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Wednesday’s bipartisan bill from Democratic Senator Joe Manchin and Republican Senator Mitt Romney requires that members abide by a real dress code — rather than an unwritten custom — when on the Senate floor, that includes a coat, tie, and slacks for men, reports CNN.The resolution however, does not detail dress codes for women members.The development comes a week after Democratic Senator John Fetterman wore shorts, sneakers and a hoodie to the Capitol, as well as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer choosing to stop enforcing the unwritten requirement.“Though we’ve never had an official dress code, the events over the past…

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said in a note to employees that several things have changed since they first began pursuing the AR Enterprise strategy.“We have made the difficult decision to wind down our AR Enterprise business. After exploring our options over the past few months,” Spiegel said, adding that “it became clear that it would take significant incremental investment to grow our enterprise offering for retailers and we simply cannot make that investment at this time”.While some AR Enterprise team members will remain at Snap to support CameraKit, Sponsored AR advertising, and the more than 250 million people who engage…

As the days grow shorter and cooler, it’s time to cozy up, and explore heartwarming dramas, and thrilling mysteries. From Tabu and Ali Fazal starrer thrilling drama ‘Khufiya’to Vijay Deverakonda and Samantha’s romantic tale ‘Kushi’, this week’s offerings will delight you, and promise to entertain with a diverse range of captivating content.Here’s a list of six titles on various OTT platforms that have caught the attention of IANS this week.‘Choona’:Starring Jimmy Shergill, Aashim Gulati, Vikram Kochhar, Chandan Roy, Namit Das, Gyanendra Tripathi, Atul Srivastava, Monika Panwar, Niharika Lyra Dutt, this satire is written and directed by Pushpendra Nath Misra. This…

The 51-year-old actor, who stars as Solomon Reed in ‘Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty’, a new spy-thriller game, thinks the industry actually has the potential to shine a light on humanitarian issues, reports aceshowbiz.com.”Games have exactly the same tool sets, if not more, to engage people in things they don’t understand. If you want to use gaming as a portal to education, to interface between one culture and another, it’s a really interesting place to do this. I’m sure there are companies that are looking at it, but anyone who can get that right … and educate cultures about other cultures…

ChatGPT developer OpenAI, building large language models and art-generating AI, now wants to get into hardware, reports The Information.For this, Ive who is the renowned designer of the iPhone is reportedly in talks with Altman about an AI hardware project.“SoftBank CEO and investor Masayoshi Son has talked to both about the idea,” the report mentioned, citing people aware of the matter.OpenAI’s hardware efforts are in the very earliest stages, as per the report.Altman and Ive have only begun what kind of hardware could do or look like.OpenAI once had a robotics research division but it was disbanded in July 2021…

After a sensational day on Wednesday when the Indian shooters won 7 medals including two gold, the pistol shooters continued India’s brilliant run by winning the fourth gold medal in shooting here.Sarabjot Singh, Arjun Singh Cheema and Shiva Narwal finished with a combined score of 1734, with a whopping 50 hits in the inner 10 circle, to win gold ahead of China (1733-62x) and Vietnam (1730-59x).The Indians scored 284 in the first series and then added 287, 291, 294, 290 and 288 in the remaining five.This is India’s sixth gold medal overall in the Hangzhou Asian Games.–IANSbsk/dpb

The incident happenedon Wednesday at the school in the Sisandi area of Mohanlalganj block in Lucknow.Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) Arun Kumar said the teacher Pramila Awasthi has been suspended with immediate effect for not discharging her duties, negligence in the safety of children in the school and not keeping a count of students before leaving the school.He said an inquiry has also been ordered and the officer in-charge has been directed to provide the investigation report to the BSA within 15 days.He said during her suspension period she will remain attached to the office of Divisional Education Officer, Mohanlalganj, Lucknow…

Lucknow, at least during the peak winter period, is one of the nine such cities in Uttar Pradesh.These were a few of the disturbing facts that came to the fore during a daylong workshop on air pollution and climate change organised by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) and the Lung Care Foundation (LCF) on Wednesday.Titled Solutions for Health, Air Pollution, and Environment in Uttar Pradesh (SHAPE-UP), the workshop urged people to change their lifestyle and spoke of collective efforts to mitigate the challenges of climate change.“Of all the patients suffering from lung infection that I used to treat…

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, the officials said Pvt. King has been transferred out of North Korea across the border with China, and that he appears to be “in good health and good spirits” ahead of his return home, reports Yonhap News Agency.The announcement on his release came shortly after the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Pyongyang decided to “expel” him following a probe, during which the outlet said he confessed to having “illegally intruded” into the North’s territory.King crossed the military demarcation line separating Korea during a tour to the Joint Security Area in the…

To achieve this feat, 25,000 volunteers of Ram Manohar Lohia Awadh University, Ayodhya, and its affiliate colleges, will be roped in by the Ayodhya administration, said officials.The BJP government has been organising Deepotsav in Ayodhya after it came to power in the state in 2017.Vice-chancellor of Awadh University, Prof Pratibha Goyal, has directed principals of degree colleges of Ayodhya to finalise the list of volunteers by September 30.This year’s Deepotsav will be special as the construction of Ram temple is in full swing. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over the grand opening ceremony of the temple in Ayodhya in…