BBC spent £28m of licence-fee payers' money gagging 500 staff - Telegraph

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Police powers finally kettled by High Court

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Police powers finally kettled by High Court

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Michael Hastings Dead at 33 | Politics News | Rolling Stone

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Michael Hastings Dead at 33 | Politics News | Rolling Stone

Jose Antonio Vargas This is beyond tragic--Michael Hastings is an original, necessary, probing, fearless, compassionate, righteous, necessary (yes, using that word twice) journalist. A reporter's reporter who cut through the bullshit. Tragic. Rest in piece, my friend. Your work, and your humanity, will not be forgotten. http://rol.st/13RnZ5W

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Real Life Spy Drama On U.S. Bound Plane: "I'm Dead Already, They're Gonna Kill Me" *VIDEO REPORT*

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Microsoft Makes Speech Recognition Faster and More Accurate on Windows Phone 8

By Michele Masterson on June 18, 2013

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Thanks to scientists at Microsoft, Bing’s voice search and voice-to-text are now twice as fast and 15 percent more accurate on Windows Phone 8. The Microsoft Research (MSR) team has been working on improvements in speed and accuracy over the past year by using Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) technology.

The researchers found that DNNs can learn across languages, Microsoft said, which is important since speech recognizers have to trained on huge amounts of example speech data. Transcribing large files can be greatly reduced when data from one language can help improve accuracy for another.

“By coupling MSR’s major research breakthroughs in the use of DNNs with the large datasets provided by Bing’s massive index, the DNNs were able to learn more quickly and help Bing voice capabilities get noticeably closer to the way humans recognize speech,” the company said in a blog post. “We also made a few improvements under the hood that allowed Bing to more easily identify speech patterns and cut through ambient and background noise, cutting down response time by half and improving the word error rate by 15 percent, even in noisy situations.”

“I first realized the effect of the DNN when we successfully achieved significant error-rate reduction on the voice-search data set after implementing the context-dependent deep-neural-network hidden Markov model,” said Dong Yu, senior researcher in the Conversational Systems Research Center at MSR, in a statement. “Our results significantly advanced the state of the art, both in industry and in the academic community. Before our results, deep learning was only tested on small tasks and did not attract wide attention. I believe this is just the first step in advancing the state of the art. Many difficult problems may be attacked under this framework, which might lead to even greater advances.”

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Yahoo reveals US surveillance requests

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Yahoo reveals US surveillance requests

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Watch The World’s Longest Book Domino Chain - DesignTAXI.com

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Artist Sketches Mind-Bending 3D-Illusions On Paper - DesignTAXI.com

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400,000 households avoid paying for a TV licence by watching BBC programmes on iPlayer

Caroline WhiteBedroom Tax...think its unfair...join the fight here Do you really need a TV License ,,, saw this on Sky this morning : The Facts The BBC said there were many different reasons why households did not need a licence. In a statement the broadcaster said: 'There are a number of reasons for notifying TV Licensing if no licence is needed. 'It is getting harder and harder to make the licence fee work because there are now so many different ways of viewing TV content.' These include: if the address is unoccupied; if no TV receiving equipment is being used at the address; if a TV is used ONLY to watch DVDs or for Gaming purposes; or if only catch-up or on-demand services are used at the address.' Not to do with bedroom tax but as we all need every penny we can thought this might be useful

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400,000 households avoid paying for a TV licence by watching BBC programmes on iPlayer

Caroline WhiteBedroom Tax...think its unfair...join the fight here Do you really need a TV License ,,, saw this on Sky this morning : The Facts The BBC said there were many different reasons why households did not need a licence. In a statement the broadcaster said: 'There are a number of reasons for notifying TV Licensing if no licence is needed. 'It is getting harder and harder to make the licence fee work because there are now so many different ways of viewing TV content.' These include: if the address is unoccupied; if no TV receiving equipment is being used at the address; if a TV is used ONLY to watch DVDs or for Gaming purposes; or if only catch-up or on-demand services are used at the address.' Not to do with bedroom tax but as we all need every penny we can thought this might be useful

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At last, the edifice of drugs prohibition is starting to crumble

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At last, the edifice of drugs prohibition is starting to crumble

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British Defense Officials Send Out Media Notice To Censor Further Leaks From Edward Snowden

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British Defense Officials Send Out Media Notice To Censor Further Leaks From Edward Snowden

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Stuart Hall sentenced to 15 months

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Stuart Hall sentenced to 15 months

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State photo-ID databases become troves for police

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State photo-ID databases become troves for police

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The New Era of Cognitive Computing

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The New Era of Cognitive Computing

IBM Watson · 38,716 like this. 20 minutes ago · A Lesson in The New Era of Cognitive Computing

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Join the Food Revolution, Eat Local

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Assistant State Attorney Brian Workman: Stop the prosecution of an 18 year old girl in a...

