There was a time when hearing aids didn’t exist and people got a new sense of life when they started selling commercially. The moment turned out to be revolutionary, as people with hearing loss could enjoy life. Now, <keyword id="19903807" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Elon-Musk" source="keywords">Elon Musk</keyword>’s <keyword id="19985233" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Neuralink" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Neuralink" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Neuralink">Neuralink</keyword> might just be on its way to do the same for people with no vision. In a recent tweet, <keyword id="19905256" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Musk" source="keywords">Musk</keyword> offered a ray of hope to people who have lost their vision–or were born without it. He said that with his upcoming device, <keyword id="21797028" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Blindsight" source="keywords">Blindsight</keyword>, even those who have been blind since birth will be able to see the world for the very first time. <h2>Neuralink's Blindsight gets <keyword id="20561063" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="FDA-approval" source="keywords">FDA approval</keyword> </h2> The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded a "Breakthrough Device" status to Neuralink’s experimental vision-restoring implant, Blindsight. This designation is intended to fast-track the development of innovative medical devices aimed at addressing severe conditions. While the breakthrough designation is a significant step forward, Blindsight has not yet commenced human trials. The FDA has not provided further commentary on the timeline for these trials. The breakthrough status, however, suggests that Neuralink is closer to beginning clinical testing, a crucial phase that will determine the device's safety and efficacy in real-world conditions. <h2>About Blindsight </h2> Blindsight, as per Neuralink, is designed to offer vision restoration to those who have lost both eyes and their optic nerves. Musk recently described it as a revolutionary technology that could even provide sight to those who have been blind from birth, provided their visual cortex remains functional. The technology works by bypassing damaged optic nerves and directly stimulating the visual cortex, the part of the brain responsible for processing visual information. Musk has been candid about the initial capabilities of Blindsight, comparing its early-stage vision quality to the graphics of vintage video games like those produced by Atari. However, he remains optimistic about its future potential. According to Musk, advances in technology could enhance the device's resolution to surpass natural human vision. Moreover, he envisions Blindsight enabling users to perceive wavelengths beyond the visible spectrum, such as infrared and ultraviolet, and even radar. In a post on X, Musk wrote, "To set expectations correctly, the vision will at first be low resolution, like Atari graphics, but eventually, it has the potential to be better than natural vision, enabling the user to see in infrared, ultraviolet, or even radar wavelengths." The potential impact of Blindsight is immense. For those who have lost their sight due to injury or illness, the ability to regain vision could be life-changing. The technology could also offer hope to those who have been blind from birth, providing them with visual experiences they have never known. Musk’s vision for Blindsight goes beyond merely restoring lost vision. He has hinted at the possibility of future upgrades that could allow users to see beyond the visible spectrum, experiencing wavelengths that are typically outside human perception. This could open up new possibilities for understanding the world and interacting with it in ways that were previously thought to be only possible in Sci-Fi movies and shows. While the device’s initial resolution may be low, its potential to improve over time suggests that Blindsight could become a powerful tool for enhancing human capabilities. The possibility of seeing in infrared, ultraviolet, or even radar wavelengths could redefine the boundaries of human vision and provide new ways of experiencing and understanding our environment. <h2>Neuralink’s first <keyword id="20386218" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="brain-chip" source="keywords">brain chip</keyword></h2> In parallel with the Blindsight project, Neura<keyword id="19936857" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="link" source="keywords">link</keyword> is also exploring other applications of its brain-chip technology. The company is also testing a device aimed at enabling paralysed people to control digital devices through thought alone. Called Link, this technology could have profound implications for those with spinal cord injuries, offering new ways to interact with the digital world and regain autonomy. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="113445065" title="'The pressure became too much for her': Mother blames 'work stress' for 26-year-old EY employee's death" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> In January this year, Neuralink implanted its brain chip in a 29-year-old man, <keyword id="21032940" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="noland-arbaugh" source="keywords">Noland Arbaugh</keyword>. Arbaugh, who was paralyzed from the shoulders down after an accident, received the implant on January 28. Just two days after surgery, he was reported to be recovering well. After 100 days of the implant, Neuralink talked about Arbaugh's progress in a blog post. Before the implant, Arbaugh used a mouth-held tablet stylus to interact with digital devices which was cumbersome. After the implant, he could control his laptop and other devices more easily, even while lying down. Not just that, he could even play games using just his mind. The company also placed the chip in a second patient last month. Musk had talked about the second patient’s procedure during a podcast with Lex Fridman. The tech mogul had said that he doesn’t want to “jinx” anything but the procedure went “extremely well” this time. He added, “There’s a lot of signal, a lot of electrodes. It’s working very well.” Musk had also said that the second patient too had an injured spinal cord, similar to the first patient. The billionaire didn’t reveal the exact time and date of the surgery but said that 400 of the implant’s electrodes are functioning in the second patient’s brain. According to Neuralink’s website, their implant uses a total of 1,024 electrodes. In addition to this, Musk had also mentioned Neuralink’s plans to implant the brain chip in eight more patients this year as part of its clinical trials. <h2>When was Neuralink found?