The brain-computer interface wars have begun. For years‚ startups and academic researchers have been experimenting on humans and animals with placing sensors on or near the brain to deepen our understanding of the body’s most mysterious and complicated organ. Last week‚ the world got a peek at how far the research has come‚ when Elon Musk took to X to show off what his other company‚ Neuralink‚ had achieved. Noland Arbaugh‚ who was paralyzed from the neck down in a diving accident‚ was...

Abortion-rights supporters are sounding the alarm that conservative Supreme Court justices want to use a long-dormant law to enforce a nationwide abortion ban. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito repeatedly invoked the Comstock Act during oral arguments Tuesday in a case about the constitutionality of the Biden administration’s efforts to expand access to mifepristone.

A top Adams administration official raged against the “extremist” City Council online — blaming their policies for driving recidivism and disorder in the wake of the slaying of a Big Apple cop. “What is it going to take for extremist advocates and elected officials to understand that what they have done to significantly weaken our public safety system is unnecessarily placing the public at risk‚” Assistant Deputy Mayor Louis Molina railed on LinkedIn. “In essence general disorder and...

South Carolina can use its current congressional map for the fall election‚ a panel of federal judges ruled Thursday‚ finding the Supreme Court has taken too long to decide an appeal over a ruling that the map is likely unconstitutional. Last year‚ the three-judge panel found the state’s congressional map likely was unconstitutional because it racially gerrymandered Black voters out of the state’s 1st District‚ currently held by Republican Rep. Nancy Mace. State legislators...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) said Thursday that he had vetoed bills to establish a state-regulated marketplace for marijuana and to raise Virginia’s minimum wage‚ gutting two Democratic priorities a day after opposition to his plans for a sports arena in Alexandria led Wizards and Capitals owner Ted Leonsis to keep the project in the District. Both sets of bills had been widely seen as bargaining chips as Youngkin angled for Democratic support for the $2 billion arena project. Though he had...

The Godzilla vs. King Kong film franchise has a storied history dating back to the 1950s. It all began with the iconic 1962 movie “King Kong vs. Godzilla‚” which marked the first crossover between these colossal monsters. In this epic clash‚ audiences witnessed the battle of titans as King Kong and Godzilla faced off in a spectacular showdown. Fast forward to recent years‚ and we’ve seen the MonsterVerse continue to evolve with films like “Godzilla‚”… This content is for members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read. The post Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire first appeared on Worth It or Woke.

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