China has made history by becoming the first nation to approve a commercially available brain chip to treat a disability. NEO, the implant developed by Neuracle Medical Technology, translates the thoughts of a person with paralysis into movements of an assistive robotic hand. After 18 months of testing that proved its safety, China’s National Medical…

As law enforcement agencies scramble to address threats of terrorism, child sexual abuse, and human trafficking—and repressive governments around the world look to broadly expand their surveillance capabilities—researchers fear that Meta’s retreat from its commitments to protect user privacy with end-to-end encryption on Instagram chat could create a problematic precedent in big tech. Meta spent…