</h2>Neuralink was founded in 2016 by Elon Musk and a team of engineers with the goal of developing brain-machine interfaces that could change the way we interact with technology. The company's mission, it says, is to create advanced neural interfaces that can be implanted in the human brain, allowing for direct communication between the brain and external devices. The initial focus of Neuralink was on creating technology that could help individuals with disabilities regain control over their bodies and improve their quality of life. The company's first major breakthrough was the development of Link. Neuralink’s approach involves implanting small, flexible electrodes into the brain, which can then be used to monitor and influence neural activity. 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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d9b77b3880f26375c7315cf-2400/cpl gabino perez usmc us marines fire 120mm mortars iso oir in september 2018 in an undisclosed location in syria.jpg" border="0" alt="US Marines OIR Syria" data-mce-source="Cpl. Gabino Perez/US Marine Corps" data-mce-caption="US Marines fire 120mm mortars in support of Operation Inherent Resolve in September 2018 in an undisclosed location in Syria." /></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>US veterans in Congress sounded off in protest to President Donald Trump's decision to condone an anticipated Turkish assault against the US-supported Kurdish militia in northeastern Syria.</li><li>The decision was made public late Sunday and forces roughly 1,000 US troops to step aside as Turkey prepares an offensive against the Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces near its border.</li><li>"Last night's announcement that the United States would be abandoning the Kurds is another stark reminder that 'American First' means 'America Alone,'" Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, an enlisted Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq, said in a statement. </li><li>"President Trump attacks the very people and relationships most needed to ensure our security. He throws his own people under the bus - even his <keyword id="6354810" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="defense">Defense</keyword> Department, who were reportedly blindsighted by the announcement. The President eats his own."</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul>US military veterans in Congress sounded off in protest to President Donald Trump's decision to condone an anticipated Turkish assault against the US-supported Kurdish militia in northeastern Syria.The decision was made public late Sunday and forces roughly <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-military-now-preparing-to-leave-as-many-as-1-000-troops-in-syria-11552853378">1,000 US troops</a> to step aside as Turkey prepares an offensive against the Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces near its border."Last night's announcement that the United States would be abandoning the Kurds is another stark reminder that 'American First' means 'America Alone,'" Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, an enlisted Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq, said in a statement. "President Trump attacks the very people and relationships most needed to ensure our security. He throws his own people under the bus - even his Defense Department, who were reportedly blindsighted by the announcement. The President eats his own.""I urge the President to reconsider and take steps to ensure that our Kurdish allies remain safe," he added.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-taunt-seth-moulton-military-veterans-marine-corps-2019-8">'You remain a frickin' coward': Trump taunting a 2020 Democratic candidate and retired Marine isn't a laughing matter for some veterans</a>Turkey claims that the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and the SDF, are a threat with links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a US-designated terrorist group operating in its country. Kurdish troops, however, have led the ISIS fight on the ground in Syria and northern Iraq. The tenuous relationship has been evident as US forces struggled to establish a "safe zone" buffer in northern Syria between the Kurds and Turkey.Trump, who previously sympathized with the Kurdish people, described them as "great people" and that he wanted to help the displaced group."They fought with us, they died with us," Trump said in a press conference last year. "We lost tens of thousands of Kurds fighting ISIS. They died for us and with us.""We don't forget, I don't forget," Trump added at the time.But following a phone call with Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday, Trump reversed course by proclaiming on <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1181232251390042118?s=20">Twitter</a> that it was "time for others in the region ... to protect their own territory."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5ce8cb4511e20509632e9252-2400/gettyimages-847524922.jpg" border="0" alt="Donald Trump military" data-mce-source="Alex Wong/Getty Images" data-mce-caption="U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to Air Force personnel during an event September 15, 2017 at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. President Trump attended the event to celebrate the 70th birthday of the U.S. Air Force." /></div></div></div>Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/democrat-veterans-slam-trump-for-ukraine-whistleblower-2019-9">7 Democratic lawmakers who served in the military and intelligence agencies accuse Trump of 'flagrant disregard for the law'</a>Other military veterans claimed Trump's comments were expectedly hollow."'We've got your back,' these are words every American veteran knows, we say that to one another, and we say it to our allies," Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, a retired Marine Corps officer who served in Iraq, said in a statement. "But Trump says it to our enemies: Putin, Assad and Kim Jong-Un.""Now he's giving up our Kurdish allies - who've been some of the toughest fighters in Iraq for three decades -because an authoritarian Turkish president, more aligned with Russia than US allies, asked him for a favor," Moulton added.Republicans who have served in the military also eschewed Trump and claimed the decision was "shortsighted and irresponsible." "This to me is just unnerving to its core," Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a retired Air Force officer, said on Fox News.Graham added that the move would ultimately hamper the fight against the Islamic State and reassure "the reemergence of ISIS."Kurdish forces who have detained roughly 10,000 ISIS militants in makeshift prisons are expected to abandon their posts for the looming battle. The ISIS prisoners, which include foreigners whose host nations are reluctant to readmit them, will be taken into custody by Turkey, the White House said without specifics on Sunday.

