Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 19, 2017
Facebook out to read minds (Update)
Facebook wants to read your mind.
Search results for computer brain interface
Computer Sciences
Apr 18, 2017
Success in recognizing digits and monosyllables with high accurary from brain activity measurement
A Japanese research collaborative has developed a technology that can recognize the numbers zero to nine with 90 percent accuracy using electroencephalogram (EEG) readings while the subject utters the numbers. Furthermore, ...
Social Sciences
Apr 12, 2017
Study identifies effects of EU expansion on labor, research
Rather than a brain-drain, the 13-country European Union (EU) expansion initiated more than a decade ago triggered a brain-reconfiguration—the rising circulation of knowledge through the increased mobility of highly skilled ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 3, 2017
Visualizing scientific big data in informative and interactive ways
Humans are visual creatures: our brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text, and 90 percent of information sent to the brain is visual. Visualization is becoming increasingly useful in the era of big data, in which ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 28, 2017
Musk diving into minds while reaching for Mars (Update)
Not content to reach for Mars and dethrone fossil fuels, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk on Tuesday is turning his focus to delving into people's minds.
Space Exploration
Mar 21, 2017
NASA's hybrid computer enables Raven's autonomous rendezvous capability
A hybrid computing system developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is the enabling technology behind an ambitious experiment testing a relative navigation and autonomous docking capability known ...
Engineering
Mar 16, 2017
Controlling turtle motion with human thought
Korean researchers have developed a technology that can remotely control an animal's movement with human thought.
General Physics
Mar 9, 2017
Researchers flip a magnetic memory cell with a light pulse at record speed
University of Minnesota electrical and computer engineering researchers have created a magnetic tunnel junction that can be switched by a pulse of light lasting one trillionth of a second—a new record. The magnetic tunnel ...
Engineering
Feb 16, 2017
Big improvements to brain-computer interface
When people suffer spinal cord injuries and lose mobility in their limbs, it's a neural signal processing problem. The brain can still send clear electrical impulses and the limbs can still receive them, but the signal gets ...
Software
Feb 15, 2017
Why medical technology often doesn't make it from drawing board to hospital
If there's something wrong with your brain, how do you spot that in an MRI? Of course, if it's something obvious, such as a major aneurysm or a tumour, anyone can see it. But what if it's something more subtle, such as a ...
