Several GOP congressional representatives refused to comply with metal detector scans at the Capitol barely a week after the building was ransacked and looted by a violent mob incited by Donald Trump, calling the scans “unconstitutional” and “communist.” The situation at the Capitol is being reported on by national political journalists at the scene including…

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian economy will likely take another hit in 2021 but at a less severe level compared to when the Movement Control Order (MCO) was imposed during the first two COVID-19 waves in 2020, economists said. Following the MCO last year, second-quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) shrank by 17.1 per cent. Sunway University…

Sports Jonathan Ramnanansingh 7 Hrs AgoIn this May 18, 2019 file photo, (from left) K-Sean Hercules, Yinga Commissiong, Everton Redman and Jodie Jebodh participate in a race during the Special Olympics Day, at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo. PHOTO BY AYANNA KINSALE. – Ayanna KinsaleTALENT, unfailing belief, sacrifice, commitment, sweat, pain and most importantly a…

Last month, in a viral twitter thread commemorating retrospective “UK bops”, two past hits re-emerged from the crop to much fanfare: ‘Lights On’, the Ms. Dynamite-assisted number that taught us it’s about the marathon, not the sprint, and ‘Katy On A Mission’, which broke down the psychology behind frisson. Additionally, the techno-tinged breakbeat of ‘Broken…

Humans once lived in harmony with the natural world. Consider timekeeping. Until relatively recently, the human notion of time was based on the natural rhythms of nature. Time was measured by a new moon, the first snow, a migrating bird, or the ebb and flow of a river. Time meant situating ourselves as part of…

About | Insights, best practices and techniques for CIOs and IT leaders for harnessing the power of the Intelligent Edge to drive business outcomes. Understanding these trends equips IT leaders to strategically position IT as crucial to successfully maneuvering around whatever the future holds. iStock By Partha Narasimhan, CTO of Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise companyWe…

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Co-developing land for both solar photovoltaic power and agriculture could provide 20% of total electricity generation in the United States with an investment of less than 1% of the annual U.S. budget, a new paper by Oregon State University researchers found.Wide-scale installation of agrivoltaic systems could lead to an annual reduction of…

Pick up a new hobby like learning to draw online. Image: Shutterstock / Bug_Fish By Amy-Mae Turner2021-01-02 22:00:00 UTC You can be lucky enough to be born with the ability to draw, but drawing is also a learnable skill that practice improves and makes perfect-ish. Learning to draw is a very rewarding thing to do…

Hi! Welcome to the Insider Advertising daily for December 31. I’m Lauren Johnson, a senior advertising reporter at Business Insider. Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every weekday. Send me feedback or tips at [email protected] For today’s newsletter, the last of the year, we’re recapping the year’s biggest stories. The pandemic and…

The machine learning community, particularly in the fields of computer vision and language processing, has a data culture problem. That’s according to a survey of research into the community’s dataset collection and use practices published earlier this month. What’s needed is a shift away from reliance on the large, poorly curated datasets used to train…