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Scope3, the source of truth for supply chain emissions data, unveiled Climate Shield, an industry-first solution providing global advertisers with a turnkey way to reduce the carbon footprint of digital advertising by automatically blocking high emissions ad inventory considered ‘climate risk.’ This always-on approach to decarbonisation will drive systemic reduction of carbon emissions from advertising and create a more sustainable ad ecosystem.

Outseer, one of the leading providers of digital fraud prevention and customer authentication solutions, announced the availability of new global research conducted by the Aite-Novarica Group focused on global trends in real-time payments (RTP) and associated fraud. Aite-Novarica Group report, sponsored by Outseer, surveyed fraud executives at financial institutions in February and March 2023 in Brazil, Canada, India, the U.K., and the U.S. to understand the trends associated with fraud on faster payment rails. Aite-Novarica Group augmented these efforts by examining the progression of faster payments in each market.

LinkedIn released its annual report on the most in-demand skills for 2023 and communication and leadership rank as two of the top five most in-demand skills in today’s competitive job market. The other skills landing in the top five are management, customer service, and sales. The report is based on data gathered from LinkedIn job postings and member activity, offering a unique and valuable perspective on the job market’s current and future needs. An effective way of building and enhancing these valuable skills is by joining Toastmasters International, an organization devoted to communication and leadership skills development.

SevenRooms, a global guest experience and retention platform for the hospitality industry, has announced a new product feature, Pre-Shift, which provides operators with key shift details they can leverage to inform and lead pre-service meetings. Pre-Shift is built to power and simplify pre-service meetings for restaurant operators and their staff around the world. 

HireVue, the global video interviewing, assessments, and text-enabled recruiting solutions firm, has acquired Modern Hire, the intelligent hiring platform. The acquisition marks a new era in hiring, providing organisations with an easier way to realise the full benefits of the most comprehensive platform for assessment, interviewing and end-to-end hiring automation.

Companies need to take a top-down approach to protecting their data. It starts with policy and standards that classify all types of data the company would expect to create, collect, store, or generate. Once these data classification standards are in place, companies then need to catalog where all sensitive or privacy data is collected, handled, or stored into an inventory. You can't protect something if you don't know where or what it is.

The NASA Artemis I launch is an important step towards making it possible for people to go farther and spend more time in space than ever before. Future Artemis missions aim to send crews to Mars and the Moon, a journey that will take up to three years in total. A crucial question posed to scientists before these missions is asking what the astronauts will eat, to not only fulfil their daily nutritional intake, but also to satisfy them. As surviving on protein bars and vitamins for years on end certainly doesn’t sound the least bit appealing – plants, with their incredible capacity to transform light, water, and carbon dioxide into food, serve as the foundation of life on Earth and are the obvious choice to feed people in space.

Nozomi Networks Inc. announced Accenture Security, IBM Security and Mandiant (part of Google Cloud) are participants in its Elite Cyber Defenders Program. The program enables global incident response companies with Nozomi Networks’ OT and IoT cybersecurity solutions, advanced security training, shared threat intelligence and joint security research.

Ready to jazz up your email marketing with the help of AI, but not sure how to charm your customers with ChatGPT prompts? Let's turn the "bland" knob down and crank up the "panache." This guide will light your way through understanding your audience, creating vivid prompts, and adding a dash of creativity.

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), a nonprofit committed to advancing the science of food and its application across the food system, and the Seeding The Future Foundation announced the return of the annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge. The annual Challenge invites scientists, engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and multidisciplinary teams from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), non-profits, social enterprises, universities, research institutions as well as small and emerging startups to submit their game-changing innovations that will help transform the global food system.