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On Wednesday, Neuralink introduced the first human subject to receive the company’s brain implant, a 49-year-old man who has been paralyzed from the shoulders down for eight years after a diving accident.In a brief livestream on the social media platform X, the man said he’s able to play online chess and the video game Civilization using the Neuralink device. “If y'all can see the cursor moving around the screen, that's all me,” he said during the livestream as he moved a digital chess piece. “It's pretty cool,…

WhatsApp, the instant messaging platform, is introducing a series of new features aimed at enhancing the overall user…

Members of the mobile and telecommunications industries have gathered at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, held Feb. 26-29. The main trends at MWC so far are AI, 5G and always-on connectivity. We’re rounding up the enterprise business tech news from MWC that is most relevant for IT and tech decision-makers. This article will be updated throughout MWC with more tech news highlights. Intel commits to 5G and AI Intel hooked a handful of announcements to MWC (Figure A), including: Intel’s Edge Platform, a…

New research introduces a novel framework for quantifying common sense, revealing significant variations in common beliefs and the influence of social perceptiveness. Their findings highlight the uniqueness of common-sense perceptions, suggesting future global studies and applications in AI.Researchers from Penn tackle a significant deficiency in the understanding of knowledge.Throughout the annals of human existence, the endurance and development of intricate communities have been largely reliant on the accumulation and…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There is a virtuous circle between volunteering and social cohesion, offering wider benefits to communities according to new research led by Kent and Belong—the Cohesion and Integration Network. The new research found a positive relationship between volunteering and social cohesion—the sense of solidarity and…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain We've known for a decade that political affiliation increasingly affects Americans' everyday lives, including where they live, whom they befriend, and whom they welcome as in-laws. A recent Cato Institute survey revealed that nearly a third of Americans worry that voicing their political views could even harm their…

Samsung has demonstrated a new foldable screen technology at CES 2024 that would allow a clamshell-style foldable smartphone to not only open and shut like a regular flip phone, but also bend over backwards. The 360-degree 'Flex In & Out' display is claimed to be durable and would eliminate the need for an external display to show off content, as the inner screen will allow users to access their information when the device is folded shut, according to the South Korean tech conglomerate.At CES 2024, Samsung showed off…

When navigating the squalid wastelands of video games, I often must turn to reputation to figure out where to stick my fingers. In the West, few games have a reputation for being awful quite like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This is entirely because of the Angry Video Game Nerd, who I respect but isn’t always the best source since he’s primarily aimed at providing entertainment through a schtick. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has been singled out by him as one of the darkest spots in the NES library. I have to disagree. Oh,…

A recent study found esketamine nasal spray to be more effective than quetiapine extended-release in treating treatment-resistant depression, offering new hope for effective management of this challenging condition. Severe depression and treatment-resistant depression (TRD) are prevalent conditions. About one-third of patients show no improvement with standard treatments like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) or serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs). TRD contributes to a higher incidence of…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Newly published research reexamines the evaluation of scientific findings, proposing a network-based methodology for contextualizing a publication's impact. This new method, which is laid out in an article co-authored by Alex Gates, an assistant professor with the University of Virginia's School of Data Science, will allow the…