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GenAI Is Leveling the Playing Field for Smaller Businesses
Typically, small to medium enterprises (SMEs) don’t have the resources to hunker down at an annual strategy retreat or to stop everything they’re doing to respond to unexpected emergencies or events that threaten the bottom line.…
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Arts graduate education in Canada should be redesigned around students’ and society’s needs
The recent federal announcement increasing doctoral and post-doctoral stipends is welcome. But money alone will not solve the challenges of graduate education in Canada. This is particularly true for social science and humanities…
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Sales Of Audiobooks Are Solidly Growing
Robert Thompson, CEO of HarperCollins parent company News Corp, has repeatedly called Spotify a game changer for the audiobook market; the 14% rise in audiobook sales at the publisher in its most recent financial quarter, which…
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Costco Plans to Stop Selling Books Year-Round
In a blow to publishers and authors, Costco plans to stop selling books regularly at stores around the United States, four publishing executives who had been informed of the warehouse retailer’s plans said on Wednesday.Beginning in…
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Little, Brown, a Hachette Imprint, Lays Off Seven People
Hachette Book Group laid off seven employees at its Little, Brown imprint on Wednesday, according to the company, in a shake-up that was the latest example of turmoil in the publishing industry.The layoffs, which the company described as…
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Two Seattle Companies Say They Will Merge
Seattle’s ACT Contemporary Theatre and Seattle Shakespeare Company — two of the city’s most enduring theater companies — may soon become one entity, the companies announced Wednesday. – Seattle Times
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The AI Apocalypse We’re Not Talking About
Source: Art: DALL-E/OpenAI
Doomsday scenarios depicting hostile machine uprisings and the enslavement of humanity have long dominated AI apocalypse narratives. However, a more subtle yet equally unsettling…
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Human culture is changing too fast for evolution to catch up—here’s how it may affect you
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain
Research is showing that many of our contemporary problems, such as the rising prevalence of mental health…
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Why Broadway Never Bounced Back
Broadway had been making progress toward an industrywide recovery, but new data shows halted momentum in the most recent season.
According to data from the industry trade group The Broadway League, overall grosses for…
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Ben Vautier Dies at 88
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