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It’s been nearly a year since I reviewed the JBL L100 Classic, a reimagining of one of the most famous speakers of decades past. It quickly became one of my favorite speakers. With the smaller (but not certainly not small) L82 Classic, JBL has outdone itself again, at least in the reviewer’s eyes. At $2,500, it is one of the most enjoyable speakers to grace my apartment — one that looks good, sounds great, and has the measured performance to back it up. Design The retro look &

The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code — not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death. – Guido van Rossum Python is one of the most used programming languages in the world, and that can be contributed to its general-purpose nature, which makes it a suitable candidate for various domains in the industry. With Python, you can develop programs not

Adobe today launched a new AI-powered workspace for Photoshop that can apply a range of different effects and filters to photos within seconds. The first of these so-called Neural Filters are Skin Smoothing, which automatically removes blemishes, skin spots, and acne with one click, and Style Transfer, which applies a range of artistic styles to images. Adobe’s also released six beta filters that the company aims to improve through feedback from users. A particularly striki

Independent media agency Space & Time has appointed Leo Abraham to lead its SEO function.
Abraham joins Space & Time from Jellyfish, where he held the position of senior SEO specialist. Prior to this, he worked at Forward3D and 4Ps Marketing. Throughout his career, Abraham has helped lead SEO strategy for brands including Audi, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and UGG.
In his new role, Abraham will focus on leading and developing Space & Time’s fast-growing SEO team and bringing ne

Designing and developing websites is becoming increasingly easier and more accessible thanks to an expanding array of web development tools and a growing demand for businesses and organizations to have an online presence.  But finding the right place to host your website can be a daunting task, especially as there are a number of reputable services, each with their own benefits and tradeoffs. You might end up paying too much for things you don’t need or missing out on things that are

Adobe is holding its virtual conference, Max, today, and it has announced a ton of updates to its products, from Photoshop to Illustrator and Premier Pro to Fresco. A lot of these features such as Sky Replacement in Photoshopped are powered by Adobe’s Sensei AI technology. So, here’s the round-up of some of the coolest AI-powered features announced by the company. Photoshop Sky Replacement: The company showed off this feature of automatic sky replacement in a pho

Adobe announced a bunch of updates to its suite of creative apps at its MAX virtual event today. As a part of that, the company is bringing its drawing app Fresco to iPhone and design app Illustrator to iPad. The company says Fresco for iPhone will have all features of the iPad app but with a redesigned UI. You can also share your work across devices. The drawing app is also getting an overall update and version bump to 2.0. In this new update for its iPad and Windows app, Fresco gets support f

Channable’s self-developed PPC tool allows users to automate their return on ad spend (ROAS) process – as required for Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising – in a simple and efficient way. Users can adapt the content of the ads using powerful ’if-then’ rules and dynamic variables that enable the excellent quality scores required for PPC ads to perform well. 
Specialist PPC agency ClickBoost used the Channable tool to create hyper-relevant ads, to improve&n

As traffic volumes increase in our city centers, partly fueled by deliveries from a COVID boosted e-commerce sector, organizations are looking for a silver bullet for urban logistics. But has it been sitting right here under our noses all this time? We think it has. Back on 31st December 2019, Jos Sluijsmans, Founder-Director of the International Cargo Bike Festival, and I declared the 2020s the Decade of the Cargo Bike. Right now, the cargo bike is making a break for the mainstream. And n

Last year, French company DxOMark launched a new score for audio on phones. This year, the site is launching a score for phone displays based on various factors such as readability, color, and motion. DxOMark says it derives this score through more than 400 subjective and objective tests. The company measures scores in six different fields: readability, color, video, motion, touch, and artifacts (other attributes of display such as notch area, flicker, and ghost touches). You can chec

The tech industry is growing like never before. Every now and then, we see new software products released in the market. So, no matter whether you’re a beginner or an experienced Python developer, there are always opportunities waiting for you. The only requirement is that you have to convince the employer to use your skills and proving yourself during aPython programming interview. However, you’ll need to prepare yourself. Otherwise, someone else might get the job. You can either t

Earlier this year, Sainsbury’s appointed Essence to help it execute a “single-minded” digital marketing strategy. The Drum speaks to the brand’s head of digital marketing to find out why and what the new hybrid setup looks like.
When Sainsbury’s bought Argos for a cool £1.4bn in in 2014, the pair’s marketing teams remained very much distinct. Then in 2019, the brand combined the marketing roles for Argos and Sainsbury’s under group marketing office

With the birth of the world wide web came digital design and the introduction of the phrase “user experience.” It would mean many things to many people but broadly it’s used to describe what someone learns, sees, and feels when interacting with web content. As a digital designer, I have become obsessed with this user experience: how individuals connect with organizations online, but also in the real world, and how the nature of this experience — this relationship —

Facebook has open-sourced an AI model that can translate between any pair of 100 languages without first translating them to English as an intermediary step. The system, called M2M-100, is currently only a research project, but could eventually be used to translate posts for Facebook users, nearly two-thirds of whom use a language other than English. “For years, AI researchers have been working toward building a single universal model that can understand all languages across dif

