On this day - 29 August
Historical items of interest as featured in the papers of the day.
Gertrude the pig is unveiled by Neuralink
Neuralink is a neurotechnology company started by Elon Musk alongside a team of scientists in 2016. The focus of their work is to develop devices that can be used to help treat people who have brain diseases or damage, with a longer term goal for human enhancement or transhumanism.
Neuralink live streamed a demonstration of their technology starting at 2300 August 28th and concluding in the early hours (BST) of August 29th 2020. This included footage of Gertrude, a pig who had had a Neuralink microchip inserted into her skull two months prior which sent wireless signals to a computer indicating any neural activity in her snout. As she sniffed around her pen, a series of beeps and a graph indicated her neural activity on screen.
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