Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Our thoughts are private – or at least they were. New breakthroughs in neuroscience and artificial intelligence are changing that assumption, while at the same time inviting new questions around ethics, privacy, and the horizons of brain/computer interaction. Research published last week from Queen Mary University in London describes an application of a deep neural network that can determine a person's emotional state by analyzing wireless signals that are used like radar.

Our thoughts are private – or at least they were. New breakthroughs in neuroscience and artificial intelligence are changing that assumption, while at the same time inviting new questions around ethics, privacy, and the horizons of brain/computer interaction. Research from the UK and an update from Elon Musk on human trials at his brain interface company show software is now eating the mind.

Our thoughts are private – or at least they were. New breakthroughs in neuroscience and artificial intelligence are changing that assumption, while at the same time inviting new questions around ethics, privacy, and the horizons of brain/computer interaction. Research published last week from Queen Mary University in London describes an application of a deep neural network that can determine a person's emotional state by analyzing wireless signals that are used like radar. In this research, participants in the study watched a video while radio signals were sent towards them and measured when they bounced back. Analysis of body movements revealed "hidden" information about an individual's heart and breathing rates.

Bastion is going to get bricked. A new Overwatch limited-time event starting today, September 17, will let you earn several new cosmetics, with a new "Brick Bastion" skin at the center of it all. The new Legendary skin makes the robotic character look like he's built out of Lego bricks. To win the skin and some other cosmetics, all you have to do is play during the LTE period through September 30. Winning three games will get you two new player icons, winning six games will earn you two sprays, and winning nine games will get you the Brick Bastion skin.

Every time someone in a position of power (for example) says that a cold snap in winter proves that climate change is not a thing, a dutiful chorus responds with a familiar refrain: weather is not climate. Weather happens on the scale of days or weeks, over a distance relevant to cities or states. Climate happens over decades, centuries even, to an entire planet. The problem is, guess what timescale and space-scale people live on? The question of what can make human beings understand climate change is literally an existential one.

It's time for the Steam Summer sale, when a collection of purchases for prices so low they seem negligible end up adding up to something that threatens your ability to pay rent. There are a ton of games out there: some of them fantastically cheap, some of them just regular cheap, and some of them somewhere in the middle. We're going fantastically cheap for this particular list and whittling it down to some surprisingly excellent games, all of which can be had for under $5. Keep reading for a great way to spend somewhere just south of $55. Dishonored: Dishonored is an amazing game, and much better than the somewhat self-involved Dishonored 2. It's a sandbox-based first-person supernatural assassination game, where you control a loyal soldier to a murdered empress sworn to take revenge on those that caused her death. Loopy experimentation, wide-open levels and genuinely engaging lore make this one that's easy to come back to.

The Overwatch Anniversary Event is now live, celebrating the game's second birthday. To help celebrate the game's entrance into the terrible twos, Blizzard has released a bunch of new skins. Along with five epic skins, the game has eight new legendary skins. For the purposes of this post, we'll just be looking at the latter. These are, for the most part, all really great skins.

Elon Musk, our beloved spaceboy, sat down yesterday with Y Combinator's Sam Altman to talk about, well, a whole bunch of stuff: Colonizing new planets, productivity, artificial intelligence. But in one of these video clips Altman asks for recommendations on video games and Musk, without hesitation, replies: Overwatch. Is it all that surprising that the future President of Mars loves the same game that nearly everyone has been lavishing with praise--and rightly so--since its launch in May? Not really, but it got us thinking: who would Musk main? More than likely the SpaceX CEO deeply regrets choosing Gizmodo as one of the 38 accounts he follows, but it allowed us to DM the entrepreneur and find out which futuristic cartoon hero he uses to maim/kill other cartoons in what we imagine is his very limited free time.