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FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·February 26, 2020·3 min readNew study allows brain and artificial neurons to link up over the webResearchers have created a hybrid neural network where biological and artificial neurons in different parts of the world were able to communicate via the internet through a hub of memristive synapses.Read More
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