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Microsoft files patent application for using brainwaves to mine cryptocurrency
- eunos 5y agoWhen this technology scales some prison might embed the tech to its prisoners or worse a nation could declare a brainwave tax.
- TeaDude 5y agoI should have predicted this. I thought they were just going to brainwash us as usual. I don't know whether this is better or worse.
- antman 5y agoTotally unfair for the Windows UI redesign team.
- numair 5y agoIs Microsoft one of those companies that pays you a bonus if you file a successful patent? This invention doesn’t strike me as being particularly lucrative for them during the 18 years of patent ownership.
- latentpot 5y agoPrecursor to the Matrix?