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How to tell if your online date is a scam artist, according to a former con-man - and why a video call isn't enough to know someone is real

Daily Mail - Science & tech

You're viewing the US edition You can switch to the UK, AU or IE homepage at any time using this menu. Shocking images emerge from Paris after night of devastation amid violent protests across Europe as Trump blames'immigration' for the spiraling mayhem The many faces and scandals of Kimberly Guilfoyle: From her'fertile' years with Gavin Newsom to buying her own engagement ring when Don Jr wouldn't... what friends are saying comes next for'cockroach' Kim The day Kim's controlling first husband stormed in with nude photos of her sister and called them both'wh***s'...and the real story behind THAT sex tape - as told in a compelling new biography of the world's most famous woman Scandal engulfs influencer Shelby Sapp after leaked wedding night photo: Family secrets of'self-made millionaire' are revealed... as insiders lift lid on her $6k'hot girl' sales academy Kimberly Guilfoyle's Greek tragedy: Alone and screaming about leakers as she awaits eviction the deleted photos... and her breathless pleas to top Republicans Kylie Jenner makes shock runway appearance in $50m bra alongside supermodels Bella and Gigi Hadid as they lead bombshells at the 2026 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Raging jealousy behind country's newest'It' couple: Ugly whispers about Ella Langley swirl in Nashville after getting'back' with ex... as details of secret dates and phone checking are revealed France riots live updates: Mayhem in Europe: Streets ablaze in France, luxury stores looted as minister admits police'lost control' Inside Brock Turner's secret life with new identity... as united family image is shattered by fresh scandal a decade after ex Stanford swimmer sexually assaulted unconscious co-ed outside frat house Secrets from Lord of the Rings cast finally spill out: Night of gay abandon when even straight actors joined in and how'cocky' Orlando Bloom couldn't help himself among the local women Harry and Meghan's faux-royal tour in Nottingham exposed why they've really returned. Border czar Tom Homan says there's'strong' evidence that could lead to Ilhan Omar's deportation as Obama comes to defense of congresswoman I see so many patients suffering Mounjaro cramps. JD Vance stuns town hall revealing chance he won't run in 2028... as damning poll throws cold water over potential presidential bid Duke star issues groveling apology after viral video showed him swatting away young female staffer: 'I was completely wrong' How to tell if your online date is a scam artist, according to a former con-man - and why a video call isn't enough to know someone is real Online dating has never been easy, but a new generation of AI-powered scams are now making finding your perfect match riskier than ever before. So how are you supposed to know who to trust?


To game, or not to game? Scientists say interactive adventures could be key to getting children interested in Shakespeare

Daily Mail - Science & tech

You're viewing the US edition You can switch to the UK, AU or IE homepage at any time using this menu. Shocking images emerge from Paris after night of devastation as violent protests spread across Europe and Trump blames'immigration' for the spiraling disorder The many faces and scandals of Kimberly Guilfoyle: From her'fertile' years with Gavin Newsom to buying her own engagement ring when Don Jr wouldn't... what friends are saying comes next for'cockroach' Kim The day Kim's controlling first husband stormed in with nude photos of her sister and called them both'wh***s'...and the real story behind THAT sex tape - as told in a compelling new biography of the world's most famous woman Border czar Tom Homan says there's'strong' evidence that could lead to Ilhan Omar's deportation as Obama comes to defense of congresswoman Scandal engulfs influencer Shelby Sapp after leaked wedding night photo: Family secrets of'self-made millionaire' are revealed... as insiders lift lid on her $6k'hot girl' sales academy Kimberly Guilfoyle's Greek tragedy: Alone and screaming about leakers as she awaits eviction the deleted photos... and her breathless pleas to top Republicans Kylie Jenner makes shock runway appearance in $50m bra alongside supermodels Bella and Gigi Hadid as they lead bombshells at the 2026 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Raging jealousy behind country's newest'It' couple: Ugly whispers about Ella Langley swirl in Nashville after getting'back' with ex... as details of secret dates and phone checking are revealed France riots live updates: Mayhem in Europe: Streets ablaze in France, luxury stores looted as minister admits police'lost control' Inside Brock Turner's secret life with new identity... as united family image is shattered by fresh scandal a decade after ex Stanford swimmer sexually assaulted unconscious co-ed outside frat house Secrets from Lord of the Rings cast finally spill out: Night of gay abandon when even straight actors joined in and how'cocky' Orlando Bloom couldn't help himself among the local women Harry and Meghan's faux-royal tour in Nottingham exposed why they've really returned. Duke star issues groveling apology after viral video showed him swatting away young female staffer: 'I was completely wrong' I see so many patients suffering Mounjaro cramps. The days of poring over Shakespeare's texts and struggling through lines of Elizabethan verse could soon be over. That's because researchers believe video games could be the key to getting children interested in the Bard, by transforming classic plays into interactive adventures.


