G-Shock has gone bananas with its latest BAIT collaboration, but the joke is more carefully timed than it first appears. The new DW5600 Yamagata’s Finest dresses Casio’s familiar square watch in brigh...

Erling Haaland’s old ponytail has become the latest strand in a legal dispute over athlete image rights. The Manchester City and Norway striker is suing Norwegian Air Shuttle over a World Cup social m...

The US passport is getting an even more patriotic makeover. The Trump administration has previewed a new standard design called Flight of the Eagle, complete with a larger gold Great Seal, illustrated...

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is dressing up its AI encyclopedia like a digital library. The platform has rolled out version 0.3 with a redesigned homepage built around virtual bookshelves, rotating book cov...

Excitement around Apple’s first foldable iPhone is already attracting the wrong kind of attention. Security researchers have uncovered a fake iPhone Duo preorder page that does more than imitate Apple...

Nespresso is giving its holiday coffee lineup a little extra sparkle. The capsule brand has joined Swarovski for a limited-edition festive collection that stretches from coffee and cups to crystal-tri...

Pope Leo XIV is not losing sleep over an AI apocalypse, but he is not dismissing the warnings either. Speaking to reporters on September 28 aboard a flight from Metz to Rome at the end of a four-day visit to France, the pontiff said concerns about increasingly powerful artificial intelligence des...

Antoni Porowski’s jacket has found an unexpected second life, not on another red carpet or TV episode, but in federal court. A custom leather jacket worn by the Queer Eye star is now at the center of ...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei became the latest Silicon Valley figure to get the Saturday Night Live treatment, with the show’s Weekend Update poking at an awkward contradiction surrounding artificial in...

Image: U.S.General Services Administration (Screenshot)Donald Trump wants dealing with the federal government to feel less like a scavenger hunt across dozens of websites. On September 29, the preside...

Former South Park writer Toby Morton has launched TheCornell7.org, a site dedicated to collecting information about allegations involving seven former members of Cornell University’s Chi Phi fraternit...

Bill Gates has warned that artificial intelligence could become powerful enough to help malicious actors set off events resulting in as many as a billion deaths, adding fresh weight to a safety debate...

Adidas is giving Lionel Messi one more Argentina shirt for the memory box, and this one is dressed for the occasion. The sportswear brand has released a special collection celebrating his internationa...

Gucci is rewriting a small part of its origin story. The Italian fashion house has begun selling footwear made in China, most notably the Drip, Demna’s debut sneaker for the brand. It is a striking de...

Lady Gaga is clocking in somewhere unexpected. The pop star has stepped out of the stage to take over a convenience-store counter in FamilyMart’s latest campaign, where serving customers, stocking she...

Buying a PlayStation game could one day require little more than a tap. A newly published patent from Sony Interactive Entertainment imagines a PlayStation controller that could accept payment informa...

Breaking Bad has cooked up another No. 1. The New York Times has ranked Vince Gilligan’s crime drama as the best television series of the 21st century so far, placing it ahead of The Wire, Mad Men, Su...

Lexus asked MSCHF to rethink the shape of the car, and the answer involved considerably less restraint than a typical concept study. For MOTOMORPHOSIS, the Brooklyn art collective has bent one car int...

An OpenAI agent was given a routine research task and ended up somewhere it was not supposed to be. Australia is now investigating how the AI system gained unauthorized access to public and non-public...

Burger King’s Dragon Ball Super promotion has run into a bit of Saiyan turbulence, with customers reporting missing toys that prompted rumors of a recall. The six-figure collection launched at partici...

Meta wants to put its Muse AI in your pocket, and the result looks a little like a Tamagotchi grew up and got a job. Unveiled at Meta Connect 2026, the new Muse Charm is a tiny screen-equipped device ...

A24 briefly gave viewers one more thing to second-guess in a documentary already built around truth and perception. The studio has corrected a typo in the trailer for You Can See Everything, its upcom...

Bentley is finally plugging in. After 107 years of combustion-powered cars, the British marque has unveiled the Torcal, its first fully electric production model and the most powerful production Bentl...

Images: Sotheby’s and Wikimedia Commons (public domain)Claude Monet’s Iris is finally stepping out of the shadows. The late-career Iris painting, hidden from public view for decades, is heading to Sot...

