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When Zac Eckworth's eye began 'wobbling', his parents never expected doctors to blame a brain tumour.Yet that is exactly what happened when he was just 14-months-old.Over a decade on, karate-loving Zac, now 11, is still fighting the…

A cochlear signal, the exact role of which has been unclear since its discovery around 70 years ago, probably gives the brain information on whether the ear is functioning normally or not. This is the conclusion of a study from Linköping…

International platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+ fare better on content accessibility. Image for representation purpose only. Despite the boom in Over-the-Top (OTT) streaming services in India — a report by Media…

Screen readers, braille displays, and other assistive technologies have become indispensable tools, allowing visually impaired individuals to access information, communicate, and navigate the digital world effortlesslyFrom screen readers…

In virtually all persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and in up to half of all cases of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia, a protein called TDP-43 is lost from its normal location in the nucleus of the cell.…

OpenAI, the company behind AI chatbot ChatGPT, has upgraded the technology that powers the bot. It has transitioned from the GPT-3.5 model to the GPT-4model and brought a range of improvements in the chatbot. These changes include the…

Last Updated: February 04, 2023, 08:30 ISTIIT Kanpur's latest innovation helps the blind and visually impaired people. IIT Kanpur's watch eliminates the fragility of the tactile watch and the complexity of vibration watches that generate…

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has announced partnership with Ambrane Indiafor mass manufacturing of "haptic smartwatch for the blind and visually impaired". The haptic smartwatch comes in two variants and has 12…

Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder are tapping into advances in artificial intelligence to develop a new kind of walking stick for people who are blind or visually impaired. Think of it as assistive technology meets Silicon…

Led by researchers from the University of California at Irvine, a new study reveals that a long-lived Chilean rodent, called Octodon degus (degu), is a useful and practical model of natural sporadic Alzheimer's Disease. The findings were…