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Transgender powerlifter JayCee Cooper has won her discrimination lawsuit against USA Powerlifting (USAPL), a competitive federation that had banned her and other trans people from competing.Cooper sued USAPL in January 2021, saying that its policy violates Minnesota's Human Rights Act, a law that explicitly forbids transgender-based discrimination.

The attack on AIIMS crippled operations as patients couldn't register for appointments, doctors couldn't access medical records.The leading hospital in India's capital limped back to normalcy on Wednesday after a cyberattack crippled its operations for nearly two weeks.Online registration of patients resumed Tuesday after the hospital was able to access its server and recover lost data.

Scientists at Germany's Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Medical Research, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Heidelberg University, and Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering have created a technique for assembling three-dimensional (3D) objects using ultrasound.The concept applies multiple acoustic holograms to generate pressure fields for printing solid particles, gel beads, and even biological cells.

The UK government has boasted of £14.8m in annual business savings and increased exports to South Korea after finalising a data adequacy agreement with Seoul, having previously secured an agreement in principle in July.Having now completed a full assessment of South Korea's personal data legislation, the government said it was confident that the country had strong privacy laws in place to protect data transfers into its territory, while upholding the rights and protections of the UK citizens to whom the data pertains.

Explorer Sir David Hempleman-Adams has become the first person to be awarded Polar Medals by two monarchs for his expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic.Sir David's first medal was awarded by the late Queen for services to the UK in the field of polar research for work in both regions up to 2012.The King has awarded him the second bar to his Polar Medal for his work in the Arctic and Antarctic up to 2022.

Artificial intelligence (AI) could create dystopia if advancements in the technology are not managed properly, but its usefulness should not be overlooked, a Government minister has said.Paul Scully, minster for tech and digital economy, told the TechUK Tech Policy Leadership Conference on Tuesday that there should not just be a focus on a Terminator-style scenario.

The Immigration debate was the focus for the majority of Britain's newspapers on Friday.The Guardian revealed Home Secretary Suella Braverman's plan to deport 3,000 asylum seekers a month.The Mirror says ministers have been accused of losing control on immigration after figures hit a record high last year.

Keir Starmer should pledge 11bn towards building BritGPT and a national artificial intelligence (AI) cloud in the next Labour manifesto or risk the UK falling ever further into dependence on American tech companies, an affiliated thinktank has said.Labour for the Long Term, which campaigns within the party for it to adopt long-termist policies that mitigate dangers such as pandemics, climate breakdown, and AI extinction, argues in a report that the 1bn pledged by the government in the 2023 budget is not enough to protect Britain's future independence.

Consider a new digital privacy fear unlocked.As Wired reports, a facial recognition search site called PimEyes, which claims to create biometric human "faceprints," has been using stolen photos of dead people to train its algorithms.According to the report, Cher Scarlett, a software engineer and writer, made the discovery while searching the site for images of herself.

Retired Navy commander Joe Dituri is attempting to break the world record for living underwater.NPR's Juana Summers checks in with him on his second day.JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Twenty-two feet deep in a tropical lagoon in the Florida Keys, today we find Joseph Dituri.He arrived yesterday, and if all goes well, he'll be there for another 98 days to complete Project Neptune 100.

The number of EU students enrolling in British universities has more than halved since Brexit with sharp declines in scholars from Italy, Germany and France, figures reveal.Brexit is seen as the primary deterrent, with home fees and student finance no longer available to EU students who do not already live in the UK with settled or pre-settled status.

PRESS RELEASE.December 2th, Warsaw  Poland: Data Lake has collected the first consents on the blockchain for patients' medical data to be used by researchers.The company is an EU-funded startup that is seeking to solve two of the biggest problems in medical science: access to medical data, and bias in datasets.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails About 190 victims of child sexual abuse by priests or other church representatives have been promised financial compensation so far from France's Catholic Church under a sweeping reparations program, the independent body in charge of the process said Thursday.

One of France's highest-ranking prelates of the Catholic Church, has admitted abusing a 14-year-old girl 35 years ago and announced his withdrawal from his religious duties.Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard's statement on Monday after a report issued last year revealed a large number of child sex abuse cases within the French Catholic Church.

Early next year, a radical new treatment for Parkinson's disease involving tissue transplants will receive its first trial with patients  including a group from the UK.Stem cells grown in the laboratory and transformed into nerve cells will be used to replace those destroyed by the disease.It is hoped that these will stop the spread of debilitating symptoms.