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A new study in Austria has found that 41 per cent of young Muslims agree with the statement that their religious beliefs supersede the country's laws. 

Hannah Waddingham has revealed she is in her first relationship in eight years.

Researchers at Columbia demonstrated the first real-time brain-controlled hearing system that can identify which speaker a listener is focusing on in a noisy environment and automatically amplify that voice while suppressing others. "This breakthrough addresses the 'cocktail party effect,' a major limitation of conventional hearing aids, which often struggle to distinguish between overlapping conversations in noisy settings," reports Neuroscience News. From the report: In the new study, Columbia researchers teamed up with surgeons and their epilepsy patients who were undergoing brain surgery to better pinpoint the sources of their seizures. The hospital patients, who volunteered to be part of this study, already had electrodes implanted in their brains. [senior author Nima Mesgarani's] system used the electrodes to measure the brain activity of the patients as they focused on one of two overlapping conversations played simultaneously. The system then automatically detected which conversation a patient was paying attention to and adjusted the volume in real time, turning up that conversation while quieting the other. For one volunteer, the experience of controlling the system with her brain was literally unbelievable. She accused the researchers of secretly adjusting the volumes. Others told stories about friends and family with hearing impairments who could benefit from such a technology. One person said: "It seems like science fiction." [...] The scientists developed real-time machine-learning algorithms that could examine the brainwaves and identify which conversation the patients were paying attention to. Once deployed, their system could rapidly deduce which conversation each listener was paying attention to and make it easier for them to hear it. This happened both when the researchers guided the subjects toward a particular conversation, and when the subjects chose freely, as would be necessary in a real-world conversation. "For this to work in real time, the system has to be very fast, accurate and stable for the experience to feel pleasant for the listener," Dr. Mesgarani said. The scientists found their new system correctly identified which conversation the volunteers paid attention to. This dramatically improved the intelligibility of the speech the volunteers focused on, reduced listening effort, and was consistently preferred by the volunteers when compared to conversations the system did not provide assistance with. One volunteer recalled her uncle, who had hearing problems. "Can you imagine if this technology existed in a world [where] ... he could access it? He might actually live a much more peaceful... life." The research has been published in Nature Neuroscience.

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As the saucy and ambitious Sarah Stratton in the hit Disney+ series, the actress, 36, sports voluminous blonde curls to match the show's glamorous aesthetic.

Your latest selfie could be giving hackers everything they need to crack your accounts, experts have warned.

Volume and sensitivity of the data cited as chief concerns

Cara Delevingne has launched a music career and has announced her debut double singles, 'I Forgot' and 'Out of My Head'.

Eric Clapton cut his recent Madrid concert short after being hit by a flying object.

Tara Thompson's boob job was the beginning of a five-year ordeal that would leave her disfigured, in constant pain and desperately regretting her decision to ever go under the knife.

Police are asking for the public to share any information they may have

The NHS' quality of care is under fresh scrutiny, after more than 134,000 written complaints about GPs were made last year, with communication issues, and staff attitudes driving the deluge.

Last week I read a headline that nearly made me choke on my fish-oil pill.

A four-day working week could be the best thing for your waistline and your stress levels, significantly reducing the burden of disease, experts say.

Mum of five, Amanda Marshall, had toddler twins, so dismissed her hair-thinning as a lingering post-partum problem.

I'm 52 and I was recently diagnosed with fibromyalgia. I'm tired, with muscle pains. What can I do to ease the symptoms?

Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May

Ask most people how they stay healthy and the answer will probably involve a daily walk.

The UK's borrowing costs surged higher with traders taking fright at the prospect of a lurch to the Left, heaping pressure on the public finances.

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