Saudi Arabia Hires Startup to Develop Brain-Computer Control Implants

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Saudi Arabia Hires Startup to Develop Brain-Computer Control Implants

A brain-computer interface (BCI) startup called Paradromics, a competitor to Elon Musk's Neuralink that's aiming to control computers using brain implants, is partnering with Saudi Arabia's megalomaniac Neom city-building project. As Bloomberg reports, the agreement will involve the construction of a new clinical research center within the new city, which is currently being built on the Red Sea coast. Paradromics is hoping to kick off human clin…