Moravec‘s Paradox

In addition to electric cars, road trips to Mars, and strange Twitter behavior, Elon Musk is also known for a new biotech company called Neuralink, which aims to connect human brains to computers. The company just held a presentation where several execs, inc…

Neuralink plans to test its brain machine interface technology with four of its N1 chips installed under patients' skin. Neuralink; Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET Neuralink, Elon Musk's startup that's trying to directly link brains and computers, has …

Venture capitalists are the startup experts, the ones who have their finger on the pulse of which fledgling companies will boom and which will bust. As part of Business Insider Primes comprehensive coverage of the startups that will strike gold in 2019, we a…

Venture capitalists are the startup experts, the ones who have their finger on the pulse of which fledgling companies will boom and which will bust. As part of Business Insider Primes comprehensive coverage of the startups that will strike gold in 2019, we a…

Elon Musk expects to begin planting chips into human brains as early as next year, Business Insider reports. The Tesla CEO revealed the plans during a livestream earlier this week, stating that his neurotechnology startup Neuralink hopes to have its first hu…

The startup unveiled a sewing machine-like robot used to implant ultrafine flexible electrodes deep into the brain to detect neuron activity, during an event in San Francisco yesterday evening. We told you so: It pretty much went as wed predicted. (You can r…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The Rubik's Cube is a puzzle challenging people to create six sides of a single colour An artificial intelligence system created by researchers at the University of California has solved the Rubik's Cube in a fracti…

Climbing Robot, Programming and Programming Languages, Media Player, and Burnout Shops NASA Climbing Robot -- a four-limbed robot named LEMUR (Limbed Excursion Mechanical Utility Robot) can scale rock walls, gripping with hundreds of tiny fishhooks in each of…

Somehow Jonathan Coulton ended up with a surprisingly relevant dystopian scifi fantasy -- in two different mediums. "I'm very proud of this album, and it says a lot of things that are close to my heart," Coulton said Friday. But first some background: if you …

Over the past week or so, one celebrity after another has stepped up to offer their take on nailing the Bottle Cap Challenge. I thought Mariah Carey’s was particularly funny, as she used one of her signature high notes to seemingly de-cap a bottle. Regular pe…