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And yet, the brain does incredible things," said Matt Angle, CEO and founder of Paradromics, in an interview with CNBC Tech: The Edge. The trial would follow competitor Neuralink, which implanted a chip into a patient's brain in March this year. "Paradromics' mission is to transform otherwise untreatable health conditions in brain health into solvable technology problems. "Paradromics can take the science and apply the right engineering to get us from research to medical device," he added. "We see that the first million people to get brain computer interfaces are going to be getting them to treat severe medical conditions," Angle said.

Persons: Matt Angle, Elon Musk, Angle, Vikash Gilja, Gilja, we're Organizations: CNBC Tech, CNBC Locations: Austin , Texas

☆ Brain science start-up Neuroelectrics uses electricity and a headcap to reduce seizures in patients with epilepsy. Now it needs FDA approval
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Cristy Garratt Maria Gomez De Sicart | Cristy Garratt | Https | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

High up in the hills of Barcelona, brain science start-up Neuroelectrics is developing therapies that it says will improve the lives of people living with brain disease. Its main product is a headcap, which monitors the brain's electrical activity and stimulates regions of the brain with mild electrical currents. Co-founder and CEO Ana Maiques believes it will significantly improve the lives of people suffering with epilepsy. In addition to epilepsy, Maiques and her team are optimistic that the headgear can also be used to treat depression and Alzheimer's. So, when you have epilepsy, you have an electrical discharge in one area of your brain, so they can really target and help them," said Roser Sanchez-Todo, R&D director for Neuroelectrics' brain modelling department.

Persons: Ana Maiques, Maiques, Roser Sanchez, Neuroelectrics Organizations: CNBC Tech, U.S . Food, Drug Administration Locations: Barcelona

The next generation of the "Internet of Bodies," or IOB, could bring technological devices and the human body closer together than ever before. Academic and author Andrea M. Matwyshyn, who coined the term in 2016, describes it as "a network of human bodies whose integrity and functionality rely at least in part on the internet and related technologies, such as artificial intelligence." Smart glasses, which can function as cameras, headphones or monitors, are another example of early IOB devices. These devices completely merge with the body while maintaining a real-time connection to an external machine and the internet. "As bits and bodies meld and as human flesh becomes permanently entwined with hardware, software, and algorithms, IOB will test our norms and values as a society," she wrote.

Persons: Andrea M, Matwyshyn, Elon Musk's Organizations: Elon Musk's Neuralink, BCI Locations: Elon

Hondo Underwood is a former car thief. Underwood speaks with Business Insider about methods of breaking into vehicles, such as relay theft. He talks about what it's like to be in high-speed car chases and play cat and mouse with the police. He also notes the models of cars he stole, including Chevrolets and Ford pickup trucks, and discusses the realism of car theft in movies and games like "Gone in 60 Seconds" and "Grand Theft Auto." Underwood, a Marine Corps veteran, was ordered to complete a rehabilitation program by a Colorado Veterans Treatment Court.

Persons: Hondo Underwood, Underwood Organizations: Marine Corps, Colorado Veterans Treatment, underwood Locations: Denver, Mexico, hondo

☆ How the MS-13 Gang Actually Works, According to a Former Member
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-22 | by ( Victor Hugo Febres | Dylan Brzezinski | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Alex Sanchez is a former high-ranking member of MS-13. He became involved in the gang in the 1980s in Los Angeles and participated in its expansion. He is now the executive director of Homies Unidos and is a violence-prevention worker and expert on gang culture. He speaks with Business Insider about the Los Angeles Police Department, tattooing, rules and codes, media perception, and the political language used to depict the gang, such as Donald Trump's comments in 2018. Sanchez's story is profiled in the books "MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang" and "Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas."

Persons: Alex Sanchez, Sanchez, Donald Trump's Organizations: El, Homies, Los Angeles Police Department Locations: Los Angeles, El Salvador, Americas

☆ Fact Check-No reported mpox outbreak at Burning Man festival
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Social media posts falsely reporting mpox and other diseases at the festival are circulating amid news of heavy downpours that produced a sea of sticky mud at the event in 2023 and prompted a shelter-in-place order. One post on X, formerly known as Twitter, (here) reads, “There's no ebola outbreak at Burning man.. we've received confirmation that it's just a new strain of monkeypox. However, there are no credible news reports of an mpox outbreak at Burning Man in 2023, nor do the event organizer’s social media accounts mention any cases of the disease (here), (twitter.com/bmantraffic), (www.facebook.com/burningman/). Reuters has previously addressed false claims of an Ebola outbreak at the 2023 Burning Man event (here). There have been no reports of an mpox outbreak at Burning Man 2023, according to the CDC and BLM.

