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Category: Technology News
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Digital Signals, Digital Product Passports Explained Prepare Compliance, and more.
Digital Signals this week: The EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) regime, beginning enforcement in 2026, will treat data as a border control; and The EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) regulation, enacted under the 2024 Ecodesign for…
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AI, Automation, And Platform Shifts, AI-Driven Apparel Image Retrieval, and more.
AI, Automation, And Platform Shifts this week: This matters for FashionTech because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Integrated impact of image; and Coats Digital, a provider of manufacturing software for the apparel industry…
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Fashion Signals, Fashion PLM Blog Tech Packs Costing Production Supply, and more.
Fashion Signals this week: The fashion industry’s AI adoption is bifurcating between proven commerce applications and experimental design; and Kobolabs.
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A High-Vacuum Controller for an Eventual Electron Microscope
Hacker Community this week: Chris Doble has open-sourced a high-vacuum controller as the first step toward building his own scanning electron; and A guide from Hackaday details how to repurpose an old FDM 3D printer, specifically an…
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VFX EMMY PREVIEW: CONTENDERS STRETCHING THE SMALL SCREEN TO MAKE EPIC TV
Visual Effects and CGI this week: The 78th Primetime Emmy VFX race is defined by ballooning shot counts and compressed schedules, with Foundation S3; and The hybrid DP role is solidifying as virtual production tools like LED volumes and…
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SML’s InfuseRFID wins 2026 SEAL award
FashionTech this week: SML Group’s InfuseRFID embedded tag won the 2026 SEAL Sustainable Product Award, validating a unified digital; and Tunicotex Group, a Tunisian knitwear manufacturer supplying luxury brands like Hugo Boss and…
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Pluralistic: Hold on for dear life (28 May 2026)
Hacker Community this week: Cory Doctorow’s ‘Hold on for dear life’ argues that cryptocurrency’s foundational promise of liberation from state; and A hardware hacker has restored a rare GRiD Compass portable computer and built a novel…
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In NetChoice V. Murrill, The Copia Institute Asks The Fifth Circuit Not To Keep Ignoring The
Hacker Community this week: The Copia Institute, Techdirt’s think tank, has filed an amicus brief in NetChoice v; and iFixit’s guide to assembling a soldering kit frames the choice between a premium, feature-rich cordless station and.
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Industry news and interviews, i Remarkably Bright Creatures, and more.
Industry news and interviews this week: DP Ashley Connor details the production pipeline for Netflix’s ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures,’ focusing on the; and Digital Domain has launched DDAI, an AI-integrated VFX infrastructure platform.
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Circular Fashion and Textile Recycling, REWIND PET Process Validated, and more.
Circular Fashion and Textile Recycling this week: A consortium led by Axens, Jeplan, and Ifpen has validated the REWIND PET chemical recycling process for textiles at; and Vinted’s €8B secondary valuation and reported position as the UK’s…