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Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants you to type on your iPhone using your brain

Jul17
by on July 17, 2019 at 4:53 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


At its presentation today at the California Academy of Sciences, Elon Musk‘s brain-computer interface company Neuralink revealed its plans to begin human trials of its neuron-reading technology next year. But what is it good for? The company has big plans to augment humans with AI (and who knows, maybe even upload our consciousness into a digital ether), but one of the first applications it has envisioned is a way to let people control their iPhones with their mind. It’s currently developing tiny processors that will connect to your brain via tiny threads significantly thinner than human hair (about 4 to…

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink can ‘read’ a rat’s brain

Jul17
by on July 17, 2019 at 3:43 am
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Elon Musk’s ambitious brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, finally told us today what it’s been up to. As per Bloomberg’s report, it can ‘read’ a rat’s mind with the help of tiny electrodes implanted into the animal’s neurons and synapses.  The company plans to seek approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) next year to start trials on humans.  Neuralink’s President, Max Hodak, told journalists in a briefing that the company’s planning to drill 8mm holes into a paralyzed human’s skull and install implants through which they can control phones and computers. He added that in future it plans to use a laser…

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Ubisoft reveals its list of games for Uplay+ and I have questions

Jul17
by on July 17, 2019 at 12:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Ubisoft today released the list of games that’ll be included in its Uplay+ paid streaming service — and it comes with a very important footnote that makes me question its value. The game list is admittedly impressive — over 100 titles, including the entirety of the Assassin’s Creed, Prince of Persia, and Far Cry series (or at least the games Ubisoft has been responsible for), as well as the various Tom Clancy properties. It also includes some of Ubisoft‘s quirkier properties that don’t get as much acclaim as the others — like Child of Light or Valiant Hearts. There’s also Uno, for some reason. The games…

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Apex Legends is punishing cheaters by making them fight each other

Jul16
by on July 16, 2019 at 8:21 pm
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In any online game, cheaters can really ruin it for everyone else. Not only do they ruin the sense of fair play, but, in defiance of the old adage, they often prosper. So what’s EA doing with Apex Legends‘s cheaters? Sticking the offenders in a pool together. Respawn, the game’s developers, posted a “check-in” update to Reddit over the weekend, detailing among other things its attempts to mitigate unfair play. There’s the usual measures: creating AI that detects cheating programs; identifying spam accounts; requiring two-factor authentication on suspect accounts. But another solution bears mentioning, because it sounds kind of ingenious: “[m]atchmaking…

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