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Could artificial intelligence help people with dementia?
That is the promise of a newly designed pair of smart glasses that offers wearers a real-time guide and companion to everyday tasks in the form of a chatty assistant called Wispy.
The software from the British company CrossSense has just won a major prize for the development of technology for sufferers of dementia, a condition affecting tens of millions of people around the world.
Professor Julia Simner is science lead at CrossSense.
Professor Julia Simner from CrossSense.
Still to come in this podcast, never-before-seen reptiles and mollusks found deep in limestone caves in Cambodia.
The employer needs a savior.
A deeply shocking anti-Semitic arson attack.
That is how Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer has described an overnight incident targeting London's Jewish community.
Four ambulances belonging to a Jewish ambulance service were set alight in the attack.
34 residents were evacuated from nearby homes as a precaution but were able to return relatively quickly and no injuries have been reported.
CCTV footage appears to show three people in hoods pouring accelerant, probably otherwise known as petrol, on the vehicles before setting them on fire and fleeing.
No arrests have yet been made.
One of the community members spoke to the BBC.
He didn't want to give his name.
Our correspondent Lucy Manning is at the scene and told us what had happened.
Lucy Manning.
The Earth's climate is more out of balance than at any time in recorded history.
Those are the findings of a new report published by the UN's Weather Agency.
Increasing concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, which are at their highest level in at least 800,000 years, have upset the Earth's equilibrium, with our planet gaining more energy than it can release.