Google’s Ray Kurzweil on the quest to live forever
How nanobots will help the immune system, and why we’ll be much smarter, thanks to machines
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Using a heartbeat as a sort of password
Implanted medical devices are so common that, in the future, devices will be vulnerable to hackers
Beyond the EEG: Life after ’flat line’
Discovery of a new type of brain activity hints at just how much we have left to learn
The thinking behind the first ‘Vulcan mind meld’
Video: Kate Lunau on the first human brain-to-brain interface
How to build a better athlete
Why the next generation of cognitive and performance enhancements will put steroids in the shade
’Project Inception’ plants false memories in the minds of mice
The good, the bad and the fake in the brains of rodents
#Rogersoutage: another reason for more competition
Jesse Brown on the country-wide cell phone outage
If Canada is spying on Brazil, who else is under surveillance?
Jesse Brown on CSEC violations and what we know so far
Robots: Job Terminators
Why more and more workers—even in surprisingly complex jobs—are being left behind by automation
What will Twitter’s IPO mean for users?
Jesse Brown on what going public will mean for the social network’s direction