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Pongmaster — The company's demo looks impressive, but most aspects have been done before. John Timmer - Apr 9, 2021 8:06 pm UTC On Thursday, one of Elon Musk's companies, Neuralink, posted a video showing a monkey playing Pong using nothing but a brain implant connected wirelessly with the computer…

Elon Musk's Neuralink startup has released this video of a nine year old macaque playing "MindPong" with his Neuralink. Today we are pleased to reveal the Link's capability to enable a macaque monkey, named Pager, to move a cursor on a computer screen with neural activity using a 1,024 electrode…

What Silicon Valley’s latest hype cycle says about the future of social media ONE OF SILICON VALLEY’S most successful inventions is hype. It usually disappoints. In 2015 live-streaming from smartphones became all the rage. But Meerkat, an app which pioneered it, shut down the following year. On April 1st Periscope,…

Bengaluru: Social audio app Clubhouse is in discussions to raise funds at a valuation of about $4 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Clubhouse did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The San Francisco-based company, whose app allows people to discuss…

Tesla reported that it had delivered nearly 185,000 vehicles in the first quarter of 2021, a new ... record for the high-flying electric vehicle-maker. Maja Hitij/Getty Images Tesla’s TSLA billionaire CEO and cofounder, Elon Musk, saw his fortune jump again on Monday after his electric car company reported a record…

DeFi Saturday Night Live (SNL) Answers “What the Hell’s an NFT” in An Eminem Style Rap AnTyMarch 29, 2021If you still don’t know what non-fungible tokens (NFTs), “Saturday Night Live” has you covered. On the Weekend, SNL posted a clip on Twitter called “what the hell’s an NFT” that has…

Elon Musk, currently the richest man in the world, is a serial entrepreneur who has managed to start and scale several businesses in different industries. His most valuable companies, Tesla and SpaceX, are currently worth $773 billion and $74 billion, respectively. Musk also founded other industry-leading companies such as Zip2,…

The secluded beachside community of Boca Chica Village was once a haven for retirees, snowbirds and outdoorsy people who enjoyed dirt biking, fishing or lounging near the water. Today, traffic backs up the lone highway out of the unincorporated area that’s now home to only about half a dozen residents…

Home News Spaceflight (Image credit: Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images) It might be April Fools' Day for a few more hours, but this is no joke.  SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Thursday (April 1) he would put "a literal Dogecoin" (pronounced "dohj coin") on the "literal moon." SpaceX is going to…

Right on cue for April Fool's Day, Musk promises to "put a literal Dogecoin on the literal moon," but for hodlers, the resulting gains were anything but a joke. 34687 Total views 161 Total shares It may be an April Fool's Day prank, but when it comes to meme-based cryptocurrency…