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Rideshare giant also reveals 350-petabyte data lake it protects with tech adapted from Airbnb

Uber’s Indian arm has started using its app to offer rideshare and delivery drivers the chance to make a Rupee by classifying data used by AI systems.…

Don't look now, but American politics just took another turn around the stained porcelain pot.

Peterborough City Council leader Dennis Jones allegedly sent the message to another councillor and has now been suspended from the party.

Prosecutors believe Christian Brueckner , 48, killed the three-year-old girl in a Portuguese resort in a missing persons case that has captivated the world and remains unsolved.

The songstress, who announced her engagement to Chiefs star Travis Kelce last week, has grown close to Brittany and fellow WAGs since they began dating two seasons ago.

The Japanese subtropical island chain that's off most tourists' radars feels more like the Maldives or the Caribbean, say those who've visited.

Talking in Prime Video's Catching the Tinder Predator, Shannon, based in Scotland, explained how Christopher Harkins conned her out of £3,247.

Anthony Higgins, 14, from Liverpool, was returning from a trip funded by Make A Wish Foundation when a pilot refused to allow his £1,000 battery on board - despite him flying out with it.

Emerald Fennell's upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights is continuing to cause controversy following the release of the first trailer this week.

In a landmark collaboration across 22 labs, neuroscientists have created the first brain-wide map of decision-making in mice, tracking over 620,000 neurons across nearly 280 brain regions. They found that decision-making is distributed much more broadly than previously thought, involving not just "cognitive" centers but also regions linked to movement. From a report: The task was deceptively simple task. Mice sat in front of a screen that intermittently displayed a black-and-white striped circle for a brief amount of time on either the left or right side. A mouse could earn a sip of sugar water if they quickly moved the circle toward the center of the screen by operating a tiny steering wheel in the same direction, often doing so within one second. On some trials, the circle was faint, requiring the animal to rely on past experience to make a guess, which allowed researchers to study how expectations influence future decisions. While the mice performed the task, researchers recorded brain activity using high-density electrodes that allowed them to monitor hundreds of neurons across many regions simultaneously. The work was divided across the participating labs, so that each lab mapped a particular region of the mouse brain. The pooled dataset covers 620,000 neurons recorded from 139 mice in 12 labs, encompassing nearly the entire brain. The resulting map revealed that decision-making activity is distributed across the brain, including in areas traditionally associated with movement rather than cognition. The findings have been published in two papers in the journal Nature.

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Kate Moss, Sienna Miller and Poppy Delevingne led the stars attending the Longchamp Boutique Party in London on Thursday night.

Isaac Herzog is expected in the UK on Wednesday and Thursday for talks with ministers, with the government on the verge of recognising an independent Palestinian state.

An Indiana bankruptcy lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg is suing Meta after his Facebook page was repeatedly shut down for "impersonating" CEO Mark Zuckerberg, despite being his real legal name. TechCrunch reports: Mark Zuckerberg the lawyer uses a commercial Facebook page to advertise his legal practice and communicate with potential clients. But his page has been disabled five times in the last eight years, since Meta's moderation systems flag his account as falsely impersonating Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the platform. Mark Zuckerberg is not impersonating Mark Zuckerberg, because he, too, is Mark Zuckerberg. In his legal complaint, Mark Zuckerberg points out that he has been practicing law since Mark Zuckerberg was just three years old. "It's not funny," Mark Zuckerberg, the lawyer, said to Indianapolis' 13WTHR. "Not when they take my money. This really pissed me off." Mark Zuckerberg has spent over $11,000 to advertise his page on Mark Zuckerberg's Meta platforms, but when Mark Zuckerberg's account is disabled for allegedly impersonating Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg still has to pay for these advertisements. Zuckerberg created a website, iammarkzuckerberg.com, chronicling how his life has been shaped by being named Mark Zuckerberg. The lawsuit can be found here.

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Katie Price has shared worrying concerns that her leiomyosarcoma cancer will return after finding a lump in her finger, 23 years after her first diagnosis.

My core beliefs are the same today as they were the day I joined the Conservatives back in 1995. It was the Conservative Party that had changed, not me.

Lucy and I have been friends since we were ten. She's seen me through bad relationships, stressful house moves and a divorce. So why, in our late 40s, have I distanced myself from her?

Flor Marian Izaguirre Pineda, better known as Marian Izaguirre, was last seen around 6pm on Monday, September 1, in the city of Uruapan, located west of Mexico City.

Former President Joe Biden stunned locals in Delaware as he stepped out with a large scar across his forehead at church in Rehoboth Beach.

Have David Morrissey's neighbours spent too much time watching The Walking Dead, the American horror drama he starred in that was set after the collapse of modern civilisation?

Lawyer Jefferson Fisher, from Texas , who is also a communication expert, has revealed how using fewer words can make you a better communicator - and also make you come across as more credible.