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Roberta Wilson-Garrett looked at the glove keeping her right hand steady and smiled. At bay for the moment were tremors caused by Parkinson's disease affecting her muscle control. She could do things others take for granted, like write crisply with a pen or hold a cup of coffee without spilling. The reprieve shared by the Canadian woman at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024) in Las Vegas came thanks to a GyroGlove."It's a life changer for me," said Wilson-Garrett, describing how GyroGlove stopped tremors that make…

Marc Thorpe, the original creator of the famed remote-controlled bot battling competition Robot Wars and godfather of today’s bot deathmatch scene, died this past Friday, Nov. 24, at the age of 77 due to complications from his long fight against Parkinson’s disease. His death was officially confirmed by his daughter Megan Feffer and on Thorpe’s own website.Uh Oh, Amazon Bought Your Favorite Robot CompanyClose to three decades ago, there was the usual slate of TV violence, and then there was Robot Wars and its later…

In a few short months, the idea of convincing news articles written entirely by computers have evolved from perceived absurdity into a reality that’s already confusing some readers. Now, writers, editors, and policymakers are scrambling to develop standards to maintain trust in a world where AI-generated text will increasingly appear scattered in news feeds.Generating Video Via Text? | Future TechMajor tech publications like CNET have already been caught with their hand in the generative AI cookie jar and have had to…

Image: AMCBefore we get started, a warning. This episode is incredibly brutal for a few reasons, and I want to give y’all a heads up about what we’re going to be diving into today. Episode Five of Interview With The Vampire, titled “A Vile Hunger For Your Hammering Heart,”deals with rape, implied suicidal ideation, explicit domestic abuse, and includes an extended scene of extreme domestic violence.Already the fandom across social media is divided about this. For now, just be warned that there was a lot going on in the…

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The development of nightmares later in life could be an early sign of Parkinson's disease, according to new research in older men.Distressing dreams have long been associated with the neurological disease, especially among men, but this is the first study to investigate whether these symptoms are a warning of Parkinson's or a byproduct of the condition.  Tracking the health of 3,818 older men with typical brain functioning for 12 years, researchers found those who experienced frequent nightmares were twice as likely to…

Scientists have identified the specific brain cells that die in Parkinson's disease and discovered what makes them so vulnerable.Led by neurobiologists Tushar Kamath and Abdulraouf Abdulraouf of the Broad Institute, the team studied brain cells from individuals who had died from either Parkinson's disease or dementia, compared with people unaffected by either disorder.  What they found was a group of cells that were "highly susceptible" to degeneration, which could be prime candidates for therapeutic intervention. The…