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Lady Elizabeth Anson would speak to the late Queen every week on the telephone and she was more than happy to make her feelings about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle known.

'The King is dead, Long live the King' is the notorious exemplification of the transfer of power from one monarch to another however planning for the succession is years in the making.

A couple caught in a cosy embrace at a Coldplay concert when video of them flashed on the venue's big screen have been revealed to be Andy Byron, 50, and Kristin Cabot, 56.

The activist, seen in footage wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan' Israel out of the Tour' stormed onto the main track on Wednesday in a protest against Israel's participation in the race. 

The fallen deputies from the 'forceful' explosion at the LASD's Biscailuz Center Training Academy have been identified.

Colbert's surprise cancelation comes amid claims he got the boot for taking a noble stand against Donald Trump.

Aussie A-Lister Margot Robbie has emerged as a favourite to star in a 'wild and orgasmic' reboot of the '90s cult classic Basic Instinct.

HSBC has launched its first UK wealth hub, an exclusive branch for its wealthiest Premier and Private banking customers.

The island was left to the National Trust for Scotland in the will of David Brearley.

The charming town is home to a number of celebrities, who are drawn to the area because of its luxurious mansions and glamorous lifestyle

The artificial intelligence firm whose CEO and HR boss were caught in an embarrassing clinch at a Coldplay concert has broken its silence.

Andy Byron, of the tech company Astronomer, and his Head of People Kristin Cabot were caught on camera at a Coldplay concert in Boston on Tuesday night.

What speed triggers a speed camera in UK - motoring experts explain how they work, what the rules are, and if 10% above speed limit exists.

An I’m A Celebrity and former TOWIE star said she had a great time on the world’s largest inflatable obstacle course with her children.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Live Science: In a world first, scientists have demonstrated an enigmatic phenomenon in quantum computing that could pave the way for fault-tolerant machines that are far more powerful than any supercomputer. The process, called "magic state distillation," was first proposed 20 years ago, but its use in logical qubits has eluded scientists ever since. It has long been considered crucial for producing the high-quality resources, known as "magic states," needed to fulfill the full potential of quantum computers. [...] Now, however, scientists with QuEra say they have demonstrated magic state distillation in practice for the first time on logical qubits. They outlined their findings in a new study published July 14 in the journal Nature. In the study, using the Gemini neutral-atom quantum computer, the scientists distilled five imperfect magic states into a single, cleaner magic state. They performed this separately on a Distance-3 and a Distance-5 logical qubit, demonstrating that it scales with the quality of the logical qubit. "A greater distance means better logical qubits. A Distance-2, for instance, means that you can detect an error but not correct it. Distance-3 means that you can detect and correct a single error. Distance-5 would mean that you can detect and correct up to two errors, and so on, and so on," [explained Yuval Boger, chief commercial officer at QuEra who was not personally involved in the research]. "So the greater the distance, the higher fidelity of the qubit is -- and we liken it to distilling crude oil into a jet fuel." As a result of the distillation process, the fidelity of the final magic state exceeded that of any input. This proved that fault-tolerant magic state distillation worked in practice, the scientists said. This means that a quantum computer that uses both logical qubits and high-quality magic states to run non-Clifford gates is now possible. "We're seeing sort of a shift from a few years ago," Boger said. "The challenge was: can quantum computers be built at all? Then it was: can errors be detected and corrected? Us and Google and others have shown that, yes, that can be done. Now it's about: can we make these computers truly useful? And to make one computer truly useful, other than making them larger, you want them to be able to run programs that cannot be simulated on classical computers."

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A proposed memorial statue of former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott in his adopted home city of Hull has been rejected.

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For a time, the face in that photograph was one of the most famous in the world.