All Stories: Blade Runner

'Every year we're developing new technology -- like deep learning, which has improved the performance of pattern recognition'

Hollywood actor Rutger Hauer, who became a global cult icon for his role as the scary yet thought-provoking humanoid android in the 1982 sci-fi classic "Blade Runner", has died at the age of 75.

LOS ANGELES: Canadian director Denis Villeneuve says making a sequel to 1982 cult film "Blade Runner", in which Harrison Ford hunted down humanoids, is "an insane project" but that it is one the way nonetheless.

PRETORIA: Oscar Pistorius shuffled without his prosthetic legs through a Pretoria court on Wednesday to demonstrate how vulnerable he is without his artificial limbs, an attempt by the athlete's defense team to avoid a long jail sentence for murder.

PRETORIA: Oscar Pistorius returned to court a day after being described as a "broken" man who should be hospitalised rather than jailed, as he attended sentencing for the murder of his girlfriend three years ago.

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: Disgraced South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius will appear in court on Monday for a sentencing hearing set to send him back to jail for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp three years ago.