Smarter rehab

Anna Khan woke up in February 2016 adamant that it was still 2015, but the date was correct - she had ‘lost’ almost two months of her life. The Sheffield lass had been walking home from college with her twin sister and best friend Lauren when a car hit her; she was thrown over the [...]

Spinal cord stimulation and physical therapy have helped a man paralysed since 2013 regain his ability to stand and walk with assistance. The results were achieved in a US research collaboration between Mayo Clinic and UCLA. With an implanted stimulator, the man was able to step with a front-wheeled walker while trainers provided occasional assistance. [...]

iReadMore provides computer-based reading therapy using written and spoken words and pictures, and aims to improve word-reading speed and accuracy. It was developed by the Aphasia Lab, part of the UCL Institute of Neurology.
Stroke patients typically need around 100 hours of speech and language therapy (SaLT), to see a marked improvement. The NHS, however, provides [...]

Since a computer defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, chess has been a continual marker of AI’s progress. In December, the world marvelled at
 the latest machine-driven victory on the chequered board, which underlined just how far the technology has come in the last 20 years. 
AlphaZero - Google Deep Mind’s gaming AI – [...]