Neuralink quietly published an update earlier this week on the first patient to receive its experimental…
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Doctors recorded brainwaves to finally ‘see’ their patients’ chronic pain
Everyone has different perceptions of pain. Some can sit for hours getting tattooed for an arm…
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No machine can beat a dog’s bomb-detecting sniffer
This story was first published on June 3, 2013. It covered the most up-to-date technology in…
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This AI-powered brain scanner can paraphrase your thoughts
Researchers at the University of Texas Austin have developed a breakthrough “semantic decoder” that uses artificial…
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These wearables might protect astronauts from space ‘death spirals’
There’s an aviation term called the “death spiral”—when pilots’ skewed sensory perceptions contradict the accurate readings…
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Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts
On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s controversial brain-computer interface startup Neuralink announced it received an independent review board’s…
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Neuralink is searching for its first human test subjects
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface startup, is seeking human volunteers to participate in its first clinical…
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Human brains have to work overtime to beat robots at Ping-Pong
Dealing with humanoid robots in their current iterations often seems a bit uncanny—the technology feels vaguely…
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