In 1964 30 sixth grade students from Westchester County did something nobody else had ever done before: they learned from a computer game. Today the computer’s usefulness as an educational tool has ...

It's time to dust off your sports gear because the late '90s computer game Backyard Sports is making a return. Playground Productions, a production company dedicated to creating family content, ...

Everyone makes mistakes—and sometimes those mistakes can lead to surprising discoveries. In the early 1990s, while programming the computer game Doom, game developer John Carmack set the value of pi ...

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 ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

When I was 6 years old, I’d boot up the house computer and play the pre-installed games on Windows 96. There was Billiards, which I played constantly despite never knowing the rules of the game.

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His method even outperforms MIT's algorithm. The post Computer whizz builds Wordle bot that solves game in four guesses ...