Musk's Neuralink puts computer chips in animal brains

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Musk's Neuralink puts computer chips in animal brains

Coin-sized chip promoted as path to curing disease.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's neuroscience startup Neuralink unveiled a pig named Gertrude that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months, showing off an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of implant. Co-founded by Tesla Inc ...

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