Labour MP Tom Watson apologised after an intern sent a message on Twitter pretending to be him.

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MP sorry over Twitter ‘imposter’

Tom Watson MP calls for the case of Daniel Morgan, murdered in 1987, to be re-investigated in light of the phone hacking inquiry.

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Hacking: MP urges murder review

Veteran actor Edward Hardwicke, best known for starring in the BBC drama Colditz and as Dr Watson in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, dies aged 78.

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Colditz TV actor Hardwicke dies

Shane Watson smashes a world-record 15 sixes on his way to recording the highest individual one-day innings by an Australian as Bangladesh are crushed by nine wickets.

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Aussie Watson hits record sixes

IBM’s supercomputer Watson has trounced its two competitors in a quiz show pitting human brains against computer bytes.

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IBM’s Watson crowned trivia king

IBM supercomputer Watson won its second “Jeopardy!” game in Wednesday’s edition of the TV show, completing a two-game sweep of its two human opponents.

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The Watson computer’s performance was proof that I.B.M. has taken a big step toward a world in which machines will understand and respond to humans.

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On ‘Jeopardy!’, Computer Win Is All but Trivial

In its second outing on “Jeopardy!”, IBM’s Watson computer answered the first 24 questions correctly but got the last one wrong when it confused Toronto for a city in the United States.

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ArtsBeat: Robot Botches Geography on ‘Jeopardy!’

Jenni-Lynn Watson’s shorthand while sending text messages came back to haunt the young man who pleaded guilty Tuesday in Syracuse, New York, to killing the college student, a prosecutor said.

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NY prosecutor: Texts tripped up killer

The first round on Monday in this week’s “Jeopardy!” competition between two former champions and Watson, the I.B.M. computer, was less guys against gadget than “Bambi vs Godzilla.”

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ArtsBeat: Man, Machine and a Trivial Pursuit

Not so smart, are you computer? After pulling ahead early Monday, IBM computer “Watson” slowly lost its lead on Jeopardy! to former champion Brad Rutter. After the first round, Rutter and Watson are tied with $5,000 a piece. (The third contestant, Ken…

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Man Ties Computer on Jeopardy

Iain Watson reveals new figures that show there are almost 1,800 criminals convicted of violent or sexual offences who would become eligible to cast a ballot under new plans to give prisoners voting rights.

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Many violent inmates may get vote

Shane Watson says his mind has been on the devastating floods in Queensland after his unbeaten 161 in the first one-day international against England.

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Humanity squared off against its new overlords on Thursday, when an IBM computer named Watson defeated the Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in its first public test. Watson is composed of ten racks of IBM servers running Linux and has…

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Computer Defeats Humans on Jeopardy

A 21-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder after the discovery of a body believed to be that of missing college student Jenni-Lyn Watson, authorities in Syracuse, New York, said Saturday.

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Body may be missing student; suspect arrested