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What is more extraordinary: the esteemed and subtle classical actor Sir Simon Russell Beale playing the great and flashy Las Vegas piano-playing showman Liberace?

A six-month British Transport Police trial of live facial recognition at London railway stations scanned more than 500,000 faces, cost over 320,000 pounds, and produced just one alert with no arrests directly resulting from the technology. That one alert ended up being a false positive. Despite those results, BTP has extended the pilot through November and expanded it to selected Underground stations. The Guardian reports: British Transport Police said that since the extension there had been three positive confirmed alerts of people who were subsequently confirmed to be complying with sexual harm prevention orders or other imposed court conditions. When Transport for London announced its support for the extension of the trial, it said LFR technology "will target and identify people on police watchlists at key stations chosen for maximum impact" and would "specifically tackle violence against women and girls, whose travel behaviors are shaped by experiences of sexual harassment and sexual offenses." Fraser Sampson, a former biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner for the UK, said the police needed to show that the use of the technology was proportionate. "There many variables and all need to align: the choice of location, times of day, make up of the watchlist and likelihood of people being present and many more." Sampson, who is now a non-executive director of Facewatch, a company that operates facial recognition systems in shops, added: "We know the technology works, but using it in supermarkets to deter shoplifters and prevent attacks on staff is very different from deploying it to catch people on a public transport network." "Success in a shop means no such people coming in. Success for the police trying to catch people means people being caught. In that respect the trial doesn't appear to have been very fruitful. Everything depends on the police watchlists; if you're not on a watchlist, the live FRT cameras do not "see" you and they don't retain your image in the same way as CCTV cameras. However, they are processing special category personal data and the technology must be used in a way that is appropriate, proportionate and necessary. It's for the police to show how any deployment meets those criteria and -- as the ICO [information commissioner's office] has recently reported -- for their oversight boards to hold them firmly to account in doing so."

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Officers launched a major inquiry after a walker out for a Sunday evening stroll found the deceased child along the shoreline, in Bangor, Gwynedd, at the weekend.

OLIVER HOLT: Those trophies were dishonestly won. The club had cheated and cheated and cheated to get to a position where it was held up as the exemplar of all that was good in the game.

Judge Philip Grey heard that several police officers had gone on long-term sick leave during the investigation - but said any 'competent' organisation should be able to handle such issues.

The bodies were found after they had reportedly been in the yard for a week.

Coleen Rooney says the Wagatha Christie ordeal with Rebekah Vardy 'was the worst time of my life'.

Layne Lundeen, 67, was removed from his flight from Dallas, Texas, to Newark, New Jersey, earlier this month after he allegedly embarked on a tirade featuring racial slurs and homophobic language.

Mikey Madison wowed in a strapless pale yellow beaded dress as she led the stars at The Social Reckoning premiere in London on Tuesday night. 

Essex fire crews have attended a major blaze at a commercial premises in Sturmer.

Essex fire crews have attended a major blaze at a commercial premises in Sturmer.

The allegations have sparked widespread outrage and intense scrutiny of Cornell and local authorities. Three of the accused seven have now publicly denied the claims.

Women can continue to safely use weight loss jabs when trying to conceive without putting their baby at risk, a major new study has suggested.

In addition to the company's GPT-6.1 Astra announcement, OpenAI announced always-on AI agents called "Dots" that can proactively use a computer and connected apps to research, draft documents, write software and handle other tasks on a user's behalf. "OpenAI said it would roll out Dots to paid users starting Tuesday," reports Bloomberg. "Initially, OpenAI said, each user will have access to a single 'dot' that can act as an assistant. Over time, the company expects users to manage a slew of them." From the announcement: Dots are frontier intelligence that have your back. Powered by GPT-6 Astra, they have their own cloud computer, learn from feedback over time, and can work towards your goals 24/7. Through our ecosystem of plugins, they can readily connect to over 4,000 apps, giving them the tools to help wherever you need them. Your dot is always within reach, whether it is through ChatGPT, Slack, or Teams. You can ask questions, explore ideas, and give feedback along the way; or you can simply hop on a voice call when you need to talk something out. The more you work together, the more your dot learns your preferences, how you think, and what good looks like to you. The magic of dots is when they bring you work done the way you would do it, sometimes before you even think to ask. With dots alongside you, ambitious ideas and projects you haven't had the time or support to pursue start to feel achievable.

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Kendall Jenner has shared a behind-the-scenes look as she got ready for L'Oreal's Paris Fashion Week show in the city on Monday evening.

The veteran actor, 81, was spotted getting his fast food fix at a McDonald's in Los Angeles early last week - all while sporting a familiar relic from his heyday.

Two questions remain: who is abusing the CVEs? And why did Citrix take so long to disclose?

Kemi Badenoch led the backlash after the Prime Minister declared he will hit pensioners in the pocket to help fund a huge Labour lurch to the Left.