In a recent interview with Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times, Instagram co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom revealed that, for three months, he and his team have been having meetings where the whole agenda is just to plow through a bunch of choices that haven’t been resolved. Wait, what? How could that possibly be…
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Elon Musk Reveals Neuralink that Connects Brains and Computers
Neuralink is pursuing what Elon Musk calls ‘neural lace’ technology, implanting tiny brain electrodes that may one day upload and download thoughts. Building a mass-market electric vehicle and colonizing Mars aren’t ambitious enough for Elon Musk. The billionaire entrepreneur now wants to merge computers with human brains to help people keep up with machines. The…
Researchers Found A Way To Upload Knowledge To The Brain
Imitating the same efforts at HRL Laboratories, based in California, researchers are finding out a way to upload knowledge and information to the brain. They are also successful on a much smaller scale than seen in the movies. Researchers working on this claim to have developed a simulator which can feed information directly into a…
Marijuana compound removes toxic Alzheimer’s protein from the brain
An active compound in marijuana called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) has been found to promote the removal of toxic clumps of amyloid beta protein in the brain, which are thought to kickstart the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. The finding supports the results of previous studies that found evidence of the protective effects of cannabinoids, including THC, on…
New Liquid Aspirin Claims To Pass Through Blood-Brain Barrier
The delivery of drugs to the brain has been a problem for doctors for a long time. So good is the blood-brain barrier at its job preventing harmful things such as pathogens from entering the brain, that it also stops medicine from getting through too. This has been a major issue for the treatment of…