'The President eats his own': Military veterans in Congress unload on Trump for abandoning a US ally in the ISIS fight

<img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5e46c7be3b62b70ea84c10d5-885/ap18303585169150.jpg" alt="Wayfair" /><ul class="summary-list"><li>Wayfair announced that more than 500 workers would be laid off on Thursday; 350 of which were workers at its Boston headquarters. </li><li>Business Insider spoke to four Wayfair employees, three of which were laid off this week who described how the "Valentine's Day massacre" unfurled.</li><li>These employees described the news as a shock. "I thought I would be an insider to what was happening...I was completely blind-sighted," one former HR employee said. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Between 10 am and 10.30 am ET on Thursday, February 13 hundreds of Wayfair's US employees were asked to gather in meeting rooms at its Boston headquarters or log in to Google hangout video calls for a mandatory meeting with heads of HR. These employees were told that they would be losing their jobs at the company effective immediately.Around the same time, Wayfair's CEO Niraj Shah sent out a company-wide email informing the rest of the organization of the news. "Since we founded the company in 2002 we have always had periods where we invested very heavily in the business and periods where we have worked to drive greater efficiency of all our resources," Shah wrote.He continued: "On reflection this last period of investment went on too long (as an example, doubling our OpEx team from 4,000 to 8,000 in just two years) and we find ourselves at a place where we are, from an execution standpoint, investing in too many disparate areas, with an uneven quality and speed of execution."The difficult human impact of this is that today we are telling approximately 550 people that their roles no longer exist and they will depart Wayfair."Just after 10.30 a.m. ET a spokesperson for the company confirmed the layoffs in a statement to Business Insider, clarifying that the cuts would impact 3% of its 17,000 person workforce and that 350 of the jobs impacted would be employees at its Boston headquarters. The 3% also included a group of employees at its Berlin office who were laid off earlier in the week. In an email to Business Insider on Friday, a spokesperson for the company confirmed that the company had not made any prior announcements about US layoffs until Thursday morning. Managers of impacted employees were informed of the layoffs in advance of the meetings on Thursday, the spokesperson said. Business Insider spoke to four Wayfair workers from its US offices about the events leading up to the layoffs; three of these employees were impacted by the cuts and described them as a "shock," as well as sharing details about the atmosphere at its Boston headquarters as hundreds of employees were asked to pack up their desks and leave the office. All four of these employees requested to remain anonymous in order to speak frankly about their experience - their identities were verified by Business Insider, however. <img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d83dcdf2e22af39aa0d7ea5-1905/2019-07-10t224719z60287974rc16620cfcb0rtrmadp3media-sunvalley.jpg" alt="Niraj Shah, co-founder, co-chairman, and CEO of Wayfair, attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho" /><h2>The 'Valentine's Day Massacre'</h2>One Wayfair engineer, who was not impacted by the layoffs, said that workers described the events of February 13 as the "Valentine's Day massacre," falling just one day before Valentine's Day. Up until early Thursday morning, this employee said they had no knowledge of the cuts. At 2.01 a.m. ET members of the engineering team received a Slack message from Bill Lincoln, an associate director of engineering, which said that various backend systems were being locked as the company "processes some changes." In this message, Lincoln said that he expected to unlock these systems by the afternoon. A former employee from the talent team in its Boston office said that they first became concerned for their job security in November after they were told by management that there would be a halt on hiring. But three weeks ago, a director at the company said that their jobs would be "fine" and they "had nothing to worry about."A spokesperson for Wayfair declined to comment on this. On Thursday morning, this employee was told to head to a meeting room in Boston after being informed over an email that there was going to be an "organizational restructuring" and that they were "directly affected.""I knew I was going to be laid off," the former employee said in a phone conversation with Business Insider. "Everyone [in the meeting room] was waiting for the shoe to drop."These employees gathered in groups of 40 in each room and were handed their severance letters along with grey tote bags and told to go back to their desks to pack up their things. "Everyone was crying," including the people that weren't laid off, the former employee said. Another employee, who was also laid off on Thursday and worked in the company's talent management department, said that they had no idea about the restructurings until the past week despite being part of the HR team. This former employee said they were told by their manager on Tuesday that "something was happening" and that they "felt terrible" but in the day and a half that followed, heard nothing further from their manager. "My direct manager stopped talking to me," they said in a recent phone conversation with Business Insider. "I thought I would be an insider to what was happening...I was completely blind-sighted. It was very shocking."This employee was laid off over a video conference call. During the call, they were told they would have seven days to sign their severance package but if they spoke poorly about the company, they would forfeit the package. All three of the employees that Business Insider spoke to worked at the company for less than 12 months and were offered two weeks severance pay. "I don't have any bad feeling about the situation but the situation was handled very oddly in my opinion," the former talent team employee said. "There was no warning. To me, that was very odd," they added.

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