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Biohacking has gone mainstream: What began with fitness trackers and sleep apps now includes hardware implants, with 67% of Americans in a recent survey identifying… ...

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I can think of nothing I would hate more than for someone to go rummaging through my PC once I've popped my clogs. Not that there's anything particularly incriminating lurking within years of ...

Eddy Keming Chen is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA. Mikhail Belkin is a professor of artificial intelligence, data science, ...