Persons: “, we've, Dave Daigle, ” Daigle, ” John Asselin, Read Organizations: U.S . Centers for Disease Control, Prevention, Land Management, Man, Twitter, Facebook, Reuters, CDC, Mpox, BLM, Burning Locations: Nevada, Black Rock, Marburg

☆ Fact Check-BBC-branded report saying Prigozhin is alive is fake
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A social media video with BBC branding that says Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is alive, having staged his death with Russian authorities, is a fake, a spokesperson for the broadcaster told Reuters. The private Embraer jet on which Prigozhin was travelling crashed on Aug. 23, killing all 10 people aboard (here). On Aug. 29, a minute-long clip mimicking a BBC News report circulated on social media and claimed the mercenary chief was still alive. Captions superimposed on footage of the crash site and a picture of Prigozhin say: “BBC source denies information about the death of the owner of PMC Wagner. In a statement sent to Reuters via email, a BBC spokesperson said: “We are aware of this fake video and our lawyers are urgently looking into it.

Persons: Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, Read Organizations: BBC, Reuters, Embraer, PMC Wagner, Facebook

☆ Fact Check-Fox News did not report Newsom tried removing Trump from future ballots
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Fox News did not report that California Governor Gavin Newsom was removing Trump’s name from future ballots, contrary to a claim circulating on social media. Social media users have shared the following text: “BREAKING NEWS: FOX News reports Ca. Gavin Newsom is the first Governor to say Donald Trump is not eligible for future presidential elections & has asked the California’s State Assembly to pass a bill that will remove Trumps name on any future ballots.”Examples can be seen (here), (here), (here). A search through the governor’s official social media accounts also returned no results matching the claim (www.facebook.com/CAgovernor/), (www.instagram.com/gavinnewsom/), (twitter.com/GavinNewsom). Fox News did not report that Gavin Newsom was removing Trump’s name from future ballots.

Persons: Gavin Newsom, Donald Trump, Brandon Richards, Newsom, Read Organizations: Fox, Social, FOX, Gov, Assembly, Fox News, Reuters Locations: California, California’s

☆ Fact Check-Claim Blake Shelton canceled TV contract stems from satire
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

There is no evidence that American singer Blake Shelton has pulled out of a multimillion-dollar project with Country Music Television (CMT). Reuters found no evidence that Shelton had a “$30-million-dollar project” with CMT, or that he has stepped away from one. No announcements about the purported partnership are featured on Shelton’s website (www.blakeshelton.com/news), or social media profiles (twitter.com/blakeshelton), (www.facebook.com/blakeshelton/). Representatives for CMT and for Shelton did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment. The claim that Blake Shelton has canceled a multimillion contract with CMT is unfounded and originates from a satirical website.

Persons: Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean’s, CMT’s, Shelton, Dunning, Dunning Kruger, tomfoolery, Read Organizations: Country Music Television, CMT, Tennessee Courthouse, NBC, Facebook, Reuters, Dunning Kruger Times, Defense Locations: ”, African

☆ Fact Check-Handelsblatt cover of cartoon Volodymyr Zelenskiy reaching toward NATO door is fake
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A fabricated German newspaper cover featuring a cartoon of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reaching toward a door that is out of his reach and marked with a NATO emblem is circulating online. The door is attached to a stick which, in turn, is attached to a band around Zelenskiy’s head, making the door out of reach. Sebastian Matthes, editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt, told Reuters that the image shows a fake cover. The front cover circulating online cannot be seen when conducting a search via the newspaper’s social media channels (www.facebook.com/handelsblatt), (twitter.com/handelsblatt/), (here). The fabricated cover began circulating as Zelenskiy attended a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, this week (here).

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Jens Stoltenberg, “, Sebastian Matthes, Handelsblatt, Zelenskiy, Read Organizations: NATO, Reuters Locations: Vilnius, Lithuania

☆ Fact Check-Handelsblatt cover on Ukraine’s ‘bloody crash test’ is fake
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A fabricated cover of what purports to be a weekend issue of German magazine Handelsblatt reporting on Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia is being shared online. "This is not a counteroffensive // it's a bloody crash test," says the headline on the fake cover, posted to Facebook (here ). It also purports to be magazine issue 119 and is dated June 23, 24, 25. The cover of weekend issue 119, as seen in the archive, is dedicated to a piece about climate, and it features different visuals (here ). There is no record in the Handelsblatt archive of a cover calling Ukraine’s counteroffensive a “bloody crash test”.

