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Mark Blunden and Rachelle Abbott

Musk’s Neuralink brain chip inside paraplegic chess player: Tech & Science Daily podcast

Elon Musk’s Neuralink has posted a clip showing a paraplegic man apparently using the company’s brain chip technology to play computer chess.

Noland Arbaugh can be seen using the tech to move pieces on-screen in the video posted to X in the US.

Neuralink’s chip was fitted by a robot surgeon, which placed the implant detecting electrical signals in an area of the brain controlling movement, after removing of a chunk of skull to connect electrodes bridging chip and brain.

However, there widespread concerns remained about ethics and safety, after development was linked to the deaths of 1,500 test animals.

Remains of the world’s largest dolphin have been uncovered in the Peruvian Amazon, revealing the mammal that lived 16 million years ago measured up to 11 feet long.

University of Zurich researchers found a skull fossil in the Peruvian Amazon, and it’s believed to be related to the modern-day river dolphin.

A study by a team of London researchers suggests artificial intelligence could help predict the type of health conditions a patient is likely to develop in the future.

They programmed a ChatGPT-style AI tool called Foresight with information from NHS and American health records.

Visitors to America’s National WWII Museum in New Orleans will be able to “interact” with 18 veterans and hear stories, from the horrors of the battlefield to enduring captivity as a prisoner of war.

America’s surgeon general warns Gen Z face what’s described as an early ‘mid-life crisis’, partly caused by unrelenting exposure to social media.

Plus, climate change linked to rising cocoa prices, smoking alert for belly fat and reprise of Facebook’s ‘poke’ button.

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