taking advantage of the social isolation to up their game time but apparently it is making them give up that wonderful British standard of hygene that the nation is famous for.