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Elon Musk has been accused by his number-one nemesis, "212" rapper Azealia Banks, of having a "botched penis implant."
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Let’s Talk About Botched Weiner Implants

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's brain chip company is entering its next phase of experiments: seeing if patients can move a robotic arm using their minds. 
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Neuralink Testing Robot Arm Controlled by Brain Chip

By Noor Al-Sibai

Several people in northern Switzerland have been arrested following a death inside a "suicide pod" dubbed Sarco.
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“Several People” Arrested After Helping Woman Use Suicide Pod

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers developed a implantable device that can detect the first signs of an opioid overdose and then rapidly inject naloxone.
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Implantable Device Can Detect and Reverse Opioid Overdose

By Sharon Adarlo

Using an amazing new brain chip, a man who'd lost the ability to speak is now able to communicate his thoughts out loud using his own voice.
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Groundbreaking Brain Chip Allows Man With ALS to “Speak” Again

By Noor Al-Sibai

The CDC is finally, after years of outcry, recommending doctors discuss pain management with patients before IUD insertions.
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The CDC Is Finally Recommending Pain Management For Excruciatingly Painful IUD Insertions

By Noor Al-Sibai

Neuralink has implanted its second brain chip into a human — even as the first person to ever get one admits that his has lost functionality. 
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As Neuralink Implants Second Subject’s Brain, First Patient Says His Doesn’t Work as Well Anymore

By Noor Al-Sibai

Neuralink competitor Synchron has announced that its brain-computer interface can now be hooked up to Apple's Vision Pro headset.
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Brain Implant Hooked Up to Control VR Headset

By Victor Tangermann

A dental robotics company claims to have used an AI-controlled robot to perform the first fully autonomous dental procedure on a human.
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Robot Performs First Ever Fully Autonomous Dental Surgery on Live Patient

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at MIT have developed a new prosthetic leg that can be controlled via brain signals, a notable achievement in the space.
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New Bionic Leg Can Be Controlled by the Wearer’s Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Neuralink has canceled its second human implantation after discovering medical issues in the person who was going to get the brain chip. 
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Neuralink Cancels Second Implant Surgery Due to Medical Issues

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a recent TED talk, Pillbot co-founder Alex Luebke swallowed a tiny pill, giving audiences a live feed of the inside of his stomach.
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Man Swallows Pill Containing Wireless Camera Live on Stage, Streams Inside of Body for Audience

By Victor Tangermann

Neuralink's brain chip is giving the first human patient sick new gaming skills.
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First Neuralink Patient Says Implant Has Given Him Incredible Gaming Skills

By Victor Tangermann

In a new Bloomberg interview, Neuralink's first human patient recalled the time the brain-computer chip started glitching.
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First Neuralink Patient Alarmed as Device Starts Losing Functionality

By Victor Tangermann

Neuralink has known for years that wires in its brain chip are known to "retract," which raises questions on its future and overall safety.
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Neuralink Knew Its Implant Likely to Malfunction in First Human Patient, Did Brain Surgery Anyway

By Sharon Adarlo

The faulty app for the X2 insulin pump manufactured by Tandem Diabetes Care was causing the the device to unexpectedly shut down.
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Hundreds of Diabetics Injured When App Controlling Insulin Pump Malfunctions

By Frank Landymore

As the Wall Street Journal reports, not everything has been going according to plan with Neuralink's first human subject.
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Neuralink Admits That Implant’s Threads Have Retracted From First Patient’s Brain, Possibly Due to Air in Skull

By Victor Tangermann

During a recent interview, the other cofounder of Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant startup, said that he left due to safety concerns. 
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Neuralink Cofounder Says He Quit Because of Safety Concerns

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gabe "Gaben" Newell, the man behind Steam, has for years been quietly building a BCI company — and it just came out of stealth.
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Gabe Newell, the Man Behind Steam, Is Working on a Brain-Computer Interface

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese scientists have developed an implantable battery that ingeniously uses oxygen already inside the human body.
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Scientists Test Battery Powered by the Body’s Oxygen

By Sharon Adarlo

Schwarzenegger announced during an episode of his "Arnold's Pump Club" podcast that he had a pacemaker implanted.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Undergoes Heart Surgery

By Victor Tangermann

A congressman is taking on the FDA for allowing Neuralink to implant a chip into a human's brain without touring its facilities first.
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The FDA Didn’t Inspect Neuralink Before Granting Human Trial Approval