Persons: Handelsblatt, Read Organizations: Facebook, Twitter, Reuters Locations: Russia

☆ Fact Check-Al Jazeera-branded report on Ukrainians complaining about Titan submersible victims is a fake
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

An online video carrying Al Jazeera’s logo and reporting that Ukrainians are complaining about the Titan submersible’s crew wasting money is a fake report, according to a spokesperson for the Qatari state-owned broadcaster. The 90-second clip, seen by more than a hundred thousand people here, copies Al Jazeera’s branding, colour patterns, and reporting style on social media. Text captions on the fake report claim Ukrainians reacted with “indignation” to the June 18 disappearance of the Titan submersible, which went missing during a deep dive in the North Atlantic to the wreck of the Titanic. A spokesperson for Al Jazeera told Reuters that the video report is a fake. A search through Al Jazeera’s website did not find any similar report archive.ph/toDEF.

Persons: Al, ”, Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera’s, Read Organizations: Titan, Al, Reuters, Facebook Locations: Qatari, Ukraine, Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera’s

☆ Fact Check-NASA did not announce a 100-foot fissure at Yellowstone volcano
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has not announced that a 100-foot crack opened at Yellowstone National Park, contrary to claims online suggesting that a disaster is imminent. There are no alerts on the National Park Service webpage describing current conditions at Yellowstone (here) or on the website of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (here). A crack about 100-feet wide did occur at the Grand Teton National Park in July 2018, as reported by the National Park Service (here) and news media (here), (here), (here). “A 100ft wide fissure-crack has not opened up in Yellowstone National Park in the past 24 hours,” a representative for Yellowstone National Park said in an email to Reuters. NASA did not announce a 100-foot fissure at Yellowstone National Park.

☆ Fact Check-NASA did not announce a 100-feet fissure crack at Yellowstone volcano
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

☆ Fact Check-Story of Arkansas woman raising deer indoors stems from satire
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

An amusing story about the arrest of an Arkansas resident named Bridgette Watkins who allegedly raised deer indoors with the intention of training them to attack hunters is not real and originated on a satire page. The story and the photos could be traced to a Facebook post from a parody account that describes its content as satirical(here). The bio of the Facebook page, called Arkansas Game Fish, reads, “Satire page just for laughs.”(here). The page also posted a disclaimer saying “This is a satire page” just hours before sharing the Bridgette Watkins story (here). The page appears to be a parody of an Arkansas government agency: Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (www.facebook.com/ARGameandFish).

☆ Fact Check-Claims that Barack Obama is relocating to Kenya stem from satirical article
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

There is no evidence that former U.S. President Barack Obama is relocating to Kenya in the coming months. The claim stems from an article published as an April Fools’ joke, but some social media users were fooled into believing the rumors. Yet, several social media users shared the news in a serious manner (here), (here). No credible news sources have reported on the supposed relocation (www.tinyurl.com/yn59dpzz), and there no such announcement was posted on Obama’s official social media accounts (www.twitter.com/BarackObama), (www.instagram.com/barackobama/), (www.facebook.com/barackobama/). Rumors Barack Obama is moving to Kenya stem from articles published as April Fools’ jokes.

☆ Fact Check-No evidence Jim Jordan announced Ray Epps will testify against FBI
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

No evidence supports online claims that U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said Ray Epps, a figure linked to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, will testify about alleged FBI involvement in the attack. One tweet said Jordan “just announced” Epps “flipped and will testify” against the FBI, and “watch as they now start to testify against each other-OMG..” (here). Jordan has not posted about Epps or the Jan. 6 attack on his website (jordan.house.gov/), Twitter (twitter.com/Jim_Jordan) or Facebook (www.facebook.com/repjimjordan/). Reporting on how Ray Epps became the target of these conspiracy theories can be found (here ), (here). There is no evidence that Rep. Jim Jordan publicly announced Ray Epps will testify against the FBI regarding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

☆ Fact Check-Gettr post about COVID-19 health measures was posted by Kid Rock fan page
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A Gettr post about COVID-19 public health measures was posted by a Kid Rock fan page, misleading users into believing that the artist himself posted it. An archived version of the page (here) has a bio that reads: “Kid Rock fan page. Reuters found no evidence that Kid Rock posted this on his other social media pages (twitter.com/KidRock) (here), (here), (www.facebook.com/kidrock/). Representatives for Kid Rock did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The post in the screenshots was posted by a Kid Rock fan account on Gettr.

