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Elon Musk believes his Neuralink brain chip could help treat morbid obesity. Experts say the billionaire’s dream isn’t as far-fetched as it may seem.

“I don’t think it is any more implausible than other claims for the potential of neurotechnology,” Professor Andrew Jackson, an expert in neural interfaces at Newcastle University, told Insider.

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Over the course of almost 60 years, the information age has given the world the internet, smart phones, and lightning-fast computers. This has been made possible by about doubling the number of transistors that can be packed onto a computer chip every two years, resulting in billions of atomic-scale transistors that can fit on a fingernail-sized device. Even individual atoms may be observed and counted within such “atomic scale” lengths.

Physical limit

With this doubling reaching its physical limit, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has joined industry efforts to prolong the process and find new techniques to make ever-more powerful, efficient, and cost-effective chips. In the first PPPL research conducted under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Lam Research Corp., a global producer of chip-making equipment, laboratory scientists properly predicted a fundamental phase in atomic-scale chip production through the use of modeling.

Offices now require collaborative meeting rooms that use technology to enable greater parity between the in-person and virtual-participant experience.

Out with the giant conference table, in with the big screen.

The traditional layout of meeting rooms is undergoing a radical rethink as companies grapple with ways to create optimal collaboration spaces for hybrid teams.

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An automated system called Guardian is being developed by the Toyota Research Institute to amplify human control in a vehicle, as opposed to removing it.

Here’s the scenario: A driver falls asleep at the wheel. But their car is equipped with a dashboard camera that detects the driver’s eye condition, activating a safety system that promptly guides the vehicle to a secure halt.

That’s not just an idea on the drawing board. The system, called Guardian, is being refined at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), where MIT Professor John Leonard is helping steer the group’s work, while on leave from MIT. At the MIT Mobility Forum, Leonard and Avinash Balachandran, head of TRI’s Human-Centric Driving Research Department, presented an overview of their work.

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