Elon Musk has arguably been the boldest broligarch when it comes to brain-machine interfaces. But Mark Zuckerberg is hot on his heels. Shortly after Musk co-founded Neuralink — the company that’s put ...

Decades after the first demonstration of brain computer interfaces, we have reached a "tipping point" in creating the first reliable devices that can read our thoughts, according to the man who ...

The term brain rot was voted Oxford University Press’ word of the year in 2024, an unusual honor for a phrase that started as online slang. OUP defines it as the supposed deterioration of a person’s ...

A man with ALS now controls Alexa using only his thoughts thanks to a new invention. Synchron, a company that works on brain-computer technology, revealed this on Monday, Sept. 16. The 64-year-old now ...

I’ve seen a future where you may never need apps or to unlock your phone at all, yet still get everything you want done, plus more, and even faster than you can now. At MWC 2024, Deutsche Telekom and ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects muscle control, and most patients reach a point at which either the disease itself or a necessary ...

Back in 2022, then-Chilean senator Guido Girardi placed a sleekly curved black headband onto his head and watched as the device plotted activity in his brain onto the computer screen before him in ...

Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode Brain Hacks. Neurotechnology could help us monitor our health and wellness. But lawyer and AI ethicist Nita Farahany says that without safeguards, our private ...

You might think of Apple as the iPhone company, or the Mac company, or even the iPod company if you’re old-school. But among the many identities the California-based tech giant has sported over the ...