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Protests pick up steam ahead of Sunday's Grand Prix race in Bahrain

Last year's race in Bahrain was canceled twice because of the unrest, but the sport's governing body said Friday the race would go ahead as planned, despite tension on the country's streets.

(CNN) Manama - Bahrain says a car carrying members of team Force India was not the intended target of a petrol bomb thrown by protesters, a claim that comes as the opposition accuses the Gulf kingdom of cracking down on demonstrations in the run up to the Bahrain Grand Prix.

The claim by the government comes amid mounting fears that civil unrest in the Gulf kingdom could upend Sunday's race and pose a threat to Formula One teams and fans.

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Biohack Your Brain? New Neurotechnology Products Raise Serious Privacy Questions

A new flood of consumer-facing neuroscience-driven products, including those using electroencephalograms (EEGs) raise complicated questions about data privacy and beyond.

Photo of a woman wearing an augmented reality visor.

A woman wearing an augmented reality visor.

*Michael Nolan

The past few decades of neuroscience research have produced a wide array of technologies capable of measuring human brain activity. Functional magnetic resonance imaging, implanted electrode systems, and electroencephalograms, or EEGs, among other techniques, have helped researchers better understand how our brains respond to and control our bodies’ interactions with the world around us.

Now some of these technologies — most notably, EEG — have broken out of the lab and into the consumer market. The earliest of these consumer-facing neurotechnology devices, relatively simple systems that measured electrical signals conducted across the skull and scalp, were marketed mostly as focus trainers or meditation aids to so-called “biohackers” seeking to better themselves through technology.

However, tech industry giants have lately taken notice, and they are exploring inventive new ways to make use of the inner electrical conversations in our brains.

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