Why has Koyambedu been so badly affected in all stages of the pandemic response?

Between the world wars of the early Twentieth Century, an age of adventure travel and cultural exploration flourished when newly developed transport and recording technologies–particularly […]

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With the microblogging site emerging as a key platform for information dissemination, many central banks are active on Twitter, especially in these times of economic uncertainties amid the coronavirus pandemic.

​​The current lockdown has prompted even fence-sitters to begin using these tools, as they face constraints in accessing critical information that resides on systems in company premises

Russia comes to Radlett for Radlett Musical Theatre Company’s production of Fiddler on the Roof.

The enchanting world of CBeebies’ hit animated series Sarah & Duck comes to life on stage in Radlett this week. Featuring a host of characters from the BAFTA Award-winning TV show, Sarah & Duck’s Big Top Birthday plays three performances at the Radlett Centre on Friday, March 6, and Saturday, March 7.

The UK’s much-loved best family festival, ​Camp Bestival​, and original family ravers ​Big Fish Little Fish have teamed up once again to host their legendary family rave tour.

Money can be particularly tight at this time of year, but one trend helping to combat this is taking on a sideline job - aka a 'side hustle'.

Yoga studios around the country are scrambling to add daytime classes for kids to meet the demands of home-school families.

NYT and Google teamed up to find the most distinctive Thanksgiving dishes by state. Some of the more unusual ones have whipped topping in common.

The gender-neutral naming trend is spurred in part by parents who want to avoid assigning gender roles to their children at birth.

Many beloved matrimonial customs, from bridesmaids to the garter toss, got their start for some pretty disturbing reasons.

Many city dwellers are opting to give up driving their own cars for a month to take Zipcar's Low-Car Diet challenge. Could you go car-lite for 30 days?

When people see animals everywhere in pop culture, they assume they're everywhere in real life.

Oyster mushrooms are one of the few fungi that hunt prey. And that fact may help us fight cancer!

The developers of Mars rovers, the Hybrid X electric car, and a wastewater cleaning technique are also recognized in the magazine's annual Breakthrough Awards.

A new book, "Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World," suggests that status matters throughout life, not just in high school.

While cigarette sales are slumping, sales for cigars have more than doubled in the last decade.

Carey Gillam’s book "Whitewash" finds that glyphosate, the chemical in Monsanto’s Roundup, is everywhere – and evidence that it causes harm has been suppressed.

･ Broadcasts to get underway from April 10 to mark 50th anniversary of launch of "BEAVER" brand ･ Residential-use ad to focus on outstanding comfort from diverse advanced features; commercial-use ad to highlight IoT-based operating control and energy efficiency

Two decades after approving imidacloprid, the EPA is re-examining how it and similar pesticides affect bees.

The rare and stunningly beautiful phenomenon of Yosemite's firefall at Horsetail Falls only occurs during a two-week window in February.

This interactive map reveals the top three Halloween treats in each state.

Not sure what to get as a Valentine's Day gift for the guy in your life? Many people are in exactly the same situation, so don't stress yourself about not being able to come up with a great romantic gift on your own. This holiday is really about the love you have for each other, and how much you enjoy spending time together.

This article describes the many iPods generations and features that made this product one of the most popular mp3 mp4 players of all times.

Online education (or 'webucation') has become incredibly popular over the past few years, and many universities are now offering part or all of their courses online. This article explores the reasons for the sudden surge in popularity and helps readers evaluate whether online education is a good option for them.

Men who are into female bodybuilders are flocking to the Internet in the hopes of meeting macho dolls of their dreams.

Popular healthy-living enthusiast, recently shared her favorite breakfast recipe using Chino Valley Ranchers' Cage Free Liquid Egg Whites.

World's Cultural Experience Story… Children can learn the 'diversity of world cultures' - Endless challenge of FunnyFlux, 'Season 3' after Super Wings 1 and 2 is drawing global attention

Breast reduction has grown rapidly in popularity and now has one of the highest patient satisfaction rates of any procedure.

Breast augmentation is now the most popular plastic surgery in America with over 300,000 procedures being performed each year.

