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Natalie Doorbar was found dead at a home in Biddulph, Staffordshire, on December 27, having used the synthetic drug.

In May Chess.com "quietly launched" a free educational poker site named Gambit, reports The Verge, where players can learn the game and improve an Elo-like rating without risking real money. And next Chess.com will expand into more classic games, including go, backgammon, and mahjong: Like Gambit, Chess.com is developing Elo-style rating systems for these games, as well. [Chess.com's chief growth officer, Albert Cheng] didn't say when the new sites will launch but that "development is moving quite rapidly" on them, using the same playbook he used for Gambit... He and one other employee took Gambit from prototype to launch within a year, partly with help from AI, mainly for coding tasks. "I think the biggest advantage that it's provided is essentially being able to read our existing codebase and our design system and apply consistent patterns to how we develop Chess.com over to a different platform and do so quickly," Cheng said.... "Just because code is easier to write doesn't mean that you just let it run on its own, but it certainly is a superpower in getting things off the ground." Cheng also said the version of Gambit that's live at the time of writing has "zero or close to zero" AI-created assets, which were used in early prototypes. According to Cheng, without help from AI, getting another site up and running would have required a bigger team or "would have been a lot more disruptive to the status quo of building and growing Chess." Now that a "small, scrappy" team can get a new platform off the ground much faster, it's opened the door for Chess.com to dip into more games, starting with poker. The poker site already has 75,000 members, according to a blog post Friday — and they've already played nearly 20 million hands and completed 100,000 lessons. The site is now holding a daily poker tournament, and on Monday will broadcast the event with live commentary on their Twitch and YouTube channels.

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Sitting forlornly on an oak table, three lonely tins of Meghan Markle's $15 flower sprinkles are all that remain of what was once a lavishly promoted outpost of the Duchess's Californian empire.

She is never shy showing off her incredible figure.

Harry Maguire's 'goal' against Ipswich Town left fans across the nation scratching their heads. How could a goal, where the player seemingly handled the ball before shooting, stand?

Families of two pilots killed by a trucker driving dangerously today said it was 'appalling' that they were left waiting for months fearing he would have his sentence cut.

Thousands are already flocking to the streets of Notting Hill for the historical Caribbean event held annually over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

Residents of Middlesbrough say their lives are being blighted by balaclava-clad thugs stealing cars and joyriding through local streets - as well as a spate of gang-linked ramming attacks.

It's already happened — at least on Google Maps. Google's online maps reflect name changes in official government sources, Google posted Saturday. So when the U.S. Geographic Names Information System formally changed the name for "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America," Google also renamed it "Lake America" — for visitors from the U.S. "Those in Canada will continue to see 'Lake Ontario'," Google said. And people from every other country in the world... "will see both names." Though here's how it will be written... Lake Ontario (Lake America) "These updates follow our long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country, and are starting to roll out now." Meanwhile, NPR reports that Ontario's Premier posted a billboard reading "Lake Ontario — Now and Always" on Canada's side of the lake (repeating the message in French). And The Daily Beast reports Google move has also drawn some criticism online: "Hey you gave one of the Great Lakes the wrong name; pretty embarrassing mistake so you might want to fix that," one user wrote on X... MapQuest has said it will not be changing the name, and instead launched a new tool that allows users to rename it themselves to whatever they want.

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Ping! A message on your phone from your partner. What do you anticipate? And what's your texting language to him like now - shopping lists, lengthy explanations or heart-felt declarations of love?

The driver was in a grey Audi and did not have his lights on in High Street South in Dunstable, Bedfordshire when police were alerted around 10.30pm on Saturday.

Nepal-born Pramod Poudel, 34, travelled to the disaster-struck nation to search for his 25-year-old partner Sumitra, who has been missing since Wednesday.

Thousands of drivers use the roundabout every day, but some may not know about its past

The Duke of Sussex has returned to the UK 'just as angry' as he was when he left six years ago, friends claim.

Susanna Reid has revealed she allows herself one day a year to drink, breaking her teetotal lifestyle to party in Ibiza with her sons.

America's public education system has become "an avenue for multitrillion-dollar companies to enact their agendas," argues a NewYork Times reporter who's covered that tech industry influence for over 10 years. Big tech companies "advocate for new laws to require schools to teach industry-aligned subjects. They sit on committees that help shape learning standards for public school students..." The reporter concludes that "Silicon Valley's efforts to capture the attention of education professionals and provide student training materials can also double as marketing or indoctrination." They enable some of the most powerful corporations on the planet to spin rosy technology stories for administrators, teachers and students, giving them a sanitized view of industry practices and product risks. Many parents would likely object if, say, Exxon Mobil wrote their children's environmental science curriculum. Or if Purdue Pharma trained their children's biology teachers. Yet, over the last decade, schools have often embraced the technology industry in similar ways with few questions asked. The article excerpts the soon-to-be-released book " Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools," with the reporter adding more thoughts on LinkedIn: Every few years, Silicon Valley has urged American public schools to quickly adopt the latest technology or teach the latest tech subject: Big Data analytics; laptops for every child; algorithm-driven math and reading apps; compter programming; virtual reality. And each time the urgent arguments sounded remarkably similar: if schools just adopted the latest tech tool, or taught the latest tech subject, it would democratize learning for every child and equip students with valuable career skills. Despite good intentions, "today we know some of those classroom tech drives did not exactly pan out as advertised." Now some of the same companies that urged schools to provide laptops and coding lessons are employing similar arguments to urge schools to quickly adopt A.I. tools. I've spent years covering Chromebooks and student chatbot use. And I'm troubled by our collective amnesia around school tech. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader theodp for sharing the article.

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The widow of Hairy Biker Dave Myers is selling some of his belongings at auction - including his motorbike leathers, trademark waistcoats and Strictly Come Dancing outfit. 

Last week, Inside Sport revealed how the FIFA president had been clocking up the air miles at a staggering rate as he continues to attempt to save his job.