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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Says It’s Created Brain-Reading ‘Threads,’ Surgical Robot That Inserts Them
On Tuesday evening in San Francisco, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk finally shed some light on what Neuralink, his company that has raised $US158 ($225) million to develop “ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers,” has been up to since its launch in 2017.
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Apple’s Touch Bar Doesn’t Have To Be So Terrible
Apple killed a laptop that had a lot more fans than I expected last week. Around the Gizmodo office, my colleagues groaned when news broke that following a refresh of its laptop line, there would no longer be a standard MacBook Pro without a Touch Bar. Apple, in their eyes, was going all in on…
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This Super-Customisable Controller Might Be A Secret Weapon For The Nintendo Switch
There are casual gamers who like to occasionally pick up a game to relax for a few minutes, and there are more dedicated players who will devote hours to completing games and unlocking achievements. And then there’s those gamers who refer to themselves as “pros” or “hardcore” who must have the highest score, beat a…
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Facebook’s Aussie Slang Bot Is Shithouse
This week Facebook unleashed Bruce the Aussie Slang Bot on the world. Designed to help tourists (and anyone who has NFI what we’re saying at any given time), it enables users to type in Aussie slang words and terms so it can translate our garbage take on the English language. We asked the office to…