Meghan Markle v Kate Middleton wedding dress: Style, fabric and designer compared

Meghan Markle, 36, married Prince Harry, 33, at St George’s Chapel in Windsor today. Anticipation for Meghan’s dress was high, with bets being placed on who would design it weeks in advance. Harry and Meghan’s wedding is the biggest royal nuptials since Kate Middleton, 36, wed Prince William, 35, in 2011. Speculation over Kate’s dress […]

Beautiful Fabric Self-Portraits That Celebrate Identity

The photo series When Fashion is Losing its Sense of Self by artist Roos van de Kieft is an exploration of identity as it should be, not shaped by outside influences like the fashion world or social media. (We first spotted the series on Fubiz.) Self-portraits are printed on gauzy, draped fabric and then photographed […]

Casio’s ‘2.5D’ printer can mimic leather and fabric

It’s safe to say that we’re all familiar with the term “3D printing” by now, but “2.5D printing?” As silly as it sounds, this may be a game changer for all the industrial designers out there. At CEATEC, Casio demoed this Mofrel printing technology that adds a range of textures to ordinary-looking sheets, before giving […]

What If Politicians Studied the Social Fabric Like Economists Studied GDP?

Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah is worried. He is worried about the country’s economic trajectory, given rising inequality, the shrinking of the middle class, and the persistence of intergenerational poverty. And he is worried about its social trajectory, based on growing political and regional polarization, rising distrust in institutions, falling rates of marriage and […]

‘This gets to the fabric of the nation’: Inside the dark conspiracy that made its way from the fringe to the White House

Reuters The modern history of the “deep state” in American politics — real or imagined — starts with real leaks of classified information and ends as a conspiracy theory on popular yet dubious websites. And how it got there raises serious questions about whether the intelligence community is trying to subvert a new president or […]

Azure Service Fabric takes first tentative steps toward open source

(credit: Microsoft) Microsoft’s embrace of open source software continues, with Azure Service Fabric making the first tentative foray into the open world. Today, the SDK was (mostly) published to GitHub under the MIT license. The team behind the move described it as the “beginning stages” of a wider use of open source. Service Fabric, first revealed in […]

$100 BILLION FUND: Trump could undermine ‘the political fabric’ of America

REUTERS/Carlos Barria Donald Trump has inherited an economy that is in much better shape than his predecessor did eight years ago. Yet President Trump also has ambitious plans for his first 100 days in office.  Just how much can he achieve and what will be the likely impact on capital markets? The ‘first 100 days’ […]