Starbucks is catching them all, teaming up with Pokémon for a first-ever collection consisting of a Pikachu-inspired latte and 41 pieces of merchandise across Japan from September 30.The crème de la c...

Barbie is adding another celebration to her holiday calendar. Mattel has introduced what is being described as the first official Hanukkah-themed Barbie, dressing the doll in blue and giving her a lig...

Image: Yuri Arcurs | Dreamstime.comStanford University is facing a big image problem. The school has acknowledged that artificial intelligence was used to alter a photograph of students for promotiona...

Grand Theft Auto VI fans have turned casting speculation into a full-time side quest. Their latest obsession is Manni L. Perez, an actress many believe could be the face and voice behind Lucia Caminos...

After spending years politely nudging users to pay up, WinRAR has a different idea for anyone still clicking past the reminder: buy the bag instead. The file-compression software has brought back its ...

IKEA is assembling its way back into Manhattan, and this time New York itself comes with instructions. Ahead of its forthcoming SoHo store, the Swedish retailer has covered the building’s facade with ...

Meta’s latest Ray-Bans are missing one feature that has defined its smart glasses so far. The company has unveiled Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first camera-free AI glasses, stripping out photo and video c...

Macklemore has found himself in a boss fight, at least in browser form. Super Macklemore 64 transforms the rapper’s recent tour dispute into a deliberately absurd, retro-styled game where players flee...

Macklemore has found himself in a boss fight, at least in browser form. Super Macklemore 64 transforms the rapper’s recent tour dispute into a deliberately absurd, retro-styled game where players flee...

Beats is putting more of its headphone design in wearers’ hands. The Apple-owned brand has introduced the Beats 360, a $349.99 model built around interchangeable ear cushions and headband padding, let...

LISA has a new way for fans to see the world through her eyes, almost literally. Fresh from putting her personal touch on a limited edition PlayStation controller, the BLACKPINK star is moving from ga...

The Laughing Cow has finally found something it does not seem to find funny. For the first time in more than a century, the cheese brand’s familiar red mascot has lost her grin, appearing noticeably s...

Scrub Daddy is adding a new generation to the cleaning aisle. The brand has introduced Scrub Baby, a baby-bottle cleaning brush aimed at parents dealing with bottles, nipples, and the daily buildup th...

Venus Williams is bringing a little center-court energy into the home. The tennis champion and interior designer has teamed up with Crate & Barrel and Crate & Kids on a nearly 200-piece collection tha...

Turning up the volume on its visual presence, Apple Music has introduced a noticeably heavier wordmark around the opening of Apple Music Hall in London, where its restrained typography has been traded...

Xbox is cutting another 268 jobs as its months-long reset moves into its next phase, and the changes go well beyond headcount. Halo Studios and other first-party teams are among those affected, while ...

McDonald’s Guatemala and Croatia are giving Chicken McNuggets a prehistoric makeover. The fast-food giant has joined a playful social-media trend that turns nuggets and fries into tiny edible dinosaur...

McLaren is taking a lap through its own history for its latest identity refresh. The British marque has unveiled a new wordmark inspired by the signage above the Auckland service station run by founde...

Adobe is putting more of Premiere into creators’ pockets. The company has expanded Premiere mobile to Android, giving users a free video editor built around multi-track editing, 4K exports, cleaner au...

Donald Trump has decided artificial intelligence needs a branding upgrade. Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, the US president said the government would begin referring to AI ...

Outdoor brand Patagonia is putting $100 behind a simple request this election season. Get three friends or family members to make a plan to vote in the upcoming US midterms, and you can receive a $100...

LISA has put her stamp on music and fashion, and now she’s getting her hands on gaming. The BLACKPINK star has teamed up with PlayStation for a limited edition DualSense wireless controller packed wit...

Amazon and Meta may be business partners, but they are not seeing eye to eye on who gets to do the shopping. Amazon has blocked Meta’s newly launched Muse AI agent from making purchases on its marketp...

X users who would rather not hand out their phone number now have another option. The platform has introduced X Numbers, private codes that let people call or message you through X Chat without gettin...

Nintendo has given the Super Mario logo a small power-up after the franchise’s 40th-anniversary celebrations. The familiar multicolored wordmark has quietly picked up more depth, shine, and dimension....

Tyler, the Creator’s “Permanent License of Travel” has finally run into a problem it was never designed to solve: airport security. Merchandise from the rapper’s CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST era appeared i...