Bare skin, fantasy and the machine: 3 takeaways from Paris’ starry couture week

Designer Pierpaolo Piccioli's Balenciaga debut is the most anticipated show of Paris couture week, which ends Thursday.
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More than sewing: how Threads of Hope empowers women

This free initiative equips vulnerable women and girls with practical skills, confidence and the means to build more ...
Machine Design

Siemens Lays Out Vision for Digital Manufacturing at Automate 2026

The automation giant sees its combination of digital technologies—including AI, digital twins, digital thread and SDA—as the ...
Ever After in the Woods

12 Must-Visit Michigan Fabric Stores For Every Creative Mind

Machine support and fabric inspiration meet at 5235 Jackson Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48103. Ann Arbor Sewing Center has been ...

Each American flag starts with thread. Here’s how they’re made.

At Valley Forge Flag Co., outside Charleston, S.C. — one of a handful of large-scale American flag manufacturers — workers ...

Best Battery String Trimmer Brands of 2026

A string trimmer is the ideal tool for reaching areas your lawn mower can’t, such as cutting grass and weeds along fence ...
The Straits Times

S’pore man targeted by former schoolmate who posted AI images of them as couple with baby

SINGAPORE – Around December 2025, administrative assistant Luke (not his real name), who is single, was told that there were photos of him online with a woman claiming to be his fiancee and the baby ...
Crooks and Liars

Was Laura Petrie A Pool Shark?

I was stumped today on what to post for an open thread, and I saw this. In the 1962 episode, "Hustling the Hustler," during the pool scene, they were supposed to cut away and let a pool shark hit the ...
The New York Times

Do Aliens Exist? Steven Spielberg Believes They Do

The legendary director on why he thinks aliens are real, and why he makes movies about things that scare him. Hosted by Rachel Abrams The legendary director on why he thinks aliens are real, and why ...
GIGAZINE

Following the shutdown of Claude Fable's service, a Chinese company hastily announced its cutting-edge model, 'GLM-5.2,' which will be released for free in June 2026.

Chinese company Z.ai announced its AI model ' GLM-5.2 ' on June 13, 2026. In announcing GLM-5.2, Z.ai founder Jie Tang addressed the fact that Claude Fable's services were shut down by order of the US ...