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Play Video Brain interface lets people with paralysis control tablet computer
Kevin Stacey-Brown, Futurity, 2018/11/27

I've covered this sort of thing in the past and I reiterate it again here today with this latest story because it looks to me like these interfaces are getting more sophisticated as time goes by. It describes "three clinical trial participants with tetraplegia, each of whom was using the investigational BrainGate BCI that records neural activity directly from a small sensor placed in the motor cortex, were able to navigate through commonly used tablet programs, including email, chat, music-streaming, and video-sharing apps." It gives me hope for the day when I'm a brain in a vat fed nothing but artificial blood.

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AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites
Jeff Barr, AWS News Blog, 2018/11/27

I'm pretty sure that not every school in every country can do this. But this is what the cool kids are doing. " Today, high school and college students design, fabricate, and launch nano-, pico-, and even femto-satellites such as CubeSats, PocketQubes, and SunCubes." This information comes up in the context of a new Amazon web service called 'Ground Station' that will allow you to contact those satellites. Now I imagine most schools that can launch their own satellite have their own ground station as well. But this may be a way to allow them to share their satellite. Assuming, of course, they were so inclined.

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