• We've Normalized Testing Our Employees. But Why Don't We Test Our Leaders?

    Here's how leaders can grow and improve their leadership and management skills.

  • Revealed: the picture sneaked by employee into a German gallery

    Technician, who hung his own picture in an exhibition about art world glitches, has been sacked and given a three-year banThe first picture that greeted visitors to the first-floor exhibition space in Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne gallery on 23 February may not have immediately grabbed their attention.The 60cm by 120cm artwork was a retro-looking photograph of a family of four, with the background and parts of the faces and bodies roughly painted over in white. It was unassuming compared with...

  • Lab-grown meat firms hope for the taste of success

    The market for lab grown meat in the Netherlands is heating up, with the first ever European tasting for one company and a €40 million investment package for another. Mosa Meat announced on Tuesday it had secured a further €40 million in new capital. The company is currently preparing the first formal tastings of its cultivated beef in the Netherlands. The funding round, which Mosa Meat says was oversubscribed, includes new and existing partners, including the PHW Group, which is one of

  • Apple has bought a French firm to help get AI processing on the iPhone

    Apple has quietly acquired another AI firm involved in reducing the size of Large Language Modules for the iPhone, this time Paris-based Datakaleb. Before moving to AI compression, Datakaleb worked extensively in AI-based image analysis Following news that Apple secretly bought the Canadian AI firm DarwinAI at the start of 2024, it has now been revealed that shortly before then, it acquired a Parisian company. French publication Challenges says it bought Datakaleb in December 2023. ...

  • Peter Bol case prompts Wada to reform synthetic EPO testing processes

    Anti-doping agency now requires two experts to assess resultAustralian’s ban was lifted after analysis of second sampleAthletes who record inconclusive initial doping test results for synthetic EPO may be saved from public shaming, following World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) reforms prompted by the Peter Bol saga.The Australian Olympian was provisionally suspended from competition in January 2023 after an out-of-competition test showed he had elevated levels of synthetic EPO, which can stimulate...

  • Dutch cultured meat firm Meatable holding first EU tasting today

    The Dutch company Meatable will let people taste a sausage made from laboratory-grown on Wednesday, a first for both the Netherlands and the European Union. The sale of lab-grown meat is not yet permitted anywhere in the EU as safety reviews have not been completed, but the Netherlands introduced rules last year that make it possible to organize tastings.

  • Leftists Who Insisted Covid Health Care Was ‘Racist’ Test Positive For Confirmation Bias

    The view that systemic racism contributed to Covid-19 misery continues to hold sway in medical articles today — but it's false.

  • West Paces Advisors Inc. Cuts Position in Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADP)

    West Paces Advisors Inc. lowered its holdings in shares of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADP – Free Report) by 1.8% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 3,230 shares of the business services provider’s stock after selling 58 shares during the quarter. […]

  • Infosys Q4 net profit jumps 30%; company buys German tech firm for €450 million

    Infosys, which has the highest Nifty weighting among locally listed technology companies, Thursday said fourth-quarter net profit climbed 30% on gains in non-core income, beating DStreet estimates. Revenue guidance for FY25, a key monitorable for investors, remained conspicuously circumspect, although India’s outsourcing bellwether announced its biggest M&A deal in history, committing nearly about half a billion dollars.Profit climbed to Rs 7,969 crore in the March quarter, beating ET’s poll of...

  • Feds say San Gabriel Valley meat processing plant workers could be owed millions in back pay

    The companies — The Exclusive Poultry, Meza Poultry, Valtierra Poultry, Sullon Poultry and Nollus’s Poultry — were all owned by Tony Bran and located in La Puente and City of Industry.

  • Louisiana State Employees Retirement System Takes $32.68 Million Position in PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ:PEP)

    Louisiana State Employees Retirement System acquired a new stake in PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ:PEP – Free Report) in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm acquired 192,400 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $32,677,000. PepsiCo accounts for 0.7% of Louisiana […]

  • Louisiana State Employees Retirement System Takes $14.12 Million Position in Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD)

    Louisiana State Employees Retirement System purchased a new stake in Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD – Free Report) in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The firm purchased 174,300 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock, valued at approximately $14,120,000. Several other hedge funds have also recently bought and […]