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The first human patient implanted with a brain-chip from Neuralink appears to have fully recovered and is able to control a computer mouse using their thoughts, the startup’s founder Elon Musk said late on Monday. “Progress is good, and the patient seems to have made a full recovery, with no ill effects that we are aware of. Patient is able to move a mouse around the screen by just thinking,” Musk said in a Spaces event on social media platform X. Musk said Neuralink was now trying to get as many mouse button clicks as possible from the patient. Neuralink…

Over the past few days the 2024 InClassica International Music Festival, organised by SAMIT Event Group, has been lighting up the stage of Dubai Opera with a series of classical music concerts headlined by some of the biggest stars of our time. This trend continued on Wednesday, February 7, as Canadian violinist James Ehnes, a two-time Grammy Award Winner, Gramophone Award and JUNO Award recipient, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Member of the Order of Canada, and awardee of the 2017 Royal Philharmonic Society Award, arrived in Dubai to deliver a concert at the festival, accompanied by the…

“The Nothing Phone 2a targets people less concerned about the latest specs, and more about core functionalities matched with great performance and Nothing’s signature design both inside and out.” That’s how Carl Pei, CEO of Nothing, described the forthcoming Nothing Phone 2a in an exclusive Q&A with Digital Trends via email ahead of the phone’s launch. While he didn’t give everything away about the Nothing Phone 2a, there’s plenty here to leave us very excited about the brand’s next device. The first Nothing Phone powered by MediaTek Nothing provided Digital Trends with an exclusive image of the Nothing Phone 2a’s…

I am making my return to tournament golf this week on the Asian Tour in Oman at the $2 million International Series – Oman. It is my first competitive tournament in four months and my first in 2024. The off-season break always gives us time to reflect on the previous year and learn. We are all learning about the game and ourselves all the same time, even me as a 42-year-old ‘veteran’ who turned professional in 2004. I realized that I made a few mistakes last year when I tried to come back too soon after my injuries. I had…

Apple’s Live Photos feature is a great way to add some extra charm to your normal, everyday iPhone pictures. Enabled by default, Live Photos automatically records and integrates the 1.5-second interval before and after you hit the shutter button on your iOS device. The end result is a lightly animated image, which can easily be shared via iMessage or a Shared Photo Album with any friend of family member with an iPhone, iPad, or Mac. You’ll also be able to share a static version of any picture captured as a Live Photo. But if you’d like to enchant your Windows…

Hirotake Yano, the Japanese 100-yen shop pioneer and founder of the Daiso chain, has died, the company said. The billionaire “passed away due to heart failure at the age of 80 in Hiroshima” on February 12, Daiso said in a statement on Monday. After unsuccessful stints at his father-in-law’s fish business and peddling encyclopedias, Yano started selling goods from a street stall in 1972. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. Five years later, tired of having to put different prices on different items, Yano launched Daiso where all goods cost 100 yen ($0.67…

Major airlines across India have been directed to reduce their baggage delivery time by the The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS). On February 16, 2024, BCAS issued letters to seven prominent airlines, namely Air India, IndiGo, Akasa, SpiceJet, Vistara, Air India Express Connect and Air India Express, urging them to implement necessary measures to ensure the timely delivery of baggage. BCAS conducted an extensive survey across the nation’s six major airports, scrutinising the operations of seven airlines and analysing over 3,600 flight movements along with their baggage delivery processes. As per regulations, “airlines are required to ensure the delivery…

TV actor Rituraj Singh passed away last night in Mumbai at the age of 59, a close friend of the late actor Amit Behl confirmed to ANI. The TV actor was suffering from pancreatic disease and was hospitalised recently. He has passed after suffering a cardiac arrest. Actor Arshad Warsi took to X to pay tribute and wrote, “I am so saddened to know that Ritu Raj passed away. We lived in the same building, he was a part of my first film as a producer. Lost a friend and a great actor… will miss you brother…” Film director Vivek…

Robots Are Taking Over Record-Breaking – Guinness World Records Guinness World Records has knocked together a video featuring robots performing amazing feats. Titled “Robots are taking over record-breaking,” the video (top) shows a range of clever contraptions built by teams from around the world, though Japan, a nation with a long-held reputation for robotic technology, features in many of the clips. The video, posted on Monday, kicks off with the record for “most robots dancing simultaneously,” with more than 1,300 of them pulling a variety of moves in perfect sync with each other. It also includes footage of Toyota’s talented…

Israel’s assault in Gaza has killed more than 29,000 Palestinians since Oct. 7, the territory’s Health Ministry said Monday, marking another grim milestone in one of the deadliest and most destructive military bombardment in recent history. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue the offensive until “total victory” against Hamas after the militants’ Oct. 7 attack on Israeli communities. He and the military have said troops will move soon into the southernmost town of Rafah on the Egyptian border, where over half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have sought refuge from fighting elsewhere. The United States, Israel’s top…