BBC 英语学习 News Review 埃隆·马斯克的大脑芯片

Could brain chips let us control our phones with our minds?

That's what Elon must copes. This is

news review from BBC Learning English, where we help you understand news

headlines in English. And I'm phil make sure you watch to the end to learn the vocabulary that you need to talk about this story, and remember to subscribe to our channel to learn more English from the headlines.

Now today s story. A wireless chip has been successfully placed in a human brain by Elon musk's Neural Link company.

The device is able to read brain signals linked to movement and send them to a computer.

Must said that future innovations may allow us to control our phone or computer just by thinking.

You've been looking at the headlines fill what's the vocabulary that people need to understand this new story?

We have implant interface and Cyberg.

This is news review from BBC Learning English.

Let's have a look at our 1st headline.

This is from the BBC, elon Musk announced his 1st neural link, wireless brain implant.

Now, this headline is about the announcement from Elon Musk that his company have successfully put an implant into someone's brain.

Implant is the word we're looking at, phil, what can you tell us about it?

Okay, so the word implant, it's a verb and a noun, and in this headline, it's a noun referring to the device that was physically put inside someone's brain.

That machine is the implant. Now, implants aren't particularly new, although this one is, but there are lots of different kinds of implants, aren't there?

Yes, you can have implants that keep your heart beating.

Implants can help people here again.

And you can use implants to replace joints, things like knees or hips.

Okay, that's the noun. What about the verb?

Does it just mean to put an implant into someone's body, or can it mean anything else?

Well, literally, that's what it means.

Here you can see the prefix in which means to put in or to go in um But as well as being able to physically implant something into someone's brain, we can also implant things into their minds.

OK? So you could put an idea or a feeling into someone's mind, you could implant it, yes?

And if an idea or thought becomes implanted in your mind, then you accept it, or you believe it very strongly.

Okay, so we should try and implant this word into your vocabulary.

Let's look at that again. Let's have our next headline.

This is from the register Elon musk's brain computer interface outfit, newerlink, test its tech on a human.

Now, this is about Elon Musks company, near a link, and then new technology.

We're looking at the word interface, which can be a noun and a verb.

It's a noun in the headline.

Now, interface, I know that it means two systems coming together, but what does it mean in this headline?

Okay, well, the implant in this story is a brain computer interface, and it's the device that lets someone's brain communicate with and work with a computer.

But an interface can be a lot simpler than that.

The interface on the software on your computer is just what you can see and what you can click on.

Okay? But it's not just computer systems.

It can be much more than that.

So here in the story, the interface is between technology and biology, and how they link together.

Yeah, it's not just gadgets. Ideas and concepts can have an interface between them.

OK, let's look at that again.

Next headline, please. This is from male online rage against the machine.

Americans warn Elon Must to stop creating sidewalks after he revealed the 1st human has had newerling's brain chip.

This headline is about people being worried by these brain implants.

We're looking at the word cyberg.

This

sounds like something from science fiction.

That is where it comes from.

But like the word robot, it's also used to

describe things that actually exist. Now, originally, a cyberg was something that is part human and part machine.

Okay, I know about robots. They actually exist.

I have a robot, hoover, but cybergs, do they actually exist?

They sound quite futuristic. Okay? Well, in news articles and headlines, the word cyberg is more likely to be used as a comparison to describe things that are similar to cybers from science fiction.

So you might read about so called cyber insects or bacteria.

OK, let's look at that again.

We've had implants, something placed inside the body interface, a connection between two systems, and cyberg, part human, part machine.

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