Fragments of bird flu virus genome found in pasteurized milk, FDA says
Enlarge / Cows being milked The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced that genetic fragments from the highly-pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 have been detected in the pasteurized, commercial milk supply. However, the testing completed so far—using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)—only detects the presence of viral genetic material and cannot tell whether the […]
Overcome Change Fatigue and Boost Your Content Strategy
Change fatigue. It’s a thing. My good friend and amazing consultant Jenny Magic wrote a whole book on the topic. Undeniably, fewer businesses have worked on innovative or incremental marketing change over the last 12 months. I’ve seen it. Technology companies have seen it. Consulting firms have seen it. The number of new, active innovative […]
Erin Hanson x Samsung Art Store – Samsung Global Newsroom
“I know my pieces are influencing AI models and millions of digital paintings. While I’m not sure where this trend will lead, I do know that original art created by humans will always be the basis of any technology in the future.” – Erin Hanson, painter Erin Hanson’s artistic journey is as vivid as […]
A Grammy for Miguel Zenón
Nobel Prizes and other scientific honors are nearly routine at MIT, but a Grammy Award is something we don’t see every year. That’s what Miguel Zenón, an assistant professor of music and theater arts, has won: El Arte Del Bolero Vol. 2, which he recorded with the pianist and composer Luis Perdomo, received the Grammy […]
Explore a digitized collection of doomed Everest climber’s letters home
Enlarge / The final letter from George Mallory from Camp I, Mount Everest, to his wife Ruth Mallory, May 27, 1924. The Master and Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge In June 1924, a British mountaineer named George Leigh Mallory and a young engineering student named Andrew “Sandy” Irvine set off for the summit of Mount […]
Should Your Brand Shout Its AI and Marketing Plan to the World?
To use AI or not to use AI, that is the question. Let’s hope things work out better for you than they did for Shakespeare’s mad Danish prince with daddy issues. But let’s add a twist to that existential question. CMI’s chief strategy officer, Robert Rose, shares what marketers should really contemplate. Watch the video […]
Samsung Unveils New Three-Part Docu-Series Celebrating the Skateboarding, Breaking and Surfing Communities on the Road to Paris 2024
The short documentaries explore each sport’s iconic subcultures and their shared belief in openness Samsung Electronics, a Worldwide Olympic and Paralympic Partner, today launched a new documentary series designed to spotlight skateboarding, breaking and surfing on the Road to Paris 2024. The series, produced in collaboration with the Street League Skateboarding (SLS), Pro Breaking […]
The Download: our eclipse guide, and what you need to know about bird flu
On April 8, the moon will pass directly between Earth and the sun, creating a total solar eclipse across much of the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Although total solar eclipses occur somewhere in the world every 18 months or so, this one is unusual because tens of millions of people in North America will […]
Mandiant, the security firm Google bought for $5.4 billion, gets its X account hacked
Google-owned security firm Mandiant spent several hours trying to regain control of its account on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Wednesday after an unknown scammer hijacked it and used it to spread a link that attempted to steal cryptocurrency from people who clicked on it. “We are aware of the incident impacting the Mandiant […]
6 Ways to Elevate the Text-to-Audio Experience
Converting your text-based, long-form content into audio versions sounds like an easy – and smart – thing to do. After a few months of working with an AI-based audio-conversion tool on the Content Marketing Institute blog, I still think it’s an intelligent move, especially given the rise in voice-activated devices and audio-delivered search results. But […]