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The EconomistChina is rapidly expanding its brain-computer interface (BCI) industry as part of a broader effort to compete with the U.S. in advanced technologies. The government has identified neurotechnology as a strategic future industry, alongside

ScienceResearchers led by Edward Chang of the University of California San Francisco demonstrated a brain-computer interface that uses a single neural implant to decode both speech and upper-body gestures in people with severe paralysis. The system

Interesting EngineeringResearchers at the National University of Singapore and colleagues have unveiled a biological datacenter prototype that uses 16 million living human neurons to process information. The facility contains 20 CL1 biological

GizmodoResearchers at Pennsylvania State University used buried fiber-optic telecom cables to detect tiny ground vibrations caused by lightning, known as “thunderquakes.” Using distributed acoustic sensing, the cables captured signals from 458

cybernewsAccording to an advisory by the CERT Coordination Center within Carnegie Mellon University, a vulnerability in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) could allow attackers with sufficient access to bypass Secure Boot by launching

Northwestern NowSmart glasses developed by Northwestern University engineers use energy harvested from facial movements to power health-monitoring sensors. The GlassTENG technology detects blinking, eyebrow raising, jaw clenching, teeth tapping

betakit (Canada)LawZero, the nonprofit organization founded by ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Yoshua Bengio, has secured CAN$300 million in commitments from the Canadian and German governments to advance research into safe-by-design AI. The funding

Al JazeeraBrazil will invest more than $440 million to expand its AI infrastructure while balancing technology partnerships between the U.S. and China. About $250 million will support a supercomputing project in Rio de Janeiro involving China’s

The Washington PostA bill in the U.S. Senate with bipartisan support would provide federal funding to states that ban student use of cellphones, smartwatches, tablets, and similar devices during the school day in support of storage and enforcement

The Wall Street JournalBusinesses are rapidly increasing investment in quantum computing despite uncertainty over when the technology will become commercially transformative. Enterprise users collectively spent $300 million on quantum technologies in