US to Fund Advanced Brain-Computer Interfaces

US to Fund Advanced Brain-Computer Interfaces
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Matt Angle's claim might have sounded eccentric before: for years, he insisted that the key to solving one of neuroscience's most intractable challenges lay in a 1960s-era technology invented in the tiny nation of Moldova.   

It's a lot harder to dismiss Angle's approach now. Today, the U.S. Department of Defense selected Angle's small San Jose-based company, Paradromics Inc., to lead one of six consortia it is backing with $65 million to develop technologies able to record from one million individual neurons inside a human brain simultaneously.

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