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Shuffle Board: Vuori Taps Abercrombie CMO, Robust.AI Names CEO
Brands Puma German sportswear giant Puma announced that Johan Adamsson, vice president of global sports marketing and sports licensing, will leave the company Aug. 31 after more than 25 years...
New Book ‘Torn’ Challenges Luxury Fashion’s Growth Model
PARIS — Luxury fashion has hit a rough patch. After years of price increases and a post-pandemic surge in “revenge spending,” brands have since struggled to maintain the momentum...
Melania Trump Wears Dior and Michael Kors for ‘Fostering the Future’ Event at the White House
For her first public appearance in more than a month, Melania Trump turned up in the White House’s Rose Garden wearing a repeat designer outfit. The First Lady announced...
Some AI Recommend A Piece of Garment. This Picks Out Entire Outfits.
Italy-based AI startup Ustyle said it has developed an engine that can generate entire outfits from a brand’s product catalog, with each garment and accessory shoppable and personalized. The...
World
Does Your Baby Need a Book on Coding?
The puzzling rise in high-level science books for infants and toddlers. Source link
Should You Believe in Fate?
At first, these inconveniences, along with various forms of physical discomfort, dominated my consciousness. But, with time, I came to notice other, subtler changes. I was used to a...
Is the Smithsonian Really Trying to Destroy America?
If they did come, the Citizen Historians were determined to get there first. Curtis unfolded a map of the museum with eight galleries circled in hot pink. “We powwowed...
“Every Weekday at 4:45 P.M.,” by Libby Flores
In the delicious heat, a summer breeze came and they fought as the woman sucked her ice cream through the bottom of her cone. Source link
Business
Odisha’s ₹72,100 crore capex target at risk as state fast-tracks projects
Odisha has budgeted a record ₹72,100 crore as capital outlay for the financial year 2027 (FY27) – around 20 per cent higher than the revised estimate of...
Wait, Are Dems Ahead in … Arkansas?
You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free.Inside WashingtonFlorida’s Senate primary...
Shuffle Board: Vuori Taps Abercrombie CMO, Robust.AI Names CEO
Brands Puma German sportswear giant Puma announced that Johan Adamsson, vice president of global sports marketing and sports licensing, will leave the company Aug. 31 after more than 25 years...
Tesla’s Semi truck to go on sale in Europe
Tesla's battery-powered Semi truck is expected to go on sale in Europe nearly a decade after it was first revealed.Announced via X, the Tesla Semi account said 'specs &...
News
Wait, Are Dems Ahead in … Arkansas?
You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free.Inside WashingtonFlorida’s Senate primary...
Transcript: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Midterm Bombshell: GOP Is Toast
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 21 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The...
Food Safety Keeps Getting Worse Under Trump
The committee has also “emphasized that projects proposed outside world heritage properties should not adversely affect their outstanding universal value—which are the features of the site that justify its...
Trump’s Treasury Secretary Thinks It’s Good That the Economy Is Bad
The committee has also “emphasized that projects proposed outside world heritage properties should not adversely affect their outstanding universal value—which are the features of the site that justify its...
Beauty
Nuclear industry seeks faster approvals, tech indigenisation to cut costs
At the BNEF Summit held in New Delhi on Friday, Vivek Sharma, Business Head, Adani Atomic Energy, said 700 MW Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) and Pressurised...
Front-of-pack labels: Where India stands vs global food labelling systems
Last week, the Supreme Court pulled up the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) over its failure to take a decision on introducing front-of-pack warning labels...
Best of BS Opinion: RBI rate hike only a matter of time as inflation looms
Hello, and welcome to the Best of BS Opinion, our wrap of the day's Opinion page. The RBI’s decision to keep the repo rate unchanged was prudent...
AI lifts demand for flexible office spaces as firms seek workplace agility
Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a demand enabler for flexible office spaces as enterprises grapple with greater uncertainty around workforce requirements and increasingly prioritise flexibility, and speed-to-market. ...
Celebrity
Odisha’s ₹72,100 crore capex target at risk as state fast-tracks projects
Odisha has budgeted a record ₹72,100 crore as capital outlay for the financial year 2027 (FY27) – around 20 per cent higher than the revised estimate of...
Gold loans may reach 10% of system credit in five years, says JP Morgan
Gold loans’ share of system credit could rise to around 10 per cent over the next five years, from 2 per cent in FY24 and 5 per cent...
Bajaj Finance: Why Nomura is bullish despite competition, regulatory risks
Despite regulatory overhang following the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) draft norms on revolving credit products and growing competition in the personal loans space, global brokerage Nomura remains bullish...
Kolkata’s tryst with reforms: IT, retail gained but past glory elusive
Three years into India’s economic liberalisation, as the licence raj was unravelling, Chief Minister Jyoti Basu signalled a tentative opening to private capital. His government announced an industrial...
Culture
Humanoid Robot Companies Go Public as Unitree Soars
China’s Unitree Robotics closed its Shanghai trading debut up roughly 460%, after raising 6.1 billion yuan, or about $904 million, on the STAR Market. Demand was extreme. The offering...
Business Insurance for Startups: 73% Are Underprotected
According to a recently-published report by ERGO NEXT Insurance, found that 73% of small businesses either carry no insurance at all or carry less than they need. After surveying...
AI Agents for Business: ZenBusiness Ships an AI Co-Founder
ZenBusiness launched Velo Prime on Tuesday, a product it describes as an AI co-founder that builds and operates a real business on your behalf, from the first idea to...
Social Media Regulation Targets Design, Not Just Content
A bipartisan group of 29 states opened its case against Meta on Tuesday in federal court in Oakland, arguing that Facebook and Instagram were deliberately built to hook children...
Style
Late Summertime Idylls by the Water
For the past two hundred years, summer in New York has best been spent by the water. “Circumambulate the city,” Melville writes in “Moby-Dick,” and you’ll find “thousands upon...
Why Marketing Compliance is a CEO-Level Responsibility
Certain marketing decisions can lead to costly lawsuits, regulatory fines, and serious reputational damage. One small mistake can create a devastating financial fallout. That’s why marketing compliance is a...
The Show That’s Charting a Post-Trump Future
Last year, Herndon left the Times and joined Vox, a digital-media darling that was founded in 2014 (by, among others, Ezra Klein, who has since travelled in the opposite...
A “12 Inch Pianist” Walks Into a Bar
When The New Yorker published a Shouts & Murmurs titled “Guy Walks Into a Bar,” by Simon Rich, back in 2013, Conan O’Brien tweeted a link to the piece,...
Fashion
Wall St opens higher but weekly losses loom
Published Fri, Aug 21, 2026 · 09:43 PM[NEW YORK] Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Friday (Aug 21) after getting hammered in the previous session, though markets remained...
‘Not charity’: Asean Power Grid promises shared benefits, says DBS executive
Industry players, speaking in a forum, call for more regulatory clarity, central procurement of subsea cables[SINGAPORE] The Asean Power Grid (APG) is not about “charity”, but fostering shared growth...
DayOne seeks loan to fund Hong Kong data centre ahead of US IPO
This comes amid efforts to raise funds to expand its global footprint as demand for AI capacity surgesPublished Fri, Aug 21, 2026 · 02:18 PM[HONG KONG] DayOne Data Centers...
South Korea’s SK Hynix weighs Japan chip plant, multi-trillion won investment: report
This could be the first large-scale semiconductor manufacturing investment in the Asian country by a South Korean chipmakerPublished Fri, Aug 21, 2026 · 09:27 AM[SEOUL] South Korea’s SK Hynix...