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Would You Let Elon Musk Implant a Device in Your Brain?
With Neuralink’s device, a robot surgically inserts a device into the brain that can then decode some brain activity and connect the brain signals to computers and other machines. A person paralyzed from the neck down, for example, could use the interface to manipulate her physical environment, as well as to write and communicate.
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Opinion: Would You Let Elon Musk Implant A Device In Your Brain?
Elon Musk's Neuralink received approval last week from the US Food and Drug Administration to conduct human clinical trials, which one former FDA official called "really a big deal."
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ChatGPT Is Also an Impressive Feat of Marketing
ChatGPT is often cited as the most rapidly adopted consumer product of all time. Quite aside from its technological capabilities, the success of ChatGPT is an impressive feat of marketing.
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Opinion: Rishi Sunak Shows Growing Influence Of Indian Talent In West
With Rishi Sunak as prime minister of the UK, it is now impossible to deny what has been evident for some while: Indian talent is revolutionizing the Western world far more than had been expected 10 or 15 years ago.
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Crypto Breaks the Rules. That’s the Point
Cryptocurrency treats regulatory arbitrage as a feature, not a bug. The arbitrage conveys the message that the old regulations need to change. In the post-COVID world, software automatically issues crypto tokens, based on smart contracts that specify conditions for issuance. Standard US regulatory practice typically focuses on regulating host firms...
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Opinion: The Future of Crypto Is Boring - And Bright
Crypto markets still have many puzzles, but they are beginning to reveal their secrets.
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Opinion: This Plan Could See A "Princeton Mumbai" Or "Harvard Hyderabad"
With much of U.S. higher education online only this semester, and its more long-term future deeply uncertain, now is a time to dream big. My own fantasy is based on the Indian government's recent plan to encourage the top 100 universities in the world to operate in India.
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Opinion: How Trump's Immigration Order Will Affect India, Other Countries
Even before President Donald Trump announced that he intends to temporarily suspend immigration to the US because of Covid-19, it was becoming clear that the effect of the virus on migration would be powerful, long-lasting and unfortunate.
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The Aliens Among Us
For the last several years, the US military has observed an increase in what it calls "unexplained aerial phenomena."
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Facebook Could Learn Much About Public Relations From Community Banks
If you are looking for examples of companies that do well at public relations, start with what determines personal trust.
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Opinion: Here's The Economist Whose Ideas Guide Donald Trump
When talk turns to Donald Trump's economic advisers, Lawrence Kudlow and Stephen Moore are the two most familiar names. Yet there is another economist associated with Trump who is perhaps the most influential of the lot, and that is Peter Navarro at the University of California at Irvine.
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Would You Let Elon Musk Implant a Device in Your Brain?
With Neuralink’s device, a robot surgically inserts a device into the brain that can then decode some brain activity and connect the brain signals to computers and other machines. A person paralyzed from the neck down, for example, could use the interface to manipulate her physical environment, as well as to write and communicate.
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Opinion: Would You Let Elon Musk Implant A Device In Your Brain?
Elon Musk's Neuralink received approval last week from the US Food and Drug Administration to conduct human clinical trials, which one former FDA official called "really a big deal."
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ChatGPT Is Also an Impressive Feat of Marketing
ChatGPT is often cited as the most rapidly adopted consumer product of all time. Quite aside from its technological capabilities, the success of ChatGPT is an impressive feat of marketing.
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Opinion: Rishi Sunak Shows Growing Influence Of Indian Talent In West
With Rishi Sunak as prime minister of the UK, it is now impossible to deny what has been evident for some while: Indian talent is revolutionizing the Western world far more than had been expected 10 or 15 years ago.
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Crypto Breaks the Rules. That’s the Point
Cryptocurrency treats regulatory arbitrage as a feature, not a bug. The arbitrage conveys the message that the old regulations need to change. In the post-COVID world, software automatically issues crypto tokens, based on smart contracts that specify conditions for issuance. Standard US regulatory practice typically focuses on regulating host firms...
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Opinion: The Future of Crypto Is Boring - And Bright
Crypto markets still have many puzzles, but they are beginning to reveal their secrets.
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Opinion: This Plan Could See A "Princeton Mumbai" Or "Harvard Hyderabad"
With much of U.S. higher education online only this semester, and its more long-term future deeply uncertain, now is a time to dream big. My own fantasy is based on the Indian government's recent plan to encourage the top 100 universities in the world to operate in India.
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Opinion: How Trump's Immigration Order Will Affect India, Other Countries
Even before President Donald Trump announced that he intends to temporarily suspend immigration to the US because of Covid-19, it was becoming clear that the effect of the virus on migration would be powerful, long-lasting and unfortunate.
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The Aliens Among Us
For the last several years, the US military has observed an increase in what it calls "unexplained aerial phenomena."
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Facebook Could Learn Much About Public Relations From Community Banks
If you are looking for examples of companies that do well at public relations, start with what determines personal trust.
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Opinion: Here's The Economist Whose Ideas Guide Donald Trump
When talk turns to Donald Trump's economic advisers, Lawrence Kudlow and Stephen Moore are the two most familiar names. Yet there is another economist associated with Trump who is perhaps the most influential of the lot, and that is Peter Navarro at the University of California at Irvine.
