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Back at Meta Connect, Meta teased that its AI glasses would soon support a conversation boosting feature to help folks hear better in noisy environments. That feature is rolling out starting today for Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta HSTN glasses owners who’ve opted into the company’s Early Access Program. The …

[ When laboratory mice suffer brain damage, e.g., from an injection, research group leader Jan Deussing has observed that a certain type of cell always appears and is activated in the immediate vicinity of the injury site. However, the experienced neurobiologist was unable to explain what kind of cells these …

The European Union has watered down its plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2035. Current rules state that new vehicles sold from that date should be “zero emission”, but carmakers, particularly in Germany, have lobbied heavily for concessions. Under the European Commission’s new plan, …

[ COVID rarely rates a mention in the news these days, yet it hasn’t gone away. Source link

[ The association between falls and visual function is shaped by living in homes with environmental hazards, according to a study published online Dec. 11 in JAMA Ophthalmology. Shu Xu, Ph.D., from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and colleagues used data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study …

Getty Images Rodrigo Muniz said he was “disgusted and offended” by the messages A man has pleaded guilty to sending abusive direct online messages to a Premier League footballer, including a monkey emoji and wishing death on the player’s family. Harry Brown, 25, of Maple Street in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, targeted …

Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin has hit out at “extremely disappointing, selective and inaccurate” commentary over a review into the handling of the presidential election by his party, Fianna Fail. Martin is coming under increasing pressure from party backbenchers to publish the party’s review into the Irish presidential election. …

Analysis – Gareth Rhys Owen, Scrum V commentator There is nothing new about elite Welsh players leaving at the peak of their powers. Jonathan Davies was 25 when he moved to Clermont, James Hook the same age when he joined Perpignan and Dan Lydiate 25 when he left for Racing. …

Scotstown goalkeeper Rory Beggan said “you can’t pay a man enough” to match the feeling of ending his club’s Ulster championship drought. Beggan, who won inter-county provincial titles with Monaghan in 2013 and 2015, kicked 11 points at the Athletic Grounds on Saturday as his side outlasted Kilcoo in an …

By 2010, the iPhone era was in full swing. Smartphones were still a new and unfinished idea — the iPhone had only just gotten copy and paste! — but it was clear that these big slabs of glass were going to change the way we did pretty much everything. Apple …

A 27-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman have been extradited to Northern Ireland from Malta to stand trial on a number of offences. They were arrested in Malta in September and arrived in Northern Ireland on Saturday. The man is charged with offences including rape, while the woman is charged …

[ In the last few years, progress has been made in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease with a class of therapies called anti-amyloid antibodies (anti-Aβ). These monoclonal anti-Aβs are proteins made in a laboratory to stimulate the immune system to slow the progression of the disease by targeting amyloid plaques …

Nationwide has been fined £44m for not having the right processes in place for detecting financial crime between 2016 and 2021. The building society had “ineffective systems” for assessing risk and monitoring the transactions of its customers, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said. In one instance it failed to spot …

[ Authors in biomedical journals frequently describe cited evidence as “recent,” yet the actual age of the references behind these phrases has rarely been measured. Source link

Major reforms to the justice system, including the abolition of the not proven verdict, will come into force on 1 January. Justice Secretary Angela Constance has laid regulations to bring the new law into effect from New Year’s Day. From that date the threshold for a guilty verdict in jury …

Polish authorities have arrested a prominent Russian academic from St Petersburg’s world-famous Hermitage Museum who is sought by Ukraine for allegedly conducting illegal excavations and partially destroying the ancient city of Myrmekion in Crimea. The suspect, identified under Polish law as Aleksandr B, is the head of the Ancient Archaeology …

Avon and Somerset Police Police want to speak to these four men after more than 600 artefacts were stolen More than 600 artefacts “of significant cultural value” have been stolen from Bristol Museum’s archive in a “high-value” raid, police say. Four men gained entry to a building in the Cumberland …

[ Reduced coronary blood flow, measured with an artificial intelligence-based imaging tool, predicted future cardiovascular events in patients with suspected stable coronary artery disease. These findings were presented at EACVI 2025, the congress of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI). Source link

More people in Northern Ireland are treated in hospital corridors compared to elsewhere in the UK, according to a new report by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. The report carried out by The Trainee Emergency Medicine Research Network (TERN) is a snapshot of five days in March in emergency …

I’m convinced that whoever said it’s about the journey, not the destination, has never traveled. Try sitting on a plane for 16 hours — plus delays, airport security, and a snoring seat neighbor — and then get back to me. While getting from point A to point B can feel …