Computers learning to play video games: why it matters
UK researchers have created a programme capable of playing a large number of computer games, looking only at the information on the screen.
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The decision to overturn the convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of Meredith Kercher may bring to an end a saga that began in a bedroom in Perugia seven years ago.
Hundreds of people gather in central London to see the unveiling of the statue of Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi.
UK researchers have created a programme capable of playing a large number of computer games, looking only at the information on the screen.
There is a sea change going on within Syriza. I’ve heard people who were staunch believers in a euro that can accommodate by negotiation a radical left government say, effectively, they were wrong.
A civil rights worker in Nigeria’s restive northeast organised the dramatic rescue of nearly 500 schoolgirls from a town under attack by Boko Haram.
The people smugglers in Turkey are Syrians and they tell us they’re doing their compatriots a favour. Here, in Mersin Otogar, we meet a smuggler and a Syrian family desperate to reach Europe.
For the first time in nearly a decade and a half we are not formally at war – but exactly how many “security” or “military” people we have left behind in Iraq and Afghanistan is an imprecise matter.
North Korea won’t have to wait much longer for Sony’s film The Interview to premiere in the country, with activists in South Korea planning to send copies over the border by balloon.
The charity Crisis opens its doors to an expected 4,000 Christmas guests amid claims that benefit cuts are driving up homelessness.
Kilian Jornet was born to be in the mountains. Heralded as the world’s best at his extreme calling, next week he flies to the Andes to try and set the speed record for scaling Aconcagua.
The Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, which reached the corridors of power before a spectacular fall from grace, funded itself in classic mafia style through protection rings, blackmail and more.
Toy brick maker Lego says it will not renew its marketing contract with Shell – but denies the move to break ties with the oil giant has anything to do with a Greenpeace campaign.
After the death of a woman who targeted the McCann family with online abuse, Channel 4 News finds a website that has assembled 27 dossiers on people it claims post “McCann hate”.
DJ Neil Fox is arrested over alleged historical sex offences against two women. The 53-year-old Magic FM presenter is being questioned at a police station in central London.
The former Northern Ireland first minister’s death was announced by his wife. Martin McGuinness, of Sinn Fein, said his working relationship with Paisley had developed into a friendship.