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Comment Freeware software that does something like this (Score 1) 53

by firecode (#65455215) Attached to: Your Brain Has a Hidden Beat -- and Smarter Minds Sync To It
I have developed audiovisual WhiteICE software to alter EEG-metrics (freeware).

It can be (in theory) to increase focus and intelligence but currently software increases synchronization between all brain measurement points and not just midfrontal points at theta frequency as this study does. It supports BrainAccess HALO and Interaxon Muse EEG-devices that don't measure EEG at middle areas of the brain. Research seem to show that mild increase in synchronization between brain regions may increase concentration and intelligence.

You can get about 0.8% change to EEG using audiovisual stimulation using WhiteICE.

Downloads (Windows and Linux): https://www.whiteclinic.net/

Comment Psychiatry = destruction of one's life (Score 2) 283

by firecode (#65381507) Attached to: Data Shows Boys and Young Men Are Falling Behind
I was Analyst in a company and have M.Sc. diploma.

Then I visited a doctor because of small stress. I was given meds that I tried but when I discontinued them I was put into a ward and they diagnosed me to have "schizophrenia" although I worked full time (also from a ward using my phone) without problems in my work performance.

I continued to work 5 fulltime years but then lost my job because I was treated against my will in psychiatry and couldn't go to my work. Now I'm a jobless psychiatric patient and it's very difficult to get job because I have been so often in wards although I haven't been in psychosis!

Psychiatry = killing system. They just increase drugs hoping you would drop death.

Comment ProtonMail gives information based on court orders (Score 5, Insightful) 20

by firecode (#65340515) Attached to: India Court Orders Proton Mail Block On Security Grounds
ProtonMail has given user information to law enforcement (to french police for example).

https://proton.me/legal/law-enforcement

Therefore it should be no problem to the law enforcement unless there is significant human rights violations in the country meaning ProtonMail don't co-operate with the that country's law enforcement (Swiss law).

Submission + - Brain Interface Speaks Your Thoughts in Near Real-time

Submitted by backslashdot
backslashdot writes: Commentary, video, and a publication in this week's Nature Neuroscience herald a significant advance in brain–computer interface (BCI) technology, enabling speech by decoding electrical activity in the brain's sensorimotor cortex in real-time. Researchers from UC Berkeley and UCSF employed deep learning recurrent neural network transducer models to decode neural signals in 80-millisecond intervals, generating fluent, intelligible speech tailored to each participant’s pre-injury voice. Unlike earlier methods that synthesized speech only after a full sentence was completed, this system can detect and vocalize words within just three seconds. It is accomplished via a 253 electrode array chip implant on the brain. Code, and the dataset to replicate the main findings of this study are available in the Chang Lab's public GitHub repository.

Comment Similar software for audio stimulus (Score 1) 8

I have written C++ software to use reinforcement learning to increase focus and attention. Software uses live EEG measurements and audio stimulation to cause wanted changes in EEG-measurements.

Typically effect is about 0.4% change in EEG-metrics. You can download free *beta* version here:

https://www.whiteclinic.net/

Submission + - Skype will end in May (bbc.com)

Submitted by quonset
quonset writes: Microsoft has announced Skype will shut down in May 2025. This will leave users of Skype with two choices: create a Microsoft account and use Teams, or export all of their contact information from Skype.

First released in 2003, Skype was bought by the tech giant in 2011 for $8.5bn (£6.1bn) — its biggest-ever acquisition at the time.

As Microsoft once outlined, Skype became integrated with the company's other products such as Xbox and Windows devices.

In December 2010, tech industry commentator Om Malik called it one of the "key applications of the modern web", when the website suffered a two-day global outage.

Following news of its imminent closure, one Skype user said: "My best friend and I share many good memories on Skype. This is a sad day and almost a feeling of losing yet another fragment of my adolescence."

Submission + - First petawatt electron beam arrives, ready to rip apart matter and space (science.org) 1

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: By squeezing a packet of laser light into a tiny sliver of a second, physicists can produce superintense pulses that, if only for an instant, deliver as much power as 1 million nuclear plants. Such petawatt lasers have enabled scientists to manipulate materials in new ways, emulate the conditions inside planets, and even split atoms. Now, accelerator physicists have matched that feat, producing petawatt pulses of electrons that could also have spectacular applications.

Superintense electron bunches might someday even probe the nature of empty space. They produce a hugely intense electric field, so if one of them were to collide with an ultraintense laser pulse, which also contains a huge electric field, it would expose space to an incredibly strong electrical polarization, D’Arcy notes. If that field is strong enough, it should begin to rip particle-antiparticle pairs out of the vacuum, a phenomenon predicted by quantum physics but never observed.

That’s still a distant goal, but researchers might get within shouting distance of it if they could make the electron pulses 10 times shorter. Researchers plan to do just that, making the additional chirp even more dramatic by replacing the laser with a more complex scheme involving a cell of plasma. “We generated 100-kiloamp beams, now the next step is getting to mega-amp beams.”

Submission + - AMD Reveals RDNA 4 GPU Architecture Powering Next Gen Radeon RX 9070 Cards (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: AMD took the wraps of its next gen RDNA 4 consumer graphics architecture today, which was designed to enhance efficiency over the previous generation, while also optimizing performance for today's more-taxing ray traced gaming and AI workloads. RDNA 4 features next generation Ray Tracing engines, dedicated hardware for AI and ML workloads, better bandwidth utilization, and multimedia improvements for both gaming and content creation. AMD's 3rd generation Ray Accelerators in RDNA offer 2x the peak throughput of RDNA 3 and add support for a new feature called Oriented Bounding Boxes, that results in more efficient GPU utilization. 3rd Generation Matrix Accelerators are also present, which offer improved performance, along with support for 8-bit float data types, with structured sparsity. The first cards featuring RDNA 4, the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT go on sale next week, with very competitive MSRPs below $600, and are expected to do battle with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070-class GPUs

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