IMAGE of Elon Musk Neuralink brain chip has been revealed, showing off a man’s new “telepathic” abilities.

Musk’s Neuralink technology is intended to allow someone to control their phone or other device with their mind, the CEO said.

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Musk reposted a Neuralink video of the first of its human testers demonstrating the technology on Wednesday.

“Livestream of @Neuralink demonstrating ‘Telepathy’: controlling a computer and playing video games just by thinking,” his caption read.

In the video, the tester, 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, talks about his experience playing an electronic chess game on a large screen.

Arbaugh was paralyzed after a “freak diving accident” that dislocated two of his vertebrae, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down, he explained in the video.

The company has previously said that Neuralink’s mission is to restore autonomy to individuals with “unmet medical needs,” with a vision to “unlock human potential” in the future.

After receiving FDA approval for the first human clinical trials in May 2023, Arbaugh is the first of six people to be cleared to test the chip after hundreds of animal tests.

In the video he shows off his chess skills without ever touching the computer where it is hosted.

“See that cursor on the screen? That’s all me… it’s all brainpower,” he said as an accompanying Neuralink engineer looked at the computerized chess game.

Arbaugh then elaborated on how he started learning to use the brain chip.

“So we started trying a few different things,” he began.

“We actually went from what we would call ‘imagined movement’ versus ‘attempted movement,’ and we started with an attempt to move.”

“This meant I had to think about moving the computer cursor left and right, and from then on it just became intuitive to me,” the tester finished explaining.

Arbaugh has been paralyzed since 2016 when he was injured while working at a summer camp for children. Since then, he has had “absolutely no feeling” from his shoulders down.

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“This is one of the things you guys have enabled me to do… I haven’t really been able to do much in the last few years,” he said of Neuralink.

The tester then explained the feeling he had the first time he got results while trying to move the computer mouse telepathically.

“It would just move to where I wanted it to be, it was such a wild experience… it’s crazy, it’s crazy,” he recalled.

“I feel so lucky to be a part of this, every day it feels like we are learning new things.”

Although he’s the only one experiencing it firsthand, Arbaugh isn’t the only one amazed by the technology’s success so far.

“Absolutely amazing inspiring stuff. One day this will help paralyzed people walk again,” one user wrote.

“Another Elon Musk company that improves the condition of man! Elon loves humanity! His results speak for themselves!” added another user.

“Neuralink’s potential to improve lives is phenomenal. Great job Neuralink,” read another comment.

HUMAN SUBJECT CONTROVERSY

While Arbaugh is now all smiles and has more access to tasks and recreation than before Neuralink, news of the chip’s impact on his first human subject was met with divisiveness.

In a speech at the company’s headquarters in December, Musk talked about the speed at which Meuralink would move forward with human testing.

“We want to be extremely careful and make sure it will work before we put a device in a human,” he said.

“Progress may seem painfully slow at first, especially as it applies to humans, but we are committed to bringing it to scale in parallel.”

In late January, Musk posted an announcement that Arbaugh’s procedure had been completed, which drew mixed reactions from the public.

Many people had reservations about moving from technology to human subjects.

“The negative potential of this makes me very uncomfortable,” one person wrote in a reply to Musk’s X-post.

“I’m terrified just thinking about it,” said another.

Someone else replied: “Elon can turn off this fear with a chip in your brain.”

“Matrix time,” said another, referring to the iconic dystopian film.

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“The first cyborg is born,” said a fifth.

Others, meanwhile, were amazed by the progress and shared their excitement about seeing the results.

“Good job Neuralink and Elon!! This could very well be an important moment in history,” one user wrote.

“This is great news, we are expanding to the last two borders. Space and spirit, I can’t wait for the next company lecture. So excited!” said another.

‘EXTREME SUFFERING’ IN ANIMAL TESTING

In April 2021, Neuralink shocked the world with a video of a macaque known as Pager with one of the chips playing Pong.

The animal was seen manually using a joystick and then operating it only with its mind through a wireless connection to the chip.

Neuralink reportedly implanted Bluetooth chips in the brains of several monkeys to see if they could communicate with computers through a small receiver.

Some subjects are believed to have “suffered infections from the implanted electrodes placed in their brains,” according to a complaint filed by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM).

The group filed a complaint with the USDA, claiming it had evidence that macaques used in previous trials had suffered horrific suffering.

