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Neuralink rival Synchron’s brain implant lets people control Apple Vision Pro with their minds

CompuScoop Staff July 30, 2024 0 1

Neurotech company Synchron has made a breakthrough by connecting its brain implant to Apple’s Vision Pro headset. This integration allows patients with limited mobility to operate the headset solely through their thoughts, marking a significant advancement in brain-computer interface technology.

Synchron is building a brain-computer interface, or a BCI, designed to help patients with paralysis operate technology like smartphones and computers with their minds. The company has implanted its BCI in six patients in the U.S. and four in Australia. It still needs approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to commercialize its technology more broadly.

Apple released the Vision Pro earlier this year, and users typically control it with eye movements, voice commands and hand gestures. Synchron has been working to make it accessible to patients who can’t speak or move their upper limbs.

Synchron CEO Thomas Oxley said he thinks Apple’s iOS accessibility platform is best in class, which is why the company has initially focused on helping patients control devices within Apple’s ecosystem. He said Synchron will likely work to connect its BCI to other headsets, but it’s starting with the Vision Pro.

Apple has been “very supportive” of the Vision Pro integration, he added.

“I think BCI is very well placed to add huge value as a synergistic integration into the Apple ecosystem,” Oxley told CNBC in an interview.

Via: CNBC.com

Apple TV+ series ‘For All Mankind’ creator Ronald D. Moore give update on ‘Star City’ spin-off

CompuScoop Staff July 30, 2024 0 1

n April, Apple TV+ renewed its globally acclaimed, hit space drama “For All Mankind” for season five and announced a new spinoff series “Star City.” The creator of both series, Ronald D. Moore, has given an update on the widely anticipated new series.

“We’re in the writing period of the spin-off series, which is Star City, which is very exciting,” he said.

He gave a nod to Apple for their support, adding,

“I’m very happy that Apple was supportive of that whole concept and to do it and to tell the story from the cosmonaut point of view and how the Russians got to the moon first and what it was like to work in that program.”

Time jumps have been a signature of For All Mankind, and Moore hinted at similar plans for Star City. “We know we are gonna jump through time. We haven’t quite got to that point yet. It’s probably still a in-the-decade, or so, jump ahead. We don’t know if we’re gonna do exactly what the Mankindjumps were or if we’ll try to split them in the middle.” These jumps will allow the show to explore advancements in the Soviet space program without getting bogged down in a single timeframe.

How to cut the cord with an antenna – the RIGHT way

Dan Uff July 30, 2024 0 0

YouTuber Tylor the Antenna Man shows the right websites to go to when considering cutting the cord with just a TV antenna.

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Group of hikers saved from wildfires by Apple’s Emergency SOS via Satellite on iPhone

CompuScoop Staff July 29, 2024 0 1

As wildfires continue to burn across the Kootenay region, a group of four women were helicoptered off a glacier in B.C.’s West Kootenay region last week.

The dramatic rescue, amidst a challenging wildfire season, has officials warning people to be careful.

A search and rescue team flew through thick smoke, near an approaching wildfire to find the hikers, who were stranded on the Macbeth Ice Fields, northeast of Kaslo, about 390 kilometres east of Kelowna.

The four women, who all live in British Columbia, had been camping when the wind picked up, said Mark Jennings-Bates, the Kaslo Search and Rescue manager, who led the rescue.

“Embers were falling on their tent so they ran for their lives,” Jennings-Bates told CBC’s Daybreak South.

The rescue was especially challenging with smoke making visibility difficult for the helicopter pilot, he said.

Jennings-Bates said the stranded women were able to send a text message via satellite through Apple’s emergency SOS function, and that ultimately made the rescue possible.

“We were just able to sneak over a ridge and found them exactly where the cellphone ping said they were, which is really unusual and very satisfying,” he said.

“In this instance, their cellphone literally saved their lives.”

Via: CBC News

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