Neuroscience This article is more than 4 months oldParalysed woman able to ‘speak’ through digital avatar in world firstThis article is more than 4 months oldLatest technology uses tiny electrodes on brain surface and is faster than synthesisers which rely on eye tracking
A severely paralysed woman has been able to speak through an avatar using technology that translated her brain signals into speech and facial expressions.
The advance raises hopes that brain-computer-interfaces (BCIs) could be on the brink of transforming the lives of people who have lost the ability to speak due to conditions such as strokes and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Elon Musk This article is more than 1 year oldTeen monitoring Elon Musk’s jet ‘tracking Gates, Bezos and Drake too’This article is more than 1 year oldJack Sweeney, who wants Tesla CEO to hand over $50k to remove flight tracker bot, sets sights on other celebrities
The Florida teenager demanding Elon Musk hand over $50,000 to stop him tweeting the location of the billionaire’s private jet has said he is creating dozens more accounts tracking the movements of other rich and famous people.
The ObserverPablo PicassoInterviewTony Penrose: 'With Picasso, the rule book was torn up'Kate KellawayAs the son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, Tony Penrose grew up surrounded by famous artists. Here, he talks about the day he bit Picasso during a game – and how he was bitten backFarley Farm House in Sussex has an 18th-century, self-effacing, red-brick facade – it is in no hurry to give its extraordinary history away. I arrive early and tiptoe around the side, hoping to spy unobserved.
Religion This article is more than 6 years oldWhy Wednesday? The days of the week have a convoluted religious heritageThis article is more than 6 years oldMargaret Clunies Ross for the ConversationThe Romans may have got the ball rolling with a seven-day week adopted by the early church, but weekday names in English owe as much to Anglo-Saxon gods
The origins of our days of the week lie with the Romans.
Exploitation in focusEmployment This article is more than 4 years oldWorkers making £88 Lululemon leggings claim they are beatenThis article is more than 4 years oldExclusive: Upmarket brand that recently launched partnership with UN Foundation opens investigation as women in Bangladesh factory say they suffer regular abuse
Lululemon, an athleisure brand whose £88 leggings are worn by celebrities and Instagram influencers, are sourcing clothing from a factory where Bangladeshi female factory workers claim they are beaten and physically assaulted.
South AfricaObituaryEvelyn RakeepileApolitical wife who suffered for Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela shared with his first wife, Evelyn, a passionate commitment to a cause. Unfortunately, it was not the same cause. Evelyn, who has died aged 82, was a Jehovah's Witness with no interest in politics.
As Mandela wrote in his autobiography, Long Walk To Freedom: "When I would tell her that I was serving the nation, she would reply that serving God was above serving the nation.
From Fleabag to Forced Entertainment, with Shakespearean puppet shows, a dance marathon and a love letter to Dolly Parton, here’s a look at some of this year’s highlights Published: 7 Jun 2017 ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaKuklrSme86nq6unlaeyr7CMoKaenA%3D%3D
FamilyTen years after the death of the Clash frontman, his daughters Jazz and Lola remember his freewheeling home lifeTen years ago, the angry young man of punk and legendary frontman of the Clash, Joe Strummer, died suddenly from an undiagnosed heart defect. Instead of celebrating what would have been his 60th birthday next month, his two daughters Jazz and Lola, will be marking his life and legacy along with 5,000 others in a field in Somerset at a one-off music festival they have helped to create, called Strummer of Love.
Film blogMoviesRenoir to Curzon Bloomsbury: a rebranding too farIt would be an exaggeration to say that a part of me died when I heard that London's lovely Renoir cinema is soon to be known as the Curzon Bloomsbury, but it certainly made me wince. This is one of the capital's smartest venues: a plush two-screener run by the Artificial Eye group and specialising in foreign-language releases.
It opened as the Renoir in 1986, though it had been operational as a cinema, under various names, since its launch as the Bloomsbury Cinema in 1972.
RapInterviewRick Ross: 24 hrs with The MastermindLanre BakareWe gatecrash the Tonight Show, smoke cigars with the Maybach Music maven and talk Illuminati conspiracy theories, dealing with the paparazzi and feuding with John McEnroeBackstage on the sixth floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza there's a palpable tension. At the celebrated home of NBC's Tonight Show, interns scuttle about and wardrobe assistants hastily rearrange clothes racks. Just five days ago, Jimmy Fallon and his team took over from long-time host Jay Leno, while former Saturday Night Live man Seth Meyers is settling into Fallon's old seat across the corridor on Late Night.