In 2022, the USDA opened a federal investigation under the Animal Welfare Act, Reuters reported.

About 1,500 animals — including more than 280 sheep, pigs and monkeys — have reportedly died as a result of Neuralink testing since 2018, the outlet reported, citing data it reviewed.

The company was accused of subjecting animals to ‘extreme suffering’, including drilling holes into the skull of one monkey.

Neuralink conducted its monkey experiments in collaboration with scientists at the University of California, Davis.

“No monkey has died as a result of a Neuralink implant. First, in our early implants, to minimize the risk to healthy monkeys, we chose terminal monkeys (sic) (already almost dead),” Musk replied in a meme on X.

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Elon Musk has shared stunning footage of the first person to use the Neuralink brain chip to control a computer cursor and play video games just by thinking.

The groundbreaking patient, paralyzed man Noland Arbaugh, 29, was seen in a video shared with X using only his mind to play a game of chess.

‘Do you see that cursor on the screen? That’s all me… it’s all brainpower,” he said from his wheelchair. He said in the video that he had a “freak diving accident” eight years ago that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down.

His successful use of the technology marks a breathtaking development and reinforces experts’ belief that it could revolutionize care for the disabled.

Arbaugh beamed with happiness throughout the segment, showing the mouse moving back and forth across the online chessboard.

Musk announced a month ago that the first person had had the chip implanted, saying at the time that Arbaugh could “move a mouse across the screen just by thinking.”

He still seemed baffled by how the groundbreaking technology actually worked and compared moving the mouse across the screen to using ‘The Force’ from Star Wars.

“Progress is good and the patient appears to have made a full recovery, with neural effects that we are aware of,” Musk said in a Spaces event on X.

Neuralink’s technology uses a robot to surgically place a brain-computer interface implant into a part of the brain that controls the intention to move.

The system consists of a computer chip attached to small flexible wires that are stitched into the brain by a ‘sewing machine-like’ robot.

In the operation, the ‘sewing robot’ removes a small piece of the skull, connects the thread-like electrodes to certain parts of the brain, sutures the hole closed and all that is visible is a scar left from the incision

Musk said the fitting procedure takes just 30 minutes, requires no general anesthesia and allows patients to return home the same day.

Arbaugh suffered his debilitating injury while working at a children’s camp in Texas in 2016, and said he had “absolutely no feeling” below his shoulders for years.

He added that he “loved to play chess” before his injury, continuing, “This is one of the things that you all have enabled me to do… I haven’t really been able to do much in the last few years. .’

In a GoFundMe as of 11 months after his accident, Arbaugh was said to be struggling with his “lack of mobility.”

‘Noland is bound to a large electric wheelchair that he has to take everywhere. The wheelchair, coupled with his condition, makes traveling anywhere an ordeal,” the fundraiser said.

Arbaugh was assisted in the segment by a Neuralink engineer, who at one point asked the patient to explain how he was able to move a computer mouse telepathically.

“So we started trying a few different things,” he said. “We actually went from what we would call ‘imagined movement’ versus ‘attempted movement’, and we started with an attempt to move.”

This involved thinking about moving his right hand left and right, and “from there it just became intuitive to me,” he said.

Comparing the technology to using “The Force” from Star Wars, Arbaugh said he was taught to move the cursor around the screen by “staring somewhere on the screen.”

Describing the first time it worked, he said, “It just went to where I wanted it to go, it was such a wild experience… it’s crazy, it’s crazy.”

THERE’S still so much we don’t know about the human brain, including how some specimens are preserved for thousands of years.

More than 4,000 human brains have been studied as part of new research into a mystery that is baffling scientists.

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Some brains in the study date back as far as 12,000 years.

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The study highlights that brains do not always decompose quickly after death and that some brains are preserved even when no preservation techniques are used.

This research was led by Alexandra Morton-Hayward from the University of Oxford.

It involved a team searching through the archaeological data of human brains.

The findings have been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences log.

“Here we have collected an archive of more than 4,400 human brains preserved in the archaeological record over a period of approximately 12,000 years, of which more than 1,300 constitute the only soft tissue preserved among otherwise skeletal remains.

“We found that these types of brains persist on time scales greater than those preserved in other ways, suggesting that an unknown mechanism may be responsible for the preservation of the central nervous system specifically,” the researchers wrote.

One of the oldest brains in question was found in a severed skull.

