I t’s a weird world
MILKY RIVER
A river in Wales has turned white after a milk tanker overturned and spilled its contents into the water.
Images and video posted on Twitter showed the River Dulais in Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire, discoloured after the incident.
May Lewis posted a video on the social media site which showed milky water cascading over a small waterfall.
A tweet from Natural Resources Wales (NRW) read: “An unknown quantity of milk has entered the River Dulais today following a RTC (road traffic accident) that involved a milk tanker which had left the road.”
The body said the event had caused “significant discoloration”.
NRW officers attended the scene were scheduled to return to assess the impact of the spill. — Sky News
brain IMPLANT
Elon Musk ’s brain implant company Neuralink has released a video showing how it has taught a monkey — Pager, a nine-year-old macaque — to play the video game Pong with its mind.
The video follows Musk’s assertion in February that the company has “a monkey with a wireless implant in their skull with tiny wires” that it uses to play video games.
Neuralink Corporation, which Elon Musk owns alongside his SpaceX and Tesla businesses, previously claimed to have implanted coin-sized wireless sensors inside the brains of two pigs, describing the sensors as “a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires”.
At the time of the video, Pager was six weeks on from having had the Neuralink devices installed — one in each side of his brain — and in that time has learned to interact with a computer for a “tasty banana smoothie” delivered through a straw.
The implants work by recording signals in Pager’s motor cortex that normally coordinates hand and arm movements.
“Our goal is to enable a person with paralysis to user a computer or phone with their brain activity alone,” the narrator during the video of Pager says.
During a talk on the app Clubhouse in February, before saying that a further announcement would be made in the coming months, Musk said: “You can't see where the implant is and he's a happy monkey.”
The billionaire told people on the call that an inspector from the US Department of Agriculture described the company’s laboratory as “the nicest monkey facility” they had ever examined.
“We went the extra mile for the monkeys,” Musk said.
“One of the things we’re trying to figure out is whether we can have the monkeys playing mind Pong with each other? That would be pretty cool.”
The ultimate aim is to create a braincomputer interface, and it is being trialled in order to treat people with brain and spinal injuries. — Sky News