Scottish researchers are developing AI-powered glasses able to read lips. Designed for the hearing-impaired, the spectacles are fitted with a camera that captures lip movements and sends the visual and audio data to a cloud server. There, AI isolates the voices and then transmits this cleaned-up audio to the wearer’s hearing aids or headphones. Scientists are not "trying to reinvent hearing aids," said project lead Mathini Sellathurai of Heriot-Watt University, but rather "give them superpowers."

Police in Paris recently arrested a tourist who used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to light his cigarette. "You cannot ridicule French remembrance and get away with it," Minister for Veterans and Remembrance Patricia Miralles said in a social media post, adding that the action was an "insult" to all of France. The unidentified man has been charged with violating a burial site, tomb, urn or monument erected in memory of the dead.