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In late 2021, as states eased pandemic restrictions and consumers began flying again, travel search company Kayak needed a message that would help it stand out against bigger rivals.Most travel ads focused on “the family reunion space, soft piano music, the get-together on the beach,” said Matthew Clarke, vice president of North American marketing for the Booking Holdings Inc. company. Kayak took a different approach with the “Kayak Deniers” campaign, which went…

A landslide in the Durban area of South Africa, triggered by the April 2022 rainfall event. Credit: Kierran Allen Over the last fifty years, disasters caused by landslides and floods have become ten times more frequent, despite landslides being significantly underreported in global databases. Worldwide, 4500 people are killed on average each year already, and landslide risk is set to escalate even further in the future under…

Wikipedia, the anonymously editable knowledge bank, has been involved a several controversies. Earlier this month, an article in Vice News said that a "lonely" Chinese woman wrote fake Russian history on the platform for years. And now, a study has claimed that Wikipedia can influence the legal decisions of judges when there are articles covering relevant cases. The research has been carried out by scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, according to…

It's not just students and internet debaters who lean on Wikipedia in a pinch. MIT CSAIL researchers have conducted a study revealing that Wikipedia can influence the legal decisions of judges when there are articles covering relevant cases. The existence of a Wiki page for a case increased its citations by over 20 percent, the scientists said. The boost was pronounced when a case supported a judge's argument, and the language of the articles sometimes manifested in the decisions. The team conducted the study by having…

Education institutions, both higher and lower education, are increasingly being hit with ransomware, with 60% suffering attacks in 2021 compared to 44% in 2020, a report said on Wednesday.According to cybersecurity firm Sophos, education institutions faced the highest data encryption rate (73%) compared to other sectors (65%), and the longest recovery time, with 7% taking at least three months to recover -- almost double the average time for other sectors (4%)."Schools are among those being hit the hardest by ransomware.…

Michael Waters / MIT Technology Review: Data centers, typically located in suburbs and rural zones, are increasingly being built in urban areas to further reduce internet lag for locals — Companies are pushing more server farms into the hearts of population centers. — In 1930, the telegraph giant Western Union put … Michael Waters / MIT Technology Review: Data centers, typically located in suburbs and rural zones, are increasingly being built in urban areas to further…

Key Points: More Avalanche holders are buying BitgertBitgert’s price performance is better than AvalancheBitgert has massive developments coming up Avalanche (AVAX) is among the cryptocurrencies hard hit by the recent bear market. Avalanche price has already dropped by a huge percentage this month. However, Avalanche (AVAX) is enjoying bullish growth today after the crypto market got a breather in the past few days. Avalanche has increased 13% in the past 24 hours, which is an impressive rise. Though…

Key Highlights: Polygon Matic price hits another low this monthBitgert resistance to bear marketsBrise gasless blockchain is still a major attractionBitgert is bringing massive developments Polygon Matic HODLers are now putting their money in crypto investments that are doing well in the market. Among the crypto projects that have seen an influx of Polygon Matic investors buying its token in Bitgert (BRISE). A significant number of the selling and holding Polygon Matic investors have bought Bitgert in the past…

The ramifications of the historic megadrought happening in the U.S. right now are getting increasingly serious. Hydropower is faltering, farmland is too parched to produce, and millions of people are currently under water restrictions. It’s a drought so big that it has eclipsed 1,200 years of climate history. Human-caused climate change is at least partially responsible.Fields Lay FallowCalifornia is the U.S.’s produce aisle. The state grows more than a third of the country’s domestically harvested vegetables and two-…