During a live demo, readings from a pig’s brain were shown onscreen. When the pig touched an object with its snout, neurons captured by Neuralink’s technology (which had been embedded in the pig’s brain two months prior) fired in a visualization on a television monitor.
Long-awaited Celera 500L 'bullet' plane is finally revealed
Boston-based Transcend Air is also working on competitively priced city-to-city trips in six-person planes, again with a pre-pandemic launch date of 2024.
And in January this year, Uber and Hyundai revealed they are working on a four-seater electric flying vehicle that can be summoned by app.
“It wasn’t the panic of the 4th of July scene from ‘Jaws,’ but once everyone realized what was happening, they moved with a purpose!” the post said.
(To put this in perspective, the flu vaccination reduces the risk of flu illness by between 40% and 60%, according to the Centers for Disease Control .)
The system currently allows Facebook to connect users’ off-Facebook activities with their profile to better serve personalized advertisements. But with Apple doubling down on privacy in its new iPhone software, Facebook’s tools will be limited.
Costing an estimated $4m a week, Flying Fox is said to be the largest yacht available to charter in the world.
"We're excited to elevate our collaboration with Harpoon this fall with the introduction of Harpoon Dunkin' Pumpkin beer and the first-ever Harpoon beer made with real Dunkin' donuts," said Brian Gilbert, vice president of retail business development at Dunkin'. "We have no doubt the new donut brews, along with the rest of this new fall lineup, will bring the same moments of sweetness and smiles our coffee and donuts have created for 70 years."
“I have been criticized for remarks I made Sunday night about the benefits of convalescent plasma. The criticism is entirely justified,” Hahn wrote.
The company admitted that allowing a robot arm to stick a swab up your nose can seem scary.
I kind of like the whole idea of robots but…
I went to the hospital this morning for a blood test and the moment I got in the door they blasted my head with temperature rays and asked if I was washing behind my ears. I said yes, of course, and they declared me safe from the Trump virus for one more day.
They they drained out a bucket of blood; I don't know what that was for. I guess I'll find out next week.
Next week I'm taking a bus to the other side of town to visit my clinic. It'll be the farthest away from home I've been since March.
I'm not sure I remember how to pack.
From the (paywalled) Washington Post:
For fraudsters, the coronavirus pandemic has been like Christmas, Valentine’s Day and the Super Bowl all rolled into one.
Lampooning the rich is a longtime American literary pastime, and no writer has ever been blessed with more fertile territory in that regard than Palm Beach. On the very first page we meet Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons, of the “aerosol Pews” and one of the Trump-loving “Potussies,” a bevy of hard-drinking, bejeweled heiresses, who at a ball in POTUS’s honor serenade him with a song they made up, “Big Unimpeachable You.”
Due out (hopefully) August 25, Hiaasen's long-awaited new book (any new Hiaasen book is long-awaited by me) looks like a screamer.
This review is from the (paywalled) Washington Post—you can also read about it at Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Nobel, etc.
