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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin When Manuel and Geiszel Godoy got married 14 years ago and had kids, they started paying to attention to a jarring phenomenon: They couldn’t find any comic books for their children with characters who looked like them. But Manuel and Geiszel decided not to simply accept the situation. Instead, seven years ago, they formed Black Sands Entertainment , a Delaware-based company that produces comic books and graphic novels for young readers in the Black community. They feature Black characters, telling stories of ancient Africa. “I didn’t want to constantly see only Hollywood versions of the ancient cultures of Africa,” says Manuel. ADVERTISEMENT Now, with $3 million in revenue, the company is focused on a strategy to boost growth, primarily through sales to schools. Starting Up Manuel and Geiszel both were stationed in the army in the early 2000’s, mostly in Germany, she for three-and-and-a-half years, he … [Read more...] about Black Couple’s Comic Book Company Creates Characters Who Look Like Them—And Their Kids

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Paul is President of Quantum Computing at ColdQuanta , where he leads the team building the world’s most useful quantum computer. So much of modern life relies on GPS that it has been estimated that an outage would cost the U.S. economy over $1 billion per day. Such an outage isn’t too far-fetched. We have seen recent examples of GPS being blocked in conflict zones, spoofed for nefarious purposes and disrupted by solar storms. At its heart, GPS is a timing system. To understand how timing relates to navigation, and how quantum technology will enable us to overcome the limitations of GPS, we need to go back in history a few hundred years. Dava Sobel’s book Longitude recounts the tale of John Harrison’s mechanical clock that revolutionized maritime navigation and global trade. In the same way that Harrison’s clock accelerated economic growth through the 18th and 19th centuries, optical clocks are … [Read more...] about A Quantum Leap In Timing

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Buying holiday gifts for gamers should be a piece of cake—just get them a game, like Cyberpunk 2077 , Animal Crossing or Doom Eternal . But games are so predictable; you can do better than that. There are a slew of gaming-related gifts that show you understand what gaming is all about. We’ve rounded up 17 of the best gift ideas for gamers, from items priced (and sized) for stocking stuffers all the way up to showstopper gifts that’ll be the subject of conversation on Discord for weeks to come. A Working Retro Arcade Cabinet that Fits on a Desk My Arcade Dig Dug Micro Player You can buy full-size arcade cabinets to recreate the 80s arcade experience in your basement (just scroll down the list for a killer example) but not everyone has room for that. Instead, My Arcade offers a handful of tabletop micro-sized arcades. It’s all a matter of taste and personal memories, of course, but this Dig Dug cabinet … [Read more...] about 17 Of The Best Gifts For Gamers Will Level Up Their Love

Australian dollars are seen in an illustration photo. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz/File photo SYDNEY   -The head of Australia’s prudential regulator said on Tuesday the country’s banks were among the best placed in the world to handle a financial crisis, following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) that roiled international markets. The differences between regulatory requirements for Australian banks versus many overseas jurisdictions “give us confidence that the banking system here is among the best equipped in the world to handle a crisis,” John Lonsdale, the chair of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), said in speech to the Australian Financial Review’s Banking Summit. “They don’t, however, make us complacent or blind to the potential impact overseas events can have on financial stability here,” he added. Australian banks did not suffer as much as those in the U.S. and Britain during the 2008 global financial crisis, thanks in part to tighter lending … [Read more...] about Australia’s prudential regulator says banks well-equipped to handle a crisis

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Apple almost always releases its iPhone upgrades on a Tuesday, but this new version has arrived a day early. It’s a big update with a smattering of new features and the usual bug fixes. Here’s all you need to know. Make Forbes your destination for all-things iOS. Read full details of what’s in the release from me the moment it lands. Kate O’Flaherty looks at the security considerations of each new release. And then read Gordon Kelly ’s analysis of whether you ought to install or wait. MORE FROM FORBES Apple iPhone 15 Leak Exposes Good And Bad News By David Phelan Which iPhones can run iOS 16.4? Apple iOS 16.4 runs on all iPhones from iPhone 8 onwards, and this update includes features relevant to all those handsets. How to get it Updating is easy: open the Settings app on the device and then choose General, then Software Update. Next, choose Download and Install, it’ll all be … [Read more...] about Apple iOS 16.4 Is Here: Important Upgrade Released For iPhone Users

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin While the position of diversity, equity, and inclusion has continued to make strides across society, another school of thought has raged against its significance of what is needed in our everyday lives. The disability narrative has even seen its fair share of criticism these days, most recently from certain conservative political commentators. Yet, even in the gauntlet of the culture wars, it is important to take a moment and step back and think about the true value of the disability narrative. Too often all these critiques are habitually one-dimensional and lack the imagination of the true value that this community can provide. While embracing the disability narrative is certainly not a panacea to today's culture wars, it may offer a more humane approach to what we need in our very divided space. Though we often don’t say it aloud, the disability narrative is something we all share and is part of the fabric of our lives … [Read more...] about Mindset Matters: Reflecting On The Value Of The Disability Narrative In An Era Of Culture Wars

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The leadership development industry—now valued at a staggering $67 billion and slated to grow to nearly $180 billion by 2032—must correct a glaring, unmistakable, and long-standing branding issue. There is no such thing as a "soft skill." Long mislabeled as "soft," these skills are, in reality, the bedrock of effective leadership. It's high time we abandon the outdated and derogatory term "soft skills" and embrace their true essence: professional skills . Dispelling the Myth: Soft Skills Are Not Soft As a long-recovering Chief Learning Officer (CLO), I continue to feel that interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence remain mislabeled as "soft skills." However, this designation fails to reflect the true significance of these skills accurately and upholds the fallacious idea that they are less important than hard skills. Professional skills are more important than ever in today's business world, which is … [Read more...] about It’s About Time We Abandoned The Term’ Soft Skills’

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin If it seems like conversations about artificial intelligence and cloud computing are everywhere these days, not just in rarified tech and investor circles, it’s true. And nowhere is that more true than in entertainment , where both the creative and business classes are concerned about what possible implications for the craft they’ve honed for years, and excited about the technologies’ democratizing power. At the recent Sundance Film Festival, I talked with numerous directors, editors and others using the new AI and cloud-to-camera capabilities transforming the film and TV production process, and executives with Adobe, which makes the widely used editing software Premiere Pro and other tools to enable creativity. It is a remarkable time, fast-evolving, with breathless predictions both positive and negative, but also some great opportunities to remake the way film and TV (let’s just call them video-based) have been made for … [Read more...] about How AI And The Cloud Are Erasing The Borders In Making Movies And TV Shows

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Large language models (LLMs) based on transformer architectures have taken the world by storm, with ChatGPT quickly becoming a household name. While the concept of generative AI is not new and can be traced back to Jürgen Schmidhuber’s (now at KAUST) work in the 1990s and even further into history, Ian Goodfellow’s generative adversarial networks (GANs) and Google’s transformers published in 2017 enabled the development and industrialization of multi-purpose AI. My teams have been working in this area since 2015 both in generative biology and generative chemistry , with AI-generated drugs in human clinical trials and the most advanced departments in pharma companies using our software, and we have utilized LLMs almost since they were first published. OpenAI’s GPT has also been available to the public since 2020. However, the public release and consumerization of ChatGPT have taken the world by surprise and triggered a … [Read more...] about Can We Enhance AI Safety By Teaching AI To Love Humans And Learning How To Love AI?