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From the Archive: Ronaldus Shamask and Fashion ‘Simplexity’
Color in fashion is an emotional state of being, especially as summer heats up. The color that delivers cool and ease has always been pristine white in crisp linens...
Inditex Group’s Bershka Brand Launches First Permanent Store in the U.S.
Bershka, the trend-driven, contemporary, youth-oriented fashion brand operated by Spain’s Inditex Group, has entered the U.S. with its first permanent store. The Bershka store, which opened Thursday, is located...
London’s Fashion and Textile Museum to Stage Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell Show
LONDON — The Fashion and Textile Museum on South London’s trendy Bermondsey Street this fall is set to stage a major exhibition on Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell, who were...
COS Campaign Showcases Understated, Tailored Style
COS Campaign: For its fall 2026 collection, COS goes monochromatic, tailored and understated. The collection campaign, launched Tuesday, was shot by photographer Mark Kean in New York City and...
World
Could “Fast” Be, at Long Last, Rob Tregenza’s Breakout Film?
This summary does an injustice to the originality and the sophistication of Tregenza’s way with narrative form. The tale unfolds in many time frames—Sterling’s memory-fraught quest for speed, the...
Where Wild Things Go
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Pope.L’s Pleasing Refusal to Be Interpreted
A new exhibition at the Drawing Center, “Certainly an Act: Works on Paper by Pope.L,” shows how the artist extended his practice of principled unreason—or what his grandmother once...
Edward Steed’s “Midnight Bloom”
The cartoonist Edward Steed, originally from the U.K., now lives in Rockaway Beach, Queens, just a short walk from the ocean. “Nothing captures the natural world’s mixture of beauty,...
Business
Sebi reviews margin framework to improve commodity market efficiency
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is looking to streamline position-limit and margin frameworks in commodity derivatives to reduce avoidable costs for market participants while retaining...
SK Hynix, Samsung shares rally as report of Temasek’s investment plans boosts optimism
Both firms saw a brutal sell-off in July as doubts grew over the pace of rapid AI infrastructure buildoutPublished Wed, Aug 12, 2026 · 01:55 PMSOUTH Korean chipmakers rallied...
Yulu raises $93 mn in Series C funding round, targets 200,000 EV fleet
Electric mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) platform Yulu on Wednesday said it has raised $93 million in a Series C funding round to scale its fleet fourfold to 200,000 EVs over...
Europe prepares for rare solar eclipse
Millions of people are expected to turn their eyes to the western horizon on Wednesday evening as a solar eclipse sweeps across parts of Europe, with Spain set to...
News
Report: Trump’s D.C. Military Occupation Isn’t Accomplishing Anything
“If you want to argue that there was an additional decline on top of that due to all these interventions, you could plausibly make that argument,” said crime data...
Alito Made Millions on Fossil Fuels But Won’t Recuse From Exxon Case
Alito, who is the only Supreme Court justice with holdings in energy companies, has refused to step back from the upcoming petition brought by fossil fuel giants Suncor and...
Trump Openly Mulls Dystopian Plan for Stealing the Midterm Elections
Much of the soccer world sees Infantino’s tenure much differently. After a secret plan concocted by Infantino to sell a substantial stake of the World Cup to private investors...
Some Republicans Are Finally Realizing They Wrecked the Middle Class
It’s not just Vance. In increasing numbers, Republican politicians are waking up to the reality that their economic policies have screwed just about all of us out of their...
Beauty
Yulu raises $93 mn in Series C funding round, targets 200,000 EV fleet
Electric mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) platform Yulu on Wednesday said it has raised $93 million in a Series C funding round to scale its fleet fourfold to 200,000 EVs over...
Russia strikes Ukraine with missiles and drones, killing at least 10
Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with missiles, drones and glide bombs Tuesday, killing at least 10 civilians, officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow is getting new military...
