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More than 100,000 people have gone through micro1’s screenings with hopes of being added to its marketplace of engineers, and the company lists a number of tech companies, including DoNotPay (whose CEO has also invested in micro1) among…

Posing a far greater challenge for AI researchers was the game of Diplomacy—a favorite of politicians like John F. Kennedy and Henry Kissinger. Instead of just two opponents, the game features seven players whose motives can be hard to…

The "worst town in the UK for a night out" has been revealed by the couple trying to go to every single pub in the country. The pair behind the Great British Pub Crawl Dale Harvey, 37, and fiancée Holly Booth, 32, have made something of a…

The title card that opens 1979’s original Mad Max places the action in a very near future, looming just “a few years from now.” George Miller’s cult action-thriller captured the edginess of a world teetering on the brink. The film depicts a…

A UK town has been slammed as the worst place in the country to visit for a short stay.“Rundown dump” Derby has suffered in respected consumer publication Which?’s recent study of the best and worst towns in the UK for a short jaunt. The…

Brits are getting specific about why their hometown, recently dubbed the worst in Britain, apparently deserves its seedy reputation for reasons stretching from its boozy antics to chaotic street fights.Locals say Skegness, in Lincolnshire,…

Residents living in a town that has been ranked up there among major cities for crime rates have hit back at claims its a dangerous place to live.Accrington’s overall crime rate ranks higher than Manchester and Liverpool, but folk living in…

Google Search is about to fundamentally change—for better or worse. To align with Alphabet-owned Google’s grand vision of artificial intelligence, and prompted by competition from AI upstarts like ChatGPT, the company’s core product is…

Toxic rivers of waste now flow through a bluebell wood, residents claim, after tonnes of rubbish was reportedly dumped illegally.A stench of rotting eggs so strong you can taste it is emitted from the four-acre dump in Hoad's Wood, a…

Locals have dubbed Jaywick, Essex, a "s**thole through and through" after it was branded England's most deprived neighbourhood.The Ministry of Housing recently bestowed the title upon the Clacton neighbourhood for the third time in 10…