The NFL and Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled a new statistic this week to help rank the league’s most prolific quarterbacks based on their decision-making. The team behind Next Gen Stats (NGS) created the “Passing Score” statistic to assess whether a quarterback made the optimal decision after the play. The NFL said dozens of quarterback […]
More than 2,000 troops from the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) began withdrawing from Kazakhstan on January 13, Russia said, after being called in to help stabilize the Central Asian nation following deadly unrest sparked by a fuel price hike amid an apparent standoff with loyalists of former President Nursultan Nazarbaev. The “collective peacekeeping […]
Once a booming Catskills farming community before it dwindled into a ghost town, Hobart in Delaware County is now a book lover’s paradise. Bill and Diana Adams opened the original bookshop in town in 2000 as a way to store their overflowing books from their Manhattan apartment. Inspired by their choice, Don Dales, a former […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Sally Balcombe, who has been chief executive, first of VisitBritain then of VisitBritain and VisitEngland, for more than seven years, is leaving the national tourism agency to pursue new opportunities. Breaking Travel News
MINSK — Two Belarusian cross-country skiers say they have been barred from competition after sports officials in the tightly controlled country accused them of supporting the country’s political opposition. Svyatlana Andryyuk and Darya Dalidovich told Reuters on January 11 that the Belarus Ski Union annulled their individual athlete registrations last month and therefore they are […]
With every year, more scientists and academics are very specifically trying to lengthen the lifespan of humans and to ensure that those extra years are worth living. Some of these teams are focused on detecting cancer earlier as a means of extending longevity; some are working to improve people’s metabolism. A small but growing group […]
Officials with the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said on Monday that they have not seen the exploitation of Log4Shell result in significant intrusions since the vulnerability came to light in December. CISA director Jen Easterly and executive assistant director for cybersecurity Eric Goldstein fielded questions from reporters during a briefing on Monday, […]
Processors The global shortage of semiconductors and critical minerals that play a part in much of our technology will still be a nuisance in 2022, an analyst says, for some industries more than others. According to a recent report from GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, the semiconductor (or chip) shortage we have seen […]
Afghan refugees in Iran say they are facing hunger, abuse, and deportation. The flood of Afghans seeking refuge in Iran and other countries increased after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021. RFE/RL’s Radio Farda spoke to several Afghans struggling to survive in Iran who are desperate to stay in the country despite […]
Sowmyanarayan Raghunathan Contributor Sowmyanarayan Raghunathan is the VP of Engineering at Talentica Software and an NIT Surat alumnus. He has helped over 50 early and growth-stage startups fulfill their engineering needs and stay ahead of the curve in the last 17 years. In 1992, Ward Cunningham coined the metaphor “technical debt” to highlight how businesses […]