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A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota, has made a breakthrough in the field of noninvasive robotic device control. Using a noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI), researchers have developed the first-ever successful mind-controlled robotic arm exhibiting the ability to continuously track and follow a computer cursor.

This pushes back "first humans" back about 200k years! Changes things like how many people have ever existed? also flattens the exponential curve I.e. we've spent about 240,000 years with very little change.

"Facebook has been showing a survey to users within the social network. Users can take this survey if they want to - it's entirely voluntary. They'll answer questions about whether they're experiencing symptoms associated with COVID-19, such as cough or fever.  That data then gets sent to the research team at Carnegie Mellon (not Facebook), which uses it to create population models of people experiencing symptoms. The idea is that symptoms are the "precursor" to hospital visits, so an uptick in symptoms in a particular area could help officials decide where to send health resources. "The survey responses combined with other data such"

"As John and the team worked to uncover the DNA of the Denny's brand and bring more people back to their restaurants, they discovered their North Star. "We listened to guests and it led to our identification, which quite frankly is a big piece of our brand turnaround, identifying us as America's Diner." "