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Brain reading device implanted, hearing restored in children, and Bitcoin using 2% of US Power

Weekly report for Feb. 4th

PICKS 

1️⃣ Elon Musk's Neuralink

implanted its first 'brain-reading' device in a person, aiming to enable control of devices through thought for those with severe paralysis, amidst cautious optimism and concerns over transparency and trial details. 🧠

2️⃣ A gene therapy trial in China 

has successfully restored hearing in five deaf children with a genetic condition, showing promising early results for future applications in treating hearing loss. 🦻

3️⃣ Bitcoin 

now consumes over 2% of US electricity, equivalent to adding a new state's demand to the grid ⚡️

HIGHLIGHTS 🔍️

OTHER NEWS 🚀

TOP REPOSITORIES 🧑‍💻

  1. actions / runner-images - GitHub Actions runner images

  2. usememos / memos - An open source, lightweight note-taking service. Easily capture and share your great thoughts.

  3. slint-ui / slint - Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.

  4. psf / black - The uncompromising Python code formatter

  5. microsoft / playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

  6. AykutSarac / jsoncrack.com - Innovative and open-source visualization application that transforms various data formats, such as JSON, YAML, XML, CSV and more, into interactive graphs.

  7. BlinkDL / RWKV-LM - An RNN with transformer-level LLM performance. It can be directly trained like a GPT (parallelizable).

  8. Expensify / App - A complete re-imagination of financial collaboration, centered around chat.

  9. containerd / containerd - An open and reliable container runtime |

  10. f / awesome-chatgpt-prompts - ChatGPT prompt curation to use ChatGPT better.

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