As part of this week's Agencies4Growth Festival, we've asked some of the brightest minds in marketing why agencies matter today. Here, Mel Edwards, global chief executive of Wunderman Thompson, shares four areas of growth opportunities for the agency-client relationship.
When the new year began, global economic indicators were already pointing toward a recession. Then Covid-19 happened. An extraordinary wave of disruption swept around the world at breathtaking speed and the pursuit of growt

One of the best things about owning an EV is that they require significantly less maintenance than comparable combustion-powered vehicles. Sure, if things go wrong with that expensive battery or motor, it could get quite costly to fix. But the chances of that happening are low, and most EV makers have comprehensive warranties should the worst happen. That is, when you’re buying the car new, but what about used cars? You’d think, with less to go wrong EV makers would continue to offe

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, brands and agencies have grappled with how to make their workforce more inclusive. Here, Saatchi & Saatchi's managing director Sarah Jenkins shares three pillars to help businesses create a culture of belonging, built on a proper measurable and sustainable strategy. 
Black History Month can divide opinions. Is it a fleeting flicker of focus, or the chance to build real, solid foundations that foster belonging over the long-term? Clear

What’s happening over at ITV?ITV is restructuring its business to place a heavier emphasis on streaming, with twin goals of driving efficiencies and providing ‘leaner central support services‘.
Key to this approach will be the creation of a new media and entertainment division comprising separate broadcast and on-demand units.
The changs have prompted a reorganisation of personnel, with director of television Kevin Lygo switching roles to head up the newly formed division and i

Posterscope has released a new research report which has revealed that six in 10 people are feeling more appreciative of their local community and have a heightened emotional connection to their out-of-home environment since the pandemic. Titled The Mobility Mindset, the survey also suggests that this response is having a knock on effect on noticeability and positivity towards OOH advertising. 
In the research, conducted in late September following the revised government

Posterscope has released a new research report which has revealed that almost two-thirds of people (six in ten people) are feeling more appreciative of their local community and have a heightened emotional connection to their out of home environment since the pandemic. Titled The Mobility Mindset, the survey also suggests that this response is having a knock on effect on noticeability and positivity towards OOH advertising. 
The research, conducted in late September, fol

More than 4 billion people around the world now use social media each month, and an average of nearly 2 million new users are joining them every day. The world is spending more time on social media too, with the typical user now spending roughly 15% of their waking life using social platforms. However, social media isn’t the only aspect of digital that’s delivering impressive numbers. The new Digital 2020 October Global Statshot Report – produced in partnership with Hoots

What does LinkedIn Stories look like?The Instagram-style format will enable brands to reach out to members using photos and videos of up to 20 seconds in duration, offering a more casual and immediate way to share news, insight and highlights.
Such posts will only be viewable for a 24-hour window and represent efforts by the professional network to capitalise on the popularity of video as part of a shift in emphasis towards visual mediums and mobile.
From today, members and brands will also have

The Orionid meteor shower takes place every October, and the peak of the display comes on October 20 and 21 this year. On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, observers could see up to 20 shooting stars per hour. Annual meteor showers are usually the result of the Earth passing into the debris field left behind by a passing comet. The Orionid display is one of two such regular displays resulting from the passing of Comet Halley every 76 years (the other being the Eta Aquarid display each May). Hunt

Without a song or dance, Japanese carmaker Honda has just removed its diesel powered crossover the HR-V from sale in the UK. That now means the company only deals in petrol or hybrid drivetrains. Late yesterday, Autoexpress reported the news that Honda is standing by its decision to focus on hybrid drivetrains for high-mileage drivers who typically favor diesel engines for their fuel economy. [Read: UK finally closes the ‘Candy Crush loophole’ in its driving laws] It marks a changin

Apple has leapt out a van, bundled us into a DeLorean, and forced us back to the 1980s… but in the future. That’s right, the company has launched Apple Music TV (let’s refer to it as AMTV from here), its very own music channel. Basically, AMTV is a 24-hour a day station that livestreams popular music videos. It’s available on the Apple Music and Apple TV apps. God, all this is making me wanting to empty out an entire spray canister of hairspray, move to LA, and join a g

This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. American firm Superpedestrian claims to have designed an inbuilt sensor-based geofenced system on its LINK e-scooters which ensures riders cannot use them wit

Video calls have increased due to the coronavirus pandemic, and companies such as Facebook and Zoom have taken full advantage of that. Earlier in the year, WhatsApp increased the group call limit from four to eight people. Now, it seems like the chat app will soon introduce the calling feature on its desktop app. According to renowned WhatsApp sleuth WABetaInfo, the company has started creating the feature in one of its test builds. The under-development feature includes support for voice

Activision today dropped the trailer for its Call of Duty Halloween event: The Haunting of Verdansk. We’re getting a few new game modes, a bunch of horror themed packs, and rewards, both in Modern Warfare and Warzone. Warzone players will get to experience Verdansk at night, and it’ll come with “more than a few Halloween-themed frights” — and I’d be content with that, to be honest. But Modern Warfare‘s also getting a fright