Earlier this week, Elon Musk announced his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, implanted a device in a human for the first time. The company’s PRIME study, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year, is testing a brain implant for “people with paralysis to control external devices with their thoughts.” In the past few ...
Elon Musk is thrilled about going to space and has big plans. He wants people to be able to stay on Mars and grow. The name for this process is “terraforming.” Terraforming is like making Mars more like Earth so people would want to live there. Elon Musk wants people to love life on Mars. ...
On November 4, X owner Elon Musk unveiled his new AI chatbot Grok: a sarcastic ChatGPT alternative supposedly “modeled” after The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one of Musk’s favorite books. Grok means “to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with.” Science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein first coined the term, which people in the ...
On Saturday, August 19, X (formerly Twitter) chairman Elon Musk tweeted he would be removing the microblogging platform’s block function. It would remain intact for direct messages, but would otherwise become obsolete. This is the latest in a series of controversial and often confusing moves from Musk since he took ownership of the platform in ...
Since its founding in 2016, Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company Neuralink has had the ambitious mission of building a next-generation brain implant with at least 100 times more brain connections than devices currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The company has now reached a significant milestone, having received FDA approval to begin ...
Since it was founded in 2016, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface (BCI) company Neuralink has had its moments in biotech news. Whether it was the time Musk promised his “link” would let people communicate telepathically, or when the whole company was under investigation for potentially violating the Animal Welfare Act, the hype around Neuralink means it’s ...
If share price is anything to go by, Tesla is in trouble. The market capitalization of the electric vehicle (EV) company has fallen by 73% from its record high in November 2021, causing concern for investors. On the face of it, there is no crisis. The cars are still the benchmark for performance. The underlying ...
Ever wondered what Elon Musk, one of the most brilliant men on the planet, reads? Here’s a list of his favorite books. Elon Musk is arguably one of the most intelligent men on the planet, which makes it no surprise that he has a few favorite books. An excellent way to understand a person and ...
What exactly happened on Mars? What other amazing secrets were discovered during the recent investigations by the U.S., and what was hidden inside that huge pyramid? Why has it been kept from us all these years?
In 2011, NASA successfully launched the Curiosity rover into space, and after an 8 month flight, it finally landed on Mars. NASA was delighted at the time, because according to previous research, Mars was the closest Earth-like planet in the solar system and they wanted to find out if Mars would be able to, one day, support ...