“What?!” That single word is the most frequent reaction Aasiyah Abdulsalam gets when she tells people about her company, Renatural, which makes wigs with no lace.The surprise stems from the fact that most commercial wigs today are built with a lace base—a lightweight mesh cap that mimics the scalp but is really scratchy and only comes in a limited palette of colors. Instead of lace, Abdulsal...

IKEA plays its next card in the sleep game, but this time the mattress is pocket-sized. The brand’s UAE arm just dropped the Phone Sleep Collection, a miniature bed set for smartphones, complete with wood slats, bedding, and an embedded NFC chip. It’s the latest move in IKEA’s Complete Sleep initiative, aimed at getting customers to actually log off before bed.The beds connect to the IKEA ap...

The stock market climbed last week, with the S&P 500 rising 1.7% to close at 6,664.01. The index is now down 1.3% from its Oct. 8 closing high of 6,753.72 and up 13.3% year-to-date.An investing rule of thumb is that the deeper the loss, the higher the required percentage gain to break even. For example, a 20% loss demands a 25% gain to recover, and a 33% loss requires a 50% gain. As hedge f...

For young Chinese, ‘ugly cute’ products offer psychological permission to be vulnerable, creating companions that mirror their own complexity.In Shanghai’s Xintiandi district, a 28-year-old marketing executive examines a $27.99 Labubu figure with nine sharp teeth and a mischievous grimace. This elf-like creature, despite defying traditional beauty, represents China’s embrace of “ugly cute,...

In launching its EverPuff jacket, Everlane also outlines the puffer's future trajectory: from initial purchase (USD 298) to potential repair, eventual resale via the company's Re:Everlane platform, and finally, recycling when the garment can no longer be worn. The jacket's design reflects this multi-stage lifecycle, with nearly every component sourced from certified recycled materials, from dow...

Bad information can be misleading, confusing and annoying — if not to machine learning models themselves, at least to their users.That’s why Nvidia is looking to patent systems and methods that evaluate “labeled training data for machine learning systems and applications.”When a company’s labeled data is wrong or inconsistent, the model isn’t able to learn properly.“If these errors are n...

Companies strive to predict future sales, and while it’s no easy task, there are plenty of indicators to help predict which industries will grow. The team at LLC Attorney used this data to help determine which products consumers are willing to spend the most on in the next five years.It’s not a shock to see groceries take the top spot. Inflation has elevated prices, and they aren’t expected...

A group of blind patients can now read again after being fitted with a life-changing implant at the back of the eye.A surgeon who inserted the microchips in five patients at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London says the results of the international trial are "astounding". Sheila Irvine, 70, who is registered blind, told the BBC it was "out of this world" to be able to read and do crosswords again....

A median of 34% of adults across 25 countries surveyed by the Pew Research Center in spring 2025 report having heard a lot about Artificial Intelligence (AI), while 47% have heard a little.On balance, people worldwide are more concerned than excited about AI. A median of 34% of adults say they are more concerned, while 42% are equally concerned and excited. Only a median of 16% are more excited...