A Look at Musk’s Neuralink and the Rivals Racing to Beat Him

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Technology from Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant company allowed a patient to move a cursor with his brain and play videogames. WSJ reporter Rolfe Winkler joins host Zoe Thomas to explain how the implant works and the approaches of rival companies. Plus, Google has ended a plan to eliminate cookies on Chrome. We’ll tell you what comes next. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.0	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, July 26th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:28.0	Google is putting the cookie jar back on the shelf. In a major reversal Google is keeping the
0:35.0	tracking technology in its Chrome browser. We'll tell you why it's scrapping a
0:39.7	plan to eliminate third-party cookies and what it's doing instead. And then,
0:44.8	Nuralink makes a brain reading implant. It aims to help people with severe spinal cord
0:50.9	injuries use computers and perhaps one day regained lost motor control.
0:56.0	Our reporter Rolf Winkler is going to join us to explain how Neurrelink's chip works and how it compares to devices from rivals.
1:08.0	But first, for the past four years,
1:10.4	Google's plan to eliminate cookies in its Chrome web browser hung over the 600 billion
1:16.0	dollar a year online advertising industry.
1:19.3	Chrome is the most popular web browser in the world and the only major one that still supports cookies.
1:25.2	But earlier this week the tech giant decided to reverse course. Here to tell us
1:30.8	about Google's new approach is our personal tech news editor Shara Tippkin.
1:35.3	So Shara, there are two different types of cookies. Remind us what they are.
1:39.3	Yes, so there are first party cookies.
1:43.0	If you go to a website, you log in,
1:45.0	that website can remember your log in,
1:48.0	so you don't have to type it in every single time.
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