The new computer game “Headlines and High Water” explores the science of flooding issues through a journalistic lens. The game is Field Day Lab’s most recent educational game release geared toward ...

The new version of AlphaZero discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication, a core problem in computing that affects thousands of everyday computer tasks. DeepMind has used its board-game ...

MIT creates a simulation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spacewar. A relic of the early days of minicomputers, it was one of the first computer video games and set the stage for many others, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even though Pontillo is incredibly passionate about gaming, when she found out about Iona’s esports team she knew she wasn’t ready ...

When Jared Pincus was only a few years old, his father, Allan Pincus, fixed up an old computer and gave it to him to play with. Allan was mesmerized by young Jared’s ability to latch onto the mouse ...

Before Pong there was Computer Space, the first commercial video game. The progenitor of today’s US$175 billion industry debuted on Oct. 15, 1971, at the Music Operators of America trade show in ...