On April 7, 1844, Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon faith, delivered a sermon to twenty thousand of his followers in Nauvoo, Illinois. The immediate occasion was the funeral of King Follett, a close friend of Smith's, and there is no doubt that death was on the prophet's mind. "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!" Smith told the crowd. "That is the great secret." He continued: "You have got to learn how to be gods yourselves . . . the same as all gods have done before you, namely, by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one; from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead."

Paris terror attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has been charged over a deadly shootout with police days before the Brussels bombings. One Islamist suspect was killed and four police were wounded in a gun battle at an apartment in the Forest district of Brussels on March 15. The raid came three days before Abdeslam was arrested and a week before the Brussels attacks on 22 March. Abdeslam's lawyer Sven Mary told AFP: "He has been charged with attempted murder either alone or jointly." Abdeslam is due to be extradited to France in the coming days to face charges over last November's attacks in Paris.

'Our initial scepticism about the hypothesis of the effect raised our curiosity, it could be a good example of how human-computer interaction can have an fundamental effect on human communication,' Dr Garcia told MailOnline. 'We thought data from the web was a good opportunity to test the effect, and to our surprise we found evidence supporting its existence and illustrating some of its limitations.' The pair looked at millions of English-language product names and titles of books, films and video clips that appeared on 11 websites. The websites included Amazon, YouTube and Rotten Tomatoes. Dr David Garcia and Professor Markus Strohmaier wanted to see if the effect had any impact on the way we use words across the web.

China exported military drones worth hundreds of millions of dollars to over 10 countries, state-run media said Thursday. The Asian powerhouse also plans to sell unmanned aircraft capable of launching laser-guided bombs. Chinese drones "have bigger payloads, which means they can carry more weapons" than their rivals, Shi Wen, chief drone designer at the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics, told the China Daily newspaper. Shi did not name the countries that bought the drones, the numbers of drones sold or the exact deal value, but said that the academy's most valuable sale was worth "hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars." The report added that the drones are named Cai Hong, which means rainbow.

American drones fired more ammunition last year than manned warplanes for the first time, according to new data analyzed by Reuters. The news comes three years after U.S. President Barack Obama said that a drawdown of U.S. military forces after 2014 would "reduce the need for unmanned strikes." The data shows just how much American forces have come to rely on the unmanned vehicles to carry out missions in the Middle East and abroad, even while human rights organizations and some foreign governments have raised concerns over what they call an unnecessary amount of civilian casualties. "In recent months it's definitely flowed more," Lieutenant Colonel Michael Navicky, who commands the Air Force's 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, said. "We've seen increased weapons deployment in the past few months, and the demand is insatiable."

For over a hundred years, experts have been predicting that salespeople were on their way out. Turn-of-the-century critics predicted that the traveling salesman would soon become obsolete because the branding and advertising industries would do his job. If this sort of prediction sounds familiar, it's because just in the last decade many have been making the same prediction, for reasons not dissimilar to those of 100 years ago: They say technology--e-commerce, automatic kiosks, and maybe even robots--will soon replace salespeople and cashiers. But there's one thing that these predictions ignore, which is the fact that despite persistent fears of automation's effects on retail hiring, the number of salespeople in the U.S. has actually been increasing. According to the latest Occupational Employment Statistics from the Labor Department, which collects data from roughly 200,000 employers, retail salespeople and cashiers were the two most common occupations in the country. Together, the two jobs are estimated to employ more than 8 million Americans--representing roughly 6 percent of total American employment.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Crescent Dunes looks and sounds a bit like an invention lifted from a science fiction novel. Deep in the Nevada desert more than 10,000 mirrors--each the size of a highway billboard--neatly encircle a giant 640-foot tower. It looks like it might be used to communicate with aliens in deep space. But the engineers and financiers behind the facility, located in the desert about halfway between Las Vegas and Reno, say the power plant's promise is anything but fiction. The solar power facility built and operated by the company SolarReserve can power 75,000 homes.

Thanks to Zalando who kindly offer to be our Host for this meeting. "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." Predicting the past is easy. With enough model complexity we can create elaborate functions that perfectly explain our training data, even the noise. The learning part of ML is all about generalizing to new situations and new data.