Oops, Another Physician Has His Medical Journal Articles Retracted – This Time It’s Columbia University

Sam Yoon, M.D. has had four medical journal articles retracted thus far, including a recent 2024 paper that featured faked data where images were used multiple times in one paper to represent different phenomenon. Physicians in a prominent cancer lab at Columbia University, including the Chief of Cancer Surgery at Columbia, have now had four …

Novel Brain Implant in 2023 From Berkeley/UCSF, Not Neuralink, Helps Paralyzed Woman Speak Using a Digital Avatar

Berkeley engineers develop an AI technology that can help restore natural communication Published by Nature in August 2023, scientists and engineers from UC Berkeley developed a neural prosthetic to enable speech in those unable to speak because of various afflictions, such as brainstem strokes. Led by Dr. Gopala Anumanchipalli, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering …

A Tech Festival Where They Boo Tech – SXSW in Texas

South by Southwest 2024, a combined tech conference and entertainment industry festival held in Austin, Texas, a regressive city inhabited by conservatives like Greg Abbott, Elon Musk, and Alex Jones, ran a minute-long promotional video featuring brief clips from panels earlier in the conference. In each clip, the speakers were either explicitly pro-AI or emphasizing the …