May 1, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — A new online survey conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Alkermes, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on neuroscience, explores the experiences of individuals diagnosed with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). Continue reading
Co-op Live, the UK’s largest indoor arena, has been named the No.1 venue for gross sales in the UK and Europe since its opening in May 2024, outranking The O2, according to Pollstar’s data rankings. Continue reading
Tripadvisor, the world’s leading travel platform, revealed the winners of its annual Travelers’ Choice Awards: Best of the Best Hotels, spotlighting this year’s top-rated hotels worldwide as identified through Tripadvisor reviews. Continue reading
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), in collaboration with LF Education, announces the general availability of LFEL1001, a free online course designed to help software developers understand and prepare for the requirements of the European Union (EU) Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Continue reading
GammaPod represents a true revolution in the treatment of breast cancer: it allows the safe and precise administration of high doses of radiation to the tumor because, unlike conventional radiotherapy equipment, designed to treat tumors in all areas of the body, GammaPod was invented and designed to treat only breast cancer. Continue reading
Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), the world’s leading derivatives and securities exchange network, announced it has begun to offer trading in its new Cboe FTSE Bitcoin Index futures. These new cash-settled futures, based on the FTSE Bitcoin Reduced Value Index[1] (Ticker: XBTF), are the latest addition to Cboe’s growing suite of digital asset derivatives. Continue reading
April 14, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — Equifax’s 2024 Global Consumer Credit Trends Report offers a broad analysis of consumer credit conditions across ten countries, leveraging the Equifax Cloud™ for enhanced data insights. The report highlights trends in consumer credit demand, debt, delinquencies, and credit card usage, alongside inflation trends. Continue reading
Eva Marquis, University of Exeter and Karen Hudson-Edwards, University of Exeter
On February 18, contamination in the Kafue river, Zambia, led to a mass death of fish. Its water turned a deathly grey and adjacent farmland was poisoned. The drinking water it supplied to half a million residents of the town of Kitwe was suddenly cut off.
Eike Schneiders, University of Southampton; Joshua Krook, University of Southampton, and Tina Seabrooke, University of Southampton
People who aren’t legal experts are more willing to rely on legal advice provided by ChatGPT than by real lawyers – at least, when they don’t know which of the two provided the advice. Continue reading
Grocery price inflation in the U.S. continued to cool in the first quarter of 2025, with a few tariff-related exceptions, according to data from Catalina’s robust, real-time Shopper Intelligence Platform. Catalina’s Shopping Basket Index (SBI), which tracks the aggregate average price changes of 10 common grocery product categories, reveals an overall inflation rate of 2% in Q1 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. Continue reading