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10 Diversity Marketing Strategies For Success
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10 Diversity Marketing Strategies For Success

Amidst the shifting sands of modernity, diversity marketing has become a crucial aspect. With consumers becoming increasingly diverse in their backgrounds, beliefs, and behaviors, it is important for businesses to not only recognize this diversity but also embrace it. No matter the size or industry of your brand, implementing diversity marketing strategies can lead to increased customer loyalty and overall success. Today, in this blog, we will explore the top 10 diversity marketing strategies to help your brand thrive in today’s diverse market. However, instead of directly diving into the strategies, let’s first understand what diversity marketing means. What Is Diversity Marketing? Diversity marketing is a proactive marketing approach that recognizes and celebrates the unique differences...
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What FTC Case Against Ad Tech Giant Kochava Reveals About Data Brokers
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What FTC Case Against Ad Tech Giant Kochava Reveals About Data Brokers

Data brokers know everything about you – what FTC case against ad tech giant Kochava reveals. Kochava, the self-proclaimed industry leader in mobile app data analytics, is locked in a legal battle with the Federal Trade Commission in a case that could lead to big changes in the global data marketplace and in Congress’ approach to artificial intelligence and data privacy. The stakes are high because Kochava’s secretive data acquisition and AI-aided analytics practices are commonplace in the global location data market. In addition to numerous lesser-known data brokers, the mobile data market includes larger players like Foursquare and data market exchanges like Amazon’s AWS Data Exchange. The FTC’s recently unsealed amended complaint against Kochava makes clear that there’s truth to what K...
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Exploring The Depths Of Ocean Activities With AI And Satellite Imagery
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Exploring The Depths Of Ocean Activities With AI And Satellite Imagery

We used AI and satellite imagery to map ocean activities that take place out of sight, including fishing, shipping and energy development. Humans are racing to harness the ocean’s vast potential to power global economic growth. Worldwide, ocean-based industries such as fishing, shipping and energy production generate at least US$1.5 trillion in economic activity each year and support 31 million jobs. This value has been increasing exponentially over the past 50 years and is expected to double by 2030. Transparency in monitoring this “blue acceleration” is crucial to prevent environmental degradation, overexploitation of fisheries and marine resources, and lawless behavior such as illegal fishing and human trafficking. Open information also will make countries better able to manage vital ...
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From Tetris AI To Epic Speedrunning: The Epic Journey
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From Tetris AI To Epic Speedrunning: The Epic Journey

From besting Tetris AI to epic speedruns – inside gaming’s most thrilling feats. After 13-year-old Willis Gibson became the first human to beat the original Nintendo version of Tetris, he dedicated his special win to his father, who passed away in December 2023. The Oklahoma teen beat the game by defeating level after level until he reached the “kill screen” – that is, the moment when the Tetris artificial intelligence taps out in exhaustion, stopping play because its designers never wrote the code to advance further. Before Gibson, the only other player to overcome the game’s AI was another AI. For any parent who has despaired over their children sinking countless hours into video games, Gibson’s victory over the cruel geometry of Tetris stands as a bracing corrective. Despite the ster...
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Who Are The Most Likely Workers To Get Hurt, Those In Their Teens And Early 20s Or Older Employees?
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Who Are The Most Likely Workers To Get Hurt, Those In Their Teens And Early 20s Or Older Employees?

Workers in their teens and early 20s are more likely to get hurt than older employees. Think about your first job. Maybe it was delivering pizza, bagging groceries, busing tables or doing landscaping work. Did you get enough training to avoid potential injuries? Chances are, you didn’t – and your boss or supervisor just told you to get to work. Employing young people helps them in many ways. They can learn a trade, develop job skills, become more responsible and earn money. But there’s danger, too: Americans between 15 and 24 years old are up to 2.3 times more likely to get injured on the job than workers who are 25 and over. In 2021, 398 workers under 25 died after getting injured on the job. In my research about the unique occupational safety hazards young workers face, I’ve identified t...
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How AI Can Help You Reduce Bottlenecks Between Life And Work
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How AI Can Help You Reduce Bottlenecks Between Life And Work