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PlayTable strenghtens ties in the board game industry

'Learn Learn Learn: A Technology Update and review with Henry Halladay' is preparing to deliver its season one finale. For the past year, fans have tuned in quarterly to catch former Boeing engineer and tech enthusiast, Dr. Henry Halladay.

Many not-for-profits organizations have been concerned about the taxability of parking and transportation benefits as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Fortunately, Congress recently moved to repeal the dreaded “parking tax” on fringe benefits, such as free… Read More

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Time to explore the magical golden triangle circuit.

We may no longer dry papads at home in summer, but this uniquely Indian product deserves to be celebrated.

Funding the production of quality online content is a pressing problem for content producers. The most common funding method, online advertising, is rife with well-known performance and privacy harms, and an intractable subject-agent conflict: many users do not want to see advertisements, depriving the site of needed funding.

Because of these negative aspects of advertisement-based funding, paywalls are an increasingly popular alternative for websites. This shift to a "pay-for-access" web is one that has potentially huge implications for the web and society. Instead of a system where information (nominally) flows freely, paywalls create a web where high quality information is available to fewer and fewer people, leaving the rest of the web users with less information, that might be also less accurate and of lower quality. Despite the potential significance of a move from an "advertising-but-open" web to a "paywalled" web, we find this issue understudied.

This work addresses this gap in our understanding by measuring how widely paywalls have been adopted, what kinds of sites use paywalls, and the distribution of policies enforced by paywalls. A partial list of our findings include that (i) paywall use is accelerating (2x more paywalls every 6 months), (ii) paywall adoption differs by country (e.g. 18.75% in US, 12.69% in Australia), (iii) paywalls change how users interact with sites (e.g. higher bounce rates, less incoming links), (iv) the median cost of an annual paywall access is $108 per site, and (v) paywalls are in general trivial to circumvent.

Finally, we present the design of a novel, automated system for detecting whether a site uses a paywall, through the combination of runtime browser instrumentation and repeated programmatic interactions with the site. We intend this classifier to augment future, longitudinal measurements of paywall use and behavior.

Put pictures of 1975-era Aerosmith and 1995-era Guided By Voices next to each other and you probably wouldn’t think the bands have anything in common.…

Brian Batchelor, once described by the Daily Echo as ‘the most versatile singer in the South’, has died at the age of 87.

A POPULAR Southampton tea rooms will not reopen following the coronavirus crisis after becoming the latest victim of the pandemic.

THIS stunning Hampshire barn conversion with period charm and a side gate to one of the county's best golf clubs could be yours for less than £1.5 million.

King Digital Entertainment Plc, owner of Candy Crush, has signed an exclusive licensing deal with Mumbai-based Dream Theatre, to license and sell Candy Crush branded products across South Asia.

Going forward, the big question is whether the NWSL, and professional women's sports in general, can capitalize on the momentum created by the U.S. women's national team's success. Doing so would require an investment from more than just the athletes. “I think it’s time that everyone else steps up,” Rapinoe said.

IMAGINE IT’S 1683, and you live in England. You might be in the throes of the Age of Enlightenment, but the state of medicine is still downright medieval, so when you or your loved ones are afflicted with sleeplessness, or indigestion, or hangovers, or even low libido, you could make a trip to the barber-surgeon, or […]

Het aantal Nederlandse consumenten dat een vaste telefoonlijn belangrijk vindt, blijft dalen. Een trend die al in 2014 ingezet is. De meest voorkomende reden waarom consumenten nog een vaste telefoonlijn in huis hebben? Omdat de vaste telefoniedienst onderdeel uitmaakt van het internet en bellen abonnement of alles-in-1 pakket. Dat zegt ruim een kwart (26%) van de consumenten in het meest recente telefoniemarkt onderzoek van Telecompaper.

Tourists flock to this tulip farm to see the flowers, but it is under the ground where the serious farming is happening.

For the first time in history, the mayor of WA's biggest council will be chosen directly by residents, but the campaign has been marred by allegations of criminal damage, sabotage and online abuse.