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CARY, N.C., Aug. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- medical leverageTM is proud to be marking nearly two decades of leadership within the medical communications community. Throughout its history, medical leverage has led its clients with insight, strategy, and a commitment to excellence. Realizing its vision of elevating healthcare communication through education, the president of the company, Dave Oury, has been selected to be a member of the PharmaVoice 100 list, a nomination-only community of influential leaders in the life science industry.Dave was vetted and selected by a review committee based on his passion and influence during his entrepreneurial career. Criteria for acceptance include nomination from his peers, a track record of successfully inspiring others and igniting change, as well as personal and professional achievements and honors."These inspirational leaders, who represent a wide range of industry sectors and functional areas, are having an extraordinary and positive impact on their colleagues, their companies, and the life-sciences ecosystem," said PharmaVoice.As an accepted member of the PharmaVoice 100 list, Dave will be honored in print media and live celebration. QUOTE FROM "On behalf of everyone who works at medical leverage, I am honored and excited to have been invited to be a member of such…

A top Twitch streamer was temporarily suspended after broadcasting 2020 Tokyo clips. An attorney who worked with xQc said the IOC lodged a copyright claim against the Twitch star. The attorney also claimed that xQc had successfully countered the claim and restored his account. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. A top Twitch streamer said he was temporarily suspended from the platform after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) launched a copyright strike against him, the streamer's attorney confirmed to Insider.The streamer, Felix Lengyel, goes by the moniker "xQcOW" or simply "xQc" on Twitch and is the sixth-most-popular personality on the platform with over 6 million followers. The 25-year-old Canadian became famous for playing video games and his offbeat reaction style.Although the original stream is no longer available to watch, the gaming website InvenGlobal and other news outlets reported that Lengyel was temporarily suspended from Twitch on July 28 after he showed footage from the Olympic Games while streaming. His account came back online later that day.According to the Twitter account @StreamerBans, which tracks the duration of popular Twitch users' bans and is not endorsed by Twitch, Lengyel was unbanned after four hours and 55 minutes on July 28. Lengyel tweeted…

A new indie-focused showcase, plus a Steam Festival to follow A new multi-publisher showcase is on the way to highlight games coming out of the independent development scene. The Indie Houses is a collection of publishers spanning continents and backgrounds, and they’re hosting both a Direct-style showcase and a weeklong festival at the end of August. The Indie Houses is currently made up of Akupara Games, Fellow Traveller, Neon Doctrine, Raw Fury, Those Awesome Guys, Toge Productions, and Whitethorn Games. The initiative will be kicking off its public-facing presence with a publisher showcase, The Indie Houses Direct, on Aug. 31. Airing over on Twitch, YouTube, and Steam, the Indie Houses Direct will be an hour-long segment packed with news and reveals from the seven publishers taking part in the Direct. Following this, there will be a weeklong Steam Festival held from Aug. 31 through Sept. 7. The Steam Festival will feature multiple game demos, live broadcasts, game bundles, and sales. The idea of an indie-focused showcase has been increasingly popular over recent years, as broadcasts like the Wholesome Direct have shown how the Nintendo Direct style of game announcements can work well. It makes sense for indie publishers to band…

Each Cougar received an iPad to use for film studies.(Nate Edwards | BYU) BYU players tour the newly renovated locker room, Monday, June 18, 2021.  | Aug. 4, 2021, 8:32 p.m.As BYU Football players report back to campus for fall camp, the student-athletes are being welcomed with all types of swag.All players and coaches came in Wednesday for required meetings and housekeeping items, and will kick off fall camp practices Thursday.Linebacker Chaz Ah You took to his Snapchat to share his experience reporting to camp, which included riding up to campus on a bicycle. He also gave a tour of a buffet line with a text over the video that said: “We finally aren’t starving anymore.”BYU football players reported to campus today for fall camp (practices start tomorrow). Chaz Ah You shared parts of his first day of camp on his Snapchat. pic.twitter.com/4Q7LXE0s1W— Norma Gonzalez (@sltribbyu) August 4, 2021 The big news on his Snapchat story was the iPad each player received for film studies.A BYU Football spokesperson said giving each player an iPad is nothing new, but something they’ve done “since 2016.” However, players have previously checked out the equipment and returned. Players are able to keep the equipment if…

The internet holding company IAC posted strong second-quarter growth, driven by continued strength in its Dotdash internet publishing business. But results at its majority-owned Angi business slightly missed estimates, as the home-services firm works through a transition in its business model.These were the first quarterly results IAC has reported (ticker: IAC) since it completed the spinout of the video tools company Vimeo (VMEO) in late May. That seems to have created a little confusion in terms of Wall Street’s forecasts for revenue. Some of the calls still include Vimeo. For the quarter, IAC posted revenue of $829.5 million, up 26% from a year ago. Profits were $194.8 million, or $2.02 a share, largely due to a $210 million unrealized after-tax gain on the company’s 59 million-share stake in MGM Resorts International (MGM).  “In our first quarter following the Vimeo spin, we’re back to building,” IAC CEO Joey Levin said in a letter to shareholder. “Being small again has its benefits. Though there’s less earnings to cover the corporate overhead, smaller scale means fewer bureaucratic distractions. The natural big-company inertia toward risk avoidance reverses, and we are able to focus all our resources on expansion and taking healthy new risks.” With…

