- Kernel’s new “Flux” OP-MEG (optically pumped magnetometer MEG) system uses 720-channel alkali-vapor sensors and advanced DSP to perform magnetoencephalography without an expensive magnetically shielded room, replacing traditional cryogenic SQUID arrays.  
- The same Kernel platform combines OP-MEG with time-domain near-infrared spectroscopy (TD-NIRS) to give simultaneous hemodynamic and electromagnetic brain data in a single headset.  
- Participants debated whether high channel-count noise-rejection algorithms have truly obsoleted lock-in amplifiers and passive shielding for low-field neural recording.  
- Solid Project (https://solidproject.org/) was introduced as a privacy-centric identity layer that lets users log in to sites with a chosen “Solid pod” instead of Facebook/Google, prompting skepticism about how it differs from earlier OAuth/OpenID efforts.  
- A preprint titled “The Mechanical Basis of Memory – the MeshCODE Theory” (https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202005.0118/v1) was shared; it proposes that conformational switching of cytoskeletal proteins encodes synaptic information.  
- Discussion followed on talin as a mechanosensitive signaling hub: force-dependent unfolding of its α-helical rod domains alters binding affinities and could provide a physical substrate for memory storage (supporting papers: PMC7007008, PMC6219721).