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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Research samples collected over decades at a prestigious Swedish medical university have been destroyed after a freezer malfunctioned over the Christmas holidays, the university said on Monday. The incident has been reported to police, the university added. The samples were stored in tanks cooled with liquid nitrogen, at a…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study published in the European Journal of International Management has looked into the relationship between learning from failure and the internationalization process in entrepreneurial ventures. The researchers show a subtle link that perhaps challenges the received wisdom regarding success and failure suggesting that a cyclical process exists where the global expansion of entrepreneurial…

This year, something unusually dark is happening in an industry that is, by design, quite used to handling bad news. In a strong economy, with unemployment near a 50-year low, virtually every single part of the news business—digital media, local news, TV, print, podcasts, and documentaries—is laying off people at the same time. Audiences for news are shrinking. Thousands of journalists are losing jobs. In conversations I’ve had recently, with both execs and workaday journalists like myself, people have started privately…

PluralsightsDespite the benefits, 25% of these organizations said they don't have plans to deploy AI, while 20% already have and 55% plan to. The hesitation stems from inadequate budget or talent required to use the new tools properly. A majority of the professionals acknowledged that hesitation could be disastrous in the long run, with 94% of executives and 92% of IT professionals sharing that organizations investing in AI in the near future will be better able to compete, according to the report. However, the…

A Citibank branch in the central business district of Singapore on Feb. 12, 2018.Ore Huiying | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNew York Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday sued Citibank for allegedly failing to protect and reimburse victims of electronic fraud.The suit claims that Citi does not have strong protections in place to prevent unauthorized account takeovers, misleads victims of fraud and illegally denies reimbursements, according to a release. The attorney general's office said the alleged failure on Citi's part…

In 2009, the horror movie Jennifer's Body was released, but it was sadly a critical and financial failure. Not only did its star, Megan Fox, and her castmates receive a lot of flak for the flick, but so did its writer, Diablo Cody. However, over time, the movie has gained a cult following. And though there are many reasons to revisit Fox's film, one of the primary reasons is its feminist and female empowerment themes. Recently, Cody shared some thoughts on whether there could be a sequel and recalled the movie's…

Sierra Space has completed a key test of its inflatable space habitat, as the company progresses toward launching and operating a private space station with Blue Origin before the end of the decade. The “ultimate burst pressure” test of the inflatable module was conducted at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. As the name suggests, the purpose of the test is to inflate the unit until it bursts. In this instance, engineers inflated the module to 77 psi before it burst, proving that it exceeded NASA’s recommended…

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland says the telco industry must implement improvements. Credit: Alex EllinghausenCommunications Minister Michelle Rowland called the development “deeply disturbing.”“This new information will be considered by the ACMA as part of its independent investigation into Optus’ compliance with the Telecommunications Determination 2019,” Rowland said.On Tuesday, Optus’ interim chief executive Michael Venter offered his “deepest apologies” to customers unable to access triple-zero services…

Overview of theoretical argument and case study findings. Credit: Global Strategy Journal (2023). DOI: 10.1002/gsj.1497 Research published in the Global Strategy Journal identifies globally mobile workers with highly specialized skills as a strategic hiring strategy, due to the workers' legitimacy and mobility after being laid off by a failure of their former employer. …

On May 24, 2022, a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 fourth-grade children and two teachers. The gunman remained in the school for more than an hour before police confronted and killed him. Desperate parents and family members outside the school sparred with law enforcement barricading them from reaching their loved ones, who were still attempting to call for help from inside the building. Now, nearly two years after the shooting, the Justice Department has released a report…