The skull belonged to a Stone Age individual who had been beheaded and placed his head on a pike in Sweden sometime between 6350 and 5000 BC.

Another brain was found in a prehistoric cemetery in Upper Egypt, preserved in a shallow sand grave.

“The untapped archive of preserved ancient brains provides an opportunity for bioarchaeological studies of human evolution, health and disease,” the researchers continued.

Some of the preserved brains had reasonable explanations, such as being freeze-dried or volcanic preservation.

However, there were many that were the only soft tissue that survived on skeletons.

Scientists warned that preserved brains may look the same color as soil and that many of them may have been discarded during excavations.

A nine-year-old boy who spent years of his life battling recurring brain tumors is now climbing to the top of Mount Everest to raise money for charity.

Arthur Middleton, from Lincolnshire, had a difficult start to life when he was born prematurely at 26 weeks in 2014.

Just before his third birthday, Arthur’s parents, Claire and Henry, noticed that he was having seizures, feeling nauseous, slurring his words and losing the use of his right hand.

After an MRI scan, the couple was then told that their son had a brain tumor the size of a golf ball.

‘It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. You just go into overdrive and think about what it means,” Claire, 41, told MailOnline.

They were then blue-lit to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, in 2017, where he underwent a successful operation and the family would move to North Carolina in January that year.

After learning to walk again, Arthur had a scan in December and the family were told the tumor had returned to the size of a ping-pong ball.

Ex-lawyer Claire said this was ‘quite unusual’ for a low-grade tumor as it was quite ‘aggressive’. Arthur then underwent another operation to remove this tumor as they crossed the pond.

The parents were then told that despite two operations to remove the tumor, it continued to grow back and that the next step was to try chemotherapy.

But after five months it stopped working.

Claire and Henry, who work in finance, then found a clinical trial in America and managed to get Arthur enrolled in it.

“We put him on medication that is actually like a targeted therapy because his tumor cells have a certain genetic mutation and we were fortunate that they were testing different genetic mutations,” the stay-at-home mom said. .

‘Luckily he has one of the genetic mutations that one of the drugs targets, so we confronted him about that in America.’

Arthur remained in the trial for two years and within the first few months the size of the tumor had reduced by 80 percent.

Over the next few years on this drug, Arthur was completely stable.

But after the trial was completed, he had to stop taking the medication and the tumor started growing again.

Claire said the family were able to access this drug after a difficult time when they returned to Britain in early 2022.

“He continues to take that and it’s kept everything stable for five years now and he takes it every day,” Claire said.

“He goes to school and his immune system isn’t compromised or anything. We are fortunate that we are currently in a stable situation.

‘Now that we’ve learned more about it, we feel like we’re one of the lucky ones to have been diagnosed with low grade.

‘Even though it was very large when they found it and it had long-term health consequences for him, we’re lucky it’s low quality.’

‘His journey to the brain tumor has been very difficult and it is still a bit ongoing. I don’t think we have any illusions that we are one of the lucky ones.’

Now Arthur is raising money for The Brain Tumor Charity by climbing Mount Everest – a whopping 8,849 metres.

Although he has a weakness on the side of his body, it hasn’t stopped him from achieving his goal of raising awareness about brain tumors.

‘[I’m] honestly so proud. He had been talking about doing this for a while and we were worried that he wouldn’t be able to do it physically as it is still a challenge.

‘But we were talking about New Year’s resolutions with the family and he said, ‘I’m going to climb the mountain to raise money.’

‘It’s great as a mother to see how proud and how successful he is in what he does. He struggles academically at school and with sports.

“He’s not going to be team captain, but this is his thing and he’s very proud of himself.

‘He’s finding it difficult because we’re climbing in some pretty challenging weather conditions at the moment, but he’s determined and won’t give up.’

Arthur has spent his spare time climbing several mountains including Whernside, Buckden Pike and Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales and Thorpe Cloud in the Peak District.

Claire said her son also went outside and climbed when Storm Isha hit Britain.

‘I think that was quite a challenge for him and he was talking about the wind and the rain at the top.

‘I think he found it quite frightening. But when he reached the bottom he was very proud of himself for doing it and now he is proud to tell everyone that he climbed that. [during] Storm Isha.’

He has currently reached 2,500 million with around 6,349 million to go and has raised almost £6,000 for charity so far.

