Final week, Elon Musk made the daring assertion that sticking electrodes in folks’s heads goes to result in an enormous enhance within the price of information switch out of, and into, human brains.
The event of Musk’s submit was the announcement by Neuralink, his brain-computer interface firm, that it was formally in search of the primary volunteer to obtain an implant that incorporates greater than twice the variety of electrodes than earlier variations to gather extra knowledge from extra nerve cells.
The entrepreneur talked about a long-term aim of vastly growing “bandwidth” between folks, or folks and machines, by an element of 1,000 or extra. However what does he imply, and is it even attainable? Learn the complete story.
—Antonio Regalado
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Every part it’s essential learn about synthetic wombs
Earlier this month, US Meals and Drug Administration advisors met to debate how you can transfer analysis on synthetic wombs from animals into people.
These medical gadgets are designed to offer extraordinarily untimely infants a bit extra time to develop in a womb-like atmosphere earlier than getting into the surface world. They’ve been examined with tons of of lambs (and a few piglets), however animal fashions can’t totally predict how the expertise will work for people.
