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U.S. app stores to ban TikTok and WeChat starting from this Sunday

Technology Lucky M - September 18, 2020 0

U.S. app stores to ban TikTok and WeChat starting from this Sunday. In a press release on Friday, September 18, the department stated: ‘In...

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's neuroscience startup Neuralink unveiled a pig named Gertrude that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months late Friday, showing off an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of implant. Co-founded by Tesla Inc and SpaceX CEO Musk in 2016, San Francisco Bay Area-based Neuralink aims to implant wireless brain-computer interfaces in the most complex human organ to help cure neurological conditions like Alzheimer's, dementia and spinal cord injuries and ultimately fuse humankind with artificial intelligence. "An implantable device can actually solve these problems," Musk said on a webcast Friday, mentioning ailments such as memory loss, hearing loss, depression and insomnia. Musk did not provide a timeline for those treatments, appearing to retreat from earlier statements that human trials would begin by the end of this year. Neuralink's first clinical trials with a small number of human patients would be aimed at treating paralysis or paraplegia, the company's head surgeon Dr. Matthew MacDougall said. Neuroscientists unaffiliated with the company said the presentation indicated that Neuralink had made great strides but cautioned that longer studies were needed. Musk presented what he described as the "three little pigs demo." Gertrude, the pig with a Neuralink implant in the part of its brain that controls the snout, required some coaxing by Musk to appear on camera, but eventually began eating off of a stool and sniffing straw, triggering spikes on a graph tracking the animal's neural activity. Musk said the company had three pigs with two implants each, and also revealed a pig that previously had an implant. They were "healthy, happy and indistinguishable from a normal pig," Musk said. Musk described Neuralink's chip, which is roughly 23 millimeters (0.9 inch) in diameter, as "a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires." "I could have a Neuralink right now and you wouldn't know," Musk said. "... Maybe I do." One comment from a webcast viewer described the animals as "Cypork." Source: NBC

Elon Musk is developing an implant to treat memory loss, hearing loss, depression and...

Technology Serena N - August 29, 2020 0

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's neuroscience startup Neuralink unveiled a pig named Gertrude that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months late...

Airtel Africa Plc said it is almost fully ready for the implementation of the...

Technology Serena N - July 31, 2020 0

Airtel Africa Plc said it is almost fully ready for the implementation of the 5G network. Chief Executive Officer, Raghunath Mandava, disclosed this during...

Earth is off to find life on Mars as rover launches today

Technology Serena N - July 30, 2020 0

Posted at 17:4817:48 'Perfect launch' Lori Glaze, Nasa's Planetary Science Division director, shares a video of children around the world who helped with Nasa's "countdown to...

US President Trump threatens to shut down Twitter

Technology Lucky M - May 28, 2020 0

Trump threatens to shut down Twitter. Trump vowed to review a law that has long protected Twitter, Facebook and Alphabet’s Google from being responsible...

WhatsApp gets suddenly powerful new security boost

Technology Lucky M - May 3, 2020 0

WhatsApp gets powerful new security boost. Governments led by the U.S., U.K. and Australia are battling the industry to open up “warrant-proof” encryption to...

Boeing to cut 16,000 jobs after posting a massive loss

Technology Lucky M - April 29, 2020 0

Boeing announced sweeping cost-cutting measures Wednesday after reporting a first-quarter loss of $641 million following the hit to the airline business from the coronavirus...

Facebook still plans to bring adverts to WhatsApp

Technology Nancy M - April 24, 2020 0

Facebook plans to bring adverts to its WhatsApp messaging platform at some point in the future, according to a report by The Information. Earlier...

WhatsApp limits forwarding message to curb misinformation

Technology Lucky M - April 8, 2020 0

WhatsApp limits forwarding message to curb misinformation. In a blog post, the Facebook-owned WhatsApp said it had seen a surge in the number of...

Attention!!! WhatsApp warning: If you get this message from friends, delete it immediately

Technology Lucky M - April 2, 2020 0

Attention!!! WhatsApp warning: If you get this message from friends, delete it immediately. WHATSAPP users have been put on alert about a text message...