Is there some reason the write-up didn't include a link to the store?

Don't stoop to their level. Do better.

with disturbing implications. For one, a shelf life of "up to" six months, is that at idle, or under full load?
Is there any sentience going on?
Is this a really elaborate April Fools joke?
How fast are these wetware chips? Are we talking sub-Ghz speed or what?
Is each neuron equal to a CPU core?
What is the purpose/function of this device?

The list goes on, but I am reminded of a line, "I have no mouth and I must scream."

Congratulations, you feckless imbeciles. You've "innovated" general software package management a mere three $(GOD)-damned decades after Redhat and Debian did it.

While you're at it, why don't you "invent" a tiling window manager that can be driven entirely from the keyboard... Oh, wait...

Honestly... Why is anyone still voluntarily giving money to these chowderheads?

Wish I had mod points, this needs more visibility.

This assumes only one Chinese firm has been doing this, and said Chinese firm knows they are the only one doing this, then yes, the jig is up.
But if it's multiple firms doing this, and they don't talk to each other about doing this, then there is still a bit of question in the air.

I must have missed something, when did Tom's Hardware go to hell?

Amusingly, "vaccines cause autism!" crowd are always saying "back in MY day, we didn't see anyone with autism" (look at what RFK jr is saying as an example) but every was vacc'd.

So...which is it, they cause it but you never saw anyone with autism, or they don't cause it and you are just spouting harmful nonsense to support some weird ideology?

I learned a thing today (on Slashdot, no less!). Thank you very kindly.

Perhaps I'm ignorant of the underlying biology involved, but is anyone besides me having difficulty seeing how "antibodies" can be effective against hemotoxins or neurotoxins?

Sixty billion dollars?

Is there any breakdown of this figure? Even if you paid up front for 100,000 headsets, you might only get to $0.1 billion. Where did all the money go? How many prototypes did they make? Were the optics made out of DeBeers diamonds? Did they use AWS or something?

True....IF you know they exist...

what percentage of MS employees are listed as "under performing" and are they (MS) prepared to pay if all of them leave?

Indeed, when the first SSDs appeared, I cynically observed at the time that the only reason they existed was to make Micros~1's shitty filesystem seem faster than it was. Thus, it was no surprise when Micros~1 started heavily promoting them -- especially those weird "hybrid" drives that bolted an SSD on the side of a traditional hard drive to use as an extended cache.