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Cami Tellez is back.  Tellez is the founder of the viral undergarments brand Parade, which at one point was seen as the Gen Z rival to Victoria’s Secret. Launched in 2019, when Tellez was just 21, the company went on to raise millions in funding and attract thousands of customers, but was sold in 2023 to the lingerie manufacturer Ariela & Associates. Late last year, Parade announced it was officially closing its doors.  But it turns out Parade was just the beginning of Tellez’s journey as a founder. On Monday, she and former TikTok executive Jon Kroopf announced the launch…

Charlie CremeMar 2, 2026, 08:50 AM ETCloseCharlie Creme projects the women’s NCAA tournament bracket for ESPN.com.Multiple AuthorsWith the regular season complete in the Power 4 conferences, Champ Week has arrived. Conference tournament titles will be decided in the next two weeks, and leagues will be handing out awards over that same period.Player of the year in some conferences will be easy choices — UConn’s Sarah Strong in the Big East and Richmond’s Maggie Doogan in the Atlantic 10 look like locks — while other races are close calls, such as in the ACC and Summit League.The same goes with projecting…

Nintendo has a history of fleshing out the larger Pokémon world through spinoffs. What games from the Pokémon Snap and Detective Pikachu series lacked in terms of action, they made up for in the way they made pokémon feel like creatures with rich lives outside of their relationships with trainers. And as the mainline series has evolved over the years, games like Legends: Z-A have begun putting more emphasis on the idea that pokémon might be better off if humans kept their distance.Pokémon spinoffs have also tended to be relatively boxed-in, both in terms of how much space there is…

Nvidia has announced it is investing a combined $4 billion in two companies developing photonics technologies.The U.S. chip giant announced on Monday it’s investing $2 billion in Lumentum and the same amount in Coherent.Lumentum is a U.S.-based company that is developing optical and photonic technologies to power the networks and infrastructure behind AI, cloud computing and next-generation communications.Coherent, also based in the U.S., develops photonics technology, which refers to harnessing light (photons) to create components and systems that enable high-performance optical applications.”Together with Lumentum, NVIDIA is advancing the world’s most sophisticated silicon photonics to build the next generation of gigawatt-scale…

Netflix tried holding out, but eventually gave up on acquiring Warner Bros. Now, that “honor” goes to Paramount, and the streamer’s left licking its wounds and talking about why it backed out after fighting so hard for WB in the first place. As CEO Ted Sarandos recently told Bloomberg, his company had a “very tight range” of money that could be spent, and one revealed early into the acquisition process. Paramount, on the other hand, kept increasing its offers and made moves he admittered were “unusual and irrational.” Once last week’s offer came in, Sarandos knew he was beat and…

The World Baseball Classic is an international baseball tournament that first began in 2006 as an event sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation, and it’s the only international baseball championship of national teams that features the participation of professional players. The latest installment of the World Baseball Classic will be held from March 4-17, 2026 in four cities across the globe; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Tokyo, Japan; Miami, FL; and Houston, TX, and will feature players from several leagues, including Major League Baseball and Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. (You can see a complete list of MLB players participating here.)Games…

Mick Mulvaney wants to be clear: He really likes gambling. “You’re talking to the only former member of Congress who’s won a poker tournament in Las Vegas,” he tells WIRED. When he was representing South Carolina in the US House of Representatives, he pushed for the state to allow sports betting.Because of his background, Mulvaney, a former Trump administration official, says he can tell when something is gambling—and that the sports contracts on prediction markets fit the bill. “You know the old saying, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck?” he asks. “If…

Diane von Furstenberg is loving this season of life. When we hop on Zoom, she’s at home in Venice, Italy, where she’s spending most of her time these days.“I realized early on in life that the best thing you can be is yourself,” she tells me. “You shouldn’t fight what you are meant to be.” For von Furstenberg, that was a woman with many hats: mother to two, Andy Warhol muse, princess, epic fashion designer, philanthropist. And as of today, she’s adding another title: beauty collaborator with Estée Lauder. Today, the two powerhouses launch the limited-edition three-piece collection, aptly named…

Vivo barely has a presence outside of China but that seems to be changing with the company’s next flagship phone. At Mobile World Conference 2026, the company unveiled the X300 Ultra smartphone that comes with a 200MP telephoto sensor, along with multiple accessories designed for pro photographers and content creators, including a SmallRig video cage and 400mm Zeiss telephoto extender lens.Vivo didn’t go into detail about the phone’s specs, but you can likely expect a high-end processor, screen, battery and other internal components when it’s fully unveiled later on. Vivo did say that like the X300 Pro, the X300 Ultra…

The top-ranked Duke Blue Devils look to wrap up the ACC regular-season championship when they take on the North Carolina State Wolfpack on Monday night. Duke is coming off a 77-51 win over Virginia on Saturday, while NC State dropped a 96-90 decision at Notre Dame that same day. The Blue Devils (27-2, 15-1 ACC), who have won six in a row, are 9-1 on the road this season. The Wolfpack (19-10, 10-6 ACC), who have lost two in a row, are 11-4 on their home floor.Tipoff from Lenovo Center in Raleigh, N.C., is set for 7 p.m. ET. Duke…