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A WOMAN with a rare disorder which causes her to have up to 17 seizures a day says it has “taken her life away”. Blissica Pearson, 22, woke up in September 2023 with “excruciating” stomach pains and was rushed to hospital. 7Blissica Pearson was diagnosed with a rare neurological conditionCredit: SWNS 7The 22-year-old having one of her 17 seizures a dayCredit: SWNS But after a CT scan and chest X-ray, doctors couldn’t find anything wrong and she was discharged. The pain returned the following day but medics were still unable to find a clear cause so sent her home with…

A COMPUTER scientist who claims to be the mythical founder of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, has been spotted arriving at court. Dr Craig Wright, 53, arrived at London’s Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday for the second day of a bombshell trial to unravel crypto’s biggest mystery. 5Dr Craig Wright arrives at the Rolls Building in London on TuesdayCredit: Getty 5The court case seeks to determine whether Wright invented BitcoinCredit: Getty The Australian-born, English-resident IT expert claims he developed Bitcoin – the world’s first decentralised cryptocurrency – and authored the 2008 white paper under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. But the Crypto…

A SIMPLE PlayStation mistake might be making your controller worse. There’s a microphone setting that affects how strongly your PS5’s DualSense controller will vibrate. 1Make sure you’re not accidentally making your controller worseCredit: Sony PlayStation It’s free to resolve this strange quirk, so you can get the full PS5 “haptic” effect in seconds if you know what to do. The trick was revealed in a Reddit thread that earned hundreds of upvotes. “I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere before,” the PS5 owner explained. “I just went into the controller setting for the first time in about a year of owning…

LYING to you children could turn them into fibbers, a study shows. If your child knows they’re being lied to — even a white lie — they’re more likely to tell porkies themselves, Singaporean researchers found. 1Happy young Caucasian mother and teen daughter sit relax on sofa talking sharing secrets. Smiling mom or nanny and teenage girl child rest on couch speak enjoy family weekend bonding at home.Credit: Getty They tracked behaviour in 564 children aged 11 to 12 to see how their relationship with the truth differed depending on their parents. Dr Setoh Pei Pei, of Nanyang Technological University,…

AT LEAST 11 people have been killed and a further 80 injured after a massive explosion at an illegal fireworks factory. The terrifying incident took place at the Harda district factory in India’s Madhya Pradesh state on Tuesday as towers of flames engulfed the building. 7The blast was felt ten miles away from the scene of the explosionCredit: Tahir Ibn Manzoor 7Giant flames engulfed the surrounding area of the illegal fireworks factory 7Footage showed terrified locals running for their lives following the explosion Eyewitnesses reported that several individuals remain trapped within the firecracker facility following the blast with the blaze…

GOOGLE users have been left devastated after the tech giants announced they are shutting down a major search button. The beloved tool was one of the oldest features on Google before bosses made the “sad” decision to axe it all together. 1Google are shutting down a major search buttonCredit: Getty The bold move to remove links to page caches from Google search results was met with a number of upset people – with one even saying, “this truly sucks”. Google’s search liaison Danny Sullivan confirmed the disappointing news on X, formerly known as Twitter, after he was asked about the…

A MAN was left fighting for his life in hospital after catching a rare bug from his pet Chihuahua. The 71-year-old from La Gomera in the Canary Islands went to the emergency department after feeling short of breath and coughing up yellowish phlegm for two days. 2Scans showed ‘opacity’ in the 71-year-old’s lungs and doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia and septic shockCredit: www.sciencedirect.com 2Septic shock is a severe form of sepsis, a life-threatening reaction to an infection Prior to that, he’d suffered sudden bouts of diarrhoea, weakness and chills for five days, according to doctors at the Hospital Nuestra Señora…

A BRITISH grandad who faced being thrown into a Dubai jail after being accused of trespass has been released. Ian Mackellar, 75, was arrested while visiting his daughter and young grandchild over Christmas shortly after they had moved there. 2Ian Mackellar has been freed after being arrested in DubaiCredit: SWNS 2He is due to return to Scotland The pensioner, from near Aberdeen, Scotland, was accused of trespass and faced several years in prison and a travel ban. Ian and his wife had flown to Dubai to visit their daughter, who had asked her neighbour to be mindful of noise at their New Year’s Eve…

ROAD safety campaigners have issued warnings over the Apple’s new Vision Pro headsets being used while driving. Apple’s $3,500 (£2,800) Vision Pro hit the shelves on Friday, but have already been the subject of viral videos showing them in scenes Apple has explicitly advised against. 1It is unknown where he was driving or what police department pulled him overCredit: Twitter One video that amassed massive viewer numbers over the weekend shows a man, called Dante, using the virtual reality (VR) goggles while driving on a motorway. In the video, the man’s eyes are completely covered by the headset while driving…

THREE women are known to have died and two more diagnosed with deadly cervical cancer after NHS blunders meant thousands weren’t invited for life-saving smear tests. It’s now emerged that up to 150,000 women may have have been wrongly excluded from the cervical cancer screening programme. 1Cervical cancer is a cancer that’s found anywhere in the cervix, which is the opening between the vagina and womb The NHS sends letter invites for cervix health checks to people aged 25 to 64 to identify any changes that could develop into cancer. A coding error dating back nearly 30 years to 1997…