Houbigant opens first flagship stores in Paris and Cannes
Published September 15, 2025 French perfume house Houbigant is celebrating its 250th anniversary with the…
Prince William to travel to Brazil for awards ceremony
Daniela RelphSenior royal correspondent PA Media The Prince of Wales will travel to Rio de Janeiro next month for the Earthshot Prize ceremony – the first time the awards have been hosted in Latin America. Earthshot, created by Prince William five years ago, awards £1m every year to five projects for their environmental innovations. There…
Yoox withdraws redundancy notices for 211 workers
By Ansa Published October 4, 2025 There is a glimmer of hope in the Yoox case: the company has suspended with immediate effect the collective redundancy procedure for 211 employees, which had been announced in recent weeks as part of the reorganisation plan initiated by the online shopping company’s new owners. Yoox Yoox has heeded…
A distinctly eclectic Paris Fashion Week featuring Leonard, Giambattista Valli, and Vetements
Published October 4, 2025 Paris Fashion Week entered its fifth day with an especially intense programme. In particular, the womenswear ready-to-wear shows for Spring/Summer 2026 revealed designers’ pursuit of freshness and lightness. Leonard Paris and Giambattista Valli were prime examples. Vetements, for its part, opted for provocation. See fashion showLeonard Paris, Spring-Summer 2026 – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight…
What looks like dancing is actually a bug’s survival trick
If you happen to be walking in the forests of Panama, you might just come across a bug that will wave at you, which scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) have been studying for a while. The matador bug (Bitta alipes) carries striking, reddish “flags” on its hind legs and performs an intricate…
Scientists finally found the “dark matter” of electronics
In a world-first, researchers from the Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have directly observed the evolution of the elusive dark excitons in atomically thin materials, laying the foundation for new breakthroughs in both classical and quantum information technologies. Their findings have been published in Nature Communications. Professor Keshav…
Doctors stunned by a cheap drug’s power against colon cancer
A Swedish-led research team at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital has shown in a new randomized clinical trial that a low dose of the well-known medicine aspirin halves the risk of recurrence after surgery in patients with colon and rectal cancer with a certain type of genetic alteration in the tumor. Every year, nearly…
Rogue planet spotted devouring 6 billion tons every second
Astronomers have identified an enormous ‘growth spurt’ in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our Solar System, these objects do not orbit stars, free-floating on their own instead. The new observations, made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), reveal that this free-floating planet is eating up gas and dust…
A tiny detector could unveil gravitational waves we’ve never seen before
Scientists have unveiled a new approach to detecting gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency range, providing access to astrophysical and cosmological phenomena that are not detectable with current instruments. Gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime predicted by Einstein—have been observed at high frequencies by ground-based interferometers such as LIGO and Virgo, and at ultra-low frequencies by pulsar…
Paris Fashion Week Friday: Loewe, Nina Ricci, Givenchy, and Victoria Beckham
Published October 3, 2025 In a day that descended into dirty teeming rainy, Paris was treated to four memorable collection by five non-French designers: American Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough’s debut at Loewe, Harris Reed at Nina Ricci, Sarah Burton at Givenchy and Victoria Beckham. Loewe: The American friends debut with brio Another day, another…
Unlock global AI inference scalability using new global cross-Region inference on Amazon Bedrock with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5
Organizations are increasingly integrating generative AI capabilities into their applications to enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and drive innovation. As generative AI workloads continue to grow in scale and importance, organizations face new challenges in maintaining consistent performance, reliability, and availability of their AI-powered applications. Customers are looking to scale their AI inference workloads across…
