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The warm welcome afforded to Donald Trump by Yvette Cooper was a far cry from her past comments about the Republican politician.

The First Lady wore an extraordinarily large wide-brimmed purple wool hat which for the most part, kept her eyes hidden.

Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food'

NASA has delayed a supply delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) after the engines of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft did not perform as expected during an orbit-raising burn.…

AI models often produce false outputs, or "hallucinations." Now OpenAI has admitted they may result from fundamental mistakes it makes when training its models. The Register: The admission came in a paper [PDF] published in early September, titled "Why Language Models Hallucinate," and penned by three OpenAI researchers and Santosh Vempala, a distinguished professor of computer science at Georgia Institute of Technology. It concludes that "the majority of mainstream evaluations reward hallucinatory behavior." The fundamental problem is that AI models are trained to reward guesswork, rather than the correct answer. Guessing might produce a superficially suitable answer. Telling users your AI can't find an answer is less satisfying. As a test case, the team tried to get an OpenAI bot to report the birthday of one of the paper's authors, OpenAI research scientist Adam Tauman Kalai. It produced three incorrect results because the trainers taught the engine to return an answer, rather than admit ignorance. "Over thousands of test questions, the guessing model ends up looking better on scoreboards than a careful model that admits uncertainty," OpenAI admitted in a blog post accompanying the release.

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The Men Behaving badly star, 65, received the payout after contracting a near fatal superbug while in hospital for broken ribs.

The Princess of Wales and US First Lady Melania Trump put on a masterclass in navigating tricky ground in towering heels while walking across the lawns of Windsor Castle on Wednesday.

American businesses join Win 10 upgrade train, consumers happy to sit on the platform

World War Fee  The US PC industry is suffering from inventory indigestion caused by resellers over-ordering hardware to avoid Donald Trump's expected import taxes on China-made kit.…

In text messages revealed as Robinson made his first court appearance on Tuesday, the suspect was shown to have warned his transgender lover Lance Twiggs not to speak to police.

Queen Camilla found herself in what appeared to be a slightly awkward position today, while welcoming Donald and Melania Trump to Windsor Castle for their historic state visit.

The father-of-two was told to pay for his own residential care after officials found he'd handed the money over, leaving him below the £23,250 threshold where he would have to pay for himself.

Roland Matranxh and two others were caught red-handed when police raided their house and found large bags of cannabis worth up to £200,000, alongside £11,000

The Food Standards Agency has issued a warning to shoppers after a popular breakfast cereal was found to contain an ingredient that could cause life-threatening allergic reactions

Councillor Mason Humberstone said Labour was 'lost' and had forgotten about 'ordinary, hardworking people' as he crossed the floor on Stevenage Borough Council.

Alun Ebenezer, 50, was dubbed the 'headmaster from hell' by parents after he sent 50 children home in one day over uniform violations such as wearing the wrong socks and the lengths of girls' skirts.

The most common trigger for a heart attack is a clot forming in a narrowed artery, but researchers have uncovered other dangerous, and frequently missed, culprits.

Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead 22 villagers in western Niger, most attending a baptism ceremony, local media and other sources said Tuesday.

It comes as the First Lady takes her star turn on the world stage during her husband's historic second state visit to the United Kingdom this week.

If global temperatures continue rising, virtually all the corals in the Atlantic Ocean will stop growing and could succumb to erosion by the end of the century, a new study finds. From a report: The analysis of over 400 existing coral reefs across the Atlantic Ocean estimates that more than 70 percent of the region's reefs will begin dying by 2040 even under optimistic climate warming scenarios. And if the planet exceeds 2 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial temperatures by the end of the century, 99 percent of corals in the region would meet this fate. Today, the planet has warmed about 1.3 degrees Celsius over preindustrial temperatures. The implications are grave. Corals act as the fundamental building blocks of reefs, providing habitat for thousands of species of fish and other marine life. They are also bulwarks that break up waves and help protect shorelines from rising sea levels. A quarter of all ocean life depends on coral reefs and over a billion people worldwide benefit from them, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Hatton was found dead at his home in Hyde, Greater Manchester, on Sunday. His death is not being treated as suspicious.

Jensen Huang, the boss of AI chipmaker Nvidia, said the UK can be an 'AI superpower' - but admitted electricity prices were a 'challenge' in the 'near term'.