Author: Vidya Saras

Here we speak with Brendan Noud, co-founder and CEO of LearnUpon, a pioneering Learning Management System (LMS) company that has revolutionized how businesses deliver training to their employees, partners, and customers. Having identified a gap in the market for customer-centric LMS solutions, Brendan and his co-founder, Des Anderson, built LearnUpon from the ground up with a commitment to innovation and customer support. From the early days of offering 24/7 support through 12-hour shifts to becoming an industry leader with over 1,500 customers, Brendan shares the insights and values that have driven LearnUpon’s success. Having previously worked for companies offering learning…

Rep. Leigh Finke, Minnesota’s first openly trans legislator, arrives to cheers from supporters just before before the Minnesota Senate introduced the trans refuge bill at the state capitol building in Saint Paul in April 2023. Transgender rights may come up in the vice presidential debate on Tuesday. Stephen Maturen/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephen Maturen/AFP via Getty Images MINNEAPOLIS — As Gov. Tim Walz prepares to debate Sen. JD Vance Tuesday night, Minnesota’s status as a “trans refuge” state will likely be in the spotlight. “He’s very heavy into transgender, anything transgender he thinks is great,” former…

Today (Oct. 2), an annular solar eclipse will begin its journey across parts of the Pacific Ocean, southern Chile and southern Argentina. If you’re unable to see the eclipse in person, you can watch the annular solar eclipse online here at Space.com, courtesy of TimeandDate, and follow all the action on our solar eclipse live updates page. The annular phase of the eclipse will first be visible from Earth at 12:50 p.m. EDT (1650 GMT); however, the best time to watch livestreams will be from 3:03 to 3:09 p.m. EDT (1903 to 1909 GMT), when the ring of fire will be…

Former Chelsea coach Frank Lampard has stated that he is “really pleased” for his former player Kai Havertz as the Arsenal forward scored again for the Gunners in their Champions League win over PSG on Tuesday night. Havertz gave the Premier League side the lead in the European tie after 20 minutes as the former Bayer Leverkusen star connected with a lovely Leandro Trossard cross to head the ball past Gianluigi Donnarumma in the PSG net.This goal saw the 25-year-old join an exclusive club as the German star has become the first Arsenal player since Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in 2019 to find the…

EPA-EFEMajor US ports will stay shut until pay demands are met, the union boss representing striking dockworkers has said.Harold Daggett, head of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), made the vow on a picket line in New Jersey on Tuesday, as tens of thousands of dockworkers on the east and gulf coasts walked out in a bid to win a better labour deal.”We’re going to fight for it and we’re going to win or this port will never open up again,” he said. “I’m not playing games here.”Businesses are bracing for the possibility of a prolonged ports shut down, which threatens…

In a recent transaction, Stephen W. Hope, the Senior Vice President & Chief Accounting Officer of Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:), engaged in both purchasing and selling of the company’s stock. According to the latest filings, Hope acquired 54 shares of Autodesk at a price of $163.59, totaling approximately $8,833. Shortly thereafter, he sold an equivalent number of shares at a higher price of $274.61, amounting to roughly $14,828. The sale was conducted under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, which allows company insiders to set up a predetermined plan to sell stocks at a time when they are not in possession…

Dyson’s vacuums are top-tier for various reasons. They’re powerful, easy to maneuver, bagless, lightweight, and more. But a majority of these vacs are also very expensive. If you’ve been waiting for one to go on sale, you’re in luck. Right now (until December 31), you can get up to $200 off of one of its cordless models on the Dyson website—a majority of which are listed as our top picks in our guide to The Best Dyson Vacuums.Get a 20% Off Dyson Promo Code through RewardsDyson has a Dyson Owners Rewards program, where you can save on select devices with…

Yun Sun Park/ BBC/ AlamyThe tension is building in the race for the White House – and that tension runs through Hollywood’s most gripping political dramas, comedies and documentaries.The current campaign may be the most tumultuous in US history, with a late-in-the-day candidate change and two dramatic debates, along with the possibility (again) of the first woman president. But the race for the White House has intrigued film-makers for decades, with some startling results. Even Frank Capra, the goody-two-shoes of US cinema, cast a sceptical eye on the process. Some films are thinly veiled fictions, others prescient fantasies, but all…

An uptick in Solana’s network activity and upcoming project launches could send SOL price higher. 

1 October 2024 EEA’s Crosschain Interoperability Working Group has just published a case study describing an implementation of the EEA DLT Interoperability Specification. This case study describes an implementation of the recently published version 1 specification, to enable interactions between the EVM-based Polygon blockchain, and the RUST-based Sobrana Smart Contracts on the Stellar Network. The Stellar-Polygon Asset Bridge showcases how different DLT networks can be leveraged to create efficient, secure, and scalable crosschain asset transactions…. …This case study exemplifies how adherence to open standards like the EEA DLT Interoperability Specification can provide a robust framework for enterprises to build and…