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Neuralink Technology - Elon Musk

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 Another one of Elon Musk’s tech innovations Earlier, we saw about the new Starlink satellites that will provide a whole new form of internet access. Now, Elon musk claims to provide access to ‘Smart’ tech for physically disabled people. How? He’s literally going to put a processor chip inside your brain, if you’d want to. ‘Neuralink’ is a coin sized chip, developed by Elon musk and his team. “It’s like having a Fitbit in your brain with wires.” Elon said in a livestream. During the event, he said that the team planted one of their chips in a pig’s brain 2 months earlier. Gertrude the pig was monitored in a pen, simulating its natural environment. As he moves around the pen, the graphs shown in monitors started to show results. “The beeps that you hear are signal bursts from the chip inside his brain.” Medical tests are still going on as to determine the safety of Neuralink in one of our heads. But conducting the trials and ensuring safety can take years. The processor, which now s...

Epic games against Apple

Epic games is well known for its popular game, Fortnite. If you haven’t played it before, it is a battle royale game, where 100 people land on an island full of weapons, and the last man standing wins. While the battle royale concept itself is very exciting for any gamer in this era, the game provides cosmetics to buy. This pushes the gamer to spend a few bucks in the game, and get their favourite cosmetics to flex. Epic games announced the launch of the game for iOS devices on March 2018. Since then, the payment method was through apple’s services. Also, Apple’s Appstore policies state that 30% of the payment goes to them, Which Epic did not like. What move did epic make? Epic introduced their own payment system in the game for players to make a direct payment to the developers themselves. But apple did not like anyone not following their policies. Apple removed Fortnite from the Appstore as soon as they found out about the new payment method. Did they stop at that? No. Apple states t...