https://globalnews.ca/news/7304984/elon-musk-neuroscience-pig-computer-chip/

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk‘s neuroscience startup Neuralink on Friday unveiled a pig that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months, demonstrating an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of implant.

Co-founded by Musk in 2016, San Francisco-based Neuralink aims to implant wireless brain-computer interfaces that include thousands of electrodes in the most complex human organ to help cure neurological conditions like Alzheimer’s, dementia and spinal cord injuries and ultimately fuse humankind with artificial intelligence.

“An implantable device can actually solve these problems,” Musk said on a webcast Friday, mentioning ailments such as memory loss, hearing loss, depression and insomnia.

Neuralink’s first clinical trials with a small number of human patients would be aimed at treating paralysis or paraplegia, the company’s head surgeon Dr. Matthew MacDougall said on Friday, but did not provide a timeline.

https://apnews.com/6f30a04655150ab6f464d9ca217bbe60

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge in California agreed Friday to release from jail a university researcher accused of lying about her ties to China’s military and Communist Party to gain access to the United States.

“You’re getting a huge break here,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Kendall Newman told Dr. Juan Tang during a Sacramento hearing, the Sacramento Bee reported.

Kendall said he was willing to allow Tang to be housed with a Chinese emigre who doesn’t know the woman but offered to put up $750,000 in home equity as bond, the Bee said.

It could take until late next week to complete the paperwork for the bond. Tang might yet be denied freedom from jail because the prosecutor is expected to ask another federal judge to review the decision, the paper said.

The former Chinese cancer researcher at the University of California Davis is charged with visa fraud. She has been held without bail at the Sacramento County Main Jail since July 23.

Tang falsely claimed to have no ties to China’s People’s Liberation Army-Air Force or the country’s Communist Party, authorities contend.

She was preparing to return to China in June when FBI agents showed up at her door to question her. They seized her passport. She was considered a fugitive after fleeing to the Chinese consulate in San Francisco for a month.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/sarah-palin-gets-trial-date-in-new-york-times-defamation-suit-1.1486573

(Bloomberg) – Former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin and the New York Times are headed for trial over her claim that the paper libeled her in an editorial that linked her to the 2011 shooting of former U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords.

In a ruling Friday in federal court in Manhattan, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff rejected both sides’ request for a ruling in their favor in the three-year-old case without a trial.

He dismissed the former Alaska governor’s argument that she shouldn’t have to prove that the Times had acted with “actual malice” when it published the editorial in 2017. And he rejected the newspaper’s argument that the lawsuit should be thrown out because Palin couldn’t prove actual malice.

The editorial tied the Gifford shooting to a map, issued by Palin’s political action committee, that put cross-hairs over the congresswoman and 19 other Democrats.

Rakoff noted that under a landmark Supreme Court decision, public officials must show actual malice defined as the knowing and reckless disregard for the truth to prove libel. The editor responsible for the editorial, James Bennet, had ignored colleagues who raised concerns about linking the crosshairs map to the shooting, the judge said.

When viewed “in a light most favorable” to Palin, “a rational finder of fact” could find actual malice, the judge wrote. On other hand, he noted, there is also “considerable evidence” that Bennet “simply drew the innocent inference” that the map might invite violence.

They locked the doors on a black man

https://www.nbc15.com/2020/08/28/kanye-west-sues-to-get-on-wisconsin-ballot/

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - A week after he was barred from appearing on the Wisconsin presidential ballot, rapper Kanye West is taking the commission that made that decision to court.

On Friday, West filed a lawsuit in Brown Co. against the Wisconsin Elections Commission. He is asking the court to rule his nominating papers were submitted on time and to direct the WEC to ensure he and his running mate, Michelle Tidwell, appear on the ballot in November.

Last Thursday, the WEC voted 5-1 to reject his attempt to run in the Badger State, ruling that he missed the five o’clock deadline for submitting the 2,000 signatures required for someone to get their name listed.

The meaning of a five o’clock deadline has become the nexus of the dispute between the WEC and West’s camp. Commissioners argued that a 5 p.m. deadline means that submissions cannot be made one second after the five o’clock strikes. West’s lawyers, meanwhile, contend that such a deadline actually expires at 5:01 p.m. and therefore anything filed within that minute should still be considered on time.

The WEC determined that West’s submission came at 5:00:14 p.m., or 14 seconds after its interpretation of the deadline.

Moving past the meaning of 14 seconds, the case takes exception with the fact the doors to the Commission’s office were locked on the day of the filing deadline and how the process for gaining access to the building played out.

Noting that a locked door would impede a candidate’s ability to get into the building prior to the deadline, West’s lawyers noted that, beyond the doors being locked, the commission did not assign anyone to unlock them so potential candidates could submit their documents in a timely manner.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jeff-reynolds/2020/08/28/portland-mayors-open-letter-to-trump-reveals-how-badly-his-campaign-for-reelection-is-going-n863446

In his open letter to Trump, Wheeler accuses federal law enforcement officials of doing what he himself has done. The psychological term for that is projection, and it’s a hallmark of liberal narratives.

The laugh-out-loud line, of course, is when he says that Portland will apprehend and prosecute those who commit criminal acts. Wheeler may wish to consult with Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt on that one.

Wheeler then goes on to repeat the debunked myth that federal law enforcement made the riots worse in Portland. He really doesn’t have anything new to add here. All Wheeler can do at this point is take the opportunity to look like he’s representing progressive Portland by standing up to the Bad Orange Man.