Month: August 2026

Credits: Base Design, Base Design

August 25, 2026

Credits: Camp Quiet

August 25, 2026

Snack on your back. This adorable Hello Kitty popcorn bucket is also a wearable backpack, complete with straps and room for 85 ounces of popcorn.

August 24, 2026

A movie made by a mother and son with no prior experience was playing to nearly empty theaters in China, but it’s now taking its unlikely success international.

August 24, 2026

Just like Dreamweaver convinced a generation they could ignore HTML and CSS, Figma’s perfect canvas may be hiding the messy realities of how the web actually works. The future belongs to designers who understand systems, behavior, performance, and code—not just pixels.

August 24, 2026

Moving day, waxwork edition: Madame Tussauds has equipped Harry and Meghan’s figures with suitcases and shifted them into its British Culture Capital zone

August 22, 2026

BIGBANG is taking its name to cosmic new heights. G-Dragon, Taeyang, and Daesung have been named the Korea AeroSpace Administration’s first honorary ambassadors.

August 22, 2026

A New York concept image in the ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ art book is drawing scrutiny over apparent AI artifacts, from warped taxis to distorted architecture.

August 22, 2026

Starbucks is stirring Mofusand’s feline antics into coffee culture with a new lineup spanning drinkware, wristlet pouches, plush keychains, and blind boxes.

August 22, 2026

The monsters are staying, but their world is changing. PepsiCo has refreshed Monster Munch’s characters, colors, food photography, and logo for a more playful visual identity.

August 22, 2026

Meta has expanded its experimental Pocket app to U.S. users after testing it in Brazil. Pocket uses Meta’s Muse Spark model to turn natural-language prompts into small interactive games called “gizmos,” which can respond to taps, swipes, movement, sounds, photos and camera input. Users can play, share and remix creations through a social-style feed without […]

August 22, 2026

One fan allegedly spent $500 on Demon Hunter concert tickets thinking they were for a ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ show. Now the Christian metal band is taking Netflix and AEG Presents to court.

August 21, 2026

A cyberattack on CEVA Logistics has exposed information belonging to some Pokémon Center customers and disrupted European deliveries during Pokémon’s 30th anniversary year. Customers in the UK and Germany were warned that names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and order contents may have been accessed, although payment card information was not exposed. While CEVA client […]

August 21, 2026

Matchday twinning just got easier. Adidas has turned seven major football clubs into jerseys and accessories made specifically for pets.

August 21, 2026

Hundreds of millions of keyboard taps reveal how emoji evolved in 2025, with younger users giving familiar symbols meanings their designers probably never anticipated.

August 21, 2026

NASA has captured the clearest look yet at the 60-foot crater left after a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 stage slammed into the Moon at about 5,400 mph.

August 21, 2026

Google’s $10 million bid for Spirit Airlines’ internal data is facing opposition from the union representing the airline’s flight attendants. The archive includes more than 100 million employee emails, over 500 million Microsoft Teams messages and other business records that Google plans to use for product development and AI training. While customer and loyalty program […]

August 20, 2026

Bluesky has confirmed that a DDoS attack caused its roughly 24-hour outage across August 16 and 17, 2026, leaving users in several countries struggling to access feeds, notifications and threads. An Iran-linked group known as Islamic Cyber Resistance or the Iraq-313 Team has claimed responsibility, although Bluesky has not confirmed who was behind the attack. […]

August 20, 2026

Donald Trump has escalated the dispute over the Strait of Hormuz by sharing a Truth Social map labeling the strategic waterway “new U.S. territory.” The post followed Iran’s announcement that a 60-day negotiating window had expired without an agreement and that the strait would remain closed. Tehran wants Washington to lift its port blockade, release […]

August 20, 2026

On Wednesdays, Sims wear pink. ‘The Sims 4’ is bringing ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘Clueless’ into Create a Sim with two nostalgia-heavy fashion kits.

August 20, 2026