Forbes February 20, 2024
Robert Hart

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The first human implanted with a chip from Elon Musk’s computer-brain interface company Neuralink has recovered and can move a computer mouse with thought alone, the tech billionaire announced on Monday, a brief insight into the firm’s progress as it works towards restoring lost abilities like movement and sight and enhancing others like memory and intelligence.

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Neuralink is still in the early stages of testing and development and its hopes of widely deploying technology to “read” brains and control computers is still many years in the future. Neuralink’s first products will be aimed at restoring lost functions from people with paralysis or vision impairments, Musk has previously said. The...

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