On Saturday, designer Kate Barton will unveil her latest collection at New York Fashion Week — with a twist, of course. Barton teamed up with Fiducia AI to create a multilingual AI agent (built with IBM watsonx on IBM Cloud) to help guests identify pieces of the collection and try them on virtually. TechCrunch caught…
AI transformed doodles of birds into scary winged creatures. Webb Wright/ZDNET/via Runway AI Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways A new feature from Runway lets you generate video from doodles. It’s impressive, but it performs best with some careful hand-holding. Access requires paying for (at least) a Standard Runway account….
In her short term as prime minister, Sanae Takaichi has shown that she has the same kind of reality distortion field that other singular political talents have. Her status as Japan’s first female prime minister, her middle-class (read: non-hereditary) background and her blunt, earnest manner have inspired a well-documented frenzy,Sanakatsu, akin to the parasocial attachment…
Much of Silicon Valley has spent years chasing mega-rounds and buzzy AI deals. Meanwhile, Stacy Brown-Philpot is running Cherryrock Capital like a throwback to venture capital’s earlier days, writing smaller Series A and B checks to founders that larger firms routinely overlook. The former TaskRabbit CEO and decade-long Google veteran launched Cherryrock a year ago…
Hong Kong’s police chief has slammed the alleged involvement of a lawyer and doctors in a spate of so-called crash-for-cash scams as “unforgivable and unacceptable”. Commissioner of Police Joe Chow Yat-ming said on Saturday that the force would speed up its investigation into such cases and expected a fresh wave of arrests. He noted police…
‘GOAT’ Premiere Image Credit: Photo Credit: Amy Sussman/Getty Images Aaron Pierre, Jennifer Hudson, Nick Kroll, Stephen Curry, Caleb McLaughlin, Gabrielle Union, Jelly Roll, Jennifer Lewis and Patton Oswalt premiered their animated film GOAT in L.A. on Feb. 6. ‘GOAT’ Premiere Image Credit: Photo Credit: Eric Charbonneau/Sony Pictures via Getty Images Stephen Curry, Ayesha Curry, Tom…
The United Arab Emirates is rapidly eclipsing Hong Kong and emerging as a credible rival to Singapore as Asia’s most dynamic trading hub, thanks to an ambitious post-pandemic campaign of economic diplomacy. Defying global headwinds from war and instability across its own region, the UAE’s non-oil trade almost doubled between 2021 and 2025 to reach…
MasterClass has dropped the price of its annual memberships by 50 percent, making it a more affordable way to explore its full library of courses across cooking, business, photography, writing and more. With the discount applied, you’ll spend $10 per month when billed annually for the Premium tier, with lower-cost Standard and Plus options available…
Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te has appealed for public support amid a dispute about a special military budget, warning that the deadlock could delay key weapons deliveries and send the island down the US arms supply priority list. The NT$1.25 trillion (US$40 billion) special budget has been repeatedly blocked by opposition parties, even as Taipei…
