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Meta just achieved mind-reading using AI

This video covers two breakthroughs that push “mind reading” from fiction into early reality: UT Austin decoding language from brain activity, and Meta decoding visual perception from brain waves. At ...
The New Yorker

Dyslexia and the Reading Wars

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...
Lifehacker

How a Simple URL Typo Can Make You a Target for Malware

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Updates JavaScript SEO Doc With Setting Canonical URL Advice

Google updated its JavaScript SEO best practices document with a new section on how to set the canonial URL when using JavaScript. Google wrote, "The best way to set the canonical URL is to use HTML, ...
InfoQ

BellSoft Unveils Hardened Java Images

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...
Futurism

Sam Altman Funding Biomedical Startup to Read Human Brain Using Sound Waves

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is obsessed with codifying your biology. First it was scanning your eyeballs — and now it’s scanning your thoughts. The insight is based on a new hiring decision by Altman. He’s ...
The Verge

Sam Altman’s next startup eyes using sound waves to read your brain

Altman taps a leading researcher for his brain-computer interface startup, suggesting a much less invasive approach than Elon Musk’s Neuralink. Altman taps a leading researcher for his brain-computer ...
Education Week

Kids’ Social Media Use Linked to Lower Reading and Memory Scores, Study Suggests

There may be a link between social media use during early adolescence and lower cognitive performance, a new study suggests. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or ...
Ars Technica

Army general says he’s using AI to improve “decision-making”

Last month, OpenAI published a usage study showing that nearly 15 percent of work-related conversations on ChatGPT had to deal with “making decisions and solving problems.” Now comes word that at ...
OPB

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows

young girl studying and listening to music on the laptop sitting on the floor of the living room at home Juliana Belo Gutierrez/iStockphoto / Getty Images/iStockphoto Preteens using increasing amounts ...
Futurism

As AI Reigns, Students’ Math and Reading Scores Just Hit an All-Time Low

The US Education Department, which the Trump administration is actively attempting to dismantle, has released the latest math and reading test scores for American high-school seniors — and they’re an ...