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Real-estate giant Evergrande is teetering on the verge of collapse, but has managed to fly below the radar on Chinese social media for over a week. This might be due to positive messages about the company being pushed on Weibo comment threads — akin to subreddits — penned by stock…

Fortunately for such artificial neural networks—later rechristened "deep learning" when they included extra layers of neurons—decades of Moore's Law and other improvements in computer hardware yielded a roughly 10-million-fold increase in the number of computations that a computer could do in a second. So when researchers returned to deep learning…

Only 0.19 percent of anti-vaccination health care workers in one Maine hospital have quit amid protests against the state's vaccine mandate for such workers. On August 21, Maine's Democratic Governor Janet Mills announced that all health care workers in the state would have to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in order…

The national bricklayers branch of the builders’ union, Building and Allied Trades Union (BATU), says it will press ahead with its agm at lunchtime on Wednesday despite protests from members that most will be unable to attend as they will be working on sites. Wednesday’s meeting will be the first…

Wednesday marked the third consecutive day of protests in Melbourne, with protesters converging at the Shrine of Remembrance in a tense stand-off with police. Video / Sky News Australia Police have moved in and arrested dozens of protesters who massed at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance this afternoon. The action has…

1.28am BST 01:28 Summary That’s all for today, thanks for following along. Some key links and developments from the day: The White House responded critically to widely shared images of US border patrol agents in Texas rounding up Haitian migrants on horseback. The US will lift Covid-19 travel restrictions to…

A San Antonio doctor who said he had performed an abortion in defiance of Texas’s new law has been sued, setting up a potential test of the legality of the extreme, near-total ban on the procedure. Former attorneys in Arkansas and Illinois filed lawsuits on Monday against Dr Alan Braid,…

The nine stations were closed mainly due to service delivery protests. However, the remaining 23 142 registration stations opened without a hitch, allowing the Commission to register at around 29 305 voters on Sunday morning. Sharon Seretlo, Gallo Images Nine voter stations were not opened on Sunday, on the second…

SHENZHEN, China —  They came from all over the country, dragging cheap suitcases and clutching file folders filled with records, chanting in front of the glassy skyscraper: “Evergrande, pay up!” They were the owners of small lighting and plumbing and construction materials companies, suppliers for Evergrande, one of China’s largest property…

NANAIMO, B.C. - A court injunction against old-growth logging protests on Vancouver Island will remain in effect beyond its expiry date later this month at least temporarily, says a judge who will rule on its future. A sign is shown at the entrance to Eden blockade in the Fairy Creek…