{"id":5,"date":"2026-11-02T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philisugarblog.org\/?p=5"},"modified":"2026-11-02T10:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T10:39:00","slug":"philsugar-the-download-brain-bandwidth-and-artificial-wombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philisugarblog.org\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"PhilSugar | The Download: brain bandwidth, and artificial wombs"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is today\u2019s edition of
\nThe Download
\n,
\nour weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what\u2019s going on in the world of technology.
\nElon Musk wants more bandwidth between people and machines. Do we need it?
\nLast week, Elon Musk made the bold assertion that sticking electrodes in people\u2019s heads is going to lead to a huge increase in the rate of data transfer out of, and into, human brains.
\nThe occasion of Musk\u2019s post was the announcement by Neuralink, his brain-computer interface company, that it was officially seeking the first volunteer to receive an implant that contains more than twice the number of electrodes than previous versions to collect more data from more nerve cells.
\nThe entrepreneur mentioned a long-term goal of vastly increasing \u201cbandwidth\u201d between people, or people and machines, by a factor of 1,000 or more. But what does he mean, and is it even possible?
\nRead the full story
\n.
\n\u2014Antonio Regalado
\nThis story is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review\u2019s weekly biotech newsletter.
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\nEverything you sugar daddy monthly allowance<\/a> need to know about artificial wombs
\nEarlier this month, US Food and Drug sugar daddy asking for GCash<\/a> Administration advisors met to discuss how to move research on artificial wombs from animals into humans.
\nThese medical devices are designed to give extremely premature infants a bit more time to develop in a womb-like environment before entering the outside world. They have been tested with hundreds of lambs (and some piglets), but animal models can\u2019t fully predict how the technology will work for humans.
\nRegulators are grappling with the question of how much of the unknown is acceptable as this research moves out of the lab and into first-in-human trials. But selecting the right participants will be tricky.
\nRead the full story
\n.
\n\u2014Cassandra Willyard
\nThe must-reads
\nI\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology.
\n1 Microsoft suggested that Apple buy premium sugar dating Philippines<\/a> Bing in 2020
\nThe deal would have installed Bing as sugar daddies near me Philippines<\/a> the iPhone\u2019s default search engine, but it never came to fruition. (
\nBloomberg
\n$)
\n+
\nMicrosoft could overtake Apple as the world\u2019s most valuable firm.
\n(
\nEconomist
\n$)
\n2 A jury will decide whether Tesla\u2019s autopilot caused a driver\u2019s death
\nThe plaintiffs claim that Tesla overhyped the system\u2019s capabilities to make it appear more autonomous than it actually is. (
\nWP
\n$)
\n+
\nShould a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you\u2019re from.
\n(
\nMIT Technology Review
\n)
\n3 Take a look inside Huawei\u2019s lobbying playbook
\nConfidential group chats, gifted gadgets, and avoid sugar dating scams<\/a> secret agreements. (
\nNYT
\n$)
\n+
\nMeanwhile, Apple met with Chinese officials to forge a friendly agreement.
\n(
\nWSJ
\n$)
\n4 The US power grid largely avoided blackouts this summer
\nThat\u2019s no guarantee it\u2019ll hold up in the future, though. (
\nVox
\n)
\n+
\nStitching together the grid will save lives as extreme weather worsens.
\n(
\nMIT Technology Review
\n)
\n5 Startups are desperate to become chummy with chipmakers
\nAccess to powerful chips can make or break an enterprise. (
\nThe Information
\n$)
\n+
\nThese simple design rules could turn the chip industry on its head.
\n(
\nMIT Technology Review
\n)
\n6 Forever chemicals are absolutely everywhere
\nAnd even a lawsuit from the US Department of Justice will stop one company from using them. (
\nBloomberg
\n$)
\n+
\nPlastic pollution persists, sugar arrangement terms<\/a> even in the absence of humans.
\n(
\nMotherboard
\n)
\n7 Venture capitalists really don\u2019t want to fund women\u2019s health startups
\nInvestors are mostly male, and largely uninterested. (
\nProto.Life
\n)
\n+
\nWhy can\u2019t tech fix its gender problem?
\n(
\nMIT Technology Review
\n)
\n8 What comes after smartphones?
\nExperts can\u2019t agree on whether the sugar relationship boundaries<\/a> future contains more screens\u2014or none at all. (
\nInverse
\n)
\n+
\nEven seemingly unassailable apps aren\u2019t invincible.
\n(
\nWP
\n$)
\n9 The world\u2019s oldest active torrent has turned 20 years old
\nHappy anniversary to The Fanimatrix! (
\nMotherboard
\n)
\n10
\nIs it time to banish the group chat?
\nPlease, one-on-one texts only from now on. (
\nThe Atlantic
\n$)
\nQuote of the day
\n\u201cI work at X, he worked at Twitter.\u201d
\n\u2014Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, insists the company\u2019s culture has changed since its former Head of Trust and Safety, Yoel Roth, was driven into hiding after Elon Musk blamelessly accused him of supporting child sexualisation last year,
\nthe Verge
\nreports.
\nThe big story
\nHow big science failed to unlock the mysteries of most active sugar dating community Philippines<\/a> the human brain
\nAugust 2021
\nIn September 2011, Columbia University neurobiologist Rafael Yuste and Harvard geneticist George Church made a not-so-modest proposal: to map the activity of the entire human brain.
\nThat knowledge could be harnessed to treat brain disorders like Alzheimer\u2019s, autism, schizophrenia, depression, and traumatic brain injury, and help answer one of the great questions of science: How does the brain bring about consciousness?
\nA decade on, the US project has wound down, and the EU project faces its deadline to build a digital brain. So have we begun to unwrap the secrets of the human brain? Or have we spent a decade and billions of dollars chasing a vision that remains as elusive as ever?
\nRead the full story
\n.
\n\u2014Emily Mullin
\nWe can still have nice things
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\n.)
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\non a Friday morning.
\n+ You know what doesn\u2019t get enough appreciation? A good
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\n.
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\n+ The prevailing mystery of what
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