Claire says he likes to update his regularly Instagram page on his progress.

Arthur usually walks up mountains with members of his family, but since then he has had peers from his school willing to join him on his journey.

His school also held a fundraising day where students and teachers wore hats and donated to his cause.

Claire and Henry are going on a climb in April with some of Arthur’s teachers and friends.

To donate to Arthur’s page, click here.

Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama has died at the age of 68 due to a hemorrhage near his brain, his studio said Thursday.

Toriyama died on March 1 due to the medical condition known as acute subdural hematoma, the Dragon Ball studio said in a statement on social media.

The Dragon Ball studio said it was their “deep regret” that Toriyama “still had several works in the middle of creation with great enthusiasm,” as “he would have many more things to achieve.”

“However, he left many manga titles and works of art to this world. We hope that Akira Toriyama’s unique world of creation will remain loved by all for a long time to come.”

The Dragon Ball comic was released in 1984 and became a huge success, with spin-off films, games and cartoons.

The statement continued: “Thanks to the support of so many people around the world, he has been able to continue his creative activities for more than 45 years.

“We hope that Akira Toriyama’s unique world of creation will remain loved by everyone for a long time to come.”

The studio said that “a funeral service was held with his family and very few relatives,” asking for privacy for his family and for fans to refrain from visiting, sending flowers, gifts or other offers.

No decision has yet been made on a “memorial event” in Toriyama’s memory, the studio said, adding that it will provide further information as it becomes available.

“We sincerely thank you for your understanding and support, as always,” the studio said in closing the statement.

Dragon Ball centers on Son Goku, a boy who searches for a collection of magical dragon balls during a battle to protect the planet from the Saiyans, a group of alien humanoids.

The martial arts-influenced franchise also features popular characters such as Piccolo, Bulma and Krillin.

In the late 1980s, it was adapted into an anime show by Toei Animation, which he said achieved enormous success on an international scale. The Hollywood Reporter.

Toriyama had also been busy working on video games in the anime genre, including Chrono Trigger and Dragon Quest, according to the outlet IGN.

Toriyama was rumored to be working on a Dragon Ball Z spin-off called Dragon Ball Daima, focusing on the characters Goku and Vegeta.

At New York Comic Con 2023 last fall, Dragon Ball Daima executive producer Akio Iyoku said on a panel that Toriyama had been “very involved beyond his normal capabilities” in working on the details of the high-profile project.

Iyoku said Toriyama had planned “all new episodes for the storyline, so look forward to the start of the series,” which will be released this fall.

Toriyama was born on April 5, 1955 in Nagoya, Japan and began his career by submitting his work to Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine, according to THR.

He was first published in 1978 with a comic called Wonder Island, based on an ex-World War II kamikaze pilot who was stranded on a place called Wonder Island. The following year he released a sequel titled Wonder Island 2.

Toriyama enjoyed early success with the manga Dr. Slump, which would serialize Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1980-1984.

Dr. Slump was set in a location called Penguin Village, which according to THR focused on a female robot and her creator.

The breakout success sold more than 35 million copies and would be adapted into an animated TV series from Toei Animation between 1981 and 1986.

A number of fans took to social media on Thursday evening to express their emotional condolences for Toriyama and respect for the contributions he has made in his field.

‘Wow. This man was a legend, a unique talent that impacted so many lives,” said a tweet from the account @DotoDoya. “Shocked and sad, but his legacy will live on for thousands of years, I’m sure.”

A tweet from @zentreya read: Incredibly saddening. I also recently watched DB. Many memorable characters and worlds were created. Thank you for helping spark the imagination of others and giving strength to others. Rest in peace.’

One user posted a Dragon Ball-related GIF of a character crying, saying, “I’m literally crying. Rest in peace to the goat of all goats.”

One user said: ‘Legends never die, RIP Akira, you created one of the best shows ever and touched so many of our hearts growing up. Thanks for everything.’

Another user said, “Rest in peace Akira Toriyama, you will be forever missed,” accompanied by a Dragon Ball-related image of a character with a halo.

Another fan described Toriyama as “a legend,” adding, “Thank you Akira Toriyama for entertaining and inspiring so many of us. Rest in peace.’

One fan said, “Thank you Akira Toriyama. You have touched so many lives and inspired millions around the world. May you rest in peace, you will NEVER be forgotten.”

