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ELECTRONICS 
October 6, 2017 Intel ‘Loihi’ Self-Learning AI Chip Is Neuromorphic, Mimicking How the Brain Functions
HIGHLIGHTS Intel’s Loihi self-learning chip likely to raise the bar for AI It is currently a test chip It will be made available to select university and institutions in 2018 Intel has announced a self-learning neuromorphic chip that could raise the bar for artificial intelligence. Codenamed Loihi, Intel’s self-learning AI chip is said to mimic […]
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COMPUTERS 
October 3, 2016 Putting a Computer in Your Brain Is No Longer Science Fiction
Putting a Computer in Your Brain Is No Longer Science Fiction Like many in Silicon Valley, technology entrepreneur Bryan Johnson sees a future in which intelligent machines can do things like drive cars on their own and anticipate our needs before we ask. What’s uncommon is how Johnson wants to respond: Find a way to […]
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COMPUTERS 
September 23, 2016 Putting a Computer in Your Brain Is No Longer Science Fiction
Like many in Silicon Valley, technology entrepreneur Bryan Johnson sees a future in which intelligent machines can do things like drive cars on their own and anticipate our needs before we ask. What’s uncommon is how Johnson wants to respond: Find a way to supercharge the human brain so that we can keep up with […]
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NEWS 
April 5, 2016 Patient Wears VR Headset During Brain Surgery
In a world first, a patient in France undergoing brain surgery while conscious wore virtual reality glasses as doctors removed a cancerous tumour, the chief surgeon told AFP Tuesday. “In creating a completely artificial world for the patient, we could map certain zones and connections of his brain related to functions that we could not, […]
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ALL DEALS 
February 25, 2016 Beauty and the brain
British neurobiologist Semir Zeki says human brains work alike and we have a shared inheritance in the way we perceive beauty Who do you think is beautiful? Apparently all our votes would more or less go to the same person. Wherever we are from in the world, man or woman, Indian or South American, the […]
