Making sense of 2020: New marketing priorities & opportunities amidst the chaos Change has been the operative word for 2020. At the start of the year, CMOs said data, customer insights, digital commerce and marketing operations would be their priorities (Gartner). With our new environment moving towards more digital distribution, …

Apple Store Confirms New iPhone SE Branding, Launch Reportedly Imminent The rumors of an imminent launch of a new, updated (budget) iPhone have reached a fever pitch, with 9to5Mac implying the device might be announced as soon as today. The article was written yesterday, but Apple hasn’t announced anything yet …

Experimental Drug Blocks Growth of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus in Cell Cultures and Organoids A trial drug called APN01 or human recombinant soluble ACE2 (hrsACE2) can significantly block early stages of SARS-CoV-2 infections, according to a paper published in the journal Cell. In cell cultures analyzed in the study, APN01 inhibited the …

Retargeting best practices that drive results If you want a prospect to become familiar with your brand and primed to make a purchase, or to re-engage lost shoppers who’ve abandoned their online shopping carts, ad retargeting is a key strategy for digital marketers who want to make the most of …

Facebook rolls out hours and services update for COVID-19 communications Facebook announced the ability to publish hours updates and service changes on Facebook Pages Friday. Businesses can mark themselves “temporarily closed” (as with Google My Business) or communicate other types of changes, which respond to the coronavirus outbreak (e.g., takeout, …

Estate Planning: 11 Documents You Need for Coronavirus and Always Estate planning lawyers are reporting a significant rise in calls from new and existing clients wanting to make sure that their estate plans are complete and up to date.  Estate plans are critical for anyone and everyone to have — …

AMD and Intel’s Latest Mobile CPUs Go Head to Head in Benchmark Leak AMD and Intel have exchanged a quick round of fire over the mobile market, with AMD launching its first Ryzen Mobile 4000 laptops within the past week and Intel announcing 10th Gen-H parts just yesterday. There’s a …

NASA Brings Back Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for First Crewed SpaceX Launch The NASA logo of today is very similar to the agency’s original insignia, but the iconic “worm” logotype adorned spacecraft for more than 15 years a few decades ago. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine announced on Twitter that “the worm …

90-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Rainforest Discovered in Antarctica An international team of paleontologists and geologists has uncovered well-preserved fossilized roots, pollen and spores of 90-million-year-old (mid-Cretaceous period) rainforest trees in West Antarctica. Reconstruction of the West Antarctic mid-Cretaceous temperate rainforest. The painting is based on paleofloral and environmental information inferred from palynological, …

International Panel Releases Guidelines on Management of ICU Patients with COVID-19 The Surviving Sepsis Campaign COVID-19 panel, which includes 36 experts from 12 countries, has issued new guidelines for health-care workers treating intensive care unit (ICU) patients with COVID-19. The guidelines, co-published in the journal Critical Care Medicine and the …