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Musk states he’ll set a Neuralink chip in his mind when they are ready

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Neuralink symbol exhibited on a cellphone display screen, a silhouette of a paper in shape of a human confront and a binary code exhibited on a monitor are witnessed in this numerous publicity illustration picture taken in Krakow, Poland on December 10, 2021.

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Elon Musk’s overall health tech undertaking Neuralink shared updates to its brain-implant technologies all through a “demonstrate and inform” recruitment party Wednesday night. Musk reported during the function that he plans to get a person of the implants himself.

Musk reported two of the firm’s applications will aim to restore vision, even for men and women who were being born blind, and a 3rd software will target on the motor cortex, restoring “comprehensive entire body operation” for folks with severed spinal cords. “We’re confident there are no actual physical limits to restoring complete physique performance,” Musk explained.

Neuralink could begin to examination the motor cortex technological innovation in humans in as shortly as 6 months, Musk stated.

“Obviously, we want to be incredibly cautious and specified that it will do the job nicely right before putting a unit in a human, but we’re submitted, I feel, most of our paperwork to the Food and drug administration,” he stated.

Musk also mentioned he plans to get a single himself. “You could have a Neuralink product implanted appropriate now and you would not even know. I indicate, hypothetically … In point, in 1 of these demos, I will,” he said. He reiterated that on Twitter just after the celebration.

Since none of Neuralink’s equipment have been analyzed on people or authorized by the Food and drug administration, Wednesday’s bulletins warrant skepticism, explained Xing Chen, assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the College of Pittsburgh University of Medication.

“Neuralink is a corporation [that] would not have to remedy to shareholders,” she told CNBC. “I don’t know how considerably oversight is included, but I assume it can be extremely critical for the public to normally keep in thoughts that before anything has been authorised by the Fda, or any governmental

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New PSEG storm computer system won’t be ready until December

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PSEG Long Island’s plan to deploy an entirely new storm computer management system has been pushed back to December or even later, top officials said at a LIPA board meeting Friday.

A PSEG official noted there was “some risk” that even a December deadline could be missed.

Separately during the same board meeting, LIPA acting chairman Mark Fischl also issued PSEG an ultimatum to conclude long-delayed negotiations for a new contract.

PSEG Long Island president Dan Eichhorn called next Friday “our drop-dead date” for finalizing a new contract that has been delayed for months, adding there was “a humongous sense of urgency” to meet that deadline.

But his promises drew wary responses from LIPA board members. “If we don’t get this done in November, we’re going to be looking for other alternatives,” said Fischl, suggesting LIPA could rekindle a previous effort to find other third-party contractors or even go fully public.

“This has just been going on for way too long,” Fischl said, referring to previous plans to finalize a contract in August.

“You say there’s a sense of urgency but we have not seen that,” added trustee Alfred Cockfield.

Trustees also expressed wariness over PSEG’s shifting schedules to deploy the new storm outage-management computer system.

PSEG Long Island is one of only two utilities in the nation using an obsolete version of the system, for which ratepayers are spending over $3 million a month to repair and ultimately replace. A newer version of the system, an iteration of which had been in place during the storm, was supposed to be rebuilt and back in place in the spring. But that was pushed back until after storm season this fall, leaving PSEG still using the old system.

In a report to trustees, LIPA noted that PSEG, in relying on an older version of the computer system, still has “not focused on identifying the root causes

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