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PTC Launches AI Initiative with Onshape Labs
Software developer PTC is enhancing its Onshape cloud-native CAD and PDM platform. The company is launching the Onshape Labs initiative, which is a new early-access program within the company’s...
McQueen and Mulberry Anchor a Charged London Fashion Week Fall Schedule
LONDON — There will be many high-stakes returns at the spring 2027 edition of London Fashion Week this September as the British Fashion Council on Monday unveiled the provisional...
Shakira Takes the Barefoot Trend Literally During World Cup Halftime Show — She’s Been Performing Shoeless for Decades
As the barefoot shoe trend continues to make waves this summer, Shakira is taking it quite literally. Instead of wearing the barely-there shoes that continue to proliferate — remember those...
Nike’s Classic White Air Force 1 Gets a New Pearl Update for Latest Ja Morant Collaboration
This year alone, the classic triple-white Nike Air Force 1 has been released in numerous variations including patent leather, star-adorned looks and even a remastered version which references the...
World
Madonna and the Muppets Made the Case for Love
This year, for the first time ever, the FIFA World Cup final featured an eleven-minute halftime hullabaloo, co-headlined by four megastar acts: Madonna, Shakira, Justin Bieber, and BTS. The...
Marcellus Hall’s “Spa Day”
As climate change worsens, punishing heat waves are becoming the norm across the Northern Hemisphere. For the cover of the July 27, 2026, issue, the artist Marcellus Hall portrayed...
How the Beach Vacation Became a Country-Music Trope
“The sun is hot,” Alan Jackson sings, accompanied by a trio of jaunty guitars (electric, acoustic, and pedal steel), and for a moment this sounds like a celebration. Instead,...
How I Lost Faith in Google
This voice-of-Google thing—a code I’d cracked for generating corpspeak with personality—slowly became a hot commodity. The company relied heavily on the rhetoric of “culture” to keep tens of thousands...
Business
AI Software Development Takes On the Consulting Giants
AI is no longer just helping developers write code, it is starting to threaten the firms that sell software for a living. That shift got a jolt when Chamath...
PTC Launches AI Initiative with Onshape Labs
Software developer PTC is enhancing its Onshape cloud-native CAD and PDM platform. The company is launching the Onshape Labs initiative, which is a new early-access program within the company’s...
The Self-Driving Company Is AI’s Next Business Model.
Every CEO should ask: "Could my firm be self-driving?"getty If You Want To See AI's Next Business Model, Study The Self-Driving Company To see the leading edge of drone...
Madonna and the Muppets Made the Case for Love
This year, for the first time ever, the FIFA World Cup final featured an eleven-minute halftime hullabaloo, co-headlined by four megastar acts: Madonna, Shakira, Justin Bieber, and BTS. The...
News
FDA Admits Massive Mistake on Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak
Taylor Farms is one of the largest fresh-produce suppliers in the country, providing products to Walmart, Sam’s Club, Kroger, SYSCO, Aldi, Target, and Dollar General. It also sells food...
Trump’s Plot to Rig Midterms Gets So Unhinged that Even Fox Is Rattled
During his prime-time speech dissembling endlessly about our elections, Donald Trump raged at news organizations for refusing to carry him live. Then his Homeland Security secretary also smeared the...
Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Brings in $124.5 Million at the Box Office on Opening Weekend
Hollywood spent two decades de-risking itself by betting on intellectual property rather than people. The franchise became the attraction, eclipsing the directors and movie stars who once drew audiences...
Trump Now Wants to Tariff Canada Over the Wildfires
President Donald Trump and other Republicans are threatening retaliation against Canada for the wildfires ravaging Ontario, smoke from which has caused hazardous air quality in a significant swath of...
Beauty
Valuations reflect growth prospects as Siemens Energy expands capacity
Reported net profit was Rs 310 crore. Excluding the impact of the new labour code, adjusted net profit was Rs 360 crore. Net profit was also boosted...
AI integration in road, transport can help avoid accidents: MoRTH official
There is a lot of scope for AI integration in the road and transport industry to help avoid accidents and check issues of vehicular pollution, a government official...