☆ Fact Check-Fabricated Irish Centre for Diversity poster telling girls to ‘stay indoors after 6pm’ is shared online
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A fabricated poster that purports to have been created by the Irish Centre for Diversity in coordination with the Irish government and tells girls to stay indoors after 6pm has been circulating online. A spokesperson for the Irish Centre for Diversity told Reuters that no such poster was published by the organisation. The Irish Centre for Diversity’s logo includes the ‘v’ in diversity replaced with a greater than sign. The Irish Centre for Diversity and Irish government said it published no such poster. No official Irish government logo can be seen printed on the poster, and ‘Irish government’ is misspelled in Irish.

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☆ Fact Check-Ukrainian church fire from 2021 likely started by electrical fault, according to priest
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A 2021 video of a burning church in Ukraine has circulated online with a caption that baselessly claims it was set alight by Ukrainian nationalists. The posts claim that “Ukrainian nationalists” started the fire after the church rector refused to switch from the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now in its 11th month, has led many Ukrainians to rally round the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), which they see as more pro-Ukrainian than its rival, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). The Ukrainian Orthodox Church Dnipropetrovsk Eparchy published a statement at the time with videos and photos of the church (here ). The video shows a fire at a church in the Dnipropetrovsk region in 2021.

☆ Fact Check-Al Jazeera did not release clip reporting that Ukrainian fans were arrested in Qatar for defacing World Cup posters with Nazi symbols
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Qatar’s state-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera did not release a clip reporting that Ukrainian fans had been arrested during the World Cup for “spreading Nazi symbols” in Doha. The video uses Al Jazeera typography with the network’s logo viewable to the top left corner. Text across the clip claims that three drunk Ukrainian fans were arrested in the country’s capital after adding Nazi symbology to posters featuring the Qatar World Cup mascot, La’eeb. Archived versions of the outlet’s coverage of the World Cup similarly do not feature the above clip (here), (here), (here). Ukraine is also not competing in the World Cup in Qatar, after failing to qualify having been defeated by Wales in a playoff in June (here).

☆ Fact Check-Video report claiming people can pay German auction house to destroy Russian art is a fake
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

According to the fabricated report, auction house Bolland & Marotz has invited art collectors to bid on Russian artists’ paintings, writers’ manuscripts, and other antiques. However, Euronews released a statement on Twitter, saying the video is fake and was not edited by the network (here). We are taking steps to have it deleted from all platforms and actively investigating where this fake video comes from.”The outlet also published an article about the fake news report (here). Bolland & Marotz issued a statement on its website (bolland-marotz.de/, archived archive.ph/VJfFu), saying: “A video has been circulating on the internet and social media linking the name Bolland & Marotz to an auction of Russian art. Euronews said it did not create the video and the German auction house confirmed no such event would be taking place.

☆ Fact Check-No evidence French ambassador to Ukraine has resigned as of Oct. 25
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Users on social media are sharing a claim that the French ambassador to Ukraine Etienne de Poncins has resigned but there’s no supporting evidence. One Facebook user sharing the claim said, “Urgent: The French Ambassador to Ukraine Resigns” (here). There is another unverified French-language Facebook account under the same name and logo that identifies as a “broadcasting & media production company” (here). Jean-Michel Cadenas, a departmental delegate of the Rassemblement National in Mayenne (twitter.com/RassNational53) repeated the claim that Poncins resigned in a since-deleted tweet. There is no evidence that Poncins ever resigned from his post as the French ambassador to Ukraine.

☆ Fact Check-Gettr post critical of Zelenskiy sent by Kid Rock fan page
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

There is no evidence that a screenshot of a post about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was published by American artist Kid Rock. A screenshot circulating online shows a screenshot of a Gettr post from a Kid Rock fan page. An archived version of the page (here) has a bio that reads: “Kid Rock fan page. Reuters found no evidence that Kid Rock posted about Zelenskiy on his social media pages (twitter.com/KidRock) (here), (here), (www.facebook.com/kidrock/). The post in the screenshot was published on Gettr by a Kid Rock fan page.

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