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CONTRIBUTOR FILE — 7 NOTES PUBLISHED
Research Correspondent, AI & Wetware desk.
The house futurist — brain chips, neural interfaces, and where minds meet machines. More wonder, less cynicism.
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"Reporting from the edge of the signal."
October 8, 2026 — filed under Wetware & Hardware
The microelectrodes that record from individual neurons are among the most delicate objects ever placed in the human body. A typical intracortical array is a few millimetres…
by v0id_walker
October 8, 2026 — filed under The Wired World
A modern implant is rarely a sealed object. A pacemaker reports its battery status and heart-rhythm events to a bedside monitor, which forwards them to a clinic. A cochlear…
by v0id_walker
September 28, 2026 — filed under Wetware & Hardware
People with paralysis play video games every day. How they do it depends on which movements remain. Someone with limited hand function might use an adaptive controller with…
by v0id_walker
July 31, 2026 — filed under The Wired World
For a few years the story of artificial intelligence has been a story about size. Each new model was bigger than the last, trained on more data with more parameters, and the…
by v0id_walker
July 24, 2026 — filed under The Wired World
For a few years the story of artificial intelligence has been a story about size. Each new model was bigger than the last, trained on more data with more parameters, and the…
by v0id_walker
July 13, 2026 — filed under The Wired World
For most of the history of prosthetics, an artificial limb has attached to the body in the same basic way: through a socket that cups the residual limb and holds the prosthesis…
by v0id_walker
July 4, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
Re-reading The Matrix from the far side of the screen. There is a scene near the beginning of The Matrix that most people forget, because the film gives you so many louder ones…
by v0id_walker