Could you fly a fighter jet with your mind

Jan Sheuermann can and she is quadriplegic, owing to a neurodegenerative disease. As part of Darpas Revolutionizing Prosthetics research track Jan was first trained to control a robotic arm with her mind alone and has recently been flying a F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (the US militarys next-generation attack jet) using a flight simulator. You can read more about this in a Wired article theres also a video.

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10 awesome internet hacks to make your life better

Well Im not  sure that they are "awesome" but they are potentially useful, interesting or just fun. The Guardian recently published "10 awesome internet hacks to make your life better" that range from: how to log out of Facebook remotely if you left it running on a friends or relatives computer, how to bring up an emoji keyboard on your Mac or PC, and how to watch YouTube in slow motion. 

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A beautiful mind has died

News is breaking that the Nobel prize winning mathematician John Nash and his wife were both killed in a taxi crash in New Jersey, USA. John Nash is famous for his "Nash Equilibrium" in Game Theory, which can be most easily be described by the game of paper, rock, scissors. If a player randomly plays each of the three options 1/3rd of the time they can guarantee they will never be beaten over a large enough number of games. As soon as a player deviates from the Nash Equilibrium, perhaps by slightly preferring to play scissors, then they can be exploited by an opponent preferring rock. Of course as soon as the opponent tries to play the exploit they themselves become exploitable. John Nashs life was famously documented in the movie "A Beautiful Mind," a clip of which is shown below.  


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