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January 22, 2013

Intel Push To Save Stephen Hawking’s Ability To Speak As His Condition Worsens

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Intel, the company that has been supplying Stephen Hawking with the technology he needs to communicate with the outside world since the 1990s, is currently working on new technology that will enable him to communicate faster.

Renowned physicist, Hawking has battled against the degenerative motor neuron disease for the last 50 years and has for a long time, needed technological aids to enable him to speak or compose words. Over the last few years, Hawking’s condition has deteriorated so much that the rate at which he communicates has fallen to one word per minute.

Intel however are hoping that they can bring the rate right back up again by using a type of technology that will not only register the muscle twitches in Hawking’s cheek, but is able to read the other facial muscles that he can still control. Continue Reading

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January 10, 2013

Stephen Hawking Joins Think Tank Intended To Protect Humanity From Robot Apocalypses

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Superbrain Stephen Hawking has joined the board of an international think tank founded by other superbrains that has the sole intention of protecting humanity from futuristic threats.

The renowned author and physicist, who celebrated his 71st birthday on Tuesday, joined the board of The Cambridge Project for Existential Risk – an organization started by Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn and Cambridge professors Huw Price and Martin Rees late in 2012.

The organization will research existential threats to humanity from things like extreme climate change, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, artificial life, nanotech and other emerging technologies that could pose a threat to our race. Their aim is to create a research center at Cambridge University in the UK which is specifically dedicated to exploring autonomous robots and other similar dangers. Continue Reading

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June 26, 2012

Standford University Scientists Developing iBrain Device To Hack Into Stephen Hawking’s Mind

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World famous physicist Stephen Hawking, 70, has been working with scientists from Standford University who are developing a device that will help him to communicate with the outside world by picking up his brain waves via an electrical scanner and communicating them through a computer.

Hawking lost the power of speech nearly 30 years ago due to motor neurone disease, since then he has communicated with people by using a computer, however his condition is deteriorating and he may soon lose this ability.

The device, called the iBrain, has been likened to ‘hacking into his brain’, Professor Philip Low who is developing the device said: “We’d like to find a way to bypass his body, pretty much hack his brain.”Continue Reading

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June 7, 2012

Stephen Hawking And The Joker Above The Nipples Tattoo

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These tattoos belong to a dude called Wesley. The Joker tat is one of the ugliest one I’ve seen.

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