Police release CCTV of three men 'after woman raped' in early hours of the morning
Humperside Police said the footage was taken at around 1am on July 3 and the men could have valuable information to help with their investigation.
After wrong-footing her doubters with a £2.7bn swoop on rival TSB, meet the most powerful woman in British banking
Last week, she entered British banking's big league after orchestrating a £2.7 billion deal to buy high street bank TSB from fellow Spanish group Sabadell.
Police release CCTV of woman after man is stabbed in the chest with a broken glass bottle on a train
The incident came after a fight broke out on a train between Brighton and Haywards Heath, West Sussex, at around midnight on July 1.
Interstellar Navigation Demonstrated for the First Time With NASA's 'New Horizons'
Three space probes are leaving our solar system — yet are still functioning. After the two Voyager space probes, New Horizons "was launched in 2006, initially to study Pluto," remembers New Scientist. But "it has since travelled way beyond this point, ploughing on through the Kuiper belt, a vast, wide band of rocks and dust billions of miles from the sun. It is now speeding at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour..."
And it's just performed the first ever example of interstellar navigation...
As it hurtles out of our solar system, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is so far from Earth that the stars in the Milky Way appear in markedly different positions compared with our own view... due to the parallax effect. This was demonstrated in 2020 when the probe beamed back pictures of two nearby stars, Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359, to Earth.
Now, Tod Lauer at the US National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory in Arizona and his colleagues have used this effect to work out the position of New Horizons... Almost all spacecraft calculate their bearings to within tens of metres using NASA's Deep Space Network, a collection of radio transmitters on Earth that send regular signals out to space. In comparison, the parallax method was far less accurate, locating New Horizons within a sphere with a radius of 60 million kilometres, about half the distance between Earth and the sun. "We're not going to put the Deep Space Network out of business — this is only a demo proof of concept," says Lauer. However, with a better camera and equipment they could improve the accuracy by up to 100 times, he says.
Using this technique for interstellar navigation could offer advantages over the DSN because it could give more accurate location readings as a spacecraft gets further away from Earth, as well as being able to operate autonomously without needing to wait for a radio signal to come from our solar system, says Massimiliano Vasile at the University of Strathclyde, UK. "If you travel to an actual star, we are talking about light years," says Vasile. "What happens is that your signal from the Deep Space Network has to travel all the way there and then all the way back, and it's travelling at the speed of light, so it takes years."
Just like a ship's captain sailing by the stars, "We have a good enough three-dimensional map of the galaxy around us that you can find out where you are," Lauer says.
So even when limiting your navigation to what's on-board the spacecraft, "It's a remarkable accuracy, with your own camera!"
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Justin Timberlake and wife Jessica Biel cut a casual figure as they take off from London in a helicopter ahead of his concert in Great Leighs
The singer, 44, looked relaxed as he stepped out in a black shiny tracksuit which he layered over a black hooded jumper.
'Dancing Essex Police officers is perfect example of brilliant policing'
The officers were filmed dancing while at an event in Braintree
Brian McFadden is married! Westlife star ties the knot for the THIRD time with Danielle Parkinson in Cornish beach ceremony
The Westlife star, 45, who shares daughter Ruby, with the blogger, tied the knot for the third time on Saturday.
Who's who in the Wimbledon royal box on day seven? Pundit Chris Kamara and cricket legend Brian Lara lead the sporting heroes in the crowd at SW19
It's middle Sunday at SW19 - and the high-profile guests have kept on coming as the legendary tennis tournament reaches the halfway point.
240 new homes planned in Essex villages thrown out over noise concerns
The meeting heard that windows would have to be kept closed to maintain acceptable noise levels
Revealed: Widow of 7/7 suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan has reinvented herself under a different name to build a brand new life
Hasina Khan, now 47, cut all ties to her former existence after her then husband masterminded the worst terror attack ever to hit Britain.
Liverpool's 'new pre-season start date confirmed' after first training sessions were postponed following tragic death of Diogo Jota
Liverpool are said to have confirmed a revised return date for when players should report to the club's AXA Training Centre for the start of pre-season training following the tragic death of Diogo Jota.
The incredible story of a Wimbledon finalist who became a murderer: Son of Irish baron with a 'killer' backhand saw his life spiral out of control after SW19 heartbreak
The remarkable front page of French newspaper 'Le Petit Journal' in 1907 illustrated the crime of a former Wimbledon finalist in the most graphic manner possible.
The pretty Essex seaside town that briefly featured on BBC hit show Dad's Army
The film version of the hit TV series once featured Essex
Debenhams shoppers say 'beautiful' £600 watch reduced to under £82 is 'worth every penny'
'I got so many compliments wearing it'
Wimbledon in chaos after AI line judge bungles call against Sonay Kartal's opponent - who claims mistake 'STOLE' her game and alleges pro-British bias days after Emma Raducanu took a swipe at the technology
JAMES SHARPE AT WIMBLEDON: The tournament was embroiled in another embarrassing line-call controversy as Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova accused officials of pro-Brit bias after HawkEye failed.
Hammonds Farm: Locals fear nothing they say will stop 3,000 home development swamping their villages
As many as 4,500 homes could be built on the development between two rural Essex villages
Family's heart-breaking tribute to 'bright' 21-year-old killed in tragic M11 crash
Luke Cusack, 21, died following a collision involving an HGV and two cars between junctions eight and seven on June 16.
Family's heart-breaking tribute to 'bright' 21-year-old killed in tragic M11 crash
Luke Cusack, 21, died following a collision involving an HGV and two cars between junctions eight and seven on June 16.
Police Department Apologizes for Sharing AI-Doctored Evidence Photo on Social Media
A Maine police department has now acknowledged "it inadvertently shared an AI-altered photo of drug evidence on social media," reports Boston.com:
The image from the Westbrook Police Department showed a collection of drug paraphernalia purportedly seized during a recent drug bust on Brackett Street, including a scale and white powder in plastic bags. According to Westbrook police, an officer involved in the arrests snapped the evidence photo and used a photo editing app to insert the department's patch. "The patch was added, and the photograph with the patch was sent to one of our Facebook administrators, who posted it," the department explained in a post. "Unbeknownst to anyone, when the app added the patch, it altered the packaging and some of the other attributes on the photograph. None of us caught it or realized it."
It wasn't long before the edited image's gibberish text and hazy edges drew criticism from social media users. According to the Portland Press Herald, Westbrook police initially denied AI had been used to generate the photo before eventually confirming its use of the AI chatbot ChatGPT. The department issued a public apology Tuesday, sharing a side-by-side comparison of the original and edited images.
"It was never our intent to alter the image of the evidence," the department's post read. "We never realized that using a photoshop app to add our logo would alter a photograph so substantially."
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CHAOS in the British Grand Prix: Five drivers are forced to retire in opening laps and safety car is deployed twice after crash at treacherous Silverstone
Liam Lawson, Franco Colapinto, Gabriel Bortoleto, Isack Hadjar and Kimi Antontelli were forced out of the rain-sodden race.