Sol de Janeiro names new global marketing and digital chief

Published October 28, 2025 U.S. beauty brand Sol de Janeiro has announced the appointment of Jordan Saxemard to the role of global chief marketing and digital officer, effective immediately. Jordan Saxemard – Courtesy In his new role, Saxemard will Sol de Janeiro’s lead global brand and product marketing, communications, digital, and consumer engagement strategy. He will…

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Aritzia launches new shopping app

Published October 28, 2025 Vancouver-based company Aritzia launched on Monday the Aritzia App on the Apple App Store, taking its digital experience to the next level.  Aritzia launches new shopping app. – Aritzia The app merges shopping, styling, and inspiration into one platform. Users can browse a curated feed of daily outfits and styling content…

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How climate change affects hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones

Mark PoyntingClimate reporter NOAA via Getty A satellite image of Hurricane Melissa moving over the Caribbean Sea Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded, created “extremely dangerous and life-threatening” conditions in Jamaica, according to the US National Hurricane Center. Climate change is not thought to increase the number of hurricanes, typhoons and…

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Tiny neural net Halloween costumes are the best

I’ve been experimenting with getting a tiny circa-2015 recurrent neural network to generate Halloween costumes. Running on a single cat hair-covered laptop, char-rnn has no internet training, but learns from scratch to imitate the data I give it. A little while ago I revisited a dataset from 2018, over 7100 user-submitted Halloween costumes (3173 with…

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Scientists discover COVID mRNA vaccines boost cancer survival

Patients with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of beginning immunotherapy treatment lived considerably longer than those who were not vaccinated, according to new research. Scientists from the University of Florida and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center made the discovery while studying the potential…

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Before plants or animals, fungi conquered Earth’s surface

After examining the evolutionary history of fungi, an international group of scientists has concluded that these organisms first appeared between 900 million and 1.4 billion years ago, far earlier than scientists had believed. This suggests that fungi were thriving on Earth hundreds of millions of years before plants began to grow. The results, published open…

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