MIT Technology Review

Brain-computer interface trials are taking off

The number of people with electrodes in their brains is believed to have more than doubled in the last couple of years.

The college majors that actually make the most money, based on data

Stacker has curated a gallery of the 50 college majors that go on to earn workers the most money. Results show a stark difference between higher wages for STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering ...
BMJ

Perturbation-based balance training of older adults and effects on physiological, cognitive and sociopsychological factors: a secondary analysis from a randomised controlled ...

Background Perturbation-based balance training (PBT) has shown promising, although diverging, fall-preventive effects; however, the effects on important physical, cognitive and sociopsychological ...
Men's Journal

I’m a Trainer: The Secret to Staying Powerful After 40 Isn’t Lifting Heavier

A simple metric is helping older lifters train harder and recover better. Power and speed training is crucial for muscle and independence after age 40. Velocity-based training (VBT) adjusts intensity ...
Ars Technica

Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”

After a model’s initial training on a large corpus of mostly Internet-derived data, Anthropic follows a post-training process intended to nudge the final model toward being “helpful, honest, and ...
Reuters

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

NEW YORK, April 21 (Reuters) - Meta (META.O), opens new tab is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training ...
9to5Mac

Perplexity’s Personal Computer AI assistant feature launches on Mac for subscribers

Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer on March 11 by inviting interested users to join a waitlist. Now the company says it’s rolling out Personal Computer to everyone on the waitlist and all Max ...
9to5Mac

Perplexity’s Personal Computer is a cloud-based AI agent running on Mac mini

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...
Newsweek

Computer Companies Are Shifting to Subscription Models—Why Users Aren’t Happy

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A man on TikTok shared a landing page on the HP website, and viewers ...
Gizmodo

Not Quantum, Not Classical: This Light-Based Computer Is Something Else Entirely

While it's no replacement for either computer, the new device is a powerful alternative for addressing some very practical challenges. Reading time 3 minutes In a world of ever-improving computing ...
Phys.org

Light-based Ising computer runs at room temperature and stays stable for hours

A team of researchers at Queen's University has developed a powerful new kind of computing machine that uses light to take on complex problems such as protein folding (for drug discovery) and number ...