Science Feb 25 Artificial intelligence program teaches itself to play Atari games — and it can beat your high score A new artificial intelligence program from Google DeepMind has taught itself how to play classic Atari 2600 games. And it can probably beat your high score. By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy
Nation Nov 17 ‘E.T.’ and other discarded Atari games generate almost $40,000 for New Mexico town A long-buried copy of the widely panned 1980s video game "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" fetched a new home on earth this week, earning a New Mexico town thousands of dollars in the process. By Justin Scuiletti
Nation Mar 21 Treasure hunt for long-buried ‘E.T.’ video games to begin in New Mexico E.T. may have phoned home in the hit 1982 feature film, but the mass-produced 1982 video game of the same name had trouble finding enough homes to play it. In fact, so many cartridges went unsold or returned that a… By Justin Scuiletti