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The Dick Pic App Is Getting Into Brain-Computer Interfaces

Snap believes BCI can be used to enhance their future augmented reality experiences.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin Mar 23

13% of People Think Elon Musk’s Singularity Brain Chip Will Be Good for Society

No data was provided on whether these people already have brain damage.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin Mar 17

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Pushes Back Against Monkey Torture Allegations

The company defended its animal testing practices in the wake of a complaint claiming 15 monkeys died at one facility between 2017-2020.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin Feb 15

Tesla Might Be Getting Into Headphones

The automaker filed a trademark application for making headphones, earbuds, and other audio products.

Gadgets Phillip Tracy Jan 24

Will It Be Possible to Upload Information to My Brain?

"Using brain-machine interface technology to directly write in information to the brain... as in The Matrix... it’s complicated."

Tech News Daniel Kolitz Sep 20

Brain-Computer Implants Will Let Corporations Mine Your Thoughts for Cash, Researchers Warn

Researchers paint a grim picture of a corporate mind-melding future via brain-computer interface technology that's as addictive as opioids.

Tech News Whitney Kimball Jul 22

Elon Musk Says Tesla Likely to Accept Bitcoin Again

Musk has been hot and cold on the cryptocurrency in ways that would make a cynic believe he was manipulating the market.

Cryptocurrencies Matt Novak Jul 22

Facebook Is Giving Up on Reading Your Brain, for Now

Facebook Reality Labs will instead focus on developing wristbands for VR headsets after it became clear the original project was too ambitious.

Social Media Tom McKay Jul 15

The Movement to Protect Your Mind From Brain-Computer Technologies

Recording memories, reading thoughts, and manipulating what another person sees through a device in their brain may seem like science fiction plots about a distant and troubled future. But a team of multi-disciplinary researchers say the first steps to inventing these technologies have already arrived. Through a concept called “neuro rights,” they want to put…

Science Natalie Zarrelli May 31

Using Just His Thoughts, Paralyzed Man Texts at a Record-Breaking 16 Words a Minute

For the first time ever, neuroscientists have translated the cognitive signals associated with handwriting into text, and in real time. The new technique is more than twice as fast than the previous method, allowing a paralyzed man to text at a rate of 90 characters per minute. Researchers with the BrainGate collaboration have developed a…

Health George Dvorsky May 12

Neuralink President Announces That He’s Left Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Interface Company

Max Hodak, the president of Neuralink, a company that aims to connect human brains with computers which was cofounded by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, has said he left the company a few weeks ago. Hodak did not provide any reason for his departure. In a post on Twitter on Saturday, Hodak, who is…

Tech News Jody Serrano May 2

Neuralink: We Got a Monkey to Play Pong Using Only Its Mind

Neuralink, the secretive neuroscience startup co-founded by Elon Musk, has been even more quiet than usual these days. That is, until this week when it released a YouTube video of a monkey appearing to play the classic video game Pong with its mind. The video stars Pager, a 9-year-old macaque monkey who had a Neuralink…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Apr 10

Peter Thiel-Backed Psychedelics Firm Buys Majority of Brain-Control Interface Firm

ATAI Life Sciences, a biosciences company backed by venture capitalist and freedom-loving billionaire Peter Thiel that specializes in experimental treatment of mental disorders with psychedelic drugs, has bought out a majority stake in a company working to meld the mind with machines. Per CNBC, the Berlin-based ATAI has purchased a controlling percentage of Psyber, one…

Tech News Tom McKay Apr 9

New Tech Developments We’re Actually Excited About in 2021

2021 will be the year of being thankful that the world hasn’t completely ended. I don’t want to hear any “we were promised flying cars”-style whining. The new year will be all about rethinking how far we’ve come, where we’re already going, and how much we’ve been getting wrong along the way. There will be…

Reviews Rhett Jones Dec 30

Elon Musk Reveals His Cyborg Pigs

On Friday, Elon Musk demonstrated the tech behind his brain-computer interface startup, Neuralink, in a livestreamed demo that involved significantly more pigs than anyone expected. And they didn’t seem particularly interested in whatever the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had to show. When one piggy—Gertrude—was finally corralled into view after a few minutes hiding behind a…

Health Alyse Stanley Aug 28

What to Know About Neuralink, Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Interface Project

Elon Musk is set to make an announcement about Neuralink, a company designing brain-computer interface technology, on Friday, Aug. 28. It sounds like science fiction, but research in this area has progressed rapidly in recent years, though we’re still far from being able to send emails with our minds. Unlike Musk’s other famous ventures, SpaceX…

Health George Dvorsky Aug 24

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Says It’s Created Brain-Reading ‘Threads,’ Surgical Robot That Inserts Them

On Tuesday evening in San Francisco, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk finally shed some light on what Neuralink, his company that has raised $158 million to develop “ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers,” has been up to since its launch in 2017. In the livestreamed announcement, Musk expressed his long-held…

Health Tom McKay Jul 17

We Might Finally Find Out What Elon Musk’s Neuralink Has Been Up To

Neuralink, the super-secretive neuroscience company co-founded by Elon Musk to develop “ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers,” has evidently decided to show some of its hand. In a rare tweet from the Neuralink account on Twitter this week, the company announced that it will be hosting an event in San Francisco…

Tech News Catie Keck Jul 12

Neuralink Is Funding Primate Research at the University of California

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s secretive startup dedicated to the development of brain-computer interfaces that could make it possible for people to communicate with computers using only their thoughts, is funding primate research at a California university, according to public records obtained by Gizmodo. This research grant marks Neuralink’s first successful foray into the arena of animal…

Tech News Kate Conger May 22

iPads, Jerks, and Poisoned Food: The Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Congratulations, you made it through the humorless hellscape that is April Fool’s Day. Sure, it is the one day of the year when society collectively applies the appropriate amount of skepticism before gobbling up spoonfuls of bullshit. And yeah, some of the pranks may have made us chuckle—but that’s only because they’ve trained us, man.…

Tech News Andrew Couts Apr 1

The Dick Pic App Is Getting Into Brain-Computer Interfaces

13% of People Think Elon Musk’s Singularity Brain Chip Will Be Good for Society

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Pushes Back Against Monkey Torture Allegations

Tesla Might Be Getting Into Headphones

Will It Be Possible to Upload Information to My Brain?

Brain-Computer Implants Will Let Corporations Mine Your Thoughts for Cash, Researchers Warn

Elon Musk Says Tesla Likely to Accept Bitcoin Again

Facebook Is Giving Up on Reading Your Brain, for Now

The Movement to Protect Your Mind From Brain-Computer Technologies

Using Just His Thoughts, Paralyzed Man Texts at a Record-Breaking 16 Words a Minute

Neuralink President Announces That He’s Left Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Interface Company

Neuralink: We Got a Monkey to Play Pong Using Only Its Mind

Peter Thiel-Backed Psychedelics Firm Buys Majority of Brain-Control Interface Firm

New Tech Developments We’re Actually Excited About in 2021

Elon Musk Reveals His Cyborg Pigs

What to Know About Neuralink, Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Interface Project

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Says It’s Created Brain-Reading ‘Threads,’ Surgical Robot That Inserts Them

We Might Finally Find Out What Elon Musk’s Neuralink Has Been Up To

Neuralink Is Funding Primate Research at the University of California

iPads, Jerks, and Poisoned Food: The Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

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