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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
October 8, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
Most coverage of brain-computer interfaces shows the best day: a cursor gliding across a screen, a sentence appearing as a paralysed person attempts to speak, a headline accuracy…
by sysop_gray
October 8, 2026 — filed under Field Notes: Startups
Every few weeks a brain-computer interface company announces a "first". It might be the first wireless implant, the first patient to post online by thought, or the first decoded…
by sysop_gray
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
September 28, 2026 — filed under Wetware & Hardware
PRIMA is a wireless chip, two millimetres square, implanted beneath the retina of people who have lost their central vision to geographic atrophy, the advanced "dry" form of…
by sysop_gray
August 19, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
The latest generation of artificial intelligence arrived with a new trick that looks, at first glance, like a genuine leap. Ask an older model a hard question and it answered…
by sysop_gray
August 10, 2026 — filed under The Wired World
Ask a computer to pick a random number and it will happily oblige. Ask how it did it, and you uncover one of the quiet paradoxes at the heart of computing: a computer is a…
by sysop_gray
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 24, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
Ask one of these systems a question and, most of the time, you get a fluent, plausible, correct answer. Ask it a slightly different question and you may get a fluent, plausible,…
by sysop_gray
July 20, 2026 — filed under Signal & Noise
This site is, in a small way, a survivor. It went dark for years and was pulled back from the archives of the early Internet, which gives me an odd vantage point on a problem…
by sysop_gray
July 17, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
There is a temptation, when you sit in front of one of these systems and watch it answer, to believe you are talking to something that understands. It writes fluently, it stays…
by sysop_gray
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 7, 2026 — filed under Machine Intelligence
Every few years the same story returns, dressed in a new company's press release: the brain-computer interface is here, the keyboard is dead, telepathy is next quarter. And every…
by sysop_gray