'Brutal': thousands of T-shirt designs stolen and listed on Temu, Sydney label claims

The Guardian

A comparison of a T-shirt as sold by Lonely Kids Club and Temu. The business owner says AI may have been used to scrape the content of his site and replicate the designs. A comparison of a T-shirt as sold by Lonely Kids Club and Temu. The business owner says AI may have been used to scrape the content of his site and replicate the designs. 'Brutal': thousands of T-shirt designs stolen and listed on Temu, Sydney label claims After 15 years running a small business making T-shirts, Warwick Levy says it was "brutal" when he first discovered an identical design for sale on Temu.


Marina Larroudรฉ Is Disrupting the Fashion Industry One Shoe at a Time

TIME - Tech

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Carlin is a contributor for TIME. Growing up in Sรฃo Paulo, it was so hot that "wearing black was not even an option," says the former fashion director turned shoe designer, 46, who has called New York City home for half her life.


The Watch World Went Crazy This Week. Here Are the 10 You Need to See

WIRED

The Watch World Went Crazy This Week. The main action took place at Geneva Watch Days, but others dialed in remotely to make sure it wasn't just a Swiss party. While Watches and Wonders every April is undoubtedly the watch world's main event of the year, Geneva Watch Days--which inauspiciously launched in 2020, the year Covid was declared a pandemic --is now establishing itself as a serious follow-up. Big brands can hold back key releases and gain valuable space to shout about new pieces away from the horological hubbub of W&W. A second bite of the marketing apple in the latter half of the year seems like a good idea, as Swiss watch exports declined again in 2025 after a drop in 2024.


T-SHIRT: Token-Selective Hierarchical Data Selection for Instruction Tuning

Neural Information Processing Systems

Instruction tuning is essential for Large Language Models (LLMs) to effectively follow user instructions. To improve training efficiency and reduce data redundancy, recent works use LLM-based scoring functions, e.g., Instruction-Following Difficulty (IFD), to select high-quality instruction-tuning data with scores above a threshold. While these data selection methods often lead to models that can match or even exceed the performance of models trained on the full datasets, we identify two key limitations: (i) they assess quality at the sample level, ignoring token-level informativeness; and (ii) they overlook the robustness of the scoring method, often selecting a sample due to superficial lexical features instead of its true quality. In this work, we propose Token-Selective HIeRarchical Data Selection for Instruction Tuning (T-SHIRT), a novel data selection framework that introduces a new scoring method to include only informative tokens in quality evaluation and also promotes robust and reliable samples whose neighbors also show high quality with less local inconsistencies. We demonstrate that models instruction-tuned on a curated dataset (only 5% of the original size) using T-SHIRT can outperform those trained on the entire large-scale dataset by up to 5.48 points on average across eight benchmarks. Across various LLMs and training set scales, our method consistently surpasses existing state-of-the-art data selection techniques, while also remaining both costeffective and highly efficient. For instance, by using GPT-2 for score computation, we are able to process a dataset of 52k samples in 40 minutes on a single GPU.


This shoe is made entirely from mushroom 'brains'

Popular Science

Science This shoe is made entirely from mushroom'brains' Fungi footwear may offer a solution. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Two types of fungi were used to create the boot. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The fashion industry is ecologically tacky, to put it mildly.


Walmart and H&M are trying to turn carbon dioxide into clothes

Popular Science

A startup is transforming polluted air into apparel. At least 15 major brands, including H&M and Walmart, are testing new technology for carbon neutral clothing. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It might not seem like it when you nonchalantly click a Buy Now button while online shopping, but that new t-shirt is part of a complex global web of commerce taking a toll on the environment . Consulting giant McKinsey estimates that the fashion industry alone accounts for as much as 4 percent of total global climate emissions.


Watch Party: The Best TAG in Years, a '60s Sensation, and Omega Goes All White

WIRED

Watch Party: The Best TAG in Years, a '60s Sensation, and Omega Goes All White It's LVMH Watch Week, so here's WIRED's pick of the timepieces that made their debut--plus one notable gatecrasher. The watch world is readying itself for the slew of new releases from the likes of Patek Philippe and Rolex when Watches and Wonders descends on Geneva in April. But this week, the watchmaker Omega and the luxury conglomerate LVMH both spotted a window of opportunity to get pieces out ahead of the annual gathering. Since 2020, LVMH has been kicking off each new year by serving up watches from its stable of brands, including Zenith, TAG Heuer, Hublot, and Louis Vuitton. Meanwhile, Omega--muscling in on LVMH's party somewhat--is leaning into its connection to next month's Winter Olympics in Italy, where it will once again serve as the event's official timekeeper.


Man with metal detector stumbles on perplexing Viking Age grave

Popular Science

The team found the deceased with scallop shelves partly covering the mouth. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It's been a good year for metal detectorists. And now there's yet another discovery to add to the list. Archaeologists in Norway have excavated a Viking Age grave of an individual bedecked in costume and jewelry, as reported by, an outlet that publishes research news from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the Scandinavian research group SINTEF.