T20 WC: It”s about adapting, says England’s Tom Banton on new No 4 role
England batter Tom Banton says he is relishing his new role at No.4, adding that he is now "older" and "more mature" with a better understanding of his...
StatsGuru: AI companies seek footing in India, need funding boost
Individuals and companies from over 30 countries will participate at the five-day India Artificial Intelligence (AI) Impact Summit 2026 beginning Monday. Of the 32,600 AI companies globally, India...
Celebrity
UP govt receives ₹20,300 crore of FDI proposals amid investor push
These proposals have flowed in under the “Uttar Pradesh FDI/FCI, Fortune Global 500, and Fortune India 500 Company Investment Promotion Policy 2023”, the government said.
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Traffic curbs in Delhi for AI Impact Summit 2026: Check advisory here
New Delhi is under heightened security as the five-day AI Impact Summit begins today, February 16, at Bharat Mandapam. The Delhi police have deployed over 10,000 personnel and have...
Sanjay’s 68, bowlers seal 31-run win as USA stay alive for Super 8 round
Sanjay Krishnamurthi's explosive unbeaten half-century followed by a disciplined bowling show powered USA to a crucial 31-run win over Namibia, in a must-win Group C clash here on...
India-US trade deal: Transparency on constraints and commitments needed
When I heard of the trade deal that would end the punitive tariff of 25 per cent for buying Russian oil and reduce the reciprocal tariff on Indian...
Culture
AI Software Development Takes On the Consulting Giants
AI is no longer just helping developers write code, it is starting to threaten the firms that sell software for a living. That shift got a jolt when Chamath...
Australia, New Zealand dollars wobble on war jitters, Kiwi inflation data in focus
Published Mon, Jul 20, 2026 · 10:47 AM[SYDNEY] The Australian and New Zealand dollars struggled to steady on Monday as more US strikes on Iran sent oil prices sharply...
Pension funds try to come to grips with the scariest global warming scenario
The impact of any single climate tipping point being breached would be ‘highly consequential’, says JPMorganINSTITUTIONAL investors are trying to figure out what it would mean for their portfolios...
Malaysia probes state pension’s loss linked to eFishery collapse
A team has been formed to ‘study and examine the issue thoroughly’, says the country’s anti-corruption chiefPublished Sun, Jul 19, 2026 · 08:03 PM[SINGAPORE] Malaysia’s anti-graft agency has opened...
Style
Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die
There are, of course, other models of languages coexisting, with varying levels of amity. The Flemish-French divide in Belgium has not exploded in tumult but has nevertheless left the...
The Divine Red-Carpet Looks of “The Odyssey” Press Tour
But perhaps the most influential “Barbie” marketer was the film’s star, Margot Robbie, who, along with her stylist, Andrew Mukamal, crafted an immersive, months-long red-carpet offensive that blurred the...
A New Crop of Unapologetic Sandwiches
I’ve been worried, a little, that Unapologetic Foods was going soft. Over the past decade or so, the restaurant group more or less detonated the New York dining scene...
Construction Robots Go Mainstream as Monumental Raises $32M
If you run a business that depends on building anything, you already know the ache of a project stalled by a labor shortage. This week brought a sign of...
Fashion
BlackRock eyes more than US$12 billion debt for Texas data centre
Published Mon, Jul 20, 2026 · 11:29 PM[WASHINGTON] BlackRock is looking to sell more than US$12 billion of bonds to help finance a data centre campus in El Paso,...
CICT to reconfigure parts of Paragon, including Metro space
The department store is likely to remain in the Orchard Road mall under new retail concept stores[SINGAPORE] CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust (CICT) is advancing plans to optimise and selectively...
China’s Innolight eyes US$8 billion Hong Kong IPO, potentially city’s largest in seven years
Published Mon, Jul 20, 2026 · 12:45 PMCHINA’S Zhongji Innolight is starting to gauge investor demand for its Hong Kong listing, according to terms of the deal seen by...
Oil jumps more than 3% as US-Iran conflict escalates
Published Mon, Jul 20, 2026 · 06:37 AM[SINGAPORE] Oil prices jumped more than 3 per cent on Monday (Jul 20), with Brent surpassing US$90 a barrel, as the United...
