The Atlantic | Print Edition TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY By Basil Bradshaw Earlier this month in San Francisco, Elon Musk stepped onto a minimalist stage inside Neuralink’s headquarters, holding something that looked like a futuristic “Borg” mask. “This,” he said, raising it with his right hand, “is how we’ll remember everything.” The Memory Machine—Neuralink’s latest neural implant is designed to do…
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Meals from Messes Where culinary catastrophes meet gastronomic madness.
Every so often, life drops glittering milestones in our laps—birthdays, graduations, that long-awaited job promotion where they finally admit you’re worth more than free donuts. These are the kinds of events that beg for celebration. A few friends gathered around your table, laughter bubbling like champagne, and the promise of a home-cooked feast that says, “I’ve arrived.” But then, there’s…
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Man Throws Foot-long Meatball Sandwich at Officer All the fixin’s versus the State of the Union
By any metric, a meatball sandwich should not be the flashpoint for a national conversation on law, order, and the trajectory of American democracy. Yet here we are, parsing the political and cultural significance of a fully loaded, unwrapped, foot-long Subway sandwich hurtling through the humid August air in Washington, D.C., before colliding with the chest of a federal officer.…
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Ctrl+Alt+Limb Teaching your left hand to think like your right
For decades, surgeons have prided themselves on being calm, methodical, and above all, serious. In a world where billionaires are racing to colonize Mars, AI is writing breakup songs, and chatbots are diagnosing rare diseases, the surgical field was poised to be swept up by the bug. Gone is the humble “let’s fix what’s wrong and get out” approach. Now…
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Orange You Honest? A press release
UNIVERSAL PICTURES Publicity Contact: Amanda Greene, VP of Publicity Phone: (310) 555-0199 Email: ag*****@***************es.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jim Carrey returns in an outrageous political comedy, Orange You Honest? — a hilarious and unfiltered sequel to Carrey’s 1997 smash hit, Liar Liar. “For 24 hours, the truth is a national emergency.” LOS ANGELES, CA — Universal Pictures proudly announces the return…
