We all know someone who shrugs off their hearing loss as just another inevitability of older age. But really, according to the latest research, alarm bells should be ringing. Astonishingly, hearing loss in mid-life raises the risk of dementia later on by up to 40 per cent, according to some studies. That makes it the … Read more
Coronavirus may cause hearing problems in one in eight patients, according to a study. Audiologists at the University of Manchester followed 121 adults who were admitted to Wythenshawe Hospital with coronavirus. When asked about changes to their hearing, 16 people said their hearing was worse eight weeks after being discharged. Eight reported worse hearing and … Read more
The chief executives of four of the world’s largest tech companies, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google, plan to argue in a congressional hearing on antitrust on Wednesday that they face intense competition from each other and from other rivals. The testimony from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Apple’s Tim Cook, … Read more
Britney Spears conservatorship hearing sabotaged by unwanted Zoom visitors who ignored judge’s order to leave the digital court conference A hearing this week was delayed after four people were able to illegally get into the court’s digital system Interlopers refused to get off the call in violation of the law A makeup hearing was set … Read more
Katie Price (pictured in February 2019) told a bankruptcy hearing she has ‘lost everything’ Katie Price told a bankruptcy hearing she has ‘lost everything’ as she spoke about being burgled and attending the Priory. The former glamour model, who was declared bankrupt in November last year, has had average recent monthly earnings of £45,000, a … Read more
The Queen was most amused after hearing about an RAF gunner’s unusual lockdown exercise regime during her second official virtual royal engagement via Zoom. Corporal Shanwayne Stephens, a member of the Jamaican bobsleigh team, told the Queen how he had resorted to pushing a car up and down the streets in an effort to keep … Read more
One in five people with NHS hearing aids do not wear them due to problems using them or lack of perceived benefit, study shows Researchers found 20 per cent of the partially deaf rarely use their hearing aids About 80 per cent of people with hearing aids in the UK get them from the NHS … Read more
Scientists have created a hearing aid which relies on the user’s own brain waves to tune into specific people and things, drowning out background noise. The device, developed at Columbia University in New York, uses speech-separation algorithms with neural networks, complex mathematical models that imitate the brain’s natural abilities. The system first separates out the … Read more
Children’s eyes twinkle as they impatiently wait their turn to climb onto Santa’s lap and tell him a precious secret: what they’d like for Christmas. But, for more than a decade, all one Utah Santa Claus was keeping a secret of his own. ‘Every kid wanted the same thing, and that was a mumble,’ Mark … Read more
Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli both pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud in a Zoom court hearing on Friday after accepting a ‘slap on the wrist’ deal that gives her just two months of jail and him five months in prison for bribing her daughters’ way into college. No … Read more