By Noor Al-Sibai

The first patient with a Neuralink implant played Nintendo's Mario Kart video game with his mind in a remarkable and impressive demo video.
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Video Shows First Neuralink Patient Playing Mario Kart With His Mind

By Sharon Adarlo

According to Elon Musk, Neuralink is making great progress on its "Blindsight" implant, which is "already working in monkeys."
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Elon Musk Claims Neuralink Already Allowing Blind Monkeys to See Again

By Victor Tangermann

AI chip manufacturer Nvidia and the startup Hippocratic AI are teaming up to replace nurses with freaky AI healthcare "agents."
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Nvidia Announces AI-Powered “Agents” to Replace Nurses in Hospitals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Doctors are increasingly using AI tools to take clinical notes, a move proponents say will reduce physician burnout and improve patient care.
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Doctors Using AI to Automatically Generate Clinical Notes on Patients

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A 78-year-old man, who has been living inside an iron lung since surviving polio in the 1950s, has passed away. 
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Man Dies After Living in Iron Lung for 70 Years

By Victor Tangermann

A surgery team in the UK successfully utilized the recently-released Apple Vision Pro to assist spinal surgery.
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Surgeons Use Apple VR Headset During Spinal Operation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists at Pennsylvania State University claim to have become the first to 3D print living human skin tissue onto open wounds of rats.
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Scientists 3D Print Living Human Skin Directly Onto Wounds

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is claiming that the first human to get a Neuralink chip can move a mouse with their mind — but we have to take his word for it. 
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Elon Musk Claims First Neuralink Patient Now Moving Mouse With Mind

By Noor Al-Sibai

A surgical robot burned a woman's small intestine during a procedure, followed ultimately by her death, according to a lawsuit.
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Lawsuit Claims Woman Burned, Killed by Surgical Robot

By Sharon Adarlo

An MIT biotechnology student has gotten "Doom" to run on a cell array full of gut bacteria, proving that it really does run on everything.
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Mad Scientist Gets Doom Running on E. Coli Cells

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's Neuralink has implanted its first brain chip into a human subject — which is freaky given what happened to all those monkeys.
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Here’s What Happened to Monkeys That Got the Neuralink Implant

By Noor Al-Sibai

Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk claims Neuralink has successfully implanted a wireless brain chip into a human for the first time.
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Elon Musk Says Neuralink Has Implanted Brain Chip in Human Subject

By Victor Tangermann

As the world inches closer to mind-reading tech, some scientists are calling to legally enshrine the right to keep our thoughts to ourselves.
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Scientists Concerned About Devices That Literally Read Your Mind

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have developed a new way to 3D-print inside the human body using a special bioink and ultrasound waves.
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Doctors Invent New Way to 3D Print Inside the Body

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have developed a method to keep a brain alive and functioning for several hours without being connected to the body.
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New Device Can Keep Brain Alive for Hours Without Body

By Sharon Adarlo

An investigation by Wired reveals the grisly complications of Neuralink brain implants in monkeys, including brain swelling and paralysis.
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Terrible Things Happened to Monkeys After Getting Neuralink Implants, According to Veterinary Records

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company Neuralink is officially looking for test subjects for its upcoming human trials.
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Neuralink Is Now Recruiting Human Subjects

By Victor Tangermann

Philips is paying out a gigantic settlement to customers whose breathing machines blew foam and gases into their mouths.
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Company in Huge Trouble After Its CPAP Machines Blew Foam Into Users’ Lungs

By Noor Al-Sibai

A company has developed a miniaturized in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo incubator, which they hope will be launched into space soon.
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Startup Planning to Launch IVF and Embryo Incubator Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have developed a bioreactor that can survive inside a pig that is designed to mimic some of the vital functions of a kidney.
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Scientists Intrigued by Bionic Kidney That Survives Inside Pig

By Victor Tangermann

Preying upon male insecurity, one urologist's seemingly-miraculous penis enlargement implant may be too good to be true.
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Terrible Things Are Happening to Men Who Got Penis Enlargement

By Noor Al-Sibai

A San Diego hospital is refusing to halt surgeries in spite of concerns over strange particles found on surgical trays.
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Hospital Refuses to Pause Surgeries After Finding Unknown Contaminants on Equipment Trays

