Is the economy headed toward recession? It doesn’t hurt to prepare for one now, notes YouTuber Walid Azami. In a new tutorial, he provides six strategics to help your business survive and even grow during a downturn. Clients want solutions during a recession, he notes at Fstoppers. “You can…gain many jobs by simply suggesting ideas to your clients. That requires you to maintain relationships with them,” he writes. Read the full Story >>
Wildlife photographer Chris Fallows is fascinated by great white sharks and has made it his mission to honor their majesty through stunning images, notes My Modern Met. Some of his favorite and most impressive images show great whites leaping out of the water in a behavior known as breaching. Great whites—which grow up to 20 feet long and weighing up to 6,600 pounds—can actually swim quickly up to the surface at speeds of up to 40 miles an hour and fling their bodies up to 10 feet in the air. Read the full Story >>
As it continues to double-down on video, Instagram will now enable brands to turn their Reels into ads, with a new “Boost post” option built into the app. Boosted Reels will appear in Explore, feed, the Reels tab, and Stories, making it easier for brands to be discovered by Instagram users, notes PetaPixel. To be eligible for boosting, Reels must be shorter than 60 seconds and be filmed in a 9:16 aspect ratio, meaning they’re filmed vertically and have a full-screen format similar to the template used by its rival TikTok. Read the full Story >>
No verified photograph or image of Joseph Smith has ever been found—until, perhaps, now, notes the Deseret News. A descendant of Smith believes he has discovered a daguerreotype of the Mormon founder. The descendent, Dan Larsen, 79, has spent the last two years verifying that the image that he found in a pocket watch is that of his great-great grandfather, adds the Salt Lake Tribune. Larsen discovered the image while sorting through old boxes of family artifacts. The Church of the Latter Day Saints is withholding judgement. Read the full Story >>
