It’s happened to all of us at one time or another. We’ve just met someone, he or she finds out that we work with computers, and those feared words come out, “Oh, you work with computers. Maybe you can ...

Companies like Synchron, Paradromics, and Precision Neuroscience are also racing to develop brain implants This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter ...

Surgically implanted devices that allow paralyzed people to speak can also eavesdrop on their inner monologue. That's the conclusion of a study of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) in the journal Cell.