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A 17-year-old girl has been reported missing from Colchester. Essex Police have appealed for the public's help to find her.

A 17-year-old girl has been reported missing from Colchester. Essex Police have appealed for the public's help to find her.

Emily Atack has shared further details of her upcoming wedding to her fiance Alistair Garner as she revealed her big day will be a 'fat, f*** off party'.

The £2.4 million project claims to have improved safety for cyclists and pedestrians. But critics say the money could have been spent better elsewhere and questioned how much safer it is.

Matthew Perry's one-time assistant Kenneth Iwamasa, who injected the Friends star with ketamine on the day he died, has been sentenced to jail.

The new PNP consultation function enables members of the public to have their say by providing feedback on individual public notices.

The new PNP consultation function enables members of the public to have their say by providing feedback on individual public notices.

In a sobering assessment in his long-awaited report, Alan Milburn says the number of so-called Neets is on course to jump by a quarter to 1.25million.

Sarah Ferguson and the Princess of Wales' relationship was a complex one. They both felt very restricted within the confines of the royal family. At the same time, Diana had concerns.

Growing up in a small suburb of Sydney, Russell Crowe could never have believed he would become a household name and Academy Award-winning actor. 

A quick glance at most Gen Z and millennial women's social media feeds and they are most likely filled with compilations and thirst traps of Garrett Graham. 

Holy cow! That's Richard Madeley's favourite expletive - 50 per cent Batman, 50 per cent Scooby Doo, and zero per cent self-awareness.

A stable groom at a British racecourse was sent to hospital after being kicked by a horse in a brutal incident caught on camera.

Essex and Suffolk Gliding Club has issued an update after an aircraft crash at Wormingford Airflied near Colchester.

Essex and Suffolk Gliding Club has issued an update after an aircraft crash at Wormingford Airflied near Colchester.

Drivers face slow traffic and congestion due to the crash

ETH Zurich researchers say they have generated certified "perfect randomness" for the first time by using a quantum Bell-test setup with two entangled superconducting chips connected by a 30-meter cooled link. "In the long term, this work could play a similar role in digital security as atomic clocks do for timekeeping: a physically certified source of randomness that other systems can rely on," reports Phys.org. "Possible applications range from the encryption of sensitive communications and digital identities to public randomness services for lotteries and blockchain applications." From the report: They call their method randomness amplification. "This was made possible by an improved so-called Bell-Test with simultaneously high quality and high data rate," says [Renato Renner and Andreas Wallraff]. He and his coworkers use a complex setup that consists of two superconducting chips, which they cool down to very low temperatures close to absolute zero. Each chip represents a quantum bit or qubit, which can take on the states "0" or "1" or any arbitrary superposition of these states. A 30-meter-long tube, which is also cooled down, connects the two chips. Microwave photons can fly back and forth between them, thus creating quantum mechanical entanglement. This means that a quantum measurement on one qubit, which randomly yields the values "0" or "1," influences automatically and at a distance whether "0" or "1" is measured on the second qubit. The separation of 30 meters ensures that, during the measurement, even at the speed of light, no information can be exchanged between the qubits. This would disturb the perfect randomness. Wallraff and his team made the choice of the exact type of measurement (or "measurement basis" in technical jargon) on the two qubits depending on an imperfect random number generator. Renner's coworkers could then amplify the randomness of the measurement results further using a special algorithm. "The resulting sequence of zeros and ones is now really perfectly random, and we can even certify that," says Renner. He likens this result to crossing a ridge: "The technical improvements allowed us, for the first time, to create random numbers that will remain perfectly random for all eternityâ"no matter what analytical methods are used to assess their randomness." The findings have been published in the journal Nature.

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The Department of Justice has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into E Jean Carroll, the former New York magazine writer who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault.

Detective Superintendent Darren Fielke gave an update on the investigation after detectives and specialist officers returned to Oak Park Station this week to scour new locations.