Gay actor Rupert Everett: ‘I couldn’t think of anything worse than being brought up by two dads’

  Angry gay rights campaigners say 53-year-old ‘should get out a bit more,’  remarks likely to offend couples such as Sir Elton John and David Furnish. However, Rupert Everett says, ‘I’m not speaking on behalf of the gay community in fact, I don’t feel like I’m part of any “community.”   Was Seen As A Champion […]

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New Pool of Talent

The veterans of the Olympic Games cede the victory dais to a younger generation of swimmers who tumble records as easily as turns By They are too young to know fear, but already have the work ethic of mature professionals; they have a young person’s hopes and the obsessiveness of those that have perhaps not yet dreamed enough.

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How Dominique Strauss-Kahn Could Salvage His Political Career

Can Dominique Strauss-Kahn salvage a future in French politics? Despite his legal problems in the U.S., observers say his most optimistic backers are keeping alive scenarios of their champion somehow extricating himself from the catastrophic turn in his once-brilliant career.

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Interview with IBM’s Watson Handler David Ferrucci

Why aren’t you letting Watson speak for himself today?Watson is trained to answer questions for Jeopardy! It’s not an interactive dialogue system, so it can’t conduct its own interviews. You can imagine giving it information so it could answer [impromptu] questions, but it would still be responding only from content it’s been given and analyzed

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