Final week, Elon Musk made the daring assertion that sticking electrodes in folks’s heads goes to result in an enormous improve within the price of information switch out of, and into, human brains.

The event of Musk’s submit was the announcement by Neuralink, his brain-computer interface firm, that it was formally searching for the primary volunteer to obtain an implant that accommodates greater than twice the variety of electrodes than earlier variations to gather extra knowledge from extra nerve cells.

The entrepreneur talked about a long-term aim of vastly rising “bandwidth” between folks, or folks and machines, by an element of 1,000 or extra. However what does he imply, and is it even doable? Learn the complete story.

—Antonio Regalado

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Every part you must learn about synthetic wombs

Earlier this month, US Meals and Drug Administration advisors met to debate the way to transfer analysis on synthetic wombs from animals into people.

These medical gadgets are designed to offer extraordinarily untimely infants a bit extra time to develop in a womb-like atmosphere earlier than coming into the skin world. They’ve been examined with a whole lot of lambs (and a few piglets), however animal fashions can’t totally predict how the expertise will work for people.