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‘Your Democrat neighbor is voting. Are you?’ Donald Trump’s campaign is using some good, old-fashioned peer pressure to urge his supporters to vote for him by telling them that’s what their neighbors are doing.

One message C-suite leaders need to hear loud and clear: Middle managers are the bridge between big-picture vision and on-the-ground execution.   After two decades of working in learning and development, I’ve coached countless individuals on everything from giving actionable feedback to compelling communication strategies. But if there is one message I believe everyone in the C-suite needs to hear loud and clear right now, it’s this: Middle managers are crucial to your company’s success.

Big Tech is hoping small modular reactors can help meet the energy demands from data centers—but the tech is far from proven. As tech companies scramble to find new power sources for AI’s huge energy needs, some of them are turning to startups developing new nuclear technology. Google recently announced that it plans to begin using power from Kairos Power’s small modular reactors by 2030.

Advocates believe local initiatives could be scaled up to restore flows to the once-mighty river. FAR WEST TEXAS—The year was 1897. Flood waters from the Rio Grande submerged entire blocks of downtown El Paso.

Wiped out by the iOS 18 upgrade, the ‘Review Personal Videos’ feature returns as the best tool to find and zap storage-hogging files that you can live without. With many-megapixel cameras and the ability to shoot video at up to 4K, an iPhone’s storage fills up quickly. Sure, ballooning apps and digital downloads like audiobooks and movies also take up space, but they are easy to offload and reload as needed.

Metro Denver developers pushed out more than 5,000 new apartments in the third quarter, and rents barely moved despite that high volume, according to a quarterly update from the Apartment Association of Metro Denver. For the past several quarters, developers have added as many apartments in three months as they would average across an entire year before 2011. “I have been concerned about this for some time that we would flood the market with lots of apartments and vacancies would shoot up,” said Cary Bruteig, author of the quarterly report during a press call Wednesday. Rising vacancies would in turn force landlords to slash rents.