Two monkeys can see shapes without using their eyes after electrodes were implanted in their brains – a small step towards restoring some sight in visually impaired people Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2261853-brain-stimulation-device-lets-monkeys-see-shapes-without-using-eyes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Waymo’s Self-Driving Minivans Return to Phoenix, Detroit, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area
Digital Trends reports:
Waymo is planning to relaunch its fleet of self-driving minivans into Bay Area streets on June 8, according to an email acquired by The Verge. However, instead of transporting passengers, the vehicles will instead focus on delivering packages for non-profit organizations #DrawTogether, which gives art kits to children, and Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired… The pending return…
‘I Tried Listening To Podcasts at 3x and Broke My Brain’
‘Podfasters’ listen to their favorite pods at 1.5x, even 2x speed. But how fast is too fast? From a report: Bumping the speed up to 1.5x was initially jarring. People were talking so quickly that I had to stop what I was doing and focus on the audio to keep it from falling into background chatter. After about 20 minutes of…
A Blind Man Sees His Birthday Candles Again, Thanks To a Bionic Eye and a Brain Implant
peterthegreat321 shares this story from Medium’s new tech site, OneZero about Second Sight’s experimental brain implant that offers a kind of artificial vision:
From the outside, the Orion looks like a pair of sunglasses with a small camera and video processing unit attached to it. Implanted in the brain, however, is a postage stamp-sized chip containing 60 electrodes that sits on the…
Aditi’s New Passion: Making the Internet More Healthy and Safe
Aditi is a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology completing the M.S. Cyber Security program. She is also interning at Microsoft as a software engineer. Aditi is taking courses on Coursera to supplement her university learning and to further explore subjects of interest. When Aditi was 11 years old, she was diagnosed with a […]
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