Elon Musk addressed a campaign town hall in support of Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump in Folsom, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, October 17, 2024. During a live-streamed interview at a Las Vegas event on his social media platform X, Musk announced that a third individual has received an implant from his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, which is among several organizations working to link the nervous system with machines. Musk stated, “We’ve got three humans with Neuralinks, and all are functioning well.” He noted that since the first brain implant was performed about a year ago, the company has improved the devices by increasing the number of electrodes, enhancing bandwidth, and extending battery life. He also mentioned that Neuralink aims to implant experimental devices in an additional 20 to 30 individuals this year. While Musk did not share specifics about the latest recipient, he provided updates on the previous patients. The second recipie...
Opinion polls in the U.S. presidential election are showing an extremely close race between U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump — but polling experts say those numbers don’t really tell the whole story.
While pollsters do everything they can to present accurate pictures of how voters are feeling or intend to vote, new methodologies to adapt to modern technology and changing behaviour means the job has gotten more difficult in recent years.
Additionally, “polls were not designed to predict the future,” said Samara Klar, a political science professor at the University of Arizona who studies political opinion and polling.
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