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AI helped a musician with Parkinson’s finish his new album when he could no longer play guitar
LONDON (AP) — Samuel Smith spent years writing songs with a guitar in his hands.
Now, the London-based singer-songwriter is using artificial intelligence tools to help him continue making Americana music after Parkinson's disease largely took away his ability to play guitar.
Smith, who was diagnosed with the progressiv ... (full story)
From her bookstore in Nashville, Ann Patchett drives the literary conversation
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — When she isn't working on a novel, Ann Patchett is often thinking of what she can do for others: maybe coming up with a blurb for Douglas Stuart, or recording a video birthday message for fellow author-bookseller Emma Straub, or beginning an interview with a plug for another admired peer.
“The ... (full story)
A robot is helping an ailing couple stay in their home. Are more to come for an aging population?
DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — After outliving Booker T. Bones, their second service dog, Brenda and Brian Marquis still needed help with some of the more difficult parts of daily life.
They found Robbie, a robot that rolls out of a hallway into their living room several times a day.
“Do you want to exercise now? Please ans ... (full story)
Experimental pill promises new hope for deadly pancreatic cancer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, researchers reported May 31, raising hopes of long-needed better treatments for one of the deadliest types of cancer.
“While not curing the cancer, it is a very large step forward,” said Dr. Zev Wainberg, of the University ... (full story)
Takeaways from inside a teen treatment center for adoptees, funded by taxpayers: runaways, assaults
LAKE OZARK, Mo. (AP) — An Associated Press investigation finds that private, for-profit residential treatment centers that care for adopted kids at exceptionally high rates are often funded by taxpayer dollars, but are subject to little oversight and few consequences after allegations of abuse and neglect.
The investigatio ... (full story)