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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The COVID-19 pandemic was not the first time a crisis swept through the nation and beyond, forcing businesses and media to find ways to reach people in uncertain times. A new study from the University of Kansas has analyzed newspaper advertising strategies from the Great Depression to see what one historic crisis can teach communicators about reaching people today. …

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press The near-future is bleak for the working class of London in “The Kitchen,” a well-executed film about a familiar kind of urban dystopian nightmare. It is, ironically, sunnier than the Los Angeles of “Blade Runner,” but the mood is as dire. In this world, the have-nots are crammed together in hellish Brutalist high-rises, a slum-like development that its residents call “The Kitchen.” With frequent police raids and constant monitoring, there is the whiff of rebellion in the air. But at…

Sometimes, often without warning, you will see or hear something that unlocks an entire ocean of memories you didn’t even remember you had. Nostalgia, after all, is a potent emotion. Naturally, there are many pages out there dedicated to dishing it up to everyone who wants some. The “That 80s and 90s Page” Instagram account shares memes and pictures of things from past decades that might make you pretty darn nostalgic. We got in touch with the page’s administrator to learn more. So get comfortable as you scroll through…

Wordle 932 answer for January 7: Today's Wordle puzzle is a bit easier than usual, giving us a break from the tough ones we've had recently. Since it's Sunday, thankfully, the puzzle is not too hard - even the inexperienced players might find it easy with their usual strategies. Solving this puzzle can be a nice and relaxing way to spend your Sunday. But be careful not to get too cocky as that may force you into making some mistakes - one wrong move could make you lose the game. To keep your winning streak, check out the…

Eric Siegel had already been working in the machine learning world for more than 30 years by the time the rest of the world caught up with him. Siegel’s been a machine learning (ML) consultant to Fortune 500 companies, an author, and a former former Columbia University professor, and to him the last year or so of AI hype has gotten way out of hand. Though the world has come to accept AI as our grand technological future, it’s often hard to distinguish from classic ML, which has, in fact, been around for decades. ML…

Tesla dethroned: China-based EV maker BYD surpassed Tesla as the world’s top seller of electric cars for the fourth quarter of 2023. The fast-growing company said it sold 525,409 battery-powered vehicles in the quarter, compared to Tesla’s 484,507. Tesla still sold more cars for the year at 1.8 million, although the figure was below earlier projections. Full story.Mickey goes public: Creatives are already having a field day with their own interpretations of Mickey Mouse after the earliest version of the seminal Disney…

Today, Wordle has decided to give us a breather after throwing some tricky puzzles our way. It's a Sunday, so the puzzle isn't too head-scratching – seasoned players will likely find it a breeze with their trusty strategies and the rest will not have to sit around too long to come up with a solution. Of course, having said that, there are no easy solutions and hard work has to be put in of some kind. So, don't let your guard down, a single careless move could cost you the game. To safeguard your winning streak, take a…

Maya vessel (c. 700-800 CE) from Guatemala depicting a king sitting on a throne wearing a water lily headdress. Water lilies (Nymphaea ampla) on reservoir surfaces indicated clean water and symbolized Classic Maya kingship (c. 250-900 CE). Credit: Courtesy the Boston Museum of Fine ArtsAccording to a new paper, ancient Maya reservoirs, which used aquatic plants to filter and clean the water, “can serve as archetypes for natural, sustainable water systems to address future water needs.”The Maya built and maintained…

David Bowie would have been dropped before he ever made a global hit record in today’s hyper-competitive music industry, according to Chic’s Nile Rodgers, who said labels were failing to nurture unique talent and were instead focusing on profit.The songwriter and musician who produced Let’s Dance alongside Bowie – which took him into the pop mainstream in the 1980s – said no modern label would have given Bowie time to produce a hit record after his run of albums in the 1970s that failed to win commercial success beyond…

Applying for data science roles without a strategy is a failing strategy, take it from those who succeeded and learn from how they did itContinue reading on Towards Data Science » Applying for data science roles without a strategy is a failing strategy, take it from those who succeeded and learn from how they did itContinue reading on Towards Data Science » FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each…