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AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once. The system, called “Target Speech Hearing,” then cancels all other sounds and plays just that person’s voice in real time even as the listener moves around in noisy places and no longer faces the speaker.

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AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once. The system, called “Target Speech Hearing,” then cancels all other sounds and plays just that person’s voice in real time even as the listener moves around in noisy places and no longer faces the speaker.

Computer Science

https://www.washington.edu/news/2024/05/23/ai-headphones-noise-cancelling-target-speech-hearing/

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Masturbation helps to alleviate psychological distress in women, study suggests

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Masturbation helps to alleviate psychological distress in women, study suggests

Psychology

https://www.psypost.org/masturbation-helps-to-alleviate-psychological-distress-in-women-study-suggests/

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Analysis of more than 19 million hospital discharge records in the United States found that the 2020 COVID-19 surges were associated with statistically significant and clinically meaningful decreases in hospital care quality.

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Analysis of more than 19 million hospital discharge records in the United States found that the 2020 COVID-19 surges were associated with statistically significant and clinically meaningful decreases in hospital care quality.

Medicine

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/analysis-hospital-heart-failure-and-hip-fracture-deaths-rose-over-20-amid-covid-patient

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