Elon Musk expects to have a brain-machine interface in four years

A couple of weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal revealed Elon Musk’s latest venture, Neuralink, and its plan for developing brain-machine interface technology. Now, Musk has invited Tim Urban of Wait But Why to write up an in-depth report of the company and what it’s working on. Neuralink is hardly the only company working on […]

Facebook details its plans for a brain-computer interface

Facebook wants you to use your brain to interact with your computer. Specifically, instead of using something primitive like a screen or a controller, the company is looking into ways that you and I can interact with our PCs or phones just by using our mind. Regina Dugan, the head of Building 8, the company’s […]

Google tweaks the Pixel C’s interface to match its smartphones

Google will probably put the promising but ultimately ill-fated Pixel C tablet out to pasture before too long — it’s been on sale for a year and a half now, after all. But that hasn’t stopped the company from giving the device some attention in Android 7.1.2; users on Reddit as well as 9to5Google have […]

Reigns, a game about ruling a kingdom through an interface that’s basically Tinder, just got a big u

Reigns, a game about ruling a kingdom through an interface that’s basically Tinder, just got a big update on PC and mobile. It adds more than 100 new cards, which include new objectives, characters, and of course, ways to die. Reigns was one of my favorite games of last year, so if you haven’t played […]

The Xbox One gets Microsoft’s Beam streaming and a faster interface today

Microsoft is rolling out some big changes to the Xbox One today. The biggest additions are the new dashboard and Xbox Guide and the integration of Microsoft’s new Beam streaming service. The new dashboard was shown off back in January and finally overhauls the user interface to be faster and easier to use. One of […]

Final Fantasy XIV’s Interface Made Futuristic Thanks To HoloLens

[GIF via Tanufuku] We’ve already seen what Microsoft’s HoloLens can do to Portal. Now, let’s picture what it can do to Final Fantasy XIV. Japanese Twitter user Tanufuku created this mock-up to see how it could handle the MMORPG’s interface.  Tanufuku thinks this actually might make the game even more immersive as well as make […]

New brain-computer interface breaks through locked-in syndrome

Researchers have been using brain-computer interfaces to interact with patients suffering from locked-in syndrome for a few years now. But a new system from the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering in Switzerland may finally allow even the most immobile patients communicate with the outside world. There are degrees to locked-in syndrome. The lesser variety […]