Category: author_name|Mat Smith
The Morning After: FDA reportedly denied Neuralink’s request to begin human trials of its brain implant
Neuralink’s efforts to bring a brain-computer interface still have a way to go. According to a new report from Reuters, Elon Musk’s startup was apparently denied authorization by the FDA in 2022 to conduct human trials using the same devices that, well, killed 1,500 animals. Those tests, according to internal…
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The Morning After: The Moon needs its own time zone
Space agencies and private companies around the world have been scheduling their own lunar missions over the next few years, and that could be quite complicated to coordinate when they all use different time zones. During a meeting at the European Space Agency's ESTEC technology center in the Netherlands last…
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The Morning After: Hackers broke into a LastPass employee’s PC to steal the company’s password vault
LastPass posted an update on its investigation regarding a couple of security incidents last year, and they sound worse than we thought. The hackers infiltrated a company DevOps engineer’s home computer by exploiting a third-party media software package. They implanted a keylogger into the software and captured the engineer’s master…
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The Morning After: Welcome to the exciting world of ‘Pokémon Sleep’
Almost four years after it was announced, Pokémon Sleep, a mobile game that tracks your sleep, is finally on the way. According to yesterday's Pokémon Presents event, it’ll arrive sometime this summer, after it was meant to debut in 2020. It features Snorlax (of course) and Professor Neroli, a Pokémon sleep…
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The Morning After: Scientists confirm a fifth layer inside the Earth’s core
Tear down the middle school geology posters: We have an update. A team at Australian National University (ANU) has found evidence of a new fifth layer to the planet, an iron-nickel alloy ball in the inner core. The scientists found the hidden core by studying seismic waves that travel up…
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The Morning After: ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ and the problem with too much VFX
It’s time for more Marvel Cinematic Universe, more special effects, more families in danger and more sinister baddies, with a bigger role for Kang the Conqueror – the big cross-movie threat, a la Thanos – played by Jonathan Majors. Alas, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania suffers from too many special effects,…
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