Xuedong Huang, technical fellow in charge of Microsoft’s speech, natural language and machine translation efforts. (Photo by Scott Eklund/Red Box Pictures)A team of Microsoft researchers said Wednesday that they believe they have created the first machine translation system that can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy…

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Theresa May has moved to dismantle a Russian spy “network” in the UK, expelling 23 embassy officials in the biggest number of diplomatic expulsions since the Cold War. The dramatic decision to remove “undeclared intelligence officers” came alongside measures to freeze Russian assets, cut off high-level communication with Moscow, pass new anti-espionage powers and isolate Vladimir Putin at…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionTheresa May announces measures to send a « clear message » to Russia over the use of a nerve agent in SalisburyThe White House says it « stands in solidarity » with « its closest ally » the UK and supports its decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats. PM Theresa May said the…

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The White House said it ‘stands in solidarity with its closest ally’ (Picture: Getty)The US has thrown its diplomatic weight behind the UK as Britain braces itself for Russian retaliation after Theresa May hit back at Moscow over the Salisbury nerve agent attack. As the Kremlin made it clear it is readying its response to…

Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool Photo via AP Russia has vowed to hit back after Theresa May announced she is expelling 23 of the country’s diplomats in retaliation over the nerve agent attack on a former spy. The nation warned its response « will not be long in coming” after Prime Minister Mrs May declared…

The Russian spy’s daughter may have been the real target of the poisoning in Salisbury, a relative claims. Yulia Skripal, 33, is controversially engaged to the son of a high-ranking Russian security official, her cousin Victoria says. His family does not approve of Yulia because she is the daughter of « traitor » Sergei Skripal who was…