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Last week GIORGIO ARMANI celebrated 50 years as the king of understated luxury. Superfan John Arlidge gives us an insight into the man behind the myth

In the early 1980s Ozzy Osborne's tour of the United States became associated with one of the most shocking incidents in the history of rock and roll.

alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Driven by high temperatures in the Gulf, Hurricane Ian rapidly intensified from a Category 3 to Category 5 before making landfall in Southwest Florida on September 28, 2022. The deadly storm caught many by surprise and became the costliest hurricane in state history. Now, researchers from the University of South Florida say they've identified what may have caused Ian to develop so quickly. A strong ocean current called the Loop Current failed to circulate water in the shallow region of the Gulf. As a result, subsurface waters along the West Coast of Florida remained unusually warm during the peak of hurricane season. [...] The researchers found that if the Loop Current reaches an area near the Dry Tortugas, which they call the "pressure point," it can flush warm waters from the West Florida Shelf and replace it with cold water from deeper regions of the Gulf. This pressure point is where the shallow contours of the seafloor converge, forcing cold water to the surface in a process known as upwelling. In the months leading up to Hurricane Ian, the Loop Current did not reach the pressure point, leaving the waters on the shelf unmixed, which caused both the surface and subsurface waters on the West Florida Shelf to remain warm throughout summer. The findings have been published in Geophysical Research Letters.

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Strictly Come Dancing star Craig Revel Horwood admits he's been forced to 'mellow' his judging style by woke BBC bosses over fears of upsetting contestants.

The author and TV presenter, 46, who tied the knot with Bridesmaids star Chris O'Dowd in 2012, says she works hard to cover bills and rent but recently had her bank card declined.

Fearne Cotton looked raring to go as she eagerly arrived at Oasis' first gig at Wembley on Friday.

Mr Trump landed in the country on Friday, for a four-day visit to both of his golf clubs in Aberdeen and Ayrshire.

As the patriarch of reality TV show The Osbournes he won a new generation of fans, but no one ever really doubted Ozzy Osbourne loved his family, or that they loved him.

Hailey Bieber was pictured giving husband Justin Bieber a passionate kiss on Friday, as she shrugged off his recent album revelations about their marriage woes.

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The English TV personality made a subtle dig at Swift's proclivity to pen songs about her famous exes, and accused Swift's massive fanbase of lashing out at anyone who dares to criticize her.

A young man who lost control of his motorbike while travelling along the A120 performed a wheelie moments before the collision, an inquest heard.

Hundreds of millions of pounds have been written off as a major improvement scheme for the A12 has been scrapped.

They had an almost 100% patient satisfaction rate

A writer who worked for the media company sued into bankruptcy by Hulk Hogan after it published a sex tape featuring the wrestler crassly celebrated the sports icon's death on Thursday at 71.

Gwyneth Paltrow made a cameo on Astronomer's social media page in a PR-crisis move by the company - naming her as a 'temporary spokesperson.'

Maxwell, serving 20 years in prison for her involvement in Epstein's crimes, requested what's known as 'proffer immunity' so that anything she revealed couldn't be used against her.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: On the early evening of June 22, 2010, American tennis star John Isner began a grueling Wimbledon match against Frenchman Nicolas Mahut that would become the longest in the sport's history. The marathon battle lasted 11 hours and stretched across three consecutive days. Though Isner ultimately prevailed 70-68 in the fifth set, some in attendance half-jokingly wondered at the time whether the two men might be trapped on that court for eternity. A similarly endless-seeming skirmish of rackets is currently unfolding just an hour's drive south of the All England Club -- at Google DeepMind. Known for pioneering AI models that have outperformed the best human players at chess and Go, DeepMind now has a pair of robotic arms engaged in a kind of infinite game of table tennis. The goal of this ongoing research project, which began in 2022, is for the two robots to continuously learn from each other through competition. Just as Isner eventually adapted his game to beat Mahut, each robotic arm uses AI models to shift strategies and improve. But unlike the Wimbledon example, there's no final score the robots can reach to end their slugfest. Instead, they continue to compete indefinitely, with the aim of improving at every swing along the way. And while the robotic arms are easily beaten by advanced human players, they've been shown to dominate beginners. Against intermediate players, the robots have roughly 50/50 odds -- placing them, according to researchers, at a level of "solidly amateur human performance." All of this, as two researchers involved noted this week in an IEEE Spectrum blog, is being done in hopes of creating an advanced, general-purpose AI model that could serve as the "brains" of humanoid robots that may one day interact with people in real-world factories, homes, and beyond. Researchers at DeepMind and elsewhere are hopeful that this learning method, if scaled up, could spark a "ChatGPT moment" for robotics -- fast-tracking the field from stumbling, awkward hunks of metal to truly useful assistants. "We are optimistic that continued research in this direction will lead to more capable, adaptable machines that can learn the diverse skills needed to operate effectively and safely in our unstructured world," DeepMind senior staff engineer Pannag Sanketi and Arizona State University Professor Heni Ben Amor write in IEEE Spectrum.

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