Alyssa Julya Smith visited the USC Institute for Technology earlier this month where she learned about research being conducted in virtual reality from audio lead Jamison Moore and assistant professor Ari Shapiro.
Alyssa became an avatar herself, placed in a virtual world with the nation's third president, Thomas Jefferson. We talk how virtual reality is being implemented in educational settings and how the technology can add to a curriculum.
Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant venture, is reaching out to major U.S. neurosurgery centers to potentially begin testing its devices on humans, according to a Reuters report.
A Minnesota utility began shutting down a nuclear power plant near Minneapolis on Friday after discovering water containing a low level of radioactive material was leaking from a pipe for the second time. While the utility and health officials say it is not dangerous, the issue has prompted concerns among nearby residents and raised questions about aging pipelines.
Some parts of Twitter's source code — the fundamental computer code on which the social network runs — were leaked online, the social media company said in a legal filing that was first reported by The New York Times.