On a long enough timeline, every social media app trends to adding stories, and now it’s apparently TikTok’s turn: the popular video app is experimenting with a new stories feature. The feature was highlighted by Matt Navarra on Twitter, and a TikTok spokesperson confirmed the test in an email to The Verge. The new feature, simply called “TikTok Stories,” appears to work similarly to other stories functions on apps like Instagram or Snapchat. Stories live in a newly added slide-over sidebar, where you’ll be able to see stories posted by accounts that you follow on TikTok for 24 hours before they’re automatically deleted. Other users will be able to react and comment on your story, too. And just like on Instagram and other platforms, you’ll also be able to tap on a user’s profile picture to load a story. TikTok describes the feature in the app as “a new way to interact with your fans.” Users can create a new story by tapping a “create” button that’s been added to the sidebar, and they can add the usual captions, music, and text. True to TikTok’s video-first nature, it seems stories have to be videos, not still images. “We’re always thinking…

TikTok, the popular short-form video app that’s been widely copied by competing social platforms, may be about to return the favor by itself copying the “stories” vanishing-posts format.The app, owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, has kicked off a small pilot test of TikTok Stories in various countries outside the U.S., a company rep said. Like “stories” on other services, TikTok Stories posts expire after a 24-hour period. It may not turn into a permanent feature on TikTok, the rep added.“We’re always thinking about new ways to bring value to our community and enrich the TikTok experience,” TikTok spokesperson said in a statement to Variety. “Currently we’re experimenting with ways to give creators additional formats to bring their creative ideas to life for the TikTok community.”The ephemeral “stories” concept originated on Snapchat, and it was later copied by bigger rivals like Instagram and Facebook. (Twitter also latched onto the idea with Fleets, but it shut the feature down this week after low usage.)At the same time, TikTok has faced a raft copycats to its own short-form social video. Those include Instagram Reels, Snapchat Spotlight and YouTube Shorts. This week, YouTube kicked off a monetization program for Shorts, under which it…

ClaimAccording to historical accounts, "Before being burned alive by the Spaniards, chief Hatuey of the island of Hispanola was asked if he wanted to accept Christianity and go to Heaven. Hatuey asked if Spaniards go to Heaven, to which the the priest they do. Hatuey then stated that he'd rather go to hell where he wouldn't see such cruel people."ReportingAdvertisementsOn August 4 2021, prolific Imgur account OctopussSevenTwo shared a meme to Imgur which described the purported last words of Taíno chief Hatuey before being burned alive.One day prior, a Reddit account shared the same meme to r/Damnthatsinteresting, from where it was later removed for not having proper sourcing:Hatuey a legendary warrior of Hispaniola , who preferred to go to Hell rather going to Heaven from DamnthatsinterestingText under an apparent image of a statue of Hatuey read:Before being burned alive by the Spaniards, chief Hatuey of the island of Hispanola was asked if he wanted to accept Christianity and go to Heaven. Hatuey asked if Spaniards go to Heaven, to which the the priest they do. Hatuey then stated that he’d rather go to hell where he wouldn’t see such cruel people.On Twitter, individual users shared the meme in early August…

TikTok is testing a new video Stories feature, a format that borrows from Snapchat’s disappearing videos concept and comes just as Twitter shut down its own version called Fleets. On Wednesday, TikTok confirmed that it was running an experiment that gives a subset of its users access to TikTok Stories. A TikTok spokesperson said by email that it was a small test and not widely available. TikTok, the Chinese-owned app, has become a household name in the U.S., where most users share short videos. Most of the videos are served to users through a “For You” page, chosen by an algorithm that is finely tuned to people’s unique tastes. TikTok has said it has around 100 million users in the U.S. Stories were first popularized by Snapchat as a way to share personal video diaries that did not linger on the internet forever, offering a degree of privacy, and they are automatically erased after a day. Stories have become a standard format everywhere from Facebook and Instagram to LinkedIn and Pinterest. Brands and publishers have become familiar with Stories as a way to share their own content. Stories on Snapchat and Instagram often come with ad breaks, too. This year,…

(MENAFN - BreezyScroll) Facebook-owned messaging service, WhatsApp rolls out a disappearing photos feature just like Snapchat. This way, images are no longer automatically saved on your gallery. The feature deletes media right after you view them once. Read to know how you can enable this ‘View Once’ feature on your phone in few easy steps. How does this WhatsApp feature work? You already know about WhatsApp’s disappearing messages . You can now send disappearing photos for both individuals and groups. Once such media are opened, they will carry an opened tag. And the receiver cannot reopen, save or forward it after viewing it once. Any message replied to a ‘view once’ media will be displayed on the chat for seven days. Moreover, if you do not open the message on WhatsApp before a week, it will disappear. This feature is available on Android, iPhone, KaiOS, Desktop, and Web apps of WhatsApp. However remember that it is possible to copy, save, screenshot, or forward a ‘view once’ message before it disappears. Learn how to enable disappearing photos in three easy steps:  First, open WhatsApp on your smartphone and select the chat you want to enable this feature on. Click on share…