SC seeks status of appeals against West Bengal SIR voter deletions
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought details from the Election Commission of India (ECI) on the number of appeals disposed of by appellate tribunals hearing challenges to voter...
Parl panel suggests capping pvt hospital room rates at 3-star hotel tariff
The Parliamentary Committee on Health and Family Welfare has recommended capping room charges at private hospitals in large metropolitan cities at the average tariff of three-star hotels in...
Celebrity
Sebi reviews margin framework to improve commodity market efficiency
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is looking to streamline position-limit and margin frameworks in commodity derivatives to reduce avoidable costs for market participants while retaining...
Accel bets $550 million on India’s next wave of founders for AI era
Accel, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm that placed some of the earliest bets on Flipkart and Swiggy, is deepening its commitment to India as artificial intelligence reshapes...
Unitree’s Shanghai IPO 5,526 times subscribed by retail investors
The highly anticipated initial public offering of Unitree Robotics drew huge demand from retail investors as China's leading humanoid robot maker opened books for an offering that's set...
Trump Towers’ exclusive India partner Tribeca Ventures plans IPO by 2028
Kalpesh Mehta, the founder of Tribeca Ventures, which now houses Tribeca Developers and several other entities, told Business Standard in a virtual conversation ahead of the Trump...
Culture
AI Chip Startup Taalas Sells to AMD in Inference Push
AMD has agreed to buy Taalas, an AI chip startup that etches model weights directly into silicon, in a deal announced on August 6. The Toronto company, founded in...
Small Business Bankruptcy: Salad and Go’s Hard Lesson
If you run a small business, a small business bankruptcy in your industry can feel personal, and this one stings. Salad and Go’s parent company filed for Chapter 11...
AI Layoffs Are Accelerating: How Founders Should Hire
If the steady drumbeat of tech job cuts has you worried, you are not alone, and the numbers explain why. A running list of major 2026 layoffs shows more...
ISM Services PMI Climbs to 54.1% as Prices Heat Up
The services side of the economy stayed on solid ground last month, according to the July ISM Services PMI report released on August 5. The index came in at...
Style
Automated Penetration Testing Scales as Horizon3 Raises $250M
Automated penetration testing just had a breakout moment, and it doubles as a growth story. Cybersecurity company Horizon3 raised a $250 million Series E on August 3 at a...
How Entrepreneurs Can Build a Strong Workplace Safety Culture
Workplace safety is a requirement, which is why entrepreneurs should try to build this type of culture into their business from the start. Not only is workplace safety culture...
The AI Gold Rush for Small Businesses: Why Founders Have a Short Window to Beat Enterprise Brands
AI platforms are quickly becoming the search tools of choice for many consumers. As their popularity increases, businesses will inevitably shift more of their marketing dollars to focus on...
AI Safety Debate Grows as Altman Signals a Slower Pace
The loudest voice in artificial intelligence just changed his tune, and founders should take note. In a shift covered by TechCrunch on August 2, OpenAI chief Sam Altman said...
Fashion
SK Hynix, Samsung shares rally as report of Temasek’s investment plans boosts optimism
Both firms saw a brutal sell-off in July as doubts grew over the pace of rapid AI infrastructure buildoutPublished Wed, Aug 12, 2026 · 01:55 PMSOUTH Korean chipmakers rallied...
Digital Core Reit in US$315.9 million asset sale to fund Singapore, Osaka expansion
It will make its Singapore entry by acquiring a 2.5% interest in Digital Loyang 2 for S$87.4 million[SINGAPORE] Digital Core Reit is proposing a major portfolio revamp to set...
Spotify to label ‘AI personas’ and exclude AI music from personal recommendations
In its latest effort to protect human creators from the flood of synthetic music, Spotify will soon require AI-generated identities to carry an “AI Persona” label while barring their...
Race to replace Pelosi enters the AI group chat
A parody AI chatbot designed by California congressional candidate Scott Wiener’s campaign to mock the record of his opponent attracted the attention politicians crave and criticism most loathe. The...
