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Laura Cress has the highlights from Gamescom, the biggest gaming convention in the world.

Tom Davies says he nearly ended up in hospital after accidentally overdosing on a fake version of retatrutide. He ordered it from a Chinese supplier after friends at his gym recommended it.”It was horrendous,” says the 20-year-old from Brighton. “My body felt so under pressure, I was so bloated, it was like someone had dropped a 20kg weight on my stomach.”For 72 hours I had really bad diarrhoea and nausea. I thought, if this continues I’m going to end up in A&E.”Tom later realised he had given himself eight times the recommended dose. Depending on what is ordered, copycat retatrutide…

This is Galaxy Robot Park, a 16,500-square-meter venue that’s opened near Seoul in South Korea . The company behind the park says their aim is to bring artificial intelligence and robotics into the world of entertainment. The question is, can robots keep people coming back?

A kidney transplanted from a pig has worked inside a patient for 271 days – the longest on record, say US doctors.Tim Andrews said the transplant gave him “hope” and spared him months of needing to go to hospital to have his blood filtered by a dialysis machine.The team at Mass General Brigham hospital say their work shows pig organs can be used as a “bridge” until a human transplant becomes available.But the pig organ eventually failed and was removed so Andrews needed a short bout of dialysis before a donor was found.Doctors and scientists are exploring xenotransplantation – using…

Customers in London can now travel in the UK’s first robotaxis as Uber launches its self-driving minicab on Thursday – the company is the first to launch the service.Initially, it only has 15 autonomous vehicles with a licence to operate in the city, and each one must have a human safety driver behind the wheel ready to take control if anything goes wrong.At the moment, the UK fare for a robotaxi ride will be the same fare as a standard UberX, Uber Electric, or Uber Comfort journey, with upfront fares shown in the app.The BBC’s Zoe Kleinman was the first…

Hare says she’s noticed trackers causing anxiety among her patients.”I’ve noticed more patients coming to me with data from various trackers, with lots of questions about sleep that… is probably contributing to their sleep difficulties,” she says.Even though some have had medical tests with reassuring results, this hasn’t allayed their fears, she adds.”It’s great that there’s more focus on sleep as part of wellness,” she adds. “But sleep just does not respond well to attempts to perfect it.”One proposed lawsuit against Oura, filed last month in San Francisco, alleges that Oura rings are unable to accurately measure sleep quality and…

Consumer group Which? says it was able to create a fake listing for 10 Downing Street on travel giant Booking.com.The UK watchdog said its researchers were able to book a bogus stay at the prime minister’s address – as well as leave a fake review noting “hanging out” with resident mouser Larry the cat as a highlight.It said despite clear signs it was fake, Booking.com did not remove the listing until two months after it was uploaded.”This limited test is not a true reflection of the experience of millions of listings or reviews published on our platform,” a Booking.com spokesperson…

Pearl Roche died with dementia weeks after her family struggled to get supplies of her medication.

Amazon secretly overcharged more than a million advertising customers by manipulating online auctions it uses to set ad prices, according to a lawsuit filed by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a bipartisan group of 22 states.According to the lawsuit, filed on Monday, the alleged scheme has likely netted the firm $20bn (£14.8bn) from advertising customers since 2019.”Amazon overrides and replaces the actual auction results with higher prices set by Amazon to increase its profits,” says a complaint filed in the company’s home state of Washington.In a statement to the BBC, Amazon said it “strongly disagrees” with the premise…

Everyone is at risk of catching flu. It does not matter how fit and healthy you are, or your age.Dr Doyle said: “Flu can really knock you for six, and for some children and pregnant women it can mean becoming seriously ill or ending up in hospital.”The vaccine cannot give you flu. Instead, it helps your body know how to fight the virus.Children, from the age of two upwards, get a nasal spray version, while adults have an injection. A single dose is all that is needed to offer protection ahead of winter.High Street pharmacies are offering NHS flu vaccines,…