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Facebook Is Elon Musk’s New Rival Trying To Link Your Brain To Computers

Earlier this month, Elon Musk revealed the ambitious plan to connect the human brain with a computer using artificial intelligence. His tech startup, Neuralink, plans to implant electrodes into the human brain to enhance its capabilities. Elon Musk’s Neuralink isn’t the only company working towards merging the human brain with AI. Facebook is also working […]

Here’s How Elon Musk Will Connect Your Brain With Computers

Elon Musk’s secretive company Neuralink, which is working on a brain-computer interface, has finally revealed some details of the technology behind it. Neuralink plans to insert highly flexible brain reading “threads” into the brain. These threads will carry a high volume of data from the brain to the computer, according to a white paper credited […]

How Your Brainwaves Can Be Used To Steal Passwords And Private Data

Short Bytes: With the increasing work in the field of brain-computer interfaces, we are witnessing a new kind of security risk of brainwave hacking. Nitesh Saxena from the University of Alabama at Birmingham has shown that malicious software can be used to guess passwords and other private data. By training its notorious algorithm using random text inputs, […]

Brain Malware — Here’s How Hackers Can Get Inside Your Head

Short Bytes: For a moment, forget computer and smartphone malware. There’s even a bigger danger in town in the form of brain malware. By exploiting brain-computer interfaces (BCI) being used in medical and gaming applications, hackers can read your private and sensitive data. Recently, a team of researchers from the University of Washington shed more light […]