Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jason Alan Snyder is a technologist covering AI and innovation. New research shows brain-computer interfaces can decode inner ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. We stand at the cusp of a massive technology paradigm shift that ...

Decades after the first demonstration of brain computer interfaces, we have reached a "tipping point" in creating the first reliable devices that can read our thoughts, according to the man who ...

New scientific research presented at this week’s Society for Neuroscience 2022 conference by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) shows that a brain-machine interface (BMI), also known as ...

Scientists at Stanford University have taken a major step toward helping people “speak” without moving a muscle—by decoding the silent voice inside the mind. In a study published in the journal ...

German doctors have given patients with locked-in syndrome a way to communicate using yes or no answers. Published in the journal PLOS Biology, the research is so remarkable that it has Black Mirror ...

An important milestone for brain-computer interfaces has been achieved. A new peer-reviewed neuroscience study led by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) demonstrates a ...

A man who hasn’t been able to move or speak for years imagines picking up a cup and filling it with water. In response to the man’s thoughts, a robotic arm mounted on his wheelchair glides forward, ...

In September 2024, California quietly set a precedent. Lawmakers passed SB 1223, an amendment to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that classifies neural ...

Paralysed individuals are now playing video games using only their thoughts, thanks to Neuralink's brain-computer interface. This groundbreaking technology, implanted in patients with severe paralysis ...

Imagined receiving – or being born with – a life sentence with no possibility of parole. The prison will be your own body. And in this prison, you may be electrically shocked into convulsions, or ...

A China-based team of researchers has reportedly completed the “world’s first in-orbit verification” of ...