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An AI tool that creates digital twins of patients can predict our future health, according to a new study. Named Foresight, the tool uses generative pre-trained transformers, the same family of large language models (LLMs) used by ChatGPT.  Researchers in the UK first trained the models on medical records. Next, they fed their tool fresh healthcare data to produce virtual duplicates of patients. Finally, the digital twins forecast various outcomes, from disease development to medication…

Trigger warning: infant death, fatal road accidentTwo children riding in an Amish buggy have been killed in a fatal crash. Identical twin sisters from Minnesota, USA, are now facing various charges, including vehicular homicide, after allegedly swapping places in the vehicle. As one twin is currently being accused of driving under the influence while the other has been attempting to take the blame, the case has been getting increasingly complex.Authorities reportedly said the crash killed 7-year-old Wilma Miller and…

Music legend Jennifer Lopez treated her twins Max and Emme with a special holiday in Japan to celebrate their birthdays. JLo’s kids, from her marriage to singer Marc Anthony, recently celebrated their 16th birthday. She celebrated by whisking them off on a trip to Tokyo which she documented on Instagram, reports ‘Female First UK’. Jennifer (54) shared a video which she captioned: "Birthday trip 2024" showing them at the airport and then taking in the sights of Tokyo. As per ‘Female First…

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have donated $4.9 million to the political action committee Fairshake, according to new filings with the U.S. Federal Election Committee. It’s just the latest windfall for Fairshake, which is spending millions to run attack ads against Katie Porter, a Democrat who’s running for Dianne Feinstein’s old U.S. Senate seat in California.What Drew Noomi Rapace to Constellation?The new donation from the Winklevoss twins, first reported by Crypto Telegraph Wednesday, comes after huge players in the…

American actor Hilary Swank discussed about the challenges and rewards of being a mother of twins. Swank and her husband Philip Schneider gave birth to twins, Aya and Ohm, in April 2023. The 49-year-old Oscar-winning actor spoke to People at the premiere of her new film `Ordinary Angels` on Monday at the SVA Theatre in New York. "I think that being a mother of twins, I never have had a singleton, so I don`t know what that`s like," she explained. "But I know that the sleepless nights are hard and when you have one that…

Credit: Pixabay from Pexels "Should my twins be in the same class at school?" As a clinical psychologist specializing in twins, this is one of the most frequent questions parents ask me. Many schools continue to separate twins due to a deep-seated belief it is better for the development of separate identities. Both research evidence and clinical…

The other day, browsing at a buy-by-the-kilo book exhibition, I stumbled across a few copies of Bobbsey Twins books. The hardcover novels, with old-style images of children rendered on the covers, took me back to my school library in Jalandhar where, decades ago, I issued and read many adventures of the two sets of fraternal twins. For children from a range of cultures, the Bobbsey Twins series played into the fantasy of the perfect family doing fun things together seemingly unhindered by economic hardship,…

Europe is electrifying — literally. From EVs to heat pumps, more and more of our critical technologies need to get plugged in. This is a positive step toward net zero, but it is also putting a massive strain on the electricity grid.  Grid congestion is like rush hour traffic on a busy highway — excessive demand for electricity creates bottlenecks and slows the flow of energy.This can cause power outages, voltage fluctuations, and equipment damage. It’s such a big problem that some companies…

Identical twins are always a source of fascination, and Jacqueline Roy’s novel charts the lives of a pair, Selina and Zora, who seem even closer than most. “We were joined at the hip – that’s not a metaphor,” insists Zora, in a striking first line; she claims to remember the operation that severed their tiny, conjoined bodies as babies. But separating herself emotionally from her sister in adulthood will prove more difficult.Zora and Selina are born to a white mother and Black father in south London. We get two accounts…

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviewsSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Netflix has an impressive 2024 lined up, with a bursting list of new titles set to be added in January.Overt the next four weeks, the streaming service will be introducing a large number of new movies and TV shows to its library, ranging from returning shows to classic films.These releases include a meat-eating vs vegan documentary based on a study of identical twins, new Harlan Coben series…