Neuralink Neuralink, Elon Musk’s computer to brain interface firm, has released a video it claims shows a monkey playing the video game Pong with its mind. Its brain signals were sent wirelessly via an implanted device. The hope is that the interface could eventually allow people with neurological conditions to control phones or computers remotely. […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla’s Bay Area production plant recorded hundreds of covid-19 cases following CEO Elon Musk’s defiant reopening of the plant in May, according to county-level data obtained by a legal transparency website. The document, obtained by the website PlainSite following a court ruling this year, showed Tesla received around 10 reports of covid-19 […]
The company was never supposed to succeed. Even its founder gave it odds few gamblers would take — 1 in 10. But Elon Musk decided to go all in anyway, investing some $ 100 million of his own money, over the protests of his friends, family and the basic logic that said a private entrepreneur […]
Elon Musk has revealed he’s expanding his Boring Company to an overseas market — China. The man who also founded SpaceX and Tesla (we can now add his brain-focused Neuralink company to the list, too) revealed in a weekend tweet that he’ll be officially announcing the move when he appears at the World Artificial Intelligence […]
Germany’s Team TUM has finished first at the latest Hyperloop Pod Competition, with its vehicle reaching the fastest speed — 288 mph (463 kph) — along a straight, three-quarter-mile test track. Designs based on the pods could one day be used for the Hyperloop, a proposed ultra-fast transportation system backed by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk […]
Not satisfied with SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk shed light on Neuralink, his brain interface company that wants to develop “ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.” During a livestream Tuesday night, Musk explained that he hoped Neuralink could help treat brain disorders, preserve and enhance human brains, and eventually merge humans with […]
Proving that his brain can still generate grand ideas, the man responsible for Tesla, SpaceX, and the Boring Company took to a San Francisco stage on Tuesday evening to shed some light on Neuralink, an outfit launched by Elon Musk in 2016 aimed at developing “ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.” […]
Almost exactly two years to the day after Elon Musk announced his tunnel construction enterprise the Boring Company, he unveiled the finished first stretch of high-speed tunnel in Hawthorne, California. The 1.14-mile demonstration tunnel, which reportedly cost around $ 10 million to construct, was used to ferry members of the media at speeds of up to […]
From Tesla to Hyperloop to plans to colonize Mars, it’s fair to say that Elon Musk thinks big. Among his many visionary ideas is the dream of building a space internet. Called Starlink, Musk’s ambition is to create a network for conveying a significant portion of internet traffic via thousands of satellites Musk hopes to […]
After witnessing Elon Musk burning down a doobie in a recent podcast show, many people had an “ahh, I geddit now” moment as they suddenly realized how some of the billionaire entrepreneur’s slightly wackier proposals may have come to be. A couple of days after Musk’s brief encounter with the green goddess, a video (below) […]
Enlarge / Shadow Fiend, looking shadowy and fiendish. Valve A team of computer-controlled bots took on a team of top human players in a Dota 2 show match this weekend, and the computer didn’t just beat the humans—it crushed them. We were first introduced to OpenAI’s Dota 2 bot at last year’s International, the multimillion […]