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Women should ensure they are getting enough omega fatty acids in their diets according to researchers, who found unusually low levels of the compounds in female patients with Alzheimer’s disease.The advice follows an analysis of blood samples from Alzheimer’s patients and healthy individuals, which revealed levels of unsaturated fats, such as those containing omega fatty acids, were up to 20% lower in women with the disease.The low levels were not seen in men with Alzheimer’s, suggesting there may be sex differences in how the disease takes hold and affects a person’s physiology.“The difference between the sexes was the most shocking…

With the Venice Film Festival just around the corner (August 27-September 9, 2025), it’s only fitting that we delve into the historic hotels that have served as crucial backdrops for film festivals around the world—not merely the buzzy five-stars where celebrities like to stay, but bonafide landmarks whose corridors are steeped in all things New Wave and Hitchcock.Take, for example, the Sundance Resort, which has served as a hub for the Sundance Institute, an independent filmmaking incubator, since 1981. Other institutions, like the Excelsior Venice, are filled with lore about famous movie stars that have made their mark on the…

The owner of OnlyFans was paid $701m (£523m) in dividends last year as the subscription service best known for offering adult content positions itself for a potential multibillion-dollar sale.The payment to Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukrainian-American entrepreneur behind the streaming platform, adds to the more than $1bn in dividends he has already received from the business as he profits from connecting porn stars and celebrities more directly with their audiences.OnlyFans accounts show it paid $497m in dividends to its parent, Fenix International, which is owned by Radvinsky, in 2024, up from $472m in its 2023 financial year. The business paid a…

Apple is suing a former employee on the Apple Watch team who left to join Oppo, alleging that he “conspired to steal Apple’s trade secrets relating to Apple Watch and to disclose them to his new employers.”Ahead of starting his new job at Oppo, the employee, Dr. Chen Shi, attended “dozens” of meetings with technical members on the Apple Watch team to learn about their work and downloaded 63 documents “from a protected Box folder” that he loaded onto a USB drive, according to the lawsuit. Shi allegedly sent a message to Oppo saying that he was working to “collect…

Ian Youngs & Paul GlynnCulture reporterGetty ImagesEmily Portman says the AI version of her was “really creepy”Last month, award-winning singer Emily Portman got a message from a fan praising her new album and saying “English folk music is in good hands”.That would normally be a compliment, but the Sheffield-based artist was puzzled.So she followed a link the fan had posted and was taken to what appeared to be her latest release. “But I didn’t recognise it because I hadn’t released a new album,” Portman says.”I clicked through and discovered an album online everywhere – on Spotify and iTunes and all…

If you’re trying to get someone to do something, what’s the best way to achieve that? Paying them probably comes to mind, and this intuition is a basic tenet of economic theory. In a massive 2018 study, researchers tested 18 ways to motivate people to do a simple task—and found that money worked best.In that work, economists at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago asked nearly 10,000 people on a crowd-work website to push the “A” and “B” buttons on their keyboard as many times as they could for 10 minutes. To motivate people, the researchers…

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Nardine Saad and Christal HayesBBC News, Los AngelesCalifornia Department of Corrections and RehabilitationLyle appeared virtually for the hearing, which spanned more than 10 hoursLyle Menendez has been denied parole one day after his brother Erik was similarly blocked from being freed from prison after more than three decades.The Menendez brothers, who were convicted in the 1989 killings of their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion, were both rejected for release after separate, lengthy hearings before California’s parole board.It marks a major setback for the pair who had seen recent court wins that brought them closer than ever to freedom.The elder…

How to solve today’s Wordle.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images It’s Saturday at last! Huzzah! Time to enjoy another lovely summer weekend. Hopefully it rains. I know, I’m a broken record on the subject of rain, but it keeps getting all ominously cloudy and then . . . nothing. Such a tease. In any case, let’s solve today’s Wordle! Looking for yesterday’s Wordle? Check out hints, clues and the answer right here. How To Play Wordle Wordle is a daily word puzzle game where your goal is to guess a hidden five-letter word in six tries or fewer. After each guess,…

People in Mississippi can no longer use the social media platform Bluesky. The company announced Friday that it will be blocking all IP addresses within Mississippi for the foreseeable future in response to a recent US Supreme Court decision that allows the state to enforce strict age verification for social media platforms.According to Bluesky, Mississippi’s approach to verification “would fundamentally change” how users access the site. “We think this law creates challenges that go beyond its child safety goals, and creates significant barriers that limit free speech and disproportionately harm smaller platforms and emerging technologies,” the Bluesky team said in…