Team GB Olympic and Paralympic athletes are being offered a new form of artificial intelligence-based protection from online abuse. UK Sport, the body that funds Olympic and Paralympic sports, has signed a contract worth more than £300,000 to give thousands of athletes access to an app that detects and hides abusive posts sent by other users on social media. Athletes are able to sign up for free and can protect their accounts throughout the Games cycle up to Los Angeles 2028. The level of abuse our athletes are facing online is unacceptable - to do nothing about this is not an option, UK Sport director of performance Kate Baker said about a deal that is the first of its kind in British sport. The app, called Social Protect, uses AI to try to ensure athletes see as few abusive messages sent their way as possible.

Last spring, I started boiling two eggs for breakfast every morning--one for me, and one for the crows. A mated pair patrolled the rooftops around my Berlin apartment building; I'd begun luring them to my balcony with peanuts and other snacks. They loved not only eggs but also mealworms, cat food, cashews, chicken hearts, stale bread, cheese, and chunks of lamb fat; they barely touched liver, walnuts, vegetables, and dried fruit. In Germany, we were under a COVID-19 lockdown. But the birds were free.

Internet-connected robots that can stream audio and video are increasingly helping housebound sick children and elderly people keep in touch with teachers, family and friends, combating the scourge of isolation and loneliness. Zoe Johnson, 16, hasn't been to school since she was 12. She went to the doctor in 2014 "with a bit of a sore throat", and "somehow that became A&E [accident and emergency]," says her mother, Rachel Johnson. The doctors diagnosed myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME for short, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - a debilitating illness affecting the nervous and immune systems. Zoe missed a lot of school but was able to continue with her studies with the help of an online tutor.

Disney says its parks are "Where Dreams Come True," but that statement was never so literal as it was for two foster kids during a recent visit to the park. Janielle and Elijah Gilmour, ages 12 and 10, got the surprise of a lifetime in April, when foster parents Courtney and Tom Gilmour announced news of their official adoption date during a visit to Walt Disney World. "We planned it as soon as we got the [official] date, which was the Friday before our trip," Courtney tells Fox News. What Courtney didn't plan on, however, was that Disney would catch wind of the duo's plans and offer to lend a mouse-like, white-gloved hand. After arriving at the park from Portland, Penn., Courtney tweeted out a photo of the family's Walt Disney World celebration buttons, and the park got in touch to offer a private meet-and-greet with Mickey Mouse himself.

This painting appears in Angela Gilmour's "Boolean Logic" series, which went on display in Cork, Ireland, last fall. Long before the smartwatch or Google search, there was George Boole. Born in 1815 in the U.K., the mathematician invented a system of logic distilling complicated actions into simpler values -- "true" or "false," "on" or "off" -- thereby inventing the foundations of the digital age. This system, dubbed "Boolean logic" after the mathematician, was used in the development of the first electrical circuits, the parent technology to computers. Artist Angela Gilmour, who is based in Ireland, saw these principles up close while working as a process and product development engineer in the computer manufacturing industry.