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Come May, visitors to the Met’s “Costume Art” exhibition will see how the human form has been depicted in art and fashion over time. For fall 2026 Zoe Whalen explored the same subject, but from an inside looking out perspective. “It’s a real love letter to a body—and probably my body in particular,” the designer said of her new collection, titled Birthing Circle. Both childbirth and growing her Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen brand were on her mind. “I feel I’m in this transitional point in my practice where I I’m at the beginning of a new rebirth; the beginning of…

Just one month after raising $11.75 million in a round led by Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, African defensetech Terra Industries announced that it’s raised an additional $22 million in funding, led by Lux Capital. Nathan Nwachuku, 22, and Maxwell Maduka, 24, launched Terra Industries in 2024 to design infrastructure and autonomous systems to help African nations monitor and respond to threats.  Terrorism remains one of the biggest threats in Africa, but much of the security intelligence on which its nations rely on come from Russia, China, or the West. In January, CEO Nwachuku said his goal was to build “Africa’s first…

Efe Ajagba signed with Zuffa Boxing after a frustrating draw against Martin Bakole that many observers believed Ajagba deserved to win. On Sunday, Ajagba made good on a new opportunity with new promoters, finishing former IBF heavyweight champion Charles Martin with a fourth-round TKO.Martin controlled much of the action through the first three rounds, moving around the perimeter of the ring and forcing Ajagba to come to him. Ajagba didn’t utilize a jab while trying to close distance, allowing Martin to land counters and avoid the predictable right hands from Ajagba.For all of Martin’s success, heavyweight is a division where…

A few years ago, it may have been fashionable to spend $1,000 on the latest flagship smartphone, but for most people, that’s neither practical nor necessary. You don’t even have to spend $500 today to get a decent handset, whether it’s a refurbished iPhone or an affordable Android phone, as there are plenty of decent options as low as $160.However, navigating the budget phone market can be tricky; options that look good on paper may not be in practice, and some devices will end up costing you more when you consider many come with restrictive storage. While we spend most…

Signage at a ByteDance offices in Beijing, China, on June 30, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesChinese tech giant ByteDance has said it will strengthen safeguards on a new artificial intelligence video-making tool, following complaints of copyright theft from entertainment giants. The tool, Seedance 2.0, enables users to create realistic videos based on text prompts. However, viral videos shared online appear to show copyrighted characters and celebrity likenesses, raising intellectual property concerns in the U.S. “ByteDance respects intellectual property rights and we have heard the concerns regarding Seedance 2.0.,” a company spokesperson said in a statement shared with CNBC. “We are taking steps…

Every four years, we all get a reminder about why still photography is an urgently important art form that must be preserved at any cost: the high-effort Olympic figure skater face, which is always best enjoyed by clicking around the Getty Images site. You, the person reading this, are a slob who cannot do what these athletes are doing or even conceive of how they use their feeble, breakable human bodies to do it. Just as inconceivable is the idea of doing this in front of an audience, a table of judges, and an army of photographers capturing your grace…

Laurence EdmondsonFeb 14, 2026, 05:47 AM ETClose• Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011Multiple AuthorsFormula 1’s new era was always going to bring questions, but its first week of serious running has raised more than most. Preseason testing in Bahrain has offered flashes of performance and plenty of data, yet little in the way of firm answers about how the sport’s new landscape is really shaping up.On track, the stopwatch has told a shifting story, with different teams looking quick at different moments and no clear benchmark emerging amid a game of smoke and mirrors.- F1 testing: Who’s…

Sometime in the last five years, Samsung reached peak soundbar. After years of material updates to its flagship surround-sound HW-Q990, a multi-channel, multi-speaker whiz of a Dolby Atmos system, Samsung achieved what it looked to achieve. Once you put 22 speakers into an 11.1.4-channel masterclass of home theater efficiency, it becomes hard to improve upon materially. Audio physics only go so far, and processing only gets so much better.The last several models of the Q990 have seen only minor updates. We’ve gotten a slightly smaller and more efficient subwoofer, new software features, and—in the case of our current favorite, the…

Kim Shui is setting sail into the next decade of her life. Fall 2026 marks her tenth anniversary as a designer, which meant it was a bit more special than usual. To celebrate, she took her guests tonight on the ride around the East River. And while the yacht of it all may have been the spectacle and talking point for guests going into the show, it certainly wasn’t what was being talked about as they were exiting.You could see a culmination of all of Kim Shui’s biggest hits throughout tonight’s show. Inspired by Genghis Khan and his legacy of…

Every once in a while, a product comes along that sparks a bit of joy in our jaded hearts. This is what happened with the Kodak Charmera, a $30 tiny toy camera that was nearly impossible to get ahold of in the first couple of months after its release, selling out immediately over waves of blind box restocks. Despite the gimmick of it all, the Charmera was just too cute for some of us to resist, and we sprang when they finally started becoming more readily available.A few of us on the Engadget team have one now, and even with…