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Online “brain training” slows mental decline and helps older people to cope with everyday life, a study has found. People who regularly played reasoning and memory games retained their ability in tasks such as shopping, cooking and financial management, which might protect them against dementia, the research concluded. Anne Corbett, of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, said: “Our research adds to growing evidence that lifestyle interventions may provide a realistic opportunity to maintain cognitive function, and potentia
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Television viewers’ frustration with mumbling actors may be at an end. Just ask Siri for a translation. Apple has built its voice recognition system into its latest set-top box, meaning that viewers who are unable to make out a key line of dialogue will be able to ask Siri, “What did he say?” The Apple system will then jump back ten seconds and add subtitles, preventing the frustrations caused by the BBC production Jamaica Inn, which attracted more than 2,000 complaints about mumbled dialogue. The new set-top box, released this week at a cost of £129, has been hailed as
Hackers’ threat to post TalkTalk details
Hackers claiming to have access to the data of up to 1.2 million TalkTalk customers have threatened to dump the information online. One member of a loose collective of hackers with knowledge of the data breach that crippled one of Britain’s biggest telecommunications companies, issued a warning yesterday to “stay tuned” after bragging of having access. Cyberdefence experts claimed last night that the company may have enticed criminals to target it by revealing security weaknesses in a public tweet two months ago. Recorded Future, a cyberthreat intelligence company, told
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