The Theragun Sense guided routines are the headline feature of Therabody’s second-generation wellness massage gun, and after a few weeks of testing, they largely justify the $299 asking price. For anyone who has ever pointed a massage gun at a sore shoulder and had absolutely no idea what they were doing, this device has a refreshingly practical answer. The Sense is positioned as an everyday relaxation and recovery tool rather than a deep-tissue powerhouse. Therabody is clear about that distinction: if you want heated therapy or serious deep-tissue capability, the Theragun PRO or Prime are the hardware for you. The…
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Marcus Hale
Marcus Hale has been filing general news for the better part of fifteen years. He started at a regional evening paper, moved to a mid-sized digital outlet covering UK news, and spent three years as a general assignment reporter before going freelance. He has covered inquests, council elections, infrastructure announcements, and the kind of stories that sit on page five but matter on page one. He writes about public services, housing, local government, and the institutional stories that take six months to develop and thirty seconds to read. He prefers facts to angles and considers that unfashionable. Marcus lives in Bristol. He still reads the local paper and thinks that makes him an endangered species.
Reuters confirmed this week that Chinese automakers’ humanoid robot ambitions have moved well past the mood board stage, with Xpeng’s robotics subsidiary closing a $900 million Series A at a post-money valuation of more than $6.3 billion. The round was led by IDG Capital, with Gaorong Ventures, Tencent, and Alibaba also participating. Xpeng described it as the largest single-round private financing ever recorded in China’s ’embodied AI’ industry. That is quite a claim. It is also, given the current mood in the sector, entirely plausible. Xpeng’s Robotics Unit Puts a Number on the Dream The robotics subsidiary’s stated plan is…
Nvidia has confirmed an open-weight AI acquisition that reframes what the chip giant actually is: a definitive agreement to buy Hugging Face for a purchase price of approximately $11.9 billion, plus up to $1.0 billion in equity-based retention payments for Hugging Face employees who join Nvidia. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2027, subject to regulatory approvals. The headline figure of roughly $13 billion makes this Nvidia’s second-largest deal on record, according to CNBC, trailing only its $20 billion purchase of chip assets from Groq last December. Hugging Face itself is no small trophy: more…
Tamme Tokyo Spring 2027 takes the season’s central conceit and turns the dial down: less hard authority, more ghostly trace of it. Tatsuya Tamada has been mining the image of his police officer father since last season, fusing the visual language of official dress into pieces that sit somewhere between the buttoned-up and the deliberately undone. This time, he eased off. What Docking Actually Means The collection is built around a Japanese fashion term most English speakers have never encountered: docking. It describes the practice of combining the fundamental elements of two distinct garments into a single hybrid item, a…
The Spate beauty trend tracker, produced in collaboration with Vogue Business, surfaces the brands, ingredients, and formats registering the strongest year-on-year growth with consistent upward momentum, and the sheer breadth of this latest edition is worth pausing on. Dozens of categories. Dozens of months of rolling data. The picture that emerges is less a snapshot than a slow-moving current. How the Spate Beauty Trend Tracker Works Before diving into the trends themselves, it helps to understand the machinery behind them. Spate’s forecasting methodology is built on over 1 trillion search signals, 515 million TikTok posts, and 105 million Instagram posts,…
The Clooney Foundation for Justice fundraiser held on Lake Como this summer was considerably more than a glamorous dinner party, though it was certainly that too. George and Amal Clooney hosted 16 guests across a five-day event at the storied Villa Passalacqua, with a buy-in that, depending on which report you trust, started somewhere between $173,000 per room and $233,000 per person: Yahoo Entertainment puts the floor at $173,000 per room, while US Magazine reports a $233,000 per-person figure. Either way, this was not a charity auction where you bid on a hamper. Villa Passalacqua: The Setting That Does Half…
The romantasy luxury brand opportunity is arriving at full gallop, and the fashion industry is still mostly standing on the sidelines watching. At midnight on 27 October, Bloomsbury Publishing releases A Court of Splintered Harmony, the sixth instalment in Sarah J. Maas’s ACOTAR series: a 352-page hardback, five years in the making, and already the subject of launch parties at 76 Waterstones stores across the UK. Bone readings. Night Court dress codes. Dainty cake. The fans are ready. The question is whether brands are. Bloomberg has called romantasy, the romance-fantasy fusion genre fixated on ‘spicy’ scenes between fantastical beings, a…
The hunt for the next James Bond actor is now, officially, one of the most watched casting searches in Hollywood, and it has a director attached. Denis Villeneuve, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind the Dune franchise, will helm the next Bond film under a dramatically restructured creative arrangement that hands the keys of Britain’s most storied spy to Amazon. A Billion-Dollar Bet on Bond Deadline reports that Amazon shelled out an additional $1 billion for creative control of the James Bond franchise, resulting in a new joint venture to house the IP, with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson remaining co-owners…
Kaia Gerber stepped out in New York City this week wearing an Emily Dawn Long tee that has quietly become one of fashion’s most passed-around insider pieces. The model paired the graphic blue ‘Spoiled Boys’ shirt with a classic black skirt, a Fendi Baguette bag, ballet flats, and sleek sunglasses, all of it looking effortless in that particular way that suggests absolutely no effort was involved.The outing came the morning after Gerber attended the U.S. Open and celebrated her Vogue September cover at a Casa Magazines event alongside her The Shards co-star Homer Gere. So yes, casual tee and all,…
Taylor Swift’s Dôen dress has become the talking point of her first performance since marrying Travis Kelce, with footage of the Grammy Museum set only now surfacing on YouTube. The short programme included a medley of ‘All Too Well’, ‘August’, and ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’, her contribution to the Toy Story 5 soundtrack. The Dôen Dress, the Brooch, and the Ring Swift chose the Nelida dress from Vogue-covered label Dôen: a wispy, sage green style in crinkled silk chiffon, the asymmetric neckline falling into a dramatic cape-like back that caught every movement at the piano. A deep red…