England Fast-Tracks Vaccination Efforts in Response to Emergent BA.2.86 COVID Variant

England is set to accelerate its autumn flu and COVID-19 vaccination campaigns following the discovery of the highly mutated COVID variant BA.2.86 within its borders. As a proactive measure, health authorities have decided to advance the commencement of vaccination efforts to bolster immunity against this new variant, which is reportedly an offshoot of the Omicron…

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Breakthrough Brain-Computer Interface Empowers Paralyzed Woman to Speak Through Digital Avatar

In a groundbreaking achievement, scientists from UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley have unveiled a remarkable brain-computer interface (BCI) that has enabled a woman suffering from severe paralysis due to a brainstem stroke to communicate through a digital avatar. This pioneering technology represents the first instance of synthesizing speech and facial expressions directly from brain…

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