Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pennsylvania have published a new Journal of Marketing study that examines online educational platforms and the question of whether they should release content through a scheduled format that resembles a traditional
Veteran ABC News weatherman Rob Marciano was fired Tuesday — a year after temporarily being sidelined for “anger management issues,” according to sources with knowledge. Marciano, who appeared on “Good Morning America” and “World News Tonight” for more than a decade, made news
The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival has announced some additions to its lineup for this year.
Aid group Le Revers de la Medaille said the operation was part of a campaign to move migrants from the streets of the French capital in the lead up to the Olympic Games in July, and to ''make room for the beautiful Paris postcard''. It said the asylum seekers have nowhere else
The pair first teased the project in 2015 and even wrote a script, but Lawrence said she's not sure the idea would "resonate as much" now
For the first time ever, researchers have harnessed the power of big data to calculate the per-country greenhouse gas emissions from aviation for 197 countries covered by an international treaty on climate change.
The inventors of a suite of tests that enable food packages to signal whether their contents are contaminated are working to bring producers and regulators together to get their inventions into commercial products, with the goal of preventing illness and reducing food waste.
A study by the University of Stirling has shed new light on how beavers reintroduced to Scotland indirectly interact with deer—and the implications for the woodlands they share.
Amazon raked in $11.82 billion in ad revenue for the first quarter of 2024, topping analyst expectations, fueled by the ecommerce giant’s move to serve advertising by default in Prime Video in multiple markets. Advertising sales for the quarter were up 24% year over year and
These days, it’s never too early to start talking about the Super Bowl. Fox Corp’s 2025 broadcast of Super Bowl LIX is nearly a year away, slated to air Feb. 9 from New Orleans. During early talks with potential advertisers, however, the company is already making a bid to sell
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told lawmakers Wednesday that the department is looking into ways to expand on the limited direct file pilot program with possible extensions in functionality and applicable tax credits up for debate. The free program, which is like a scaled-down
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FDA) announced on Tuesday that it is disputing over 300 patent listings across 20 different brand name drugs in an effort to promote competition and lower drug prices. Novo Nordisk’s popular diabetes drug Ozempic is among the drugs with
Argentina's Lower House Tuesday agreed to grant President Milei on a temporary basis certain decision-making powers originally reserved by the Constitution to the Legislative Branch, it was reported in Buenos Aires. The neverending Parliamentary session also decided in favor of
Drake seems to have indirectly responded to Kendrick Lamar's most recent diss track aimed at him, using a social media post to attempt to discredit it.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday denounced protesters at Columbia University who smashed windows and unfurled an intifada banner while seizing control of Hamilton Hall, delivering his strongest criticism to date of pro-Palestinian protesters in New York.
If you’re anything like me, you went looking for a Fallout game to play the second you were done with watching the well-received Amazon show. Despite the fact that the ending tees up a second season that will assuredly expound on New Vegas , a settlement from a similarly titled
Pharrell has a few different film projects in the hopper, and one of them is a semi-autobiographical musical that’s set to be directed by Michel Gondry. As previously reported , the as-yet-untitled movie is set in Virginia Beach’s Atlantis Apartments in summer 1977, and it’s
Abercrombie & Fitch. Balenciaga. Starbucks. In recent years, these brands and many others have faced extreme public backlash due to insensitive comments from executives, changes to loyalty programs, controversial advertising decisions, and more.
Brown University’s corporate board will vote on a proposal to divest from Israeli interests, the university announced Tuesday, a major victory for student protesters who have taken over dozens of college campuses nationwide. Protesters at Brown will tear town their encampment
The default of Evergrande, one of China's largest developers, set off a chain of defaults among developers, triggering the ongoing property market crisis in China.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is urging President Biden to visit Columbia University and observe the pro-Palestine protests roiling its Manhattan campus after Johnson and a group of GOP lawmakers stopped by the university grounds and denounced the demonstrations. Asked during a
Amazon says it's working on stopping others from "making your AWS bill explode."
Ted Cruz and four of his fellow members of Congress want you to fly through hoops to get a refund from an airline. Last week, the Biden administration issued a new rule requiring automatic refunds from airlines if a flight is delayed or canceled. But then, Senators Ted Cruz and
It was a rough day for the Dow and other indexes as hotter-than-expected labor data increased speculation that the Federal Reserve would not be cutting interest rates anytime soon. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting began today, and the interest rate decision will
When scientists look at the Earth's available water for ecosystem services, they don't just look at precipitation. They must also account for water moving from the ground to the atmosphere, a process known as evapotranspiration (ET).
Americans’ confidence in the economy has dropped nine points since last month, the first time it has slipped since the fall, a survey by Gallup found. The Gallup Economic Confidence Index, which summarizes the public’s view on the current economic conditions, is at -29 for
As we recently explored at length , the current state of mainstream heavy metal is bleak, partially because so many of the biggest bands are more like pop acts with the occasional metalcore breakdown. Not many of the leading metal bands are really rocking the classic heavy
California's population is celebrating its first net increase since 2020 — with a net gain of 67,000 residents last year, state authorities announced on Tuesday. Officials attributed the rise — to 39,128,162 individuals as of Jan. 1 — to an improvement in legal foreign
Mystery LLM highlights transparency issues in AI testing.
The Weeknd has donated $2 million worth of food to Palestinians in Gaza, who have been living under desperate conditions due to the ongoing war in the region.
The workers are “seeking reinstatement of their jobs, back pay, and affirmation from Google leadership that it will not retaliate against its workers for lawful collective protest."
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Chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) on Tuesday called on the heads of Yale University, the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of Michigan to testify before her panel in May as part of a new House-wide