Marketing predictions, WordPress 5.6, State of the Word, free design software, best cameras, masking and Moose Milk. Those are some of the biggest headlines of the week and there are many more. Check out the full list in the post below and click on the headlines to get the full story!

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• Tech News Digest for December 11, 2020

Business and Marketing

• 14 Expert B2B Influencer Marketing Predictions for 2021
• Here’s what the internet would look like if all code by women vanished
• Google advice on improving your site’s ranking for future core ranking update

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WordPress

• Download a FREE Header & Footer for Divi’s Realtor Layout Pack
• How to Add Color & Gradient Overlays to Divi Parallax & Video Backgrounds
• MailPoet Joins WooCommerce
• Easy WP SMTP 1.4.3 Patches Sensitive Data Disclosure Vulnerability
• 5 Reasons Why You Should Choose WordPress over other CMS
• WordPress 5.6: Top 16 Features & Improvements
• WordPress 5.6 Introduces a New Risk to Your Site: What to Do
• WordPress 5.6 “Simone” Includes New Twenty Twenty-One Theme and Improved Editor
• Getting Started with Divi: Content Settings
• State of the Word 2020 Scheduled for December 17, with Virtual Q&A
• Reflected XSS in PageLayer Plugin Affects Over 200,000 WordPress Sites
• GitHub Introduces Darkmode, Discussions for Public Repositories, and Dependency Review
• BuddyPress 7.0.0 Adds 3 New Blocks and Admin Screens for Member and Group Type Management

Content Creation

• The best free graphic design software
• PS5 logo gets retro makeover in colourful redesign (and fans are loving it)
• The best camera in 2020
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• Pantone Announces Illuminating and Ultimate Gray as Colors of the Year
• This game-changing ruler is perfect for designers
• 13 great free Christmas fonts
• Owl Lands on Photographer’s Lens, Blends in Perfectly
• Sonic the Hedgehog leak reveals creepy new logo
• Become a creative genius: 5-day plan to unlock the imaginative wizard in you

Social Media

• A Quick Guide to Social Media Holidays
• Adobe wins the internet with one-word Photoshop tweet
• Facebook sued by FTC, most states over alleged abuse of monopoly power
• Scammers create Instagram click farm, leave their operation exposed online
• Twitter acquires Squad, a screen-sharing social app

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— Adobe Photoshop (@Photoshop) December 3, 2020

Food and Drink

• Tracking Down the Long-Lost Orchards of the California Gold Rush
• Before Avocado Toast, There Was Snowflake Toast
• Lamprey: A prehistoric sea monster sucks blood, then gets cooked in its own
• Cream Pull Candy: Kentucky’s melt-in-your-mouth treats date back to the 1800s
• Inside the ‘Trend-Free’ World of Wisconsin’s Supper Clubs
• The Rise and Fall of Fruitopia, the Trippiest Beverage of the ’90s
• Beyond the impossible: Meat grown from cells is better for the planet — if you’ll eat it
• Meet ‘Moose Milk,’ the Wintry Cocktail of the Canadian Military
• The ‘Pie Engineer’ Who Designed a Dessert For the Jazz Age
• This 19th-Century Cocktail Still Fights Cold Nights in the Midwest
• The Meaning of ‘Just Deserts’
• This Pennsylvanian Winter Punch Is Sweet, Spicy, and Possibly Explosive

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