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View Discussion Improve Article Save Article Like Article View Discussion Improve Article Save Article Like Article Ecologists and environmental economists condemn the way states to maintain their financial and national accounts ostensibly. Money spent on building human skills, educating, providing nutrition, maintaining health, land, air, water quality, or forests, excluding related buildings and equipment, is classified as final consumption expenditure in national accounts. This is a conceptual topic and this…

Twitter’s verification program has always been a complicated and controversial affair. The company has paused and resumed the application process many times to make it more streamlined. In the Elon Musk ownership era, the social media company could be looking to flip the script around verification: pay $20 per month and you will get a verified badge. According to a report from The Verge, the company is looking to introduce a new and more expensive version of Twitter Blue — the platform’s paid…

The year was 1737 and, due to the large diversity of plants and animals collected by naturalist explorers in different parts of the world, Linnaeus saw the need to develop a logical system to classify and group this material in a systematic way. It’s a system that’s stood the test of time – his basic formula is still in use. The naming convention applies to all biological organisms: plants, animals and bacteria. Each species receives a name…

Infinity Ward has quietly disabled Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2‘s ping system in order to combat “wallhack” cheaters. As reported by Eurogamer, it looks like the developer has responded to reports of a ping system bug where you can ping an enemy during the death screen transition and the marker lasts for the rest of the game. A video posted to the game’s subreddit shows the bug in action and basically gives the player unintended wall hacks, allowing them to see the enemy throughout the game. One player responded to…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Some parents have "lost all faith" in the education system because of a lack of support to tackle children's non-attendance from teachers and local authorities, a new study warns. …

Hitachi Astemo, the Japanese supplier, said it had developed a prototype steer by wire steering device which eliminates the conventional steering wheel and expands cabin space. “Steer by wire is….. an essential technology for self-driving and other next generation vehicles,” the company said in a statement. Its new technology links the steering and turning actuators via electric signals to steer the car providing, the…

Non-Resident Indians will soon be able to use Bharat Bill Payment System to pay utility bills and education fees on behalf of their family members in India, the Reserve Bank said on Friday.The Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) is an interoperable platform for standardised bill payments. Over 20,000 billers are part of the system, and more than 8 crore transactions are processed on a monthly basis.RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said that BBPS has transformed the bill payment experience for users in India and it is now…

Exoplanets are those cosmic bodies or planets that orbit a star outside our solar system. According to NASA, more than 5,000 exoplanets have been confirmed to be detected so far. Researchers usually rely on the transit method to spot exoplanets. It uses optical telescopes for the purpose and has some limitations. Now, a new method has been drummed up that can help observe exoplanets at radio wavelength using a radio telescope. The transit method is a powerful tool where the brightness of a star is observed over time.If…

Last year, Olympus sold its imaging division to investment firm Japan Industrial Partners and new a company was set up to continue the iconic line. OM Digital Solutions celebrated 50 years of the OM-1 with a new flagship in February, and has now launched what appears to be an update to 2019's OM-D E-M5 MkIII.The durable OM-5 has been sealed against dust and water ingress to IP53 standards, and can operate in temperatures as low as 14 °F (-10 °C).Like the E-M5 MkIII, it's built around a 20.4-MP Live MOS four thirds sensor…

Next month Top Shelf Productions will release F.A.R.M. System. The latest graphic novel from cartoonist Rich Koslowski is set in a near-future where superheroes train in a minor league before being called up to the “big leagues”. Ahead of the book’s release, The Beat is pleased to present a preview for the graphic novel. Here’s how Top Shelf describes F.A.R.M. System: For every hero who saves the galaxy and makes the front page, there are a dozen staffers working behind the scenes… and a hundred up-and-comers hoping to…