Friday 16 September 2016  Rebecca Northfield, assistant features editor Monkeys transcribe Hamlet with new brain-reading tech Researchers want to use this technology to eventually help people suffering with severe paralysis like good old Steve Hawking. Monkeys with brain implants were able to move a cursor on a screen and transcribe words from Shakespeare and the New York Times. Pretty cool, right? But I have one thing to say. Why on earth did they use Shakespeare? Someone who hasn’t really studied the bloke’s numerous plays, sonnets, poems etc would be completely lost if they were to read, transcribe, dictate or even … Continue reading E&T #news weekly – we choose our favourite #engineering and #technology stories from the past week