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Gucci ‘Epilogue’ Marks Both an End and a Beginning

Back in May of this year, Alessandro Michele announced that Gucci would be scaling back its fashion shows, bringing the total from five down to just two. "We need new oxygen to allow this complex system to be reborn," he told Vanessa Friedman in an interview with The New York Times. But first, Michele needed to tie up some loose ends. On Friday, he "presented" the "Epilogue" collection, wrapping up […]

todayJuly 22, 2020

Fashion

Fashion and Beauty Brands Start Grants for BIPOC-Owned Businesses

According to CBS News, 40% of Black-owned enterprises might not make it through the Covid-19 pandemic. The Center for Responsible Lending estimated that 90% of small businesses owned by people of color "have been, or will likely be, shut out" from the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), Ashley Harrington, the organization's director of federal advocacy and senior council, told CBS News in April. (You may remember how, quite controversially, the PPP initially sent loans […]

todayJune 26, 2020

Tech Made Simple

Amazon bans police from using its facial “Rekognition” technology for the next year

Amazon is announcing a one-year moratorium on allowing law enforcement to use its controversial Rekognition facial recognition platform, the e-commerce giant said on Wednesday.  The news comes just two days after IBM said it would no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology, citing potential human rights and privacy abuses and research indicating facial recognition tech, despite the advances provided by artificial intelligence, remains biased along lines of age, […]

todayJune 11, 2020

Tech Made Simple

In the age of Coronavirus, Nintendo’s Animal Crossing is a Viral Phenomenon

Animal Crossing has recently gone what, in a less awful time, we might have called viral. Released on Friday, March 20, after weeks of fans clamoring unsuccessfully for an early release, Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold a record-shattering 1.88 million physical copies in Japan in its opening weekend, the biggest-ever launch for a title on the Nintendo Switch console. Stateside, it has become a genuine crossover phenomenon: social media-clogging fan […]

todayMay 14, 2020

Health & Wellness

Is Ibuprofen OK To Use For Coronavirus Symptoms?

There’s a lot of advice floating around about the novel coronavirus and how to limit the spread of the pandemic. Some of it is good, but some of it is just really, really terrible. One question that has come up is whether ibuprofen or other anti-inflammatory drugs are safe to use for symptoms of COVID-19, including fever and body aches. One family said that their child’s condition worsened after taking […]

todayMarch 19, 2020

Fashion

Gucci Declares the Death of the Fashion Show Greatly Exaggerated

For the last few years the death of the fashion show — and fashion weeks in general — has been proclaimed with the same bated-breath relish as the end of the foie gras goose, but, as recently reported in The New York Times, don't be so sure about that, because some top profile peeps in the fashion industry beg to differ. First it was Instagram and the smartphone that would […]

todayMarch 3, 2020

Tech Made Simple

Google removes alleged spying app ToTok from the Play Store… again

Google has removed the chat app ToTok, which is allegedly an espionage tool for the United Arab Emirates, from the Play Store for a second time. The app was previously pulled from Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store in December, shortly before The New York Times published a report about it, but Google quietly reinstated the app in January. This time the app appears to have remained unavailable […]

todayFebruary 20, 2020

Health & Wellness

New Report on over 100 Coronavirus Cases Reveals Disturbing Details

The New York Times reports that a highly contagious patient, virus transmission inside a hospital and unexpected turns for the worse have emerged as part of the epidemic in China.  One patient, admitted to a hospital in Wuhan, China, infected at least 10 health care workers and four other patients with the coronavirus that has sickened more than 34,000 people, killed 700 and reached two dozen other countries. The case […]

todayFebruary 10, 2020

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