by admin | Mar 24, 2024 | brain-computing, brains, Elon Musk, Neuralink, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation
Elon Musk’s company, Neuralink, launched in 2016, aims to implant a piece of technology in people’s brains that would allow them to control a computer or phone by thought alone. This is otherwise known as a brain-computer interface. After years of experimenting on...
by admin | Jul 9, 2023 | brains, News, Other Tech News, Science, The Conversation, upload
The idea that our mind could live on in another form after our physical body dies has been a recurring theme in science fiction since the 1950s. Recent television series such as Black Mirror and Upload, as well as some games, demonstrate our continued fascination with...
by admin | Jun 5, 2023 | brains, News, Other Tech News, study, The Conversation
The human brain is made up of around 86 billion neurons, linked by trillions of connections. For decades, scientists have believed that we need to map this intricate connectivity in detail to understand how the structured patterns of activity defining our thoughts,...
by admin | May 8, 2023 | brains, mind-reading, News, Other Tech News, Science, tech, The Conversation
The technology to decode our thoughts is drawing ever closer. Neuroscientists at the University of Texas have for the first time decoded data from non-invasive brain scans and used them to reconstruct language and meaning from stories that people hear, see or even...
by admin | Apr 28, 2023 | brains, Internet News, News, Science, Social media, society, The Conversation
The big idea Social media can be mentally draining. And when mentally drained, you are more likely to be influenced by a high number of likes on posts – even to the point of clicking on ads for products you don’t need or want – according to our recent experiments...
by admin | Apr 24, 2023 | brains, decisions, News, Other Tech News, Science, The Conversation
Do you remember learning to drive a car? You probably fumbled around for the controls, checked every mirror multiple times, made sure your foot was on the brake pedal, then ever-so-slowly rolled your car forward. Fast forward to now and you’re probably driving places...