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YouTube Influencers: Gaming’s Best Friend or Worst Enemy?
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BALTIMORE, MD, March 14, 2025 – YouTube influencers are shaping the gaming industry in unexpected ways, and a new study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science uncovers the surprising truth: Although influencers can drive massive engagement with video games, they might also be costing game developers millions in lost sales.

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The 3 biggest things to know about a potential U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal
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Contentious minerals deal has sparked a war of words between Trump and Zelensky, and could be announced later this week

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How tariffs can hurt American supply chains | GUEST COMMENTARY
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Americans have probably heard the word “tariffs” more in the past month than in the past four years — and for good reason. Tariffs are central to President Donald Trump’s economic playbook, despite opposition from mainstream economists and trade experts

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Is DALL-E's art borrowed or stolen?

Is DALL-E's art borrowed or stolen?

Yahoo!, July 27, 2022

In 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted a sculpture to the Society of Independent Artists under a false name. Fountain was a urinal, bought from a toilet supplier, with the signature R. Mutt on its side in black paint. Duchamp wanted to see if the society would abide by its promise to accept submissions without censorship or favor. (It did not.) But Duchamp was also looking to broaden the notion of what art is, saying a ready-made object in the right context would qualify. In 1962, Andy Warhol would twist convention with Campbell’s Soup Cans, 32 paintings of soup cans, each one a different flavor. Then, as before, the debate raged about if something mechanically produced – a urinal, or a soup can (albeit hand-painted by Warhol) – counted as art, and what that meant.

How Society Can Get Past COVID Fatigue

How Society Can Get Past COVID Fatigue

Audio Clip, August 1, 2022

New audio is available for media use featuring Kimia Ghobadi. She is the Johns C. Malone Assistant Professor in Civil and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She is a member of the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) and the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. She speaks about how society and get past COVID-19 fatigue. This content is made available by INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences. What follows are 4 questions and responses. All sound should be attributed to Kimia Ghobadi. These responses were provided on July 29, 2022.

New Research Finds Women Don’t Like to Participate in Competitive Situations when Deciding for Themselves, But When Deciding for Others, They are A...

New Research Finds Women Don’t Like to Participate in Competitive Situations when Deciding for Themselves, But When Deciding for Others, They are A...

News Release, July 27, 2022

BALTIMORE, MD, July 27, 2022 – Although most decisions in life are made by individuals themselves, many are influenced by others such as principals, managers, parents or colleagues. New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds that women take part in competitive environments more when they are making decisions for other people rather than themselves.

What Texas can do to fix its power grid

What Texas can do to fix its power grid

Axios, July 27, 2022

To improve the state's power grid, Texas officials must add both energy control and generation capacity, Javad Mohammadi, a University of Texas at Austin researcher specializing in power grid modernization, tells Axios.

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