As the American fashion industry makes moves to attempt a return to “normal” by gradually reintroducing in-person events like Fall’s New York Fashion Week (with more detailed health guidelines in place, given the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and its highly-contagious Delta variant), one of its biggest nights has set a comeback date. The Council of Fashion Designers of America […]
Russia’s space agency blamed a “short-term software failure” for last Thursday’s engine mishap with its new science module, The Verge reports. The module’s thrusters unexpectedly fired hours after docking, shifting the International Space Station off its normal position. The software glitch caused the Nauka module to think it was supposed to back away from the station. The […]
WWD reports that if you’re not fully vaccinated, you can’t attend New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Spring Studios this September. IMG sent out a memo Monday to designers, their producers and p.r. teams, as well as its vendors, contractors and sponsors, stating that IMG will require full-course COVID-19 vaccination for all individuals entering […]
Annapurna Interactive has steadily become one of the most exciting indie game publishers around. At its first showcase event held last week, the publisher showed that there’s plenty more in the works. In less than 30 minutes, Annapurna revealed some exciting new partnerships and showed off upcoming games that involve everything from being a cat […]
If you’re a ’90s kid who wants to bring adult self back to your childhood, the new Warheads Hard Seltzer is the drink for you. Warhead’s parent company Impact Confections worked in collaboration with Artisanal Brew Works, a brewery based in Saratoga Springs, NY, to make five different mouth-puckering flavors. There are black cherry, lemon, […]
The explosive growth of wildfires in the Western US has spewed smoke across the landscape, creating a growing threat to public health. According to the LA Times, driven by climate change, the 2020 fire season was so bad that it doubled the previous record in California for acres burned, and at-home monitoring of the smoke’s effects on […]
National Mustard Day is celebrated annually on the first Saturday in August. It is always a fun-filled, sun-splashed day for the whole family. The National Mustard Museum in Wisconsin, is a real nonprofit museum dedicated to all things mustard, and it has been the official sponsor and host of the official Mustard Day event since […]
This month, Tiffany & Co. pulled an Oldsmobile. In an effort to lure the Gen Z world to try and buy some of their wares, the luxury jewelry brand rolled out a campaign called “Not Your Mother’s Tiffany”—and some of the “mothers” it alluded to were less than thrilled. The campaign’s multiple videos, running on […]
Last week’s earnings call sent shivers down the spines of multitudes of iPhone and iPad devotees. As reported by Macrumors, Apple CFO Luca Maesteri said that Apple is expecting supply constraints to affect the iPhone and iPad availability this Fall. “The supply constraints that we’ve seen in the June quarter will be higher in the […]
Saturday, the state of Florida reported more new COVID-19 cases to the Centers for Disease Control than any previous day in the coronavirus pandemic: 21,683. That’s a 12.1% jump over the previous record, Jan. 7’s 19,334 cases during the worst month of the pandemic. Daily case counts routinely surpassed 10,000 as the pandemic peaked a […]