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brain chips let us control our

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phones with our minds? That's

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what Elon Musk hopes. This

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is News Review from BBC Learning

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English, where we help you understand

1:24

news headlines in English. I'm

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Beth. And I'm Phil. Make

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sure you watch to the end to

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learn the vocabulary that you need to

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talk about this story. And

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remember to subscribe to our channel to

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learn more English from the headlines. Now,

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today's story. A

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wireless chip has been successfully placed

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in a human brain by

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Elon Musk's Neuralink company. The

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device is able to read brain signals

1:53

linked to movement and send them to

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a computer. Musk said

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that future innovations may allow us to...

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control our phone or computer

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just by thinking. You've

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been looking at the headlines Phil.

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What's the vocabulary that people need

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to understand this news story? We

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have implant, interface

2:15

and cyborg. This

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is News Review from BBC Learning

2:20

English. Let's

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have a look at our first headline. This

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is from the BBC. Elon

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Musk announced his first Neuralink

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wireless brain implant. Now

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this headline is about the

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announcement from Elon Musk that

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his company has successfully put

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an implant into someone's brain.

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Implant is the word we're looking at. Phil, what

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can you tell us about it? Ok,

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so the word implant, it's a

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verb and a noun and in

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this headline it's a noun referring

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to the device that was physically

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put inside someone's brain. That

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machine is the implant. Now

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implants aren't particularly new, although

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this one is, but

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there are lots of different kinds of implants

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aren't there? Yes, you can have

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implants that keep your heart beating. Implants

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can help people hear again and you

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can use implants to replace joints, things like

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knees or hips. Ok, that's the

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noun. What about the verb? Does

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it just mean to put an implant

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into someone's body or can it mean

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anything else? Well literally that's

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what it means here. You

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can see the prefix Im which means to

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put in or to go in. But

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as well as being able to

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physically implant something into someone's brain,

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we can also implant things

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into their minds. Ok,

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so you could put an idea or

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a feeling into someone's mind.

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implant it. Yes, and if

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an idea or thought becomes implanted

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in your mind then you accept

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it or you believe it very

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strongly. Okay, so we should try

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and implant this word into your

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vocabulary. Let's look at that again. Let's

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have our next headline. This

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is from The Register. Elon

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Musk's brain-computer interface outfit

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Neuralink tested tech on

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a human. Now

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this is about Elon Musk's

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company Neuralink and their new

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technology. We're looking at the

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word interface which can be

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a noun and a verb.

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It's a noun in the

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headline. Now interface, I

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know that it means two systems

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coming together but what does

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it mean in this headline? Okay, well

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the implant in this story

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is a brain-computer interface and

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it's the device that lets someone's

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brain communicate with and

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work with a computer. But an

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interface can be a lot simpler

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than that. The interface on

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the software on your computer is just what

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you can see and what you can click

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on. Okay, but it's

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not just computer systems. It

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can be much more than that. So here in

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the story the interface is

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between technology and biology

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and how they link together.

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Yeah, it's not just gadgets. Ideas and

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concepts can have an interface between them.

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Next headline please. This is

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from MailOnline. Rage

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against the machine. Americans

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warn Elon Musk to stop creating

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cyborgs after he reveals the new

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technology. the first human has had

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Neuralink's brain chip. This

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headline is about people being

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worried by these brain implants.

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We're looking at the word cyborg.

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This sounds like something from science fiction.

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That is where it comes from. But

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like the word robot, it's

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also used to describe things that

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actually exist. Originally,

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a cyborg was something that is

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part human and part machine. I

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know about robots. They actually

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exist. I have a robot hoover.

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But cyborgs, do they actually exist?

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They sound quite futuristic. In

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news articles and headlines, the word

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cyborg is more likely to be

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used as a comparison to describe

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things that are similar to cyborgs

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from science fiction. You

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might read about so-called

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cyborg insects or bacteria.

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OK, let's look at that again. We've

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had implants, something placed

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inside the body. Interface,

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a connection between two systems. And

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cyborg, part human, part

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machine. More news

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review on our website and learn how

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to talk about world events in English.

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Thanks for joining us. Bye. Bye.

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See you next time.