As the summer of 2012 came to an end, the future looked bright for 17-year-old Sebastian River High School senior Kaitlyn Hunt. Voted the student with "Most School Spirit" by her peers, Kaitlyn was an active cheerleader, a basketball player, a camp counselor and cheering coach, and a medical assistant training to join the nursing program at Valencia College after graduation. She looked forward to a career helping others and a memorable final year of high school. At the beginning of the school year, Kaitlyn made friends with a 14-year-old freshmen girl in Sebastian River High's IB program who played varsity sports and took classes with upper classmen. The girls were peers in the same social circle, and as happens every day in high schools across America, their friendship eventually developed into more. In September, shortly after Kaitlyn's 18th birthday, the girls began dating, and they eventually expressed their affection for one another in intimate ways. When the girls' basketball coach found out that two of her players were dating, she kicked Kaitlyn off the team and informed her girlfriend's parents that their daughter was in a same-sex relationship. The parents then conspired with police to entrap Kaitlyn and press charges. The police recorded a phone conversation between the two girls, who today are 18 and 15, in which they discussed their relationship. Kaitlyn was arrested and charged with two counts of felony lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12-16. Kaitlyn's girlfriend denies that Kaitlyn ever pressured her and is adamant that their relationship is entirely consensual, but her parents are out to destroy Kaitlyn's life. After two separate judges ruled that Kaitlyn could finish her senior year with her peers, her girlfriend's parents appealed to the Indian River County School Board, who expelled Kaitlyn sent her to the alternative school. The law is designed to protect our children, but the law does not serve its purpose when it is applied to consensual behavior between peers. What can you do to help? First, please sign this petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/indian-river-county-state-attorney-s-office-stop-the-prosecution-of-an-18-year-old-girl-in-a-same-sex-relationship?utm_campaign=friend_inviter_chat&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=permissions_dialog_false Next, if you're a resident of Florida, please contact your state legislators and tell them the law needs to protect high school peers from prosecution. Find your state legislators here: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Welcome/index.cfm?CFID=295718277&CFTOKEN=95887900 If not a Florida resident, contact your legislators, anyway. Most states have similarly unjust laws. If you know a high school student, make sure he or she knows the law. We don't want our children going to jail out of ignorance. Finally, share this story with everyone you know. Things need to change. We can make that change happen together.

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Assistant State Attorney Brian Workman: Stop the prosecution of an 18 year old girl in a...

As the summer of 2012 came to an end, the future looked bright for 17-year-old Sebastian River High School senior Kaitlyn Hunt. Voted the student with "Most School Spirit" by her peers, Kaitlyn was an active cheerleader, a basketball player, a camp counselor and cheering coach, and a medical assistant training to join the nursing program at Valencia College after graduation. She looked forward to a career helping others and a memorable final year of high school. At the beginning of the school year, Kaitlyn made friends with a 14-year-old freshmen girl in Sebastian River High's IB program who played varsity sports and took classes with upper classmen. The girls were peers in the same social circle, and as happens every day in high schools across America, their friendship eventually developed into more. In September, shortly after Kaitlyn's 18th birthday, the girls began dating, and they eventually expressed their affection for one another in intimate ways. When the girls' basketball coach found out that two of her players were dating, she kicked Kaitlyn off the team and informed her girlfriend's parents that their daughter was in a same-sex relationship. The parents then conspired with police to entrap Kaitlyn and press charges. The police recorded a phone conversation between the two girls, who today are 18 and 15, in which they discussed their relationship. Kaitlyn was arrested and charged with two counts of felony lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12-16. Kaitlyn's girlfriend denies that Kaitlyn ever pressured her and is adamant that their relationship is entirely consensual, but her parents are out to destroy Kaitlyn's life. After two separate judges ruled that Kaitlyn could finish her senior year with her peers, her girlfriend's parents appealed to the Indian River County School Board, who expelled Kaitlyn sent her to the alternative school. The law is designed to protect our children, but the law does not serve its purpose when it is applied to consensual behavior between peers. What can you do to help? First, please sign this petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/indian-river-county-state-attorney-s-office-stop-the-prosecution-of-an-18-year-old-girl-in-a-same-sex-relationship?utm_campaign=friend_inviter_chat&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=permissions_dialog_false Next, if you're a resident of Florida, please contact your state legislators and tell them the law needs to protect high school peers from prosecution. Find your state legislators here: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Welcome/index.cfm?CFID=295718277&CFTOKEN=95887900 If not a Florida resident, contact your legislators, anyway. Most states have similarly unjust laws. If you know a high school student, make sure he or she knows the law. We don't want our children going to jail out of ignorance. Finally, share this story with everyone you know. Things need to change. We can make that change happen together.

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Foreign Secretary welcomes US assessment of chemical weapon use by Assad

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Foreign Secretary welcomes US assessment of chemical weapon use by Assad

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Pardon Edward Snowden | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

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Pardon Edward Snowden | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

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Make Your Own Natural Toothpaste

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Make Your Own Natural Toothpaste

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Can magic mushrooms and cannabis treat depression?

Georgia Toons You bet...

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Can magic mushrooms and cannabis treat depression?

Georgia Toons You bet...

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NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants

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NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants

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The Genius Way To Farm Huge Amounts Of Food Right Inside The City

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The Genius Way To Farm Huge Amounts Of Food Right Inside The City

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What is inside the water canons ? - Page 1

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What is inside the water canons ? - Page 1

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Rejoignez-nous ! Join us ! Unete a nosotras! انضم إلينا!

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