Jamie Carragher says he ‘can’t understand why’ Watford players want to stay away from training

Jamie Carragher says he can’t understand why Watford’s players are staying away from training after the club confirmed three positive coronavirus cases on Tuesday night. The Hornets reported half of all positive coronavirus cases of the 748 tests that were carried out by Premier League clubs on their return to group training. The club’s captain Troy … Read more

AI researcher had to remove basic grammar tools to get software to understand Donald Trump

Trying to analyze Donald Trump made a speech recognition bot literally CRASH – and the only way to make it work properly was to strip out its grammar and syntax tools Researchers assigned a speech recognition bot to analyze Donald Trump The bot struggled to make sense of his rambling and fragmentary sentences The team … Read more

Judges told to stop using ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ because jurors don’t understand what it means

Judges told to stop using ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ because jurors don’t understand what it means and ask if they’re ‘satisfied that they are sure’ instead ‘Beyond reasonable doubt’ replaced by ‘satisfied that they are sure’ for jurors The move comes after concerns that jurors didn’t understand reasonable doubt The original phrase has been used in … Read more

PIERS MORGAN: I understand why Americans are protesting the lockdown – but they’re wrong

On January 23, a family of four from Wuhan in China, where the COVID-19 pandemic began, flew down to Guangzhou near Hong Kong and the next day, had lunch in a local restaurant. Two other families sat at neighboring tables in the restaurant. Later that day, one of the Wuhan family experienced a cough and … Read more

Nearly 15% of Americans do not understand stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus, survey finds 

Millions of Americans are under some type of stay-at-home order, but a new survey finds many are unsure what that means nor do they care to follow. Wired conducted the poll that found nearly 15 percent are confused about the policy in their area, with a majority of  misinformed living Missouri. Other than being muddled … Read more

People reveal the things that Americans ‘don’t understand’ about the British

People reveal the things that Americans ‘don’t understand’ about the British, from paying for a TV licence to drinking ‘squash’ One Briton said Americans don’t seem to understand what salad cream is  Another added that the British greeting ‘alright?’ appears to perplex Americans  Americans are confused by Britons calling their evening meal ‘tea’, says another  … Read more

Scientists create stunning gifs of Mars’ sand dunes to understand what conditions impact them 

Mars in Motion! Scientists create stunning gifs of the Red Planet’s sand dunes to understand what conditions impact them Scientists used data from  NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to create gifs of sand dunes on Mars The team is hoping to understand what conditions impact them and how dunes in different areas move  They found the highest sand … Read more