NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, June 30 (game #484)
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day…
Serverless deployment for your Amazon SageMaker Canvas models
Deploying machine learning (ML) models into production can often be a complex and resource-intensive task, especially for customers without deep ML and DevOps expertise. Amazon SageMaker Canvas simplifies model building by offering a no-code interface, so you can create highly accurate ML models using your existing data sources and without writing a single line of…
Timberland opens new store at Roosevelt Field
Published October 21, 2025 Timberland has opened a new retail store at Roosevelt Field in Garden City, New York, expanding the brand’s East Coast footprint. Timberland opens new store at Roosevelt Field. – Timberland The new store offers Timberland’s full assortment of footwear, apparel, and accessories for men, women, and kids. Footwear highlights include iconic…
The North Face and Cecilie Bahnsen launch second collaboration
Published October 21, 2025 The North Face and Danish designer Cecilie Bahnsen have unveiled their second collaboration, following its debut at Bahnsen’s Fall/Winter 2025 runway show during Paris Fashion Week. The North Face and Cecilie Bahnsen launch second collaboration. – The North Face X Cecilie Bahnsen Building on the foundation of their first partnership, the…
Building a multi-agent voice assistant with Amazon Nova Sonic and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon Nova Sonic is a foundation model that creates natural, human-like speech-to-speech conversations for generative AI applications, allowing users to interact with AI through voice in real-time, with capabilities for understanding tone, enabling natural flow, and performing actions. Multi-agent architecture offers a modular, robust, and scalable design pattern for production-level voice assistants. This blog post…
Primark’s Gran Vía store in Madrid contributed €83 million to Spain’s GDP in 2024
Published October 21, 2025 In 2015, with the reverberations of the early‑2000s economic crisis still being keenly felt in retail, Irish low‑cost fashion brand Primark chose to step out of Spanish shopping centres, its natural habitat until then, and set up shop at 32 Gran Vía in Madrid, in a now century‑old building that originally…
How Google helps protect you from scams
The threat of online scams and fraud is an ever-present reality in our connected world, and the volume of scams is only growing. Nearly 60% of people globally have experienced a scam in the last year. Yet while increased connectivity has certainly fueled this rise in scams, the bigger shift is this: widespread access to…
Anthropic Has a Plan to Keep Its AI From Building a Nuclear Weapon. Will It Work?
At the end of August, the AI company Anthropic announced that its chatbot Claude wouldn’t help anyone build a nuclear weapon. According to Anthropic, it had partnered with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to make sure Claude wouldn’t spill nuclear secrets. The manufacture of nuclear weapons is both…
Balenciaga unveils Pierpaolo Piccioli’s first campaign
Published October 21, 2025 Balenciaga unveiled on Thursday its first campaign under newly appointed creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli, marking the beginning of a new era for the French fashion house. Balenciaga unveils Pierpaolo Piccioli’s first campaign. – Balenciaga Following Piccioli’s highly anticipated runway debut earlier this month, the campaign is brought to life through still…
‘I never thought I’d make it to this age’
BBC 100-year-old May O’Shea survived the blitz during World War Two “I never thought I’d make it to this age,” says 100-year-old May O’Shea. “I thought I would have died by now.” May’s milestone is still one very few people achieve despite the number of centenarians in the UK doubling over the past 20 years….
Prada’s Lorenzo Bertelli on the Versace deal, the luxury industry’s challenges, and more
Translated by Nicola Mira Published October 21, 2025 Lorenzo Bertelli, CMO and head of CSR for the Prada group, spoke at a conference organised by Deloitte at their Milan corporate headquarters on October 21. Bertelli covered a wide range of subjects, starting with his joining the group. “I was never pressured to work in the family…