One user noted the enormous reach and impact of Toriyama and the Dragon Ball franchise, saying: ‘This is so heartbreaking, he and his work have played a huge role in the lives of me and many others.

‘Rest in peace and thank you for all the wonderful memories.’

One fan said: ‘Worst news this year. He was everyone’s hero. Thank you Akira Toriyama. This hurts. What a legend.’

One fan called the news of Toriyama’s death “incredibly heartbreaking to read,” and marveled at the widespread impact he made on his field.

“He was a generational genius who influenced my youth and so many others in such a meaningful way,” the user said. ‘His legacy will never fade and he will continue to inspire generations to come.’

Toriyama is survived by his wife Yoshimi Kato and two children.

When I came out of the anesthesia, I saw my children next to my bed. It was the first time we had all been together in years. In that moment I knew, perhaps for the first time, how much I was loved. If a fatal brain tumor was the price I had to pay, I considered it a bargain.

Of course, the old wounds were hardly healed, and there were any number of ways this meeting could have gone south. And yet something profound had happened. The presence of my family told me that we were in this together. I hoped that we would continue to persevere in the difficult months and years to come.

The biggest challenge was the work I had to do on myself. The treatment – ​​chemotherapy, radiation and steroids – initially brought out the worst in me. Keppra, an anti-seizure drug, is known to induce aggressive anger. Leila was the recipient of that.

Before I was discharged from the hospital, we sought advice from a neuropsychologist, who helped us adapt to the emotional lability that a brain tumor can cause. Together we would overcome this, we decided, and we did. With the help of Meigs Ross, a gifted relationship therapist with experience working with brain injuries, we found ways to adapt. “There are three of you in this relationship now,” she told us, “Rod, Leila and GBM”

One night, Leila came out of the bedroom after hearing a crash. I had been drinking a bottle of wine and dropped it from my left hand, which had been paralyzed since my operation. When I was a journalist, alcohol was practically a tool of trade. But now it was getting riskier. Around the anniversary of my diagnosis, I sought treatment for alcohol abuse, and with the help of a counselor, I spoke about my father’s cruelty for the first time. Over the course of the year we worked together, I began to understand why I had been using alcohol to numb myself. By the end, I realized that I was finally free from the shame my father had left me.

Emma Heming Willis opens up about the sensitive topic of women’s brain health, amid her husband Bruce Willis’ battle with dementia.

Emma, ​​45, who has been married to 68-year-old Willis since 2009, started wellness brain health brand Make Time in 2020.

She co-founded the brand with Helen Christoni and became curious about the topic of women’s brain health after her nine-year-old daughter Evelyn was born in 2014.

Heming Willis — who shared a sweet Valentine’s Day post with her husband two weeks ago — talked about her brand’s mission in an interview with People.

“My doctor will talk to me about the health of my breasts, my cholesterol, my heart, but not my brain,” Heming Willis said, adding, “I had never heard the term ‘brain health’ before.”

She admitted to experiencing brain fog after Evelyn was born, although her doctor dismissed it as what’s called “mommy brain.”

Heming Willis eventually sought out a specialist and the “fog” finally lifted thanks to a “handful” of daily supplement pills, starting her new mission.

She teamed up with her friend and business partner Christoni, 53, to create Make Time, described as a “wellness brand and movement to raise awareness of the importance of brain health,” especially for women.

Both women have experience dealing with brain health issues, with Heming Willis announcing that her action star husband Bruce Willis was diagnosed with ‘Frontotemporal dementia’.

Christoni lost her grandmother and mother-in-law to dementia, and her own daughter last year to mental health problems.

“All families are affected by this. We found ourselves in this position, with this mission. Your purpose finds you,” Christoni said.

The Making Time mission can be as simple as a quick adventure with friends, where the partners recently tried yoga with baby goats.

“I’ve been able to take advantage of this new community I’m in, so giving back to people who are on this journey as care partners has been super meaningful. Community is everything,” she said.

The brand includes a podcast and a Make Time Wellness product line of “brain-nourishing” vitamins and drinkable supplements.

No one talked to women about their brains. It was a very male-dominated conversation. I thought, ‘Let’s do it,'” Christoni said.

Heming Willis previously emphasized the importance of educating women about brain health,’not just when you get a diagnosis and it’s too late.’

“Brain health can happen at any point in our journey. We’re really just trying to empower women to think about it,” she added.

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