It wasn't used as evidence, it was used in the hope of getting the judge to issue a subpoena to the ISP, providing real evidence.

The task in the study that the subjects had to learn is one specifically tailored to make use of the brain area stimulated. Whether this can help in, for example, memorizing the contents of a book remains to be seen.

When somebody can attach a headband on you against your will, you are already enslaved.

But that won't print you a tape measure. This was likely done with a UV printer, which costs quite a lot more.

Yep, most of the time "help" means that the parents do the stuff instead of the kids.

True, but that's why it's nice that we have a herd of pioneers willing to try it out and provide us with lots of data. This is an interesting topic, and if people a doing voluntarily to get better at COD, we can learn a lot about how our brain works.

Where can you buy a "cheap feature phone" that isn't a smartphone?

Some of us are interested in the theory, not to mention that both the article and the paper contain actual images. It's not the fault of the authors that you didn't bother to read them through.

This is an impressive step forward in image processing - while reconstructing an image from diffuse light seemed plausible in theory, figuring out how to do it in practice is a hard problem. These guys deserve some respect.

Because there are rich people who live a good life, but also want it to last forever.

Seems like neither Google nor Microsoft wants to compete with the other, so they partitioned the PC market with Google getting the mobile part and Microsoft the desktop. Business as usual.

Set up a few antennas that add some noise on the controlling frequencies, problem solved.

True, but there's a third ingredient Ukraine doesn't have: money.

Maybe that's the problem. The schools don't like evidence that bullying is going on there.

I think he is talking mostly about academic research, which doesn't care much about using robots to make our lives easier.

Society advances because each generation gives way to the next one. It's time to pass the torch, old man.