brainchips
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New Brain Technologies Could Lead To Terrifying Invasions Of Privacy, Warn Scientists
Image: Warner Brothers Imagine for a minute that you survive a terrible accident, and lose function of your right arm. You receive a brain implant able to interpret your brain’s neural activity and reroute commands to a robotic arm. Then one day, someone hacks that chip, sending malicious commands to the robotic arm. It’s a…
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DARPA Wants To Hack Your Brain To Make You Learn Faster
If the brain is just a bunch of wires and circuits, it stands to reason that those components can simply be re-wired in order to create a better, smarter us. At least, that’s the theory behind a new project from the military’s secretive DARPA research branch announced on Wednesday, which aims to enhance human cognitive…