AI could improve your life by removing bottlenecks between what you want and what you get. Artificial intelligence is poised to upend much of society, removing human limitations inherent in many systems. One such limitation is information and logistical bottlenecks in decision-making. Traditionally, people have been forced to reduce complex choices to a small handful of options that don’t do justice to their true desires. Artificial intelligence has the potential to remove that limitation. And it has the potential to drastically change how democracy functions. AI researcher Tantum Collins and I, a public-interest technology scholar, call this AI overcoming “lossy bottlenecks.” Lossy is a term from information theory that refers to imperfect communications channels – that is, channels tha...
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A New Study Finds Online Stores Are Still Selling Flavored E-Cigarettes, Even To Kids — Despite California’s Ban In 2022
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A New Study Finds Online Stores Are Still Selling Flavored E-Cigarettes, Even To Kids — Despite California’s Ban In 2022

California banned sales of flavored e-cigarettes in 2022 − but a new study finds online stores are still selling them, even to kids. Californians – including minors – are still able to buy flavored electronic cigarettes online, even after the state’s much-publicized ban went into effect. That’s the key finding of my team’s new study, published in JAMA Network Open. On Dec. 21, 2022, California enacted Senate Bill 793, which prohibited the sale of most flavored tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to people of all ages. Hookahs, premium cigars and loose-leaf tobacco were exempted from the legislation. The ban was motivated, in large part, by a desire to reduce to reduce consumption of tobacco among young people – who are particularly attracted to the flavors in e-cigarettes, such as ma...
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American Fiction: A Slithering Satire That Will Leave You Speechless
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American Fiction: A Slithering Satire That Will Leave You Speechless

‘American Fiction’ is a scathing satire that challenges pop-culture stereotypes of Blackness. In this episode, Vinita sits down with two experts to break down the many layers — and Black stereotypes — in the much anticipated new film, American Fiction. The lead character of the new movie American Fiction is Monk. He’s a Black man but never feels ‘Black’ enough: he graduated from Harvard, his siblings are doctors, he doesn’t play basketball and he writes literary novels. Directed and written by former journalist Cord Jefferson, American Fiction won this year’s People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, and it has its much anticipated North American release in theatres this month. It’s been called an “incisive literary satire” by the Guardian. The film, star...
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A Look Back At ‘Good Times’ 50 Years Later
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A Look Back At ‘Good Times’ 50 Years Later

‘Good Times’: 50 years ago, Norman Lear changed TV with a show about a working-class Black family’s struggles and joys. I loved watching Norman Lear’s trailblazing television shows when I was growing up in Dalzell, South Carolina, in the 1970s. “Good Times,” my favorite, debuted on Feb. 8, 1974 – nearly 50 years ago. CBS aired the show about the daily struggles and triumphs of the working-class Evans family until Aug. 1, 1979. Lear, who died at 101 on Dec. 5, 2023, forever changed sitcoms. His characters were more diverse, and their predicaments included situations that had previously been out of bounds for humorous TV programs, such as child abuse, unemployment and alcoholism. As a result, they more accurately reflected modern life in America than their counterparts that predominated ...
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The Holidays Can Be A Time To Reflect And Find Meaning In Loss For Those Suffering With Prolonged Grief
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The Holidays Can Be A Time To Reflect And Find Meaning In Loss For Those Suffering With Prolonged Grief

For many who are suffering with prolonged grief, the holidays can be a time to reflect and find meaning in loss. The holiday season is meant to be filled with joy, connection and celebration of rituals. Many people, however, are starkly reminded of their grief this time of year and of whom – or what – they have lost. The added stress of the holiday season doesn’t help. Studies show that the holidays negatively affect many people’s mental health. While COVID-19-related stressors may have lessened, the grief from change and loss that so many endured during the pandemic persists. This can cause difficult emotions to resurface when they are least expected. I am a licensed therapist and trauma-sensitive yoga instructor. For the last 12 years, I’ve helped clients and families manage grief, depr...
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