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How understanding how your brain works can make you a better leader

Fast Company Tech

What if the key to being a better manager isn’t found in a new productivity hack, a different feedback framework, or a time management app—but in understanding the three-pound organ inside your head that runs the show: your brain? Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to change. Cognitive overload impairs performance.

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AI versus the brain and the race for general intelligence

Ars Technica

But we do have an existing example of AGI without the "A"the intelligence provided by the animal brain, particularly the human one. And one thing is clear: The systems being touted as evidence that AGI is just around the corner do not work at all like the brain does. That may not be a fatal flaw, or even a flaw at all.

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Gabe Newell's New Company Is Getting Ready to Put Chips in Your Brain

Futurism

After a long silence, Starfish Neuroscience, the secretive startup owned by Valve cofounder Gabe Newell, announced that it's getting ready to unveil its first batch of brain computer interfaces this year. And no, "it" doesn't involve the number three. And it's looking for help. "We It'll run, instead, entirely via wireless power transmission.

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Apple explores letting people control iPhones with their brains, report says

Mashable Tech

On Tuesday, the tech giant announced a partnership with brain-computer interface (BCI) company Synchron that's developing an implantable device with electrodes that read brain signals. The device "effectively translates brain waves, allowing a user to navigate around a screen and select an icon," the Journal wrote.

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Scientists figure out how the brain forms emotional connections

Ars Technica

Whenever something bad happens to us, brain systems responsible for mediating emotions kick in to prevent it from happening again. When we get stung by a wasp, the association between pain and wasps is encoded in the region of the brain called the amygdala, which connects simple stimuli with basic emotions.

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Making Brain Waves: AI Startup Speeds Disease Research With Lab in the Loop

NVIDIA AI Blog

BrainStorm Therapeutics , a San Diego-based startup, is accelerating the development of cures for these conditions using AI-powered computational drug discovery paired with lab experiments using organoids: tiny, 3D bundles of brain cells created from patient-derived stem cells.

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Neuroscientists have discovered why ‘aha moments’ stick in your brain long after you have them

Fast Company Tech

When we have a flash of insight, our brains go through a process called representational change, in which our internal representations of the insight undergo rapid reorganization and integration, helping encode it into our memory. During these moments of insight, the brain reorganizes how it sees the image, noted first author Maxi Becker.

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