There’s a lot to look forward to in 2021. With wide-spread vaccination on the horizon, relative relief from the global pandemic is close at hand. But even with a new layer of safety added to the retail shopping experience, one factor remains irrevocably changed — the consumer. The numbers back this. More than 65% of consumers intend to continue new buying behaviors acquired due to the pandemic during the post-vaccine era, according to one recent study. Another survey reveals that 56% of consumers plan to use BOPIS (buy-online-pickup-in-store) after the pandemic ends. While retailers ready themselves to meet the post-pandemic consumer online and in-store, one thing is clear. Retail success in the post-pandemic era isn’t so much about where you serve your customers as it is about how you create authentic, personalized omnichannel experiences that transcend the limits of your digital and physical touchpoints and create lasting brand loyalty.

One million nonprofits worldwide now use Canva for free to tell their stories, rally support, and create change. From day one, Canva has run on a simple idea: Step One is building one of the world's most valuable companies. Step Two is putting that value to work and doing as much good as we can. Somewhere today, a health organisation is communicating how to stop the spread of a pandemic. Emergency relief workers are distributing flyers to find missing people after a natural disaster. A hospital team is putting together a campaign that brings a moment of joy to a child in treatment. A school breakfast program is designing the flyer that convinces a new community to get involved. None of them set out to become designers. But today, they're part of something we get to celebrate: one million nonprofits now have free access to Canva's premium features to power their missions.

AT&T and Amazon Web Services are working together to extend 5G and fiber connectivity from business customers and locations directly into AWS environments, creating secure, resilient and reliable premises-to-cloud architectures for AI workloads. The solution is designed to reduce network complexity and latency while supporting real-time analytics, machine learning, and agentic AI use cases.