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European royals gathered in Athens this evening - for a pre-wedding dinner celebrating the wedding of Prince Nikolaos with Chrysí Vardinogianni.

Lawsuit: 'Scale of intrusion into individuals' privacy is massive and unprecedented'

Updated  Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has had its access to US Treasury payment systems restricted - at least temporarily - following a lawsuit from advocacy groups and unions.…

James Evans, 19, and Justin Keeling, 18, (pictured) went into a disused warehouse in Crewe, Cheshire, and set a large pile of cardboard alight on August 9 during far-right riots.

An Australian has revealed how he took the plunge to start a business. Fast forward to today, and he's the proud owner of a hugely popular brand stocked at major supermarkets.

Kathryn Hughes discovers the origins of the radio and how times have changed - including the fact that when the BBC was founded it only broadcast the news 'if there is any'...

This week, David McCloskey answers our burning questions, what is he reading, what would he take to a desert island, what gave him the reading bug, what left him cold?

Jane Shilling reviews the best non-fiction out now in paperback.

Discover the serene beauty of Kyoto in this new Assouline guide.

Prince William invited Blue Peter Earthshot competition winners to Windsor Castle on Thursday. The five winners spoke to Prince William and asked him questions about the environment.

OpenAI is considering building large-scale data center campuses in 16 states as part of the Stargate initiative, a $100 billion joint venture with Oracle and SoftBank aimed at strengthening U.S. AI infrastructure. CNBC reports: On a call with reporters, OpenAI executives said it sent out a request for proposals (RFP) to states less than a week ago. "A project of this size represents an opportunity to both re-industrialize parts of the country, but also to help revitalize where the American Dream is going to go in this intelligence age," Chris Lehane, OpenAI's vice president of global policy, said on the call. [...] The 16 states OpenAI is currently considering are Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and West Virginia. Construction on the data centers in Abilene, Texas, is currently underway. In the coming months, OpenAI will begin announcing additional construction sites "on a rolling basis," according to the presentation. Each campus is designed to support about one gigawatt of power or more. OpenAI is aiming to build five to 10 data center campuses total, although executives said that number could rise or fall depending on how much power each campus offers. The company also said it expects each data center campus to generate thousands of jobs. That includes construction and operational roles. But Stargate's first data center in Abilene could lead to the creation of just 57 jobs, according to recent reports.

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Mail Sport's Lewis Steele rates the players at Anfield as the Reds remain on track to claim a first piece of silverware under Slot after cruising to a victory over Tottenham in the Carabao Cup semi-final.

Welcome to Exercise Red Flag as U.S. allies practise for the next world war with dogfights in the air over Nevada.

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) notified the Metropolitan Police of its intention to stage a protest the same day that more than 1,100 Israelis were murdered and 250 taken hostage.

The former England captain is currently out of work after being sacked as manager of Plymouth on New Year's Eve and has worked as a pundit for several broadcasters in the past.

After Prime Video released a promotional post for Another Simple Favor, a number of commenters implicated that Lively might have tried to assert her influence over Feig.

Helen Flanagan admits she's feeling 'frazzled' looking after her three children as she shares candid snap while taking on mum duties

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Boston Dynamics Wednesday announced a partnership designed to bring improved reinforcement learning to its electric Atlas humanoid robot. The tie-up is with the Robotics & AI Institute (RAI Institute), earlier known as The Boston Dynamics AI Institute. Both organizations were founded by Marc Raibert, a former MIT professor who served as Boston Dynamics' CEO for 30 years. The Institute, founded in 2022, allows Raibert to continue the research that served as the foundation for Boston Dynamics. Both have ties to Hyundai. The Korean carmaker acquired Boston Dynamics back in 2021; Hyundai also funds the Institute, giving Raibert free rein to explore more experimental and bleeding-edge technologies than is possible in a commercial company. The Institute mirrors Toyota's creation of TRI, or Toyota Research Institute, which announced its own partnership with Boston Dynamics in October, focused on the use of large behavior models. (LBMs). The twin partnerships are designed to improve the way Boston Dynamics' electric Atlas humanoid learns new tasks. The Robotics & AI Institute deal is specifically focused on reinforcement learning, a method that operates through trial and error, similar to the way both humans and animals learn. Reinforcement learning has traditionally been extremely time-intensive, though the creation of effective simulation has allowed many processes to be carried out at once in a virtual setting. The Boston Dynamics/RAI Institute union kicked off earlier this month in Massachusetts. It's the latest in a number of collaborations between the pair, including a joint effort to develop a reinforcement learning research kit for the quadrupedal Spot robot by Boston Dynamics (which is its familiar robot "dog"). The new work focuses on both transferring simulation-based learning to real-world settings and improving how the company's humanoid Atlas moves through and interacts with physical environments. Pertaining to the latter, Boston Dynamics points to "dynamic running and full-body manipulation of heavy objects." Both are examples of actions that require synchronization of the legs and arms. The humanoid's bipedal form factor presents a number of unique challenges -- and opportunities -- when compared with Spot. Every activity is also subject to a broad range of forces, including balance, force, resistance, and motion.

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Families whose relatives were among the 72 killed in the June 2017 blaze accused officials of ignoring their wishes, and branded the decision as 'disgraceful and unforgivable'.

Concerns around unfixed problems remain after system resulted in harm to some 150 patients

The US Department of Veterans Affairs has restarted a project to implement Oracle electronic health records in its hospitals after the project was suspended in 2023.…

The Italian TV star, known for his cheeky on-screen persona, is now at the centre of claims from dozens of people who describe his alleged conduct over the past 12 years as 'distressing'.