Can games tell if you are impulsive?
A new computer game can assess people’s level of disinhibition.
Using a series of Wild West style computer games, Australian researchers report in the journal Nature Human Behaviour...
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Biohacking: future tense
What on earth is brainjacking, and should you be worried about it? It depends…
“Let’s just burn your mind out”. It’s December 2020 and Laurie Pycroft is pumped. The noir, hyperviolent and futurist...
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Feeling sad? Play Animal Crossing to cheer up!
Get your islands ready and prepare your plant army because, contrary to popular belief, video games really could brin...
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What games can teach us during COVID-19
They might be more than just a boredom cure.
Most of us don’t take games too seriously. They are a way to unwind, or these days to maybe escape from the world of ...
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Gamers might want to work out
Study suggests exercise can help them not exercise better.
Video game aficionados might need to get more exercise – and not for the obvious reasons.Canadian research suggests...
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Video game guns increase gun-play
Kids more likely to pretend to shoot a real handgun
Whether video game violence promotes real-life violence is a topic of regular and often passionate debate.A recent ...
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AI learns multi-player video game
With no instructions or help, it achieve beyond expectations.
Previously thought too complicated even for algorithms, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent has been developed that...
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Video games could teach spatial skills lost to a society dependent on devices
There’s a downside to growing up with Google Maps, writes geologist Lloyd White from the Universi...
Players of Red Dead Redemption 2 use a detailed topographic map to navigate the landscape. Credit: shutterstock...
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Got a quantum problem? Throw gamers at it
The central tenets of quantum mechanics.
Human beings are pretty terrible at making up random number strands, but so are mechanical or computational random nu...