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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A main focus in corporate governance research is whether boards of directors and the media appropriately reward and sanction CEOs based on their performance. Evidence shows CEOs vary significantly in their ability to generate positive firm results. While some revitalize underperforming companies,…

via NetherRealm Studios Even though they couldn’t be more different on every imaginable level, one thing that Godzilla vs. Kong, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, and even Kramer vs. Kramer definitely have in common is that they’re in a very small minority as “versus” movies that won widespread critical acclaim. On the other side of the coin, though, we have Alien vs. Predator and its godawful sequel Requiem, Freddy vs. Jason, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, Batman v Superman: Dawn of…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A yearlong study examining ethnic and racial diversity in forensic science has found that the varying disciplines, which frequently work closely with law enforcement, are also generally whiter than the U.S. population it serves. …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the 1990s, changes in violent crime rates, social and political unrest directed at law enforcement, and technological innovations set the stage for major changes in administering criminal justice. Several innovative approaches to policing were tested, seeking to take tougher, smarter, more focused approaches to gun violence, gang crime, open air drug markets, and the recidivism of chronic…

It says a lot about the current status and reputation of the video game genre that the highest-grossing console-to-screen franchise in history is comprised of six movies that all fared pretty miserably with critics. Of course, over $1.2 billion in box office takings still saw Constantin Film and its Resident Evil series laughing all the way to the bank. On the plus side, the maligned apocalyptic saga will be overtaken at the head of the all-time pack when the inevitable Sonic the Hedgehog 3 arrives, because a…

Credit: MicrosoftMicrosoft's GitHub Copilot pair-programming service is generally available to all developers as of June 21. The service costs $10 per user per month or $100 per user per year. Microsoft launched GitHub Copilot in preview last year.GitHub Copilot suggests code to developers right in their editors, with the AI component acting like a pair-programming assistant. Suggestions are meant to match a project's context and style conventions and allow developers what to accept, reject or edit. GitHub Copilot…

Yesterday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that the US economy contracted by 1.4 percent in the first quarter of 2022, the first quarterly drop in GDP since the pandemic hit in 2020. That’s an alarming-seeming but ultimately misleading number; most of it is accounted for by changes in international trade (imports, which reduce GDP numbers, rose as businesses knew war in Ukraine was coming) and the shrinking of inventories held by businesses as consumers bought them up. “Final sales to domestic purchasers,”…