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The 2026 SAG Awards brought Hollywood’s biggest names together for a night celebrating outstanding performances in film and television — but as always, the red carpet delivered its own standout moments. Presented annually by SAG-AFTRA, the Screen Actors Guild Awards are uniquely meaningful because winners are voted on by their peers, making each statuette a true mark of industry respect. Often considered a strong predictor of the Oscars, the ceremony blends prestige with personality — and the fashion follows suit. This year’s carpet was a study in sculpted silhouettes, high-shine embellishments, and confident tailoring, with stars embracing both classic glamour…

After deal talks lasting almost a year, MyFitnessPal has successfully acquired its up-and-coming rival Cal AI. Cal AI is the AI calorie counting app startup built by two high school teenagers that soared to over 15 million downloads and over $30 million in annual revenue in under two years, MyFitnessPal tells TechCrunch.  The Cal AI team of seven employees, including its co-founder CEO Zach Yadegari (pictured, above), plus a small team of contractors, have been retained by MyFitnessPal (MFP), according to MyFitnessPal CEO Mike Fisher. The Cal AI app will remain independent, with its same ease-of-use mission: estimating calories by…

Hanin Barghouthi, 24, praised the atrocity during a rally in Brighton on October 8, 2023, a court heard. Her speech was in praise of Hamas – a prescribed organisation – Michael Bisgrove, prosecuting, told Kingston upon Thames Crown Court on Monday. Speaking in support and encouraging others to support a prescribed organisation is an offence, he said. At the start of a 45-minute video of the Brighton rally, a speaker details the level of Hamas involvement and casualty numbers. In the recording, played in full to the jury, Barghouthi told the crowd gathered around the Clock Tower in Brighton: “My…

Oana is the co-founder and Chief Commercial and Product Officer at Dexory, leading the company’s product vision and commercial strategy as it brings autonomous robotics and real-time data intelligence into global warehouses. Driven by the belief that better data leads to better decisions, Oana is focused on building intelligent, human-centred systems that solve real operational challenges at scale. During her career, Oana successfully pivoted Dexory from retail to warehousing during the pandemic, recognising the urgent need for real-time inventory visibility and automation in global supply chains.     Tell Me About Yourself and Your Company   I’m Oana Jinga, Co-Founder…

At the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), researcher Leonardo Ferreira, Ph.D., is leading an ambitious effort to change how type 1 diabetes (T1D) is treated. Backed by $1 million from Breakthrough T1D, a leading global research and advocacy organization, Ferreira and collaborators at partner institutions are testing a new strategy aimed at treating and potentially curing the disease. Their approach brings together stem cell science, immunology, and transplantation research. The central goal is straightforward but bold: restore insulin-producing beta cells in people with T1D without requiring immunosuppressive drugs. “These awards support the most promising work that can significantly advance…

Cami Tellez is back.  Tellez is the founder of the viral undergarments brand Parade, which at one point was seen as the Gen Z rival to Victoria’s Secret. Launched in 2019, when Tellez was just 21, the company went on to raise millions in funding and attract thousands of customers, but was sold in 2023 to the lingerie manufacturer Ariela & Associates. Late last year, Parade announced it was officially closing its doors.  But it turns out Parade was just the beginning of Tellez’s journey as a founder. On Monday, she and former TikTok executive Jon Kroopf announced the launch…

Early on Saturday, cities across Iran, including its capital Tehran, were rocked by a series of U.S. and Israel-led airstrikes that killed the country’s supreme leader, Ali Hosseini Khamenei, and top leadership. According to reports, the military campaign coincided with cyberattacks targeting the country, one of which flooded a popular phone app with notifications, amid an ongoing outage across the Iranian internet. The strikes came after several days of failed negotiations between Tehran and Washington. The negotiations were held after weeks of mass protests that saw thousands of people killed alongside the country’s longest internet shutdown to date. As missiles…

Apple on Monday unveiled the latest version of its budget-friendly iPhone line. The iPhone 17e retails for $599 and will be available on March 11. The smartphone comes with the A19 chip that’s found in the base iPhone 17, and will support Apple Intelligence. The base model comes with 256 GB of storage, which Apple says is twice the entry storage from the previous generation. One of the most notable changes from the previous budget iPhone is the addition of MagSafe and Qi2, which supports wireless charging up to 15W. The smartphone is available in black, white, and a new…

John Scully, Author of Visited Mom Today, to Speak at Benchmark at South Farms on March 5 MIDDLETOWN, Conn., March 2, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — West Hartford resident John Scully understands firsthand the heartbreak—and hope—of loving someone living with dementia. For the final eight years of her life, Scully’s mother was nonverbal. During her 13 years in a nursing home, he struggled to find meaningful ways to connect with her and with other residents—until he discovered approaches that changed everything. Now, Scully shares those lessons in his acclaimed book, Visited Mom Today: Conversations Through the Lens of Alzheimer’s and Dementia (Green Heart…

Within minutes of the first U.S.-Israeli missiles striking Tehran on Saturday morning, a different kind of exodus was already underway.  Crypto outflows from Nobitex, Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, surged 700%, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. The spike was capital flight, executed in real time, by Iranians racing to move money out of a country suddenly under full-scale military bombardment. Nobitex processed $7.2 billion in crypto transactions in 2025 and serves more than 11 million users, Elliptic said. It allows Iranians to convert rials into crypto and withdraw to external wallets which is a direct pipeline around the country’s crippled…