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  "textContent": "\n\nCortical Labs, the Australian biotech company that grew 800,000 human neurons on a chip and taught them to play Pong in 2022, has answered the internet's oldest hardware question: Can it run Doom? It can. The company posted a YouTube video showing its CL1 biological computer running the 1993 first-person shooter via the Cortical Cloud, with source code available on GitHub. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Living human brain cells are now playing Doom appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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