For all the ways the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our online shopping behavior in 2020, add to the list: holiday gift giving. As e-commerce retailers, we should prepare for a surge in online gift purchases and also an increase in gifts delivered directly to the recipient. Here are ten ideas that e-tailers can use to rethink the gift-giving experience this holiday season.http://dlvr.it/RkCVrD Continue reading The Pandemic’s Effect on Gift Giving: Is Your E-Commerce Business Ready?

The U.S. government’s policy to restrict federal agency exposure to products and services associated with Huawei Technologies and other China-based companies has gained the support of the U.S. information technology industry. However, a wide swath of U.S. companies, including those in the IT sector, registered significant concerns about federal regulations designed to control the employment ofhttp://dlvr.it/RkC0Rx Continue reading Tech Firms Support Huawei Restriction, Balk at Cost

E-commerce is not yet every rural community’s Holy Grail for shopping. Many local rural retailers are strangers to e-commerce, and the home delivery routine for rural customers is often very different from the opportunities enjoyed by suburban and city consumers. If stores in rural America want to keep customers happy and healthy, transitioning to e-commerce is key.http://dlvr.it/Rk9mXP Continue reading Rural America Is the Next E-Commerce Frontier

Wuhan (XNA) Oct 21, 2020 China’s space programs have taken on a wide variety of duties, ranging from serving scientific endeavors, exploring extraterrestrial bodies, enabling better weather forecasts and guiding cars and ships. Soon, they will have a new group of beneficiaries-gourmets in love with freshwater crawfish-known in Chinese as xiaolongxia, or little lobsters. A domestic space-based system will helhttp://dlvr.it/Rk6pLC Continue reading Satellites keep eye on crawfish for gourmets

Boston MA (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 MIT researchers have identified a brain pathway critical in enabling primates to effortlessly identify objects in their field of vision. The findings enrich existing models of the neural circuitry involved in visual perception and help to further unravel the computational code for solving object recognition in the primate brain. Led by Kohitij Kar, a postdoc at the McGovern Institute … Continue reading Neural pathway crucial to successful rapid object recognition in primates

Muara Enim, Indonesia (AFP) Oct 22, 2020 A landslide sparked by heavy rains has killed 11 miners in Indonesia, authorities said Thursday, marking the latest in a string of deadly mining accidents across the Southeast Asian archipelago. The victims were about 20 metres (65 feet) underground at an unlicensed coal mine near a village in South Sumatra province when the accident happened on Wednesday. “The … Continue reading Landslide kills 11 miners in Indonesia

Dannenrod, Allemagne (AFP) Oct 20, 2020 Eighteen months ago, German ship captain Carola Rackete was hailed a hero by refugee campaigners after she defied the authorities by steering a migrant rescue vessel into the port of Lampedusa. Today, Rackete has swapped her captain’s hat for a set of yellow waterproofs as she wades through the mud in the Dannenrod forest in central Germany, surrounded by … Continue reading In new German save-the-forest fight, migrant captain centre stage

Baringo, Kenya (AFP) Oct 20, 2020 Peering into the lake, the village elder struggled to pinpoint where beneath the hyacinth and mesquite weeds lay the farm he lived in his entire life until the water rose like never before and swallowed everything. A clump of sodden straw marked the spot: the tip of his thatch hut jutting from the murky depths, all that remained of … Continue reading ‘Like the speed of the wind’: Kenya’s lakes rise to destructive highs

The upcoming holiday season is looking much different than anyone would have suspected this time last year. Forget about the customary long lines to buy gifts for loved ones and friends this year — if you can even find a store that is open. All of these changes make it critical for marketers to adapt in an effort to recover lost sales and attract new … Continue reading The Strive to Survive a COVID-19 Holiday Shopping Season

Karlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 Concentration of dinitrogen oxide – also referred to as nitrous oxide – in the atmosphere increases strongly and speeds up climate change. In addition to CO2 and methane, it is the third important greenhouse gas emitted due to anthropogenic activities. Human-made nitrous oxide emissions are mainly caused by the use of fertilizers in agriculture. Growing demand for food and … Continue reading Global food production threatens the climate