Russ Finney
@rfinney
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Assistant Professor @UTexasMcCombs focused on MIS Technology & Business @UTAustin, Director Undergraduate @UT_IMProgram, Partner & Advisor @itmWEB #AI #Robots
Austin, Texas
Joined May 2007
Incredible technology - life changing future for our most disabled...
Neuralink will start high-volume production of brain-computer interface devices and move to a streamlined, almost entirely automated surgical procedure in 2026. Device threads will go through the dura, without the need to remove it. This is a big deal.
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I ordered a #ReachyMini from @pollenrobotics last week, and went ahead and installed the downloadable control software (with a simulator) on my classroom laptop. Very curious to see how many creative ways I can put this open source #robot to use during my technology lectures at
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Great #meteor video!
Bright fireball next to Mount Fuji The fireball was seen at 23:08:21 on December 26, 2025 Credit: 藤井大地
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LOL - Classic!
Recently discovered rare footage of Willie Nelson and Keith Richards helping build the pyramids in Egypt.
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Lots going on in #ATX these days...
🚨🇺🇸 TESLA CONFIRMS 200 MW DATACENTER AT GIGA TEXAS - ENTIRE FACILITY TRAINS OPTIMUS ROBOTS Fire alarm permit confirms Tesla's Cortex 2.0 datacenter pulls 200 megawatts. That's enough power to run a small city. Instead it's training humanoid robots. Construction's happening now
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SpaceX just completed its 550th booster landing Falcon booster B1093 stuck a perfect touchdown on OCISLY after its 9th flight, delivering more Starlink satellites from Vandenberg From the first landing in 2015 to 550 today
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Getting closer and closer...
🚨: France just beat the world record for nuclear fusion! They ran for 22 minutes! It maintained astonishing 90 million degrees Fahrenheit (50 million °C) for 1,337 seconds—more than 22 minutes.
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Completely automated McDonalds
McDonald’s has officially unveiled a world first automated restaurant chain in Texas, which does not involve any human staff working at all, giving customers a glance at the future of fast food. Food preparation, serving and payment are all done by artificial intelligence robot,
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That could have landed as a #meteorite
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These AI-generated videos are just next level.
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This was AI in 1989. A tiny neural network… reading handwritten digits like it was performing a magic trick. LeNet did not paint portraits. It did not write poetry. It just recognized numbers. But that simple trick quietly rewired the future. Inside Bell Labs, Yann LeCun and a
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Neuralink is working on tech to • Give sight to people born blind. • Restore hearing for the deaf. • Help those with spine injuries walk again • Let paralyzed people control devices with thoughts. • Help amputees use advanced robotic limbs. Here is how the implant is done:
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Worthwhile watch - one of my favorite SciFi authors...
Arthur C. Clarke on BBC's Horizon in 1964, when he gave some astonishing predictions about the future. https://t.co/oe7XpUkSoT
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Practical ideas
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters target Zendesk users with fake domains https://t.co/cKeQhrElMu
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Big milestone...
Voyager 1 Is About to Reach One Light-day from Earth After nearly 50 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 1 is about to hit a historic milestone. By November 15, 2026, it will be 16.1 billion miles (25.9 billion km) away, meaning a radio signal will take a full 24 hours, a full
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There are now 12 people around the world with Neuralink implants. Collectively, they’ve had their devices for 2,000 days and accumulated over 15,000 hours of use. We look forward to continuing to explore the possibilities of neural interfaces with all of our participants!
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This is only the beginning...
People ask me this all the time, so here’s the quick version of how my Neuralink implant works.
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That's impressive
NEWS: The largest @Tesla Supercharger in the world is now fully open in Lost Hills, California. • 164 total charging stalls • 12 pull-through stalls for ppl towing • 11 MW of ground mount solar & canopies, on 30 acres of land • 10 Tesla Megapacks with 39 MWh of storage
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Kinda wish I hadn't watched this...
Cockpit view of a Boeing 737 pilot landing with zero visibility! 📹: flying_yoke
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This looks seriously promising #AcademicTwitter
Google's vision of AI Tutors is amazing. This is Project Astra which is now productized inside Gemini:
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