Facebook acquires neural interface startup CTRL-Labs for its mind-reading wristband

Using CTRL-Labs’ wristband prototype required intense concentration, but not actual muscle movement. CEO Thomas Reardon, left, led development of the Internet Explorer browser before co-founding CTRL-Labs in 2015.| Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook today announced that it will acquire neural interface startup CTRL-Labs, a company that makes a wristband capable of transmitting electrical signals from the brain into computer input.The deal, which CNBC reports is worth aro