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Tokidoki’s Kawaii Monopoly board design is the kitschest thing you’ll see today

Tokidoki’s Kawaii Monopoly board design is the kitschest thing you’ll see today

We’ve seen some wild brand collabs over the years, but perhaps not one quite as kitsch as this kawaii Monopoly board. Following his recent appearance at Comic-Con in San Diego to celebrate Tokidoki’s 20th anniversary, the Italian artist and designer Simone Legno has put his brand’s stamp on the classic real estate investing game. What

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Chrome Trial Aims To Fix Core Web Vitals For JavaScript-Heavy Sites

Chrome Trial Aims To Fix Core Web Vitals For JavaScript-Heavy Sites

Google Chrome is testing a new way to measure Core Web Vitals in Single Page Applications (SPAs), which is a long-standing blind spot in performance tracking that affects SEO audits and ranking signals. Starting with Chrome 139, developers can opt into an origin trial for the Soft Navigations API. This enables measurement of metrics like

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Gutfeld! Finishes Above 3 Million Viewers

Gutfeld! Finishes Above 3 Million Viewers

Fox News’ Gutfeld! joined The Five as the only Fox News shows with over 3 million total viewers. It bested Jesse Watters Primetime, which is typically the network’s highest-rated primetime show. CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip was the network’s top show in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo. MSNBC’s top show in total viewers

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Ryan C. Brown’s paintings capture the essence of nightlife, rain smells and dog walking

Ryan C. Brown’s paintings capture the essence of nightlife, rain smells and dog walking

Ryan C. Brown’s paintings take place in the very moment that the lamp posts turn on – you know that magical moment. Just before it gets too dark, the amber lights flicker on to hem the paths and leak into alleyways. In these paintings, Ryan creates a curious character study of evening dog walks and

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Google Backtracks On Plans For URL Shortener Service

Google Backtracks On Plans For URL Shortener Service

Google announced that they will continue to support some links created by the deprecated goo.gl URL shortening service, saying that 99% of the shortened URLs receive no traffic. They were previously going to end support entirely, but after receiving feedback, they decided to continue support for a limited group of shortened URLs. Google URL Shortener

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Why good marketers think in probabilities, not certainties

Why good marketers think in probabilities, not certainties

Probabilities drive decisions. A company that’s 80% certain there’s a viable market for a new product will act very differently from one that’s only 20% certain. Still, probability can be hard to grasp. It’s vague — a bit like beauty. We may not define it precisely, but we recognize it when we encounter it. We’re

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This is the fastest dock in existence (with a fitting price tag)

This is the fastest dock in existence (with a fitting price tag)

It is a fact universally acknowledged that a young creative, in possession of a new laptop, must be in want of more USB ports. And a dock provides exactly that. The need becomes even more pressing when it comes to the latest USB-C ports on the market, Thunderbolt 5. Faced with such an unstoppable torrent

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Google Confirms It Uses Something Similar To MUVERA

Google Confirms It Uses Something Similar To MUVERA

Google’s Gary Illyes answered questions during the recent Search Central Live Deep Dive in Asia about whether or not they use the new Multi‑Vector Retrieval via Fixed‑Dimensional Encodings (MUVERA) retrieval method and also if they’re using Graph Foundation Models. MUVERA Google recently announced MUVERA in a blog post and a research paper: a method that

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Nielsen and RealEyes offer outcomes-based measurement

Nielsen and RealEyes offer outcomes-based measurement

Give Nielsen some credit — although its Big Data Plus Panel measurement initiative this year has been fraught with problems for agencies using it to determine their upfront investments, they are using it, and it does represent the measurement company’s efforts to move just beyond panels. In fact, it almost feels to some observers like

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Meet Paul&Thomas, the playfully precise studio built on a chance encounter

Meet Paul&Thomas, the playfully precise studio built on a chance encounter

Paul&Thomas is a dynamic studio hailing from Rennes, consisting of Paul Faure and Thomas Hanus. Both with a background in graphic design, the pair met while studying at the prestigious ENSBA Lyon, and their journeys merged again after meeting by chance: “We lost contact but ended up unintentionally sharing a workspace in Rennes,” Paul tells

