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Now in a few minutes itll be time for newswatch, but first heres click. Hey, welcome to click and welcome to my new office. Its a bit small but it does have one advantage, and thats that it can be absolutely anywhere. Hiya, fancy seeing you here. Hello, nice pod. Are you avoiding me in there . As we start to talk about the future of workspaces post pandemic, the go pod is one idea. It could be placed in the middle of an open plan office or a public face like a coffee shop, giving people the opportunity to be able to book a safe and private space. Yeah, this is about a future where people are s...

The US National Football League is continuing to crowdsource new ways to track head and helmet impacts during games from data scientists and for the second straight year the winner of its artificial intelligence competition comes from outside the United States.

He is the first athlete to pledge his brain through the concussion legacy foundation, just launched in the uk, and urged others to do the same to help the foundation achieve ambitions to create a world without cte. it is our goal to prevent all future cte cases by 2026, in the next five years. which is actually the time the world cup will be taking place in north america. the only way we know how to prevent cte today is to limit your exposure to repeated head impacts. thompson is part of a group of former players taking legal action against the game's authorities for the permanent damage they ...

Ex—footballers are 3.5 times more likely to die of dementia potentially caused by heading the ball. it's due to what is called sub—concussive head impacts, lower—impact hits that, frequently repeated, can have a residual effect. when football players head a ball, we can detect that you get changes in the electrical circuitry. to what you call the sub—concussive hits, you're not getting any symptoms and, in many ways, that is more sinister because you can have these sub—concussive hits week in, week out over a number of years and not detect them. the effect is starting to show in foot...

But it's not always as obvious as being knocked out cold. newsreel commentator: it's the equalizer! there's also growing concern about the potential for much longer—term damage. football is a sport increasingly coming under scrutiny in this area. a recent paper by glasgow university found that ex—footballers are 3.5 times more likely to die of dementia, potentially caused by heading the ball. it's due to what's called sub—concussive head impacts, lower—impact hits that, frequently repeated, can have a residual effect. when football players head a ball, we can detect that you get change...