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Given these and other recent milestones, Peng says it’s realistic to think that at least one BCI system could gain approval in China by 2027.Minmin Luo, director of the Chinese Institute for Brain Research (CIBR) in Beijing, agrees that the country is well on its way to meeting the goals set out by the new policy document. “It is basically an engineering project, with not so ambitious goals. Already, there are so many people working on it,” he says.Luo is the chief scientist at NeuCyber NeuroTech, a spinoff of CBIR, which has developed a coin-sized brain chip called Beinao-1 and…

Published On 28 Aug 202528 Aug 2025France, Germany and the United Kingdom have triggered a mechanism to reimpose sanctions on Iran after a series of meetings failed to reach an agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme.The three European countries, known as the E3, have been warning Tehran for weeks that United Nations sanctions could be reimposed by October when a 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and major powers expires.The decision on Thursday – which will take effect in 30 days – comes after a spokesman for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned this week that renewing the sanctions would have…

Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has sued President Donald Trump over attempt to fire her, setting up a potential legal battle over the US central bank’s autonomy.Cook has asked the court to declare Trump’s firing order “unlawful and void”, and also named Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and the Board of Governors as defendants.Trump has said there was “sufficient reason” to believe Cook had made false statements on her mortgage, and cited constitutional powers which he said allowed him to remove her.The move is likely to set up a number of legal challenges that could end up at the US Supreme…

MacRumors / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways iPhone 17 Air may debut as Apple’s thinnest phone ever.Single rear camera shows Apple’s thinness trade-offs.Expected to debut on Sept. 9, 2025, priced around $900.Apple is rumored to be spicing things for this year’s iPhone event. It could introduce an ultra-thin model for the 2025 iPhone lineup called the iPhone 17 Air. It’s thought to be much slimmer than any iPhone so far — and it will totally replace the Plus line that’s been around for over a decade.Also: Buy the…

If there’s anything that seems to preoccupy the TV work of writer-director Brad Ingelsby more than his native Philadelphia, it’s the wages of sin passed down from parents to children. Ingelsby entered HBO’s roster of auteurs with the 2021 series “Mare of Easttown,” for which Kate Winslet won an Emmy for her portrait of a […]

UK summons Russian ambassador after overnight attacks on KyivUK foreign secretary David Lammy has now confirmed that the British government has summoned the Russian ambassador to the UK Foreign Office.In a brief post on X, he said: “Putin’s strikes last night killed civilians, destroyed homes and damaged buildings, including the British Council and EU Delegation in Kyiv. We have summoned the Russian Ambassador. The killing and destruction must stop.” ShareKey events6m agoKyiv resident films moments after rocket hits residential building – video13m agoRussia ‘showed its true face last night,’ Germany’s Merz says17m agoPutin ‘must come to negotiating table,’ EU’s von…

Taipei City council has come under fire after admitting that a robot dog it bought to help patrol city streets using surveillance cameras was made by a Chinese companylinked to the Chinese military.Hammer Lee, the deputy mayor of Taiwan’s capital, introduced a “new patrol partner” for the management and repair of pedestrian areas in a post on Facebook on Tuesday.“This robot, equipped with an optical panoramic survey system, can create 360-degree images, accurately locate facilities, and even automatically report missing items,” Lee said, noting its ability to “accumulate comprehensive data”.On Wednesday, an opposition councillor, Chien Shu-pei, said she had learned…

There’s also a trained parking feature, which lets you record up to five parking routines. Once the car recognizes it’s in a parking environment that it knows, it will offer to take over the job of putting your car away for you, although only with the driver in the car—this does not appear to be a remote parking feature that you control by phone. And there’s a new reversing assist. This can remember up to 160 feet (49 m) of a route that it has just traveled forward, so that it can automatically reverse back the way it came, which…

Every breath people take in their homes or car probably contains significant amounts of microplastics small enough to burrow deep into lungs, new peer-reviewed research finds, bringing into focus a little understood route of exposure and health threat.The study, published in the journal Plos One, estimates humans can inhale as much as 68,000 tiny plastic particles daily. Previous studies have identified larger pieces of airborne microplastics, but those are not as much of a health threat because they do not hang in the air as long, or move as deep into the pulmonary system.The smaller bits measure between 1 and…

There’s depth beyond Portland’s quirkiness, including one of the country’s finest dining scenes.