{"id":112108,"date":"2020-08-29T06:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T13:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/neuralink-elon-musk-unveils-pig-he-claims-has-computer-implant-in-brain"},"modified":"2020-08-29T06:22:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T13:22:32","slug":"neuralink-elon-musk-unveils-pig-he-claims-has-computer-implant-in-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/neuralink-elon-musk-unveils-pig-he-claims-has-computer-implant-in-brain","title":{"rendered":"Neuralink: Elon Musk unveils pig he claims has computer implant in brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuralink-elon-musk-unveils-pig-he-claims-has-computer-implant-in-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tech entrepreneur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> on Friday showed off a pig whose brain he says has been implanted with a small computer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a healthy and happy pig, initially shy but obviously high energy and, you know, kind of loving life, and she\u2019s had the implant for two months,\u201d Musk said of Gertrude, the pig.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire entrepreneur, whose other companies include Tesla and SpaceX, presented during a live-stream event to recruit employees for his neuroscience startup Neuralink. He described Gertrude\u2019s coin-sized implant as \u201ca Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tech entrepreneur Elon Musk on Friday showed off a pig whose brain he says has been implanted with a small computer. \u201cWe have a healthy and happy pig, initially shy but obviously high energy and, you know, kind of loving life, and she\u2019s had the implant for two months,\u201d Musk said of Gertrude, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2019,47,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}