For the past six years, Elon Musk has been working on a chip designed to be implanted into human brains, with his neurotechnology company Neuralink. His ultimate goal is to develop a'brain-computer interface' that will initially be used to help people with paralysis or motor neurone disease to communicate. It will allegedly allow them to operate computers and mobile devices using their thoughts, but could have further uses in years to come. So what exactly is the chip? How does it work and how will it cure all medical problems?

Recently, a group in Spain, using an implant called the Utah array, which has 96 electrodes, found that that a blind woman could use such a system attached to her brain to make out letters. In its prior events, Neuralink has followed somewhat cautiously in the footsteps of other neuroscientists. For instance, in 2021, it showed a video of a monkey playing the video game Pong with its brain. However, a human with a brain implant had already played the game 15 years before. Instead of entirely new applications, what's actually important about Neuralink is that it has developed a sophisticated type of brain implant using thin wires studded with electrodes.

Elon Musk's neuroscience startup Neuralink Corp. is expected to give a progress report on its brain-implant technology in a highly anticipated streamed event Wednesday night. In a tweet last week, the company teased a demo for the event, which begins at 9 p.m. New York time, with a short video that slowly spelled out the message "please join us for a show and tell." Some outside researchers said the video may indicate that a Neuralink device has been used to decode brain signals to type words on a screen, although they speculated that it would most likely be through a monkey or a wearable device. Neuralink has been testing its implant technology on nonhuman primates for several years, including in April 2021, when the company released a video showing that a monkey implanted with two Neuralink devices could play a videogame called Pong as the device translated its brain activity into commands with the help of machine-learning software. Other researchers have managed to use a brain-computer interface to enable monkeys to produce words on a computer screen.

Elon Musk plans to hold a'Show and Tell' event for his brain chip company Neuralink on November 30, but a group of physicians claims the firm is'mutilating and killing monkeys' to create a'brain-machine interface.' Musk announced the event, which the company holds each year to showcase its latest updates, on Twitter. The first Show and Tell in 2020 demonstrated the brain implant in a pig and in 2021, the world saw it used by a monkey that died months after receiving the implant. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) recently launched a website detailing the gruesome stories of monkeys that are said to have suffered from sloppy experiments conducted at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). PCRM shared lab notes with DailyMail.com

After its earlier schedule was postponed, Neuralink, Elon Musk's neurotechnology company that creates implantable brain-machine interfaces, is finally set to hold its "Show and Tell" event on November 30. The official Twitter account of Neuralink tweeted on Friday a brief video invitation asking people to join them in its "Show and Tell" event. The tweet also came with the caption, "Nov 30, 6 pm PT," which is presumably the date of the event. In April, Musk shared that Neuralink's first human trials were still set for the end of 2022. In August Musk announced Neuralink's "Show and Tell" event planned for October, but given the tech billionaire's acquisition of Twitter at around that time, the event was pushed to the end of November.

After its earlier schedule was postponed, Neuralink, Elon Musk's neurotechnology company that creates implantable brain-machine interfaces, is finally set to hold its "Show and Tell" event on November 30. The official Twitter account of Neuralink tweeted on Friday a brief video invitation asking people to join them in its "Show and Tell" event. The tweet also came with the caption, "Nov 30, 6 pm PT," which is presumably the date of the event. In April, Musk shared that Neuralink's first human trials were still set for the end of 2022. In August Musk announced Neuralink's "Show and Tell" event planned for October, but given the tech billionaire's acquisition of Twitter at around that time, the event was pushed to the end of November.

Elon Musk announced his Neuralink is hosting a'show and tell' progress event on October 31, which will be the first progress update since the world watched a brain-chipped monkey play a video game with its mind in April 2021 - this animal later died during testing. The biotech firm is developing a brain-computer interface that it claims could one day make humans hyper-intelligent, and allow paralyzed people to walk again. Musk shared news of the Halloween event on Twitter, no other details were included, but it follows rumors that Neuralink has offered to buy its rival Synchron, which recently completed the first brain-chip in a human. In April Musk shared that Neuralink was moving along to start human trials at the end of 2022, which could very well be what the billionaire has in store at the October presentation. Neuralink showed its first progress update in August 2020 during a demonstration that showcased a pig with an early version of the brain chip.

Great problem solvers are made, not born. That's what we've found after decades of problem solving with leaders across business, nonprofit, and policy sectors. These leaders learn to adopt a particularly open and curious mindset, and adhere to a systematic process for cracking even the most inscrutable problems. And when conditions of uncertainty are at their peak, they're at their brilliant best. Six mutually reinforcing approaches underly their success: (1) being ever-curious about every element of a problem; (2) being imperfectionists, with a high tolerance for ambiguity; (3) having a "dragonfly eye" view of the world, to see through multiple lenses; (4) pursuing occurrent behavior and experimenting relentlessly; (5) tapping into the collective intelligence, acknowledging that the smartest people are not in the room; and (6) practicing "show and tell" because storytelling begets action (exhibit). Here's how they do it. As any parent knows, four-year-olds are unceasing askers.

Computer scientists have created an'intelligent' shoe that helps blind and visually-impaired people avoid multiple obstacles. The £2,700 (€3,200) product, called InnoMake, has been developed by Austrian company Tec-Innovation, backed by Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). The product consists of waterproof ultrasonic sensors attached to the tip of each shoe, which vibrate and make noises near obstacles. The closer the wearer gets to an obstacle, the faster the vibration becomes, much like a parking sensor on the back of a vehicle. Tec-Innovation is now working on embedding an AI-powered camera as part of a new iteration of the product.

US tech giants Amazon and Apple have announced new accessibility features for their technology aimed to help people with impaired vision. Amazon's new feature, called Show and Tell, helps blind and partially sighted people identify common household grocery items. The feature, which launches in the UK today, works with Amazon's Echo Show range – devices that combine a camera and a screen with a smart speaker that's powered by its digital assistant Alexa. Apple, meanwhile, has redesigned its dedicated accessibility site to make it easier for iPhone and iPad owners to find vision, hearing and mobility tools for everyday life. These include People Detection, which uses the iPhone's built-in LiDAR scanner to prevent blind users colliding with other people or objects.