Elon Musk wants to connect brains to computers with new company

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is launching a new company called Neuralink with the intention of connecting computers directly to human brains, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal reported that the billionaire entrepreneur, whose other interests include sending humans to Mars, is exploring "neural lace" technology – the implanting of tiny electrodes into the brain that could be used to give direct computing capabilities. Musk has not officially announced the new company but after the Journal's report he tweeted confirming more news of Neuralink would come out next week. He has previously talked about neural laces as something that "somebody's got to do", adding: "If somebody doesn't do it, then I think I should do it." Neuralink was registered in California as a "medical research" company last July, and the Journal reported Musk plans on funding the company mostly by himself.