An anonymous reader writes: NextMind is developing a brain-computer interface that translates signals from the visual cortex into digital commands. We tried NextMind’s device, which lets you input commands into computers and AR/VR headsets with your visual attention. Eventually, the Paris-based startup wants to let you do the same with your visual imagination. We spoke with NextMind CEO Sid Kouider ahead of CES 2020, where his company is unveiling a dev kit shipping to select developers and partners this month for $399. After the early access period, a second limited run (waitlist) of dev kits will begin shipping in Q2 2020.
retroworks writes: Last month, Slashdot reported https://hardware.slashdot.org/... that China's Communist Party surveillance in Western (primarily Muslim) provinces has forced downloads of tracking software into citizens cell phones. Now a Dutch internet security consultant https://www.zdnet.com/article/... reports (via ZDNET and EFF) that he has uncovered one of the servers, giving a rare access to the types of facial recognition software and human tracking systems the government is up to.
Xinjiang is China’s largest province, and home to China’s Uighurs, a Turkic minority group. Here, the Chinese government has implemented a testbed police state where an estimated 1 million individuals from these minority groups have been arbitrarily detained. Among the detainees are academics, writers, engineers, and relatives of Uighurs in exile. Many Uighurs abroad worry for their missing family members, who they haven’t heard from for several months and, in some cases, over a year.