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2025 Core Web Vitals Challenge: WordPress Versus Everyone

2025 Core Web Vitals Challenge: WordPress Versus Everyone

The Core Web Vitals Technology Report shows the top-ranked content management systems by Core Web Vitals (CWV) for the month of June (July’s statistics aren’t out yet). The breakout star this year is an e-commerce platform, which is notable because shopping sites generally have poor performance due to the heavy JavaScript and image loads necessary

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After Loss of Federal Funding, CPB to Shut Down Operations

After Loss of Federal Funding, CPB to Shut Down Operations

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has indicated that it will soon shut down its operations after nearly 60 years due to the loss of federal funding. Nearly $1.1 billion in funding will be lost, which prompted the shutdown, affecting PBS and NPR’s local member stations. These broadcasters rely on federal support to fund their operations.

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Trump Jr. flashes his daddy’s genes in Sydney Sweeney American Eagle parody

Trump Jr. flashes his daddy’s genes in Sydney Sweeney American Eagle parody

Trump Jr. has hopped on the American Eagle bandwagon, flexing a picture of his “great genes” in the form of an AI image of his father, Donald Trump. Mimicking Sydney Sweeney’s sultry side on pose, the bizarre parody doesn’t quite capture the same sexual allure as her controversial American Eagle ad, but you can’t deny

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Merging SEO And Content Using Your Knowledge Graph To AI-Proof Content

Merging SEO And Content Using Your Knowledge Graph To AI-Proof Content

New AI platforms, powered by generative technologies like Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, Grok, and countless specialized chatbots, are rapidly becoming the front door for digital discovery. We’ve entered an era of machine-led discovery, where AI systems aggregate, summarize, and contextualize content across multiple platforms. Users today no longer follow a linear journey from keyword to

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4 CTV challenges for B2B and how to overcome them

4 CTV challenges for B2B and how to overcome them

CTV advertising introduces unique challenges in targeting, measurement and creative supply — and that’s just for B2C brands. Throw in B2B’s long sales cycle, the measurement nuances that come with it and the wrinkle of humanizing services or tech products through great creative. You can understand why B2B brands have been slow to integrate CTV

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SuprOrdinary battles with batter to combat his inner creative critic

SuprOrdinary battles with batter to combat his inner creative critic

In the final episode of season one, SuprOrdinary sets out to master one of the most unruly artistic mediums known to mankind… pancake batter. Expect meltdowns (emotional, not butter-based), a life lesson on how to ignore your inner critic, and far too much whisking. SuprOrdinary is presented by It’s Nice That in association with BUCK.

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OpenAI Is Pulling Shared ChatGPT Chats From Google Search

OpenAI Is Pulling Shared ChatGPT Chats From Google Search

OpenAI has rolled back a feature that allowed ChatGPT conversations shared via link to appear in Google Search results. The company confirms it has disabled the toggle that enabled shared chats to be “discoverable” by search engines and is working to remove existing indexed links. Shared Chats Were “Short-Lived Experiment” When users shared a ChatGPT

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Amid budget scrutiny, marketers are driving growth through programmatic CTV

Amid budget scrutiny, marketers are driving growth through programmatic CTV

Marketers are under increasing pressure to deliver better business outcomes, even as they face budget shortfalls and shrinking teams. These circumstances make it imperative for teams to maximize their spending. One way marketers are addressing these challenges is through programmatic CTV, which is emerging as an essential channel for achieving more efficient, targeted and measurable

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Adobe wants you to edit its surreal AI video campaign

Adobe wants you to edit its surreal AI video campaign

Leaps in AI creative tech come so thick and fast these days that it can be hard to make them sound exciting any more, but Adobe‘s found a clever approach to promote the latest updates to its Firefly AI Video Model and to try to get artists on board. It’s launched a campaign that invites

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Bing Recommends lastmod Tags For AI Search Indexing

Bing Recommends lastmod Tags For AI Search Indexing

Bing has updated its sitemap guidance with a renewed focus on the lastmod tag, highlighting its role in AI-powered search to determine which pages need to be recrawled. While real-time tools like IndexNow offer faster updates, Bing says accurate lastmod values help keep content discoverable, especially on frequently updated or large-scale sites. Bing Prioritizes lastmod

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