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December 2, 2020

Flow 50 Phase 1 Partners

We recently announced the availability of our first 50 Kernel Flow devices, and the response and enthusiasm far exceeded our expectations. Since, we have committed 23 Flow systems to elite academic and industry groups whose research ideas are diverse, ambitious, and extraordinarily exciting.

November 19, 2020

Kernel Flow meets Virtual Reality

This week we ran our first sessions combining Kernel Flow and Virtual Reality (VR). The pairing of Kernel Flow—the world’s first full-head coverage TD-fNIRS system—and VR is of particular interest to us as we build a scalable software and hardware ecosystem for both organizations and individuals.

October 30, 2020

CNS Summit 2020 Keynote Conversation

Kernel Founder and CEO, Bryan Johnson, sits down with Amir Kalali for a Keynote Conversation as part of CNS Summit 2020

October 27, 2020

Kernel Flow 50 Live Stream Summary (tl;dw)

We recently announced that the first fifty Kernel Flow systems will become available for select partners starting in January 2021 (application). We live streamed a sixty minute event explaining the technology and hearing from experts. We also posted online the full tear down video. Here is the Flow 50 offering:

October 22, 2020

Flow 50 Live Stream

Watch as we reveal our 50 Flow systems

July 9, 2020

Kernel Raises $53M from General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Eldridge, Manta Ray, Tiny Blue Dot

First outside investment to accelerate on-demand access to world-leading, non-invasive brain recording technology

May 5, 2020

Kernel Sound ID decodes your brain activity and within seconds identifies what speech or song you are hearing.

At Kernel, our primary goal is to enable improved and accelerated insights into the human brain. The 20th century was the century of physics.

May 5, 2020

A Neuroscience Startup Uses Helmets to Measure Brain Activity

Backed by $54 million, Kernel aims to turn an esoteric science into big business.

May 4, 2020

I AM HUMAN

Kernel was featured in this 2020 award winning documentary.

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December 2, 2020

Flow 50 Phase 1 Partners

November 19, 2020

Kernel Flow meets Virtual Reality

October 27, 2020

Kernel Flow 50 Live Stream Summary (tl;dw)

July 9, 2020

Kernel Raises $53M from General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Eldridge, Manta Ray, Tiny Blue Dot

First outside investment to accelerate on-demand access to world-leading, non-invasive brain recording technology

May 5, 2020

Kernel Sound ID decodes your brain activity and within seconds identifies what speech or song you are hearing.

At Kernel, our primary goal is to enable improved and accelerated insights into the human brain. The 20th century was the century of physics.

May 5, 2020

A Neuroscience Startup Uses Helmets to Measure Brain Activity

Backed by $54 million, Kernel aims to turn an esoteric science into big business.

March 14, 2020

Covid-19 pandemic: An exercise of human adaptability

Covid-19 is like a surprise school exam, that your teacher told you would be coming. It was in the syllabus, the teacher reminded the class several times, and yet when it arrives, it’s abrupt chaos! It is tough being human.

February 26, 2019

The Future You That You Least Suspect

The other night my teenage boys asked me what was on my mind (likely looking for material to make fun of me. Just kidding, they’re thoughtful kids).

December 2, 2018

Rebooting the Brain

The single greatest thing we can do as species is to work on our adaptability, our ability to evolve and adapt to this change.

April 19, 2018

Changing Our Minds One Attebyte At a Time

Imagine a future where we can quantify, and understand, all of our brain’s activity.

January 4, 2018

How brains and machines can be made to work together

Brain-computer interfaces sound like the stuff of science fiction. Andrew Palmer sorts the reality from the hype

December 13, 2017

Do Humans Need an Upgrade Too?

As AI and robots rise up, do humans need an upgrade too?

November 16, 2017

Inside the Race to Hack the Human Brain

IN AN ORDINARY hospital room in Los Angeles, a young woman named Lauren Dickerson waits for her chance to make history. She’s 25 years old, a teacher’s assistant in a middle school, with warm eyes and computer cables emerging like futuristic dreadlocks from the bandages wrapped around her head.

October 13, 2016

The combination of human and artificial intelligence will define humanity’s future

Through the past few decades of summer blockbuster movies and Silicon Valley products, artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly familiar and sexy, and imbued with a perversely dystopian allure.

August 15, 2016

Putting a Computer in Your Brain is No Longer Science Fiction

Like many in Silicon Valley, technology entrepreneur Bryan Johnson sees a future in which intelligent machines can do things like drive cars on their own and anticipate our needs before we ask.

October 30, 2020

CNS Summit 2020 Keynote Conversation

Kernel Founder and CEO, Bryan Johnson, sits down with Amir Kalali for a Keynote Conversation as part of CNS Summit 2020

October 22, 2020

Flow 50 Live Stream

Watch as we reveal our 50 Flow systems

May 4, 2020

I AM HUMAN

Kernel was featured in this 2020 award winning documentary.

November 16, 2017

Rebooting the brain

Kernel CEO Bryan Johnson speaks about the promise of neuroscience.