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The married father made the shocking admission while giving evidence at London's Upper Tribunal as he seeks to overturn a finance industry ban and £1.8m fine by the City's regulator.

Pakistan militants said on Wednesday they had killed 50 hostages after hijacking the train that was carrying more than 400 passengers. These figures are yet to be verified

Surveillance footage captured the man throwing the cat, who has been named Willow, into a dumpster from a white bag in Laguna Hills, California , on Monday night.

Essex Police have suspended their search for a man who was reported missing from Brentwood.

Essex Police have suspended their search for a man who was reported missing from Brentwood.

Rape allegations against Conor McGregor haven't harmed the UFC legend in the eyes of President Donald Trump. 'He's got the best tattoos I've ever seen,' Trump said.

When it's all abstracted by an API endpoint, do you even care what's behind the curtain?

Comment  With the exception of custom cloud silicon, like Google's TPUs or Amazon's Trainium ASICs, the vast majority of AI training clusters being built today are powered by Nvidia GPUs. But while Nvidia may have won the AI training battle, the inference fight is far from decided.…

One user on X, formerly Twitter, shared an old snippet from Trump's reality TV competition series The Celebrity Apprentice.

Olivia Wilde enjoyed a romantic date night with her new boyfriend, Dane DiLiegro, amid reports that her ex Harry Styles feels 'massive relief' she has moved on.

Officers believe David Lee could be in East London

The abstract of a paper published on National Bureau of Economic Research: We document that, after remaining almost constant for almost 30 years, real labor productivity at U.S. restaurants surged over 15% during the COVID pandemic. This surge has persisted even as many conditions have returned to pre-pandemic levels. Using mobile phone data tracking visits and spending at more than 100,000 individual limited service restaurants across the country, we explore the potential sources of the surge. It cannot be explained by economies of scale, expanding market power, or a direct result of COVID-sourced demand fluctuations. The restaurants' productivity growth rates are strongly correlated, however, with reductions in the amount of time their customers spend in the establishments, particularly with a rising share of customers spending 10 minutes or less. The frequency of such 'take-out' customers rose considerably during COVID, even at fast food restaurants, and never went back down. The magnitude of the restaurant-level relationship between productivity and customer dwell time, if applied to the aggregate decrease in dwell time, can explain almost all of the aggregate productivity increase in our sample.

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Having also been present at an emotional day one, which saw the renamed Michael O'Sullivan Supreme Mares Hurdle take place, Giles chatted to Camilla on the second day.

Queen Camilla , Princess Eugenie and Zara Tindall gave Cheltenham Festival a very royal welcome as they arrived for 'Style Wednesday'.

We're doomba, say Roomba goombas, unless...

Troubled robot vacuum-cleaner maker iRobot, abandoned by Amazon after regulators effectively doomed the web giant's takeover offer, has warned investors it may not survive the next 12 months.…

A sixth person has been arrested after mother-of-four Joanne Penney, 40, was shot dead on a doorstep in Talbot Green, South Wales last Sunday on March 9.

William, 42, will travel to the Baltic state - which shares a 183-mile border with Russia - to visit the Mercian Regiment in his role as Colonel-in-Chief over two days, March 20 and 21.

D-Wave researchers have published findings in Science demonstrating what they call "quantum supremacy" by showing their quantum annealers can solve problems beyond the reach of classical computers. The team, led by Andrew D. King, demonstrated area-law scaling of entanglement in model quench dynamics of two-, three- and infinite-dimensional spin glasses. The research shows quantum annealers rapidly generating samples that closely match solutions to the Schrodinger equation, supporting observed stretched-exponential scaling in matrix-product-state approaches. According to the paper, D-Wave's processors completed these magnetic materials simulations in under 20 minutes, while the same calculations would require nearly a million years on Oak Ridge National Laboratory's supercomputers. The claim hasn't gone unchallenged. Miles Stoudenmire from the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Quantum Physics argues that classical computers can achieve comparable results using methods developed since D-Wave's initial findings. "We're just saying, 'Look, this one problem at this one time didn't beat classical computers. Try again,'" Stoudenmire noted. The quantum computing community has increasingly shifted terminology from "supremacy" to "advantage" or "utility," focusing on solving practical business or scientific problems faster, more accurately, or more economically than classical alternatives.

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As temperatures across the UK fell sharply after a week of surprise sunshine, revellers brought the heat to the course in Gloucestershire by showing off their most glamorous race day looks.

President Donald Trump vowed to respond to the European Union's new tariffs on the United States as his trade war ramps up.

Ajaz Ahmed, 56, used his café and home as bases to inflict 'horrific' abuse against underaged girls from his home town. He raped one girl, aged 15, in front a group of laughing men.