My Brain Finally Broke
I feel a troubling kind of opacity in my brain lately—as if reality were becoming illegible, as if language were a vessel with holes in the bottom and meaning was leaking all over the…
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How a volcanic eruption turned a human brain into glass
“It’s an extraordinary finding,” says Matteo Borrini, a forensic anthropologist at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, who was not involved in the research. “It tells us how…
I'll Never Look at Brain Fog the Same Way Again After Watching This 'Evil' Episode
Evilhad a talent for taking ordinary things like VR headsets, holiday jingles, YouTubers, Animal Crossing, and the "skip intro" button and making them macabre and horrifying. One…
The Download: DOGE’s tech-enabled destruction, and Meta’s brain AI for typing
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 DOGE staffers are feeding sensitive federal data to AI systems It’s just one…
Meta has an AI for brain typing, but it’s stuck in the lab
Norman likens the device to “an MRI machine tipped on its side and suspended above the user’s head.” What’s more, says King, the second a subject’s head moves, the signal is lost. “Our…
Elon Musk's Neuralink Marks Major Milestone with Successful Third Brain Implant, Paving the Way for Mind-Controlled Technology
Elon Musk's company Neuralink has implanted its brain-computer interface (BCI) device into a third patient. The announcement was made during an event in Las Vegas, which Musk streamed on…
Gazing at your dog can connect your brain with theirs, finds research
It might sound far-fetched, but recent research suggests that dogs' and humans' brains synchronise when they look at each other. This research, conducted by researchers in China, is the…