Over a year later, Musk’s Neuralink still 6 months from human trials

Enlarge / The on-stage demo of the surgical robot practically extended into the audience. (credit: Neuralink) On Wednesday night, Elon Musk hosted an update from his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink. Most of the update involved various researchers at the company providing overviews of the specific areas of technology development they were working on. But there…

Scientists modeled a tiny wormhole on a quantum computer

inqnet/A. Mueller (Caltech) Physicists, mathematicians, astronomers, and even filmmakers have long been fascinated by the concept of a wormhole: an unpredictable and oftentimes volatile phenomenon that is believed to create tunnels (and shortcuts between two distant locations) across spacetime. Another theory holds that if you link up two black holes in the right way, you…