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1. DeepMind invents AI tool to write novel computer code  Financial Times
2. Competitive programming with AlphaCode  DeepMind
3. DeepMind AI rivals average human competitive coder  BBC News
4. DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer  The Verge
5. DeepMind’s AlphaCode AI writes code at a competitive level  TechCrunch
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AlphaCode system created by Google’s UK-based unit rivals expertise of human contestants in coding competitions

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Boris Johnson is reportedly planning to stop daily Covid-19 death updates as part of the UK “learning to live” with the virus.

The man behind Britain’s most ambitious mussel farming project has been left fuming, following yet another apparent u-turn from George Eustice, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural A…

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3 Feb 2022 – The Beijing Winter Olympics are under way!

Sadly no NZ curlers qualified for Beijing, but we'll still have literally hundreds of hours of top-class curling to feast our eyes on for the next 17 days.

The Mixed Doubles competition is on now, with the finals on February 8th. The Men's and Women's fours then get underway and run through until the last day of the Games on February 20th.

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Doane Wrestling went 3-0 on January 29 at the GPAC Duals to cap their second straight undefeated season in conference matches. The performance was highlighted by the efforts of Chinges Tsermaa (SO/Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), who has been named the GPAC Wrestler of the Week after posting a perfect record on the weekend.

Considering we spend a third of our lives doing it, sleep sure is mysterious. We don’t remember most of the time we spend doing it, and we spend a lot of our waking lives passing around information—and misinformation—about how to do it better.

Here are 11 of the most pervasive, misleading myths about sleep. It’s time…

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2021 was the year of Aaron Herrera, proving again and again that he deserves national team attention.

I checked in with Dee Caffari, one of the world's most experienced offshore skippers, and Shirley Robertson, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and internationally respected journalist, about their campaign for the UK's 2022 Double Handed Offshore Series.

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The respected trainer thinks Barrios is primed to make an upset in first fight at 147.

The main branch of the La Crosse Public Library will be closed for three weeks to begin the building’s much-anticipated renovation project, officials confirmed at a meeting Tuesday night.

Former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss his racial discrimination lawsuit against the NFL. Watch now.

Higher rents are eating into buyers’ down-payment savings, while rising home prices mean they need to come up with a bigger down payment. That puts house hunters in a difficult spot.

Seasons like the one we’re about to have in Formula 1 bring many question marks. With an all-new approach to aerodynamics carrying the potential to shake up the running order, it’s quite possible we’ll see former champions further down the field than anyone would expect, alongside unlikely challengers. Everyone will…

Hulu continues to be a movie lover’s secret weapon in February 2022, getting ahead of Oscars buzz with the streaming debut of Guillermo del Toro’s carnival noir Nightmare Alley, starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett as a sham psychic and a conniving psychiatrist playing a dangerous of cat and mouse in ‘40s…

While Sony’s Spidey dreams have been dashed, Warner Bros., Disney, and United Artists are on their way to best-picture nominations after hard-fought campaigns.

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DeepMind has created an AI system named AlphaCode that it says “writes computer programs at a competitive level.” The Alphabet subsidiary tested its system against coding challenges used in human competitions and found that its program achieved an “estimated rank” placing it within the top 54 percent of human coders. The result is a significant step forward for autonomous coding, says DeepMind, though AlphaCode’s skills are not necessarily representative... Читать дальше...

Wrk, a startup developing an automation solution for business processes, has raised $43.56 million across a series of funding rounds.

Chloë Grace Moretz and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are set to star together in “White Night,” a psychological thriller inspired by the true story of the mass murder-suicide in the Jonestown cult in 1978.

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Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Europe

Although a member of NATO, Hungary has so far avoided criticizing Russia for its buildup on the Ukrainian border. 

After a meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban told reporters that he had requested an expansion to Hungary’s fifteen-year contract with Russian energy giant Gazprom, in theory allowing Hungary to receive larger deliveries even as gas prices continue to rise. Читать дальше...