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When Melbourne man Mark MacLeod discovered he’d become yet another victim of a common Australian rip-off, he decided something needed to be done.

Machine learning is everywhere in science and technology. But how reliable are these techniques really? A statistician argues that questions of accuracy and reproducibility of machine learning have not been fully addressed.

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:00 P.M.) – The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) is far from finished in Syria, despite some claims by the U.S. administration. The terrorist group has mostly retreated to the Syrian Desert region known as the Badiya Al-Sham, which is located between the Deir Ezzor, Homs, and Al-Sweida governorates. In order to evade airstrikes and […]

The federal government cannot fund new coal-fired power plants without parliamentary approach, according to new legal advice. The Australia Institute obtained the advice that indicates the plan to underwrite new forms of power including coal, could not be enacted unless there is supporting legislation. Amendments put forward by the Greens that prevented public money being used to underwrite coal forced the Coalition to pull its 'big stick' energy legislation last week. The Coalition's 'big stick'... Читать дальше...

1. Disgraced ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner released from prison  AOL
2. Anthony Weiner has been released from federal prison  CNN
3. Anthony Weiner released from prison as part of federal re-entry program  Fox News
4. Disgraced ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner released from Mass. prison  The Boston Globe
5. Anthony Weiner released from prison, will register as sex offender  New York Post
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The airline has taken over its failed sister airline's flights from Aberdeen, Scotland, to Bristol, Oslo, Norway, and Esbjerg, Denmark - along with others

Sen. Marco Rubio traveled to the Colombia-Venezuela border on Sunday to visit aid facilities as cargoes with humanitarian resources arrive, aiming to put additional pressure on the Nicolas Maduro administration.

Social media is increasingly the internet: Facebook was founded in 2004, and it ate the web as we knew it then — a collection of microsites and curiosities run by so many individual proprietors, individually. It used to be that personalization was what you did to your site; now it’s found in the ads you’re served. Peach — the microblogging platform— was seemingly designed against those circumscribed possibilities, as an antidote to the weird world-eating dominion of the Twitters and Facebooks and Instagrams of the universe. Читать дальше...

The creators of a faith-based TV series have taken crowdfunding to a bold new level.

"If he shoots that shot a million times, that's the only one that's going in," Rutgers guard Ron Harper Jr. said after the game.

Brits who enjoyed a balmy February weekend should brace themselves for more familiar weather conditions on Monday.

J.D. Gibbs, the son of the legendary Joe Gibbs, passed away at age 49 after a years-long battle with a degenerative neurological disease. He was honored and remembered during the 11th lap of the 2019 Daytona 500, as the late Gibbs wore No. 11 as a football player.

By Jonny Rashman: Fight week is upon us as British rivals James Degale and Chris Eubank Jnr prepare to go to war. Expect fireworks in what promises to be a true British classic. Will the silky skills of Degale prevail? Or will the ferocious and powerful Eubank Jnr be too much to handle? It’s fair […]

California Democrat Christine Pelosi is demanding the Democratic National Committee run campaigns overseen by people, not corporations.

The cop cars got to the scene of a home break-in at about the same time as a homeless man’s Lyft getaway car, police said, according to NJ.com And when … Click to Continue »

Bravo's first ladies of Manhattan have invaded Miami.

NEW YORK (AP) - A mother whose two toddlers died in a fire while home alone has pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and says her daughters' deaths are "a feeling I can't forget."

For months now, researchers at the University of British Columbia have been closely examining text messages to look for either subtle or explicit signs that they contain romantic or sexual messages.

Politicians squabble over who is to blame for Amazon decision to ditch New York  USA TODAY

Politicians on the left and right continued sniping Sunday over who is to blame for Amazon's shocking decision last week to scuttle plans to build a second ...

"We are heartbroken and I will miss our dear friend. Rest In Peace, Lee Radziwill," designer Tory Burch tweeted on Saturday.

Stars captain Glenn Maxwell has incredibly twisted the focus of his team’s Big Bash grand final post mortem towards his opening batsmen — the only two players to get runs.

Cougar Cubs show their skills