Aggregator

The man has since been brought to safety

Dundrum House Hotel is a stunning 300-year-old country resort - but visitors today to the listed four star hotel or the £775-a-year club next door cannot miss that there's something unusual going on.

A tit-for-tat trade war with Europe, and Trump's anti-NATO stance on Ukraine, are placing the Italian prime minister in a difficult spot as the President's bridge to the EU.

King Charles has sent a message of condolence to the people of Myanmar following a deadly earthquake that has claimed more than 1,000 lives in the south-east Asian country.

Are you looking for a new show to watch? Well look no further because there six epic progammes have all have a rare full score on critic site Rotten Tomatoes.

Every year, thousands of hopeful entrepreneurs pitch their innovative business ideas to a panel of investors with the hopes of securing a lucrative deal.

The beloved ITV gameshow celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2024 after years of delighting fans. And now a contestant has lifted the lid on what it's really like to take on the Chasers.

The Prince and Princess of Wales have been spotted behind the wheels of several plush vehicles over the years - but they also favour models beloved by regular folk.

Publican's have opened up about Ireland's rural pubs staffing crisis- after a survey revealed more than a quarter of rural pubs are being staffed by as few as two people.

Country is big right now, but the Western genre is one that's been hit by plenty of scandal over the decades, with the dramas in the songs seemingly not that far from reality.

Stunning images were released during a media blitz showcasing the ambitious scheme to build over 300 new apartments on the edge of Liverpool city centre.

Anna, 49, suffers from an overactive bladder since having children and relies on the public toilets in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, while out and about.

Comic book artist Stewart Kenneth Moore, 56, who has dual UK-US nationality, was told he could not add his Catholic confirmation name to his British passport - despite having it for 35 years.

Motorists were urged to avoid the area

Police are searching for her

Executive headteacher Jonathan Harrison (pictured) and his wife, Lou, jetted off on holiday just hours after mums and dads received confirmation of the senior school's closure.

Three years ago today, the Royal Family - with the exception of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - came together to celebrate the life of the late Duke of Edinburgh as Coronavirus restrictions were lifted.

'You can imagine how bloody furious Tina was about that one, can't you?' one pal said of the warring pair. A friend added: 'Nobody knows where the feud will end.'

It may look pretty, but there's some very spooky tales about the area

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: The first clinical trial of a therapy bot that uses generative AI suggests it was as effective as human therapy for participants with depression, anxiety, or risk for developing eating disorders. Even so, it doesn't give a go-ahead to the dozens of companies hyping such technologies while operating in a regulatory gray area. A team led by psychiatric researchers and psychologists at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College built the tool, called Therabot, and the results were published on March 27 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Many tech companies are building AI therapy bots to address the mental health care gap, offering more frequent and affordable access than traditional therapy. However, challenges persist: poorly worded bot responses can cause harm, and forming meaningful therapeutic relationships is hard to replicate in software. While many bots rely on general internet data, researchers at Dartmouth developed "Therabot" using custom, evidence-based datasets. Here's what they found: To test the bot, the researchers ran an eight-week clinical trial with 210 participants who had symptoms of depression or generalized anxiety disorder or were at high risk for eating disorders. About half had access to Therabot, and a control group did not. Participants responded to prompts from the AI and initiated conversations, averaging about 10 messages per day. Participants with depression experienced a 51% reduction in symptoms, the best result in the study. Those with anxiety experienced a 31% reduction, and those at risk for eating disorders saw a 19% reduction in concerns about body image and weight. These measurements are based on self-reporting through surveys, a method that's not perfect but remains one of the best tools researchers have. These results ... are about what one finds in randomized control trials of psychotherapy with 16 hours of human-provided treatment, but the Therabot trial accomplished it in about half the time. "I've been working in digital therapeutics for a long time, and I've never seen levels of engagement that are prolonged and sustained at this level," says [Michael Heinz, a research psychiatrist at Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Health and first author of the study].

Read more of this story at Slashdot.