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Newsers Pay Respect to Former CNN Political Analyst David Gergen

The political and media worlds are mourning the loss of David Gergen, who died on Friday at the age of 83 due to Lewy body dementia. Gergen, who served in various capacities during both Republican and Democratic administrations between the 1970s and 1990s, was more well-known for his role in TV punditry, especially at CNN, where

Kris Laudien Gone from CBS Detroit After Two Years

Anchor Kris Laudien is out at Detroit CBS owned station WWJ. A CBS spokesperson told TVSpy, “Kris Laudien is no longer with CBS Detroit. We wish him the very best.” […]

Stacey Solomon recommends the Cricut Joy Xtra for organising – but you can get a label maker for a lot less

TV personality Stacey Solomon has a very tidy home (as she shares with her millions of followers on social media), and it was recently discovered that she relies on one of the best Cricut machines to achieve her clutter-free cupboards. Organising a home can be difficult when there are multiple people and pets to manage,

Where do the popular LLMs find their information?

MarTechCharts regularly highlights data of interest to marketers and marketing operations professionals. Popular LLMs like Google Gemini and ChatGPT have to get their information from somewhere. There’s a vast amount of information available online, and each LLM uses its own methods to find what it needs to answer the questions user asks in a prompt.

Bambu Lab offers record-low prices on 3D printers in anniversary sale

There’s a lot of buzz around Amazon Prime Day at the moment, as retailers get prepped for one of the biggest sales events of the year. We’ve already started tracking the best Prime Day 3D printer offers, but actually, I think Bambu Lab’s 3rd Anniversary Sale is a much bigger deal (with up to 40%

Fifty shades of typeface, a London dominatrix gets her own brand identity

The brand’s distinctive asset is “binds”, strips of their bespoke typeface distorted to appear like ropes or leather, adding a subtly erotic edge to the campaign without nudity. The ability to suggest and entice is key in WMH&I’s arsenal of text based playfulness. “The ‘binds’ are a visual representation of Jane Grey’s psychological control,” says

After three weeks of testing, here’s why the Wacom Intuos Pro (2025) has won me over

Why you can trust Creative Bloq Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. Despite reviewing and testing drawing tablets all the time, there’s something uniquely exciting about getting my hands on the latest from Wacom, and

eufyMake E1 UV Printer review: lets you print on (almost) anything

Why you can trust Creative Bloq Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. Printers get a lot of the spotlight and rightly so. 2D printers have been around for so long that not much has moved

Early Concord concept art shows the game could have looked very different

Ah, Concord. Sony‘s $100m PS5 flop was one of the biggest calamities in recent gaming history – some say the worst since Atari’s E.T. in 1982. The game was taken offline in September after just two weeks due to poor sales. A lot of blame was put on Concord’s character design (I thought the problem

How the Lilo & Stitch Marketing Team Avoided an Ugly Sonic Glitch

Sorry, Ugly Sonic—you’re not going to have an Ugly Stitch to add to your friend group. Back in 2019, Paramount learned the perils of building a major movie marketing campaign around the reveal of a “live-action” version of a beloved animated character—in that case, Sonic the Hedgehog. When fans got a look at the film’s

Canva Websites review: build a website, using the same platform you use for graphic design

Why you can trust Creative Bloq Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. Canva has established itself as the go-to design platform for non-designers and design newbies, and Canva Websites brings that same user-friendly approach to

Battle of the label makers: did Brother, Niimbot or MUNBYN come out on top?

I will fully admit that I love labelling things. What could be more satisfying than sorting through your spices and giving them all labels or organising all your artwork with prices, ready to sell at a market? You could just buy a bunch of labels and create your own hand-drawn labels, but having one of

What Cake R U: Instagram’s favourite viral career quiz just got even better

Last February we brought you the urgent breaking news that a personality quiz describing what cake you are, and how that might affect your job prospects, was all over Instagram. Today we bring you the equally urgent breaking news that a new ‘Pro’ version of the quiz has landed, featuring ten new personality types –

9 of the most iconic car designs of all time

The most iconic car designs can mean several different things. It might be a car that is instantly recognisable, one that everybody and their grandmother around the world can identify and name. Equally, it might be a car that typifies an era, or a car that had a massive influence on everything that came after,

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra camera comparison against the Galaxy S24 Ultra

I’m a proud owner of the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, one of the best camera phones that you can buy right now, and I’m always talking about how it can capture a pretty sharp shot without much effort. I also tend to use my phone camera a lot more than my Sony mirrorless camera for

I love the hidden messages in these clever abstract Albert Camus book covers

They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but as a man intrigued by the concept of judgement, the French philosopher Albert Camus would allow us to make an exception. Happily the covers for Vintage Books’ Albert Camus collection are sublime on multiple levels. At first glance, the black-and-white cover art appears

Experience the future of graphics – Nvidia’s Unreal Engine 5 RTX neural rendering demo is now free for all

When it comes to the future of graphics, Nvidia continues to run one step ahead of what’s being used in the industry. The updated Zorah tech demo made on the RTX Unreal Engine 5 branch showcases the power of Nvidia’s neural rendering – the latest cutting-edge RTX feature – and now you can download it

The Volkswagen logo is suddenly causing mass confusion and friendship-ending arguments

The Volkswagen logo is one of the most memorable car logos around. Everyone knows what it looks like. And at first glance, it would seem the only changes in recent decades were to make the Volkswagen logo flat and to narrow the lines for a time. It’s a simple and distinctive brand identity. Surely there’s

The best print ads of the 2020s so far, as picked by experts

Although we’re only half way through the decade, the 2020s has already given rise to some highly memorable – dare I say potentially classic – print ads. Minimal branding, bold photography and playful use of form are the order of the day for these print ads, standing boldly apart from the moving images of the

This historic dockyard’s branding rewrites the rulebook on heritage design

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard boasts an impressive collection of historical navel artefacts, but engaging a new generation with maritime history is no mean feat. Rewriting the rules of heritage branding, Portsmouth Dockyard has launched a new campaign bursting with a re-energised appeal to entice visitors young and old to its leading attractions, from The Mary Rose

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