Author: Vidya Saras

Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships. We receive compensation when you click on a link and make a purchase. Learn more! I started wearing a purse just a few years ago, and now, I don’t know how I ever lived without one. With summer coming to a close, I find myself in need of an upgrade to fit my essentials, but realized that catchall totes are too bulky and shoulder bags aren’t large enough. I was about to give up on my search until Katie Holmes came through with inspiration in the form of a bucket bag. Holmes has been carrying…

FINANCE Secretary Ralph G. Recto said the government is studying a new general tax amnesty (GTA) measure, with the possibility of an estate-tax extension. “We are also studying the possibility of enacting a General Tax Amnesty and online gambling tax laws,” Mr. Recto said in his speech at the Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines Economic Forum on Monday. The proposed tax amnesty will involve an amnesty charge set at a yet-to-be-determined percentage of the outstanding unpaid tax, in exchange for immunity from civil, criminal, and administrative penalties. Mr. Recto said the GTA will be submitted to Congress this year,…

Our family prioritizes healthy, whole foods, so why not do the same for our pets? To my children, pets truly are part of the family. It was their idea to make homemade dog treats for our dog. And now they wanted to make homemade cat treats for our cats, Penelope and Tiger, too (“to be fair”). Like the dog treats we made for Daisy, these homemade treats contain healthy ingredients cats love. They’re simple to make and store really well in the fridge. Our cats don’t even seem to mind if we don’t heat them up before giving them one. …

Aether 1 began as an internal experiment at OFF+BRAND: Could we craft a product‑launch site so immersive that visitors would feel the sound? The earbuds themselves are fictional, but every pixel of the experience is real – an end‑to‑end sandbox where our brand, 3D, and engineering teams pushed WebGL, AI‑assisted tooling, and narrative design far beyond a typical product page. This technical case study is the living playbook of that exploration. Inside you’ll find: 3D creation workflow – how we sculpted, animated, and optimised the earphones and their charging case. Interactive WebGL architecture – the particle flow‑fields, infinite scroll, audio‑reactive…

In a major step forward for one of NASA’s most anticipated space observatories, engineers at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have successfully installed two sunshields on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.”This shield is like an extremely strong sunblock for Roman’s sensitive instruments, protecting them from heat and light from the sun that would otherwise overwhelm our ability to detect faint signals from space,” Matthew Stephens, an aerospace engineer at NASA Goddard, said in a statement.The milestone is of note, considering how recent federal budget proposals could pose serious risks to Roman’s future and its timeline for…

Manchester United and Newcastle United have been involved in several transfer sagas this summer.Both the clubs entered the market to sign a new attacker this summer.Despite facing obstacles in the early stages, Man United managed to sign Benjamin Sesko from RB Leipzig, beating Newcastle United in the process.At one stage, it looked like Sesko was heading to St. James’ Park but Ruben Amorim and his team hijacked the deal in the last minute, although it was made much easier by the player’s desire to move to Old Trafford.There is another player who is attracting the attention of both the club…

Chip giants Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the US government 15% of Chinese revenues as part of an “unprecedented” deal to secure export licences to China, the BBC has been told.The US had previously banned the sale of powerful chips used in areas like artificial intelligence (AI) to China under export controls usually related to national security concerns.Security experts, including some who served during President Donald Trump’s first term, recently wrote to the administration expressing “deep concern” that Nvidia’s H20 chip was “a potent accelerator” of China’s AI capabilities.Nvidia told the BBC: “We follow rules the US government…

Artelo Biosciences secures European patent protection for cancer drug

Blockchain oracle platform Chainlink has partnered with the US-based Fortune 500 company Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to bring foreign exchange and precious metals data onchain. Chainlink announced Monday that the collaboration will bring ICE’s Consolidated Feed, which aggregates market data from over 300 global exchanges and marketplaces, to the derived data sets that power Chainlink Data Streams. According to Chainlink, these feeds support over 2,000 decentralized applications (DApps) and major financial institutions to provide the market information necessary to operate in tokenized environments. The partnership marks a major step in integrating traditional market infrastructure within the blockchain ecosystem.  Enhancing the accuracy of rates used by…

We all want more for less—or at least I do. It’s that Holy Grail of deals that makes the idea of budget gadgets so appealing, and especially so in the world of phones. The whole idea of a budget phone is pitching you what may as well be the bargain of the century. For less money, budget phones ostensibly offer you a device that does it all: browses the web, retrieves your email, makes calls and texts, gives you near-unlimited access to apps, and even captures important memories like your niece’s first birthday and the horrible decision to hire a…