An algorithm interprets the brain’s instructions to the phantom

IN POP CULTURE, cyborgs can fly, throw cars, and blow up buildings. Nobody did any of those things at the world’s first-ever cyborg Olympics—the Cybathlon in Zurich, Switzerland, held earlier this month—but the action was just as miraculous for a different reason. Using the latest bionic technology, disabled competitors paired up with prosthetics developers to accomplish tasks ranging from bread slicing to bike racing. Of the 59 teams, these three triumphed and scored top marks.

Disabled people deserve to know, from our school days, that we’re not just cases, diagnoses, or “not really disabled”; we’re part of a community with its own histories and triumphs. By ‘Carrie.’

While evidence of abuse of the disabled has piled up for decades, one for-profit company has used its deep pockets and influence to bully weak regulators and evade accountability