I lived near one of the researchers in NC working on this. They were looking not only to see how they can interact with brain on the cockroach, but use it for real practical purposes like searching rubble for survivors after a disaster. We already know that cockroaches can find their way virtually anywhere if they want if we can then use that to see and direct where they go we can use that to our advantage without having to develop an entire locomotion system that can work in all the environments a cockroach can.

You can make an argument about anthropomorphizing the cockroach and whether or not this is humane to a living thing, but you're going to have quite an uphill battle convincing people cockroaches have feelings when there are a lot of people who still think that dogs, cats, and apes don't have souls, feelings, or intelligence beyond animal instinct.

If you watch plants in timelapse videos you can see they show much different perceived behavior than we can see if we simply watch them from day to day. Things like cucumber plants reach tendrils and grow to grasp their trellis. Plants can and do move, entire forests migrate across regions as climate and conditions change. We perceived the trees on the other side of the forest as different, but the reality is the whole forest is a collective cooperative organism that operates on much grander timescales than we live.

So build it. My guess is nuclear will become more prevalent when we don't need to build and test them on our own planet risking everything. When we have a much more reliable methods of putting and/or building equipment in space is when we will see perceived riskier technologies take shape.

Rockets are primitive, but they are what we have and they will serve as bridge to the future.

No you do have to do it because confirmation science is important too. Proving what we already know to make sure that we actually are right is important. If anything experiments and studies to reconfirm and reproduce existing findings are far too few. We should support and herald the work of scientist doing things to confirm and refine what we already know instead of assuming the past was 100% accurate and nothing has changed.

Don't get fired or it could turn you into a murderer. https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

I just want my phone to let me know my relationship status.

Yes please send us the plans for your chips so that we can steal the technology instead of the other way around.

I think that's the problem, Google most definitely has mechanisms that will filter emails that were marked as spam by other people. This is one of the main ways that they identify a piece of email is potentially spam. The issue is likely that there is a significant number of people who may have marked emails they signed up for as spam instead of unsubscribing. I know personally that I am hesitant to click on an unsubscribe link, it seems like the perfect opportunity to do something nefarious to someone opposed to the email. The chance is likely small, but its not zero so I don't use them. Google as an unsubscribe link itself on somethings, but its just as easy to mark it as spam.

I can see both sides of this and I would encourage Google to continue to err on the side of eliminating spam and letting me sort out the potential grey mail I actually want to get back from it.

If it works they should license it to every multiplayer game that has voice chat that exists.

Honestly I don't see a problem with civil rules of conversation causing censorship of some types of language in certain contexts. That's not the same type of censorship of oppressing someone's beliefs like some would have you think. I think we as a society do feel like there is a time and a place to discuss certain topics and a time not too. Toxic language is rarely about the language itself, but instead just an attempt to garner a reaction. This is why it is always more and more extreme, as you get desensitized to it the toxicity must ratchet up or you get less reaction. Pretty soon the only thing that works is the n-word or other direct personal attack for no other purpose than to launch an indefensible attack against someone that likely has no choice, but to attack back or leave.

Yes they will be able to upscale to 8k and pretend like that is the same thing so they can sell a new generation of TV's that are ahead of the computing power to actually push the content. 4k isn't even close to a standard yet that is reliable and this is going to require 4x the power to compute 8k vs 4k. Unless the 4XXX series cards have some quantum level of power in them 8K is still quite a ways off. Not to mention 8k is so tiny in diminishing returns without having a full deep HDR color gamut that makes it even more unlikely.

And how many projects to benefit humanity have been squashed even before they were conceived because the monetization equation doesn't take the benefit to humanity into account other than how much currency it moves?

Have you seen the experiments going on? They are sustaining fusion reactions for significantly longer than they have in the past. This idea that something isn't going to take longer than a single human lifetime is so pessimistic and short sighted. It doesn't come to fruition in your lifetime therefore it will never exist.

Hard to make a fake product when you don't believe the lie.

This feeling actually happens somewhat naturally I've found. When the face of another person comes very close to or into the face of the virtual presence, at least for me, I can feel almost like an ASMR type feeling on my face. A tingled anticipation of touch, but not really touch. It's one of the things that really shocked me about the "presence" that you can feel in a virtual world when you're entire view in encompassed in it.

Just like if someone broke into your house, are you going to worry about whether or not the house key is stolen before calling a locksmith to change the locks?