Elon Musk struck a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Although a somewhat unconventional character, sleeping at the Tesla headquarters and eschewing wealthy materialism, make no mistake that Musk’s successful track record in business shows how significant Twitter may become under his leadership. While no one knows for sure what will be, Casey Ross – Social Media Strategy Director at FCB Health New York – looks at some of the issues Musk has publicly called out, and their potential implications for advertisers.

Scientists from the University of California, San Francisco have developed a tool that would give paralyzed persons who are unable to speak the ability to communicate through text that appears on a screen.

Researchers with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) developed a “neural decoder” that translates brain activity to synthesize audible speech, which was published in the journal Nature.