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Mr Farage has apologised after claiming officers had 'bussed' people to the protest

Seemingly harmless rickshaw bikes ferrying tourists around have become a serious concern for Transport for London (TfL) over rip-off prices.

A Chinese inventor with no medical training is charging cancer patients $20,000 to inject highly concentrated chlorine dioxide -- a toxic bleach solution -- directly into their tumors, and is working with a former pharmaceutical executive to bring the unproven treatment to the United States, Wired reports. Xuewu Liu uses injections containing 20,000 parts per million of chlorine dioxide, significantly higher than the 3,000 ppm concentrations typically found in oral bleach solutions peddled by pseudoscience promoters. One patient told WIRED her tumor grew faster after Liu's injections and suspects the treatment caused her cancer to spread to her skin.

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David Geffen's estranged husband claims in a lawsuit that while they were in a relationship, his billionaire beau forced him to take drugs, subjected him abusive sex and controlled his every move.

Verizon and AT&T customers can now buy D2C connections à la carte from the magenta monster

T-Mobile's Starlink-to-cellphone service is now out of beta – and the company is using the opportunity to woo customers from other providers by offering à la carte satellite services to AT&T and Verizon customers.…

A father-of-three who was diagnosed with bowel cancer at just 31-years-old has urged others not to dismiss a little-known sign of the aggressive disease.

'Build, baby, build', and forget about regulation and wokeness is the gist of it

The White House on Wednesday announced its AI Action Plan, unveiling a sweeping anti-regulatory approach that disengages the brakes from AI development and datacenter construction in the US. The plan also promises to clamp down on what it called "ideological bias" in AI models.…

She has been a lead goal-scorer for the Lionesses

Let the games begin

Ransomware has officially entered the Microsoft SharePoint exploitation ring.…

French model dev hopes to inspire others to adopt standards-based reporting

While it's widely known that the computers powering generative AI use a ton of water and power, its actual impact on the environment is often harder to pin down.…

She balances a busy life as a mum-of-two with running three fast food eateries

Concerns have been raised that estimates by the Treasury's OBR watchdog might be underplaying the challenges posed by life expectancy improvements.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Surveys show that the increasing number of extreme climate events, including floods, wildfires and hurricanes, has not raised awareness of the threats posed by climate change. Instead, people change their idea of what they see as normal. This so-called "boiling frog effect" makes gradual change difficult to spot. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania wondered if climate change could be made more obvious by presenting it in binary terms. Local newspaper archives describing ice skating on Lake Carnegie when it froze in winter inspired a simple experiment. Some test subjects were shown temperature graphs of a fictional town's winter conditions; others had a chart showing whether or not a fictional lake froze each year. The result, published in Nature, showed those who receiving the second graphic consistently saw climate change as more real and imminent. Binary data gives a clearer impression of the "before" and "after." The disappearing ice is more vivid and dramatic than a temperature trace, even though the underlying data is the same. "We are literally showing them the same trend, just in different formats," says Rachit Dubey, a co-author of the study. These results should help drive more effective ways of communicating the impact of climate change in future by finding simple binary, black-and-white examples of its effects.

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Upper Castle Park was closed to the public from 8am this morning and Essex Police had set up a cordon in the area.

One person has been arrested during tonight's protest (July 24)

The scolding installment also touched upon the controversial cancellation of Late Night with Stephen Colbert, as well as the Jeffery Epstein list.

So says a study by boffins at Carnegie Mellon University

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have likened today's large language model (LLM) chatbots to "that friend who swears they're great at pool but never makes a shot" - having found that their virtual self-confidence grew, rather than shrank, after getting answers wrong.…

The Indonesian court gave 12-month prison terms to the three British nationals, who had been accused of drug running on the resort island.

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, had 'fabricated' a claim of self-defence to try to justify his attack on PC Lydia Ward as well as colleagues PC Ellie Cook and PC Zachary Marsden.

Every company in every industry in every geography on Earth is trying to figure out how they are going to train AI models and tune them to help with their particular workloads. …

Financial Services Firms Will Bank On Homegrown AI Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.