The NHL scores the Brand Miss of the Week—for its ongoing missteps with the LGTBQ community.
This is not a new issue but one that isn’t going away, and it continues this week to be a big miss for the National Hockey League. Just before the 2023-24 season started last week, the league sent a memo to its teams saying that use of rainbow-colored Pride Tape was now banned from games, warm-ups, and even team practices.
The move comes after a long year for the NHL
By developing a more equitable creative economy in which artists of color are celebrated, nurtured, and paid competitively for their work, GANGGANG, Indianapolis’s first cultural startup, is creating positive change that extends beyond the art world.
Through advocacy and programming, GANGGANG husband-and-wife founders Malina Simone Bacon and Alan Bacon have managed to change the game for Black artists in just three years, sparking meaningful discussions about culture and
Video-game-influencer company FaZe Holdings is being acquired by Texas-based esports company GameSquare Holdings, the companies said on Friday.
The all-stock deal will give FaZe investors roughly 0.14 GameSquare shares per every FaZe share, making the acquisition worth around $17 million, Bloomberg reports. As part of the deal, GameSquare’s largest investors, which include the family of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, have agreed to buy $10 million in stock in a private pla
New research finds that children are able to easily access graphic content, including images of corpses, when searching for the Israel-Hamas war on social media platforms—and in turn are served more explicit content by the algorithms.
The results were published earlier this week by the U.K.-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), which created profiles for 13-year-old kids on Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat. The researchers found over 300 posts or videos “portra
Electric vehicles are now a fixture on many streets in the United States, and EV stocks are also becoming increasingly common on the stock market.
Next.e.GO Mobile, a German-based EV manufacturer, is going public on Friday via a de-SPAC transaction with Athena Technology Acquisition Corp—a type of merger that involves a SPAC acquiring a private company and thereby taking the company public. The company’s shares are listed on the Nasdaq and are trading under the “
Three of the biggest music publishers are suing AI company Anthropic, alleging that its AI models violate copyrights for their song lyrics. Universal Music Group, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO Music filed the lawsuit in Nashville division of the U.S. District Court for the middle District of Tennessee, signaling a new approach to the music industry’s efforts to prevent AI companies from training their models on copyrighted materials.
At the center of the suit is Claude, Anth
A historic pandemic continues to rage, and it isn’t getting the attention it deserves given the virus’s toll. The outbreak in this case isn’t COVID-19, but a vicious iteration of the avian flu. But there’s early evidence that the groundbreaking science of CRISPR gene-editing could offer a solution—through genetically-modified chickens.
The current avian flu outbreak is especially nasty. It’s killed more than 59 million chickens across 47 U.S
A new study published by academics at the U.K.’s University of Cambridge details just how online vigilantism has played out since Hamas militants from Gaza attacked southern Israel on October 7, killing at least 1,400 people and taking some 200 hostages, most of them civilians.
Ross Anderson and his coauthors, Anh V. Vu and Alice Hutchings, analyzed a database of cyberattacks worldwide that they already monitor regularly in the two weeks before, and one week after, October 7.
Nearly three-fourths (74%) of the most viral posts on X advancing misinformation about the Israel-Hamas War are being pushed by “verified” X accounts, a NewsGuard analysis finds.
During the first week of the conflict (October 7-October 14), NewsGuard’s researchers analyzed the 250 most-engaged posts (likes, reposts, replies, and bookmarks) that promoted one of 10 prominent false or unsubstantiated narratives relating to the war. These claims, determine
SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic may get to space differently, but they agree on one thing: The industry needs more time in the so-called learning period on commercial spaceflight that is set to expire January 1.
State of play
The House held a hearing in July on extending the FAA’s “learning period” for commercial spaceflight and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) introduced a bill in September that would extend the rulemak