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🧠 Neuralink human brain chip implant
🕹️ A video game's 'cautionary tale'
📱 Galaxy S24 Ultra hands-on
🥽 Meta's Quest to face Vision Pro

On Monday, Neuralink owner and co-founder Elon Musk announced that his team has conducted its first chip implant in a human brain, adding that the volunteer is “recovering well.”
Musk also said that the “initial results show promising neuron spike detection,” which is necessary for commands to travel from the brain to the body.
The update comes four months after Neuralink put out its first call for human volunteers to test its experimental N1 computer interface.
The first ambition is to get the technology to a point where it can help people with paralysis to control devices with their thoughts, with the ever-ambitious Musk even suggesting that it could one day equip humans with “superhuman cognition” ...

On January 4, I received an email I had both been anticipating and dreading for months. My copy of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, one of my most anticipated games of 2024, had dropped into my inbox.

Usually, that moment would give me a jolt of energy. I love critiquing games that have real substance, and I was still chewing on 2020’s unforgettable Yakuza: Like a Dragon several years later. That RPG tells a thematically rich story about an unlikely hero finding his confidence amid a quest to take on Japan’s criminal underworld.
But the desire to dive into the new game would come with one major caveat: I needed to give up the next three weeks of my life for it ...

If you asked the AI chatbot of your choice to help design a smartphone with the best specification possible, it might come up with something similar to the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, which itself is packed full of AI smarts.
After all, there’s very little missing from the top Galaxy model, with everything from a stylus to the very latest processor included. Does this mean you shouldn’t think twice about buying it? Let’s find out.

Samsung hasn’t really changed the design of the Galaxy S24 Ultra, as it’s very similar looking to the Galaxy S23 Ultra, but it has made various alterations that make the phone more durable, easier to use, and even more modern ...

Meta’s Quest 2 is the world’s most popular VR headset, and the latest Quest 3 is selling well and will quickly reach second place. However, the Vision Pro will arrive within days. While Apple’s VR headset outclasses Meta’s best in every way, the self-proclaimed “metaverse” company is reportedly optimistic about Apple entering the market.
The timing of the Quest 3’s launch in October 2023 was perfect, riding the wave of excitement Apple created about mixed reality with the Vision Pro announcement four months earlier. Meta captured VR holiday sales before Apple’s headset was available and now benefits from increased media coverage and comparisons of the Vision Pro and Quest 3, often with a focus on the vast price difference ...

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