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When SEC Is Challenged, CEOs Notice
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When SEC Is Challenged, CEOs Notice

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­In 2005, Siebel Systems, Inc., a California software company, challenged an enforcement action taken by the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) that found the business had violated the Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) — a regulation implemented to prevent businesses from giving key analysts and investors insider information. The Siebel case went to the federal...

Alicia Keys and Moncler Genius Capture the Cool of New York
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Alicia Keys and Moncler Genius Capture the Cool of New York

The artist is the label’s latest co-creator, imagining garments that merge street style with the city’s characteristic elegance “Moncler and me go way back to when I was a little kid during those New York winters,” says Alicia Keys. “A Moncler was something you could see, but not quite reach yet. That high vision of...

Thomas Blackshear casts new light on the canon of Western American art
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Thomas Blackshear Casts New Light on the Canon of Western American Art

In collaboration with Stetson, the artist personifies the hidden Black cowboy, reimagining Lon Megargee’s iconic painting ‘The Last Drop From His Stetson’ The American West has its own mythology, bolstered by characters who’ve taken on their own significance over the course of their representation across film and painting and literature: Natives and cowboys, the horses...

Researchers Identify 6 Challenges Humans Face with Artificial Intelligence
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Researchers Identify 6 Challenges Humans Face with Artificial Intelligence

A UCF professor led a study that identifies six challenges humans must overcome to enhance our relationship with artificial intelligence and to ensure its use is ethical and fair. A University of Central Florida professor and 26 other researchers have published a study identifying the challenges humans must overcome to ensure that artificial intelligence is...

U of I Study Gives a Thumbs Up to Carefully Formulated Vegan Diets for Dogs
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U of I Study Gives a Thumbs Up to Carefully Formulated Vegan Diets for Dogs

In today’s pet food market, there are products to match nearly every lifestyle, value system, and price point pet owners demand, including vegan formulations. New University of Illinois research shows at least two human-grade, lightly cooked vegan diets provide adequate nutrition for dogs. “The trends of vegan foods and human grade foods are increasing for...

Chicago Pollution Varies by Neighborhood
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Chicago Pollution Varies by Neighborhood

New simulation combines emissions with weather and chemistry in an air-quality model First neighborhood-scale simulation of its kind focused on Chicago tracks air quality hour by hour across areas as small as 1.3 kilometers-sized blocks Simulation can show how pollutants move across space and time throughout the city and surrounding areas Air pollution along highways...

Study Finds Neighborhood Apps Increase Perceptions of Crime Rates
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Study Finds Neighborhood Apps Increase Perceptions of Crime Rates

How often do you glance at your neighborhood app, like Nextdoor or others, and learn about some crime in your area? Surely, it was not the intention of the app developers, but every time you hear of a crime nearby you might think that crime in your area is rampant. A new study by a...

Picture a Dream: Dream Collaboration’ for Neuroscientists and Artists
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Picture a Dream: Dream Collaboration’ for Neuroscientists and Artists

Dreams are being turned into reality as new research investigating the unusual experiences of people with depersonalisation symptoms is being brought to life in an art exhibition at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge, England. ARU neuroscientist Dr Jane Aspell has led a major international study into depersonalisation, funded by the Bial Foundation. The “Living...

11 Ways to Improve Airlines for Customers
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11 Ways to Improve Airlines for Customers

The name of the game is customer satisfaction, especially in the airline industry where companies are constantly jockeying for business by promising better service than their competitors. Now a professor at the University of Missouri has used artificial intelligence to sort through thousands of customer reviews and identify where airlines are falling short. Sharan Srinivas,...

U.S.-China Tensions: How Africa Can Avoid Being Caught in a New Cold War
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Use of Melatonin Linked to Decreased Self-Harm in Young People

Medical sleep treatment may reduce self-harm in young people with anxiety and depression, an observational study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden suggests. The risk of self-harm increased in the months preceding melatonin prescription and decreased thereafter, especially in girls. The study is published in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Melatonin is a hormone that controls...