With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, deaths due to drug overdose among adolescents more than doubled, primarily driven by the synthetic opioid, fentanyl. National survey data show that while the percent of adolescents (ages 12-17) with a past year substance use disorder decreased from 2021 to 2024, the share of adolescents with a past year opioid…
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…
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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Published October 28, 2025 Le Coq Sportif continues its rebuild with the appointment of Rodolphe Salasca as chief commercial officer, a strategic role in the brand’s relaunch. This appointment aligns with the takeover plan approved by a court ruling last July, which enabled the entrepreneur Dan Mamane to take over the company. shutterstock Having formerly…
As businesses and societies digitize, improving online access and services for people everywhere, cybersecurity threats have risen in lock-step. Cybersecurity is one of the most pressing challenges in Latin America and around the world — and Google is deeply committed to tackling new threats with proactive and innovative solutions. We’re committed to not only keeping…
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…
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…
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…
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…