By Noor Al-Sibai

Augmental Technologies has invented a tongue-controlled Bluetooth mouse designed to be worn inside of a user's mouth. In a word: awesome.
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Tongue-Controlled Bluetooth Mouse Lives Inside Your Mouth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers has come up with an implantable fuel cell that can manage type 1 diabetes — and make use of glucose in the body to power itself instead of relying on an external power source.
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Scientists Create “Tea Bag” Implant That Manages Diabetes, Powered by the Body’s Excess Sugar

By Victor Tangermann

The FBI is alleging that Perryman knowingly created and sold "dummy," plastic medical implants to medical systems and chronic pain patients for $16k each.
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Former Biotech CEO Arrested for Implanting Phony Medical Devices in Patients

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's different approaches to augmenting the human bodies with extra robot parts, and it may not even need to involve tricky brain implants.
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Scientists Say They’re Near Augmenting Human Bodies With Extra Limbs

By Frank Landymore

A team of engineers in Sydney, Australia has developed a tiny, flexible robotic arm that is designed to 3D-print inside the body.
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Scientists Say They’ve Devised a Way to 3D Print Inside the Human Body

By Victor Tangermann

Apple has made breakthroughs in a confidential project that would transform its Apple Watches into noninvasive glucose monitors, Bloomberg reports.
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Secret Apple Project Tracks Blood Sugar Using Apple Watch

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Thanks to a Texan scientist, tere appears to finally be a medically-backed cure for hiccups — and yes, there is a purchase required.
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Scientist Says He’s Invented a Cure for Hiccups

By Noor Al-Sibai

Max Hodak started Neuralink with Elon Musk. But he later left the company and started Science Corp -- and now he's rapidly catching up.
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Meet the Neuralink Cofounder Who Left and Started a Competitor That’s Now Rapidly Catching Up

By Simon Spichak

Reuters reveals a federal probe about animal wellbeing at Neuralink by the USDA Inspector General, at the request of a federal prosecutor.
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Neuralink Employees Admit Company Has Killed 1,500 Animals So Far

By Jon Christian

During a show and tell, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk showed off what his brain computer interface (BCI) startup Neuralink has been working on.
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Elon Musk Shows Off Monkey That Can Type With Brain Implant Instead of Typewriter

By Victor Tangermann

Uganda has officially become a spacefaring nation — and its newly-launched satellite has tech that can 3D print human tissue on board.
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Uganda’s New Satellite Contains Equipment to 3D Print Human Tissue in Orbit

By Noor Al-Sibai

Engineer and prototype machinist Brian Stanley has gone viral with a video of a cyborg eye flashlight that can light up an entire room.
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A Guy Lost His Eye and Put a Bright Light Into the Socket

By Victor Tangermann

Austin-based urologist Christopher Yang used his Rivian R1 T pickup truck to literally power a vasectomy procedure during a prolonged Texas power outage.
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Urologist Powers Vasectomy With Electric Pickup Truck During Blackout

By Victor Tangermann

A two year study has restored the vision of 20 people who were significantly visually impaired by using a synthetic cornea implant made out of pig skin.
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Experimental Synthetic Cornea Restores Vision for 20 Patients

By Noor Al-Sibai

Fighter pilot training will include augmented reality headsets for combat training to allow jet pilots to compete with enemies from China and Russia.
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Air Force Pilots to Fight AI-Based Enemies Using AR Helmets

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Miraculously, surgeons just successfully completed one of the most complicated conjoined twin separations ever recorded — with the help of virtual reality.
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Surgeons Use VR Headsets to Separate Conjoined Twins

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pair of robotic arms allowed a partially paralyzed man to eat with a knife and fork, an impressive demonstration that could help many people.
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Robotic Arms Allow Paralyzed Man to Eat Cake With Knife and Fork

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have created a "wearable muscles" exosuit that's designed to give its wearer serious strength boost.
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Scientists Show Off “Wearable Muscles” You Can Strap on to Get Way Stronger

By Victor Tangermann

One family says their child was left with hearing damage after the boy's Apple AirPods blasted an Amber alert in his ears and filed a lawsuit for damages.
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Lawsuit Claims Apple AirPods Ruptured a Child’s Eardrums

By Lonnie Lee Hood

FDA Approves Vanilla-Flavored Underwear That Protect Against STIs
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FDA Approves Vanilla-Flavored Underwear That Protect Against STIs

By Lonnie Lee Hood