In a quiet room, 30-year-old Noland Arbaugh sits in a wheelchair, dressed sharply in a green shirt, white blazer, and grey baseball cap. He smiles easily, but his story is anything but ordinary. He’s not just a survivor of a life-changing accident—he’s the first person on the planet to control a computer using only his…
Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface startup, has encountered a significant challenge in its pioneering journey to integrate advanced technology with the human brain. The company's first human test subject, Noland Arbaugh—a quadriplegic since 2016—experienced complications when some of the chip's connective threads retracted from his brain shortly after implantation in January. This incident occurred during…
