Visit the Arctic vault holding back-ups of great works
Adrienne Murray Technology Reporter Reporting fromLongyearbyen, Norway Getty Images Norway’s Longyearbyen is the world’s northernmost…
Unilever offloads Kate Somerville to Rare Beauty Brands
Published October 15, 2025 Consumer goods giant Unilever announced on Tuesday the sale of its Kate Somerville brand to American beauty firm, Rare Beauty Brands. Kate Somerville The sale includes Kate Somerville skincare, body care, and a clinic on Los Angeles’ Melrose Place. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Over the past 18…
Building smarter AI agents: AgentCore long-term memory deep dive
Building AI agents that remember user interactions requires more than just storing raw conversations. While Amazon Bedrock AgentCore short-term memory captures immediate context, the real challenge lies in transforming these interactions into persistent, actionable knowledge that spans across sessions. This is the information that transforms fleeting interactions into meaningful, continuous relationships between users and AI…
Tommy fetes preppy style with Hilfiger Racing Club in Paris
Published October 15, 2025 Tommy Hilfiger feted preppy style in Paris on Monday with a Hilfiger Racing Club soirée that trumpeted its auto-inspired Fall 2025 campaign in a unique Franco-American setting. A snapshot of Tommy Hilfiger’s Paris event on Monday – Tommy Hilfiger Hipster locals packed into restaurant of the moment Lafayette’s, located in the…
Transforming enterprise operations: Four high-impact use cases with Amazon Nova
Since the launch of Amazon Nova at AWS re:Invent 2024, we have seen adoption trends across industries, with notable gains in operational efficiency, compliance, and customer satisfaction. With its capabilities in secure, multimodal AI and domain customization, Nova is enhancing workflows and enabling cost efficiencies across core use cases. In this post, we share four…
Ecko Unltd taps NBA Star Jalen ‘J-Dub’ Williams as the face of FW25
Published October 15, 2025 Streetwear brand Ecko Unltd has tapped basketball star Jalen “J-Dub” Williams for its Fall/Winter 2025 campaign. Ecko Unltd taps NBA Star Jalen ‘J-Dub’ Williams as the face of FW25. – Ecko Unltd The campaign positions Williams—fresh off his 2025 All-Star debut and NBA Finals appearance—as the face of Ecko through the…
Medicaid and Children’s Health: 5 Issues to Watch Amid Recent Federal Changes
The uninsured rate, supplemental poverty rate, and food insecurity for children have all increased since the expiration of pandemic-era fiscal relief, and high household costs, including health care costs, are putting pressure on family budgets. After increasing during the pandemic, overall federal spending on children as a share of the economy (or GDP) has declined…
The Hyères Festival is preparing to celebrate a special 40th edition
Published October 15, 2025 In lieu of grand celebrations, the Hyères International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessories has chosen a fresh start for its 40th anniversary. Following the departure of Jean-Pierre Blanc, the emblematic founder and director of the famous fashion competition for young designers, whose management was criticised by the French Ministry of Culture last April,…
Google’s Gemma AI model helps discover new potential cancer therapy pathway
We gave our new C2S-Scale 27B model a task: Find a drug that acts as a conditional amplifier, one that would boost the immune signal only in a specific “immune-context-positive” environment where low levels of interferon (a key immune-signaling protein) were already present, but inadequate to induce antigen presentation on their own. This required a…
Claire’s goes into liquidation in Spain following its US parent’s bankruptcy
Published October 15, 2025 Accessories and jewellery chain Claire’s continues to scale back its international network. After filing for bankruptcy in the US this summer, Claire’s has now added Spain to the list of markets affected by the group’s global crisis. Spain thus joins the UK, Ireland, and other European subsidiaries that have initiated insolvency…
Scala development in Amazon SageMaker Studio with Almond kernel
Scala stands out as a versatile programming language that combines object-oriented and functional programming approaches. By running on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), it maintains seamless compatibility with Java libraries while offering a concise and scalable development experience. The language has distinguished itself in the realm of distributed computing and big data processing, with the…
