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Neuralink Carries Out First Ever Human Clinical Trial Amid Raised Concerns Surrounding Potential Prior Protocol Violations. 

In a 9 minutes long live-stream, Noland Arbaugh, the first recipient of the neural implant made by the Brain-Computer interface company Neuralink was seen playing chess online by being able…

Worth the Hype(rloop)?

The hyperloop concept proposes a revolutionary mode of transportation which aims to mitigate the resistance that regular vehicles are (quite literally) held back by. For this to be possible, air…

Quantum Computing: The Future of Tech?

The scientific renaissance of the 20th century saw the rise of quantum mechanics and information theory. In 1982, physicist Richard Feynman famously stated that it was not feasible to model…

Operation Paperclip: Nazi Scientists Granted American Citizenship

Words by Lucy Colpitts You may be familiar with the Prime Video show, “Hunters”, starring Al Pacino and Logan Lerman, a seemingly fictional series following the lives of vigilante Nazi…

Driverless cars in the UK within 10 years

The Commons transport committee heard that a mixture of driverless, semi-autonomous and manual cars could be on UK roads within the next ten years.

Is Fitbit too expensive for too little?

Having jogged since I was a kid, I was accustomed to rubbish plastic pedometers, and knew there was clear room for improvement. As has been the case with cameras, the…

Research by Sussex reader to be presented at major conference

A Sussex based researcher is presenting a study at a major IT conference, suggesting that girls program computer code with more complexity than boys. Dr Judith Good, reader in the…

An adventure with 3D-printing in Brighton

In one form or another, 3D-printing has been around since the 1980’s, but it is only now maturing from its industrial heartland into a plethora of applications and through to…

Zoom in with telescopic contact lenses

There is no doubt that cyberpunk fans have a lot to look forward to in the future. A recent development in retina technology has recently come in to focus in…

Why we need online voting

In the run up to this year’s general election there has been much talk about how to encourage young people to vote. Campaigns like Bite the Ballot have staged online…

The legality of Let’s Play

On Jan 29 Nintendo rolled out it’s Creator’s Program, “designed for people who post videos to YouTube that contain Nintendo intellectual property,” sharing revenue between Let’s Players and the Japanese…

Upgrading phones: Size really does matter

Last week, I was fortunate enough to buy myself a new phone. Nothing out of the ordinary there. Rather than buy the next incremental upgrade, I decided to take the…

Industry heads muse on the potential threat of AI

We’re not quite at the point of Skynet seeking to destroy us all, we are however living through a period that sees artificial intelligence increasing in not just its power…

The ever changing tides of piracy and The Pirate Bay

The last few months have been a turbulent ride for file sharing site The Pirate Bay. For years the site “hid” from the authorities by constantly changing their URL and…

Resident Evil HD Remaster– video game review

As far as classic survival horror is concerned, it rarely gets any better than the original Resident Evil. The haunting atmosphere, terrifying enemies and cringe-worthy dialogue defined the genre when…

How videogames helped me through depression

Last year I was in a terrible place, recently diagnosed with depression. I spent most of my holidays alone, panicking and worrying about certain things that now seem quite insignificant…

4chan Founder Retires

The founder of popular and controversial image board, 4chan, has retired after 11 and a half years. Chris Poole, who uses the alias moot, has retired from running the site…

Microsoft detail Windows 10, HoloLens and Spartan

The recent Microsoft conference seems to be bringing about a step forward for the company that in recent days has appeared to be struggling for ideas. The catastrophe that was…

Hello robots and goodbye to jobs

A recent study suggests the day humanity has long feared is approaching; the robots are in fact coming for our jobs. Research from the University of Oxford was presented in…

Russian Wikipedia alternative

Russia is planning on creating an alternative to Wikipedia based on claims that the current Wikipedia has inadequate information on certain Russian regions and that the overview of the country…