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Category: Technology News
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Roundup: Fashion’s digital thread, RFID tags win sustainability award, and more.
Fashion and beauty industry updates this week: SML Group’s InfuseRFID technology, which embeds wash-resistant RFID tags at raw material or early assembly stages; and Louis Vuitton has appointed Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu as a brand…
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Roundup: Retail leadership and brand strategies, Target shuffles merchandising leadership, and
Retail leadership and brand strategies this week: Target has restructured its merchandising leadership, promoting three internal veterans to SVP roles; and Southeastern Asset Management, a major shareholder with over 4% of Mattel’s stock…
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Roundup: Supply chain innovations and, Is Amazon Supply Chain, and more.
Supply chain innovations and disruptions this week: Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS) is now available to any business, not just marketplace sellers, bundling; and Procter & Gamble is now in full-scale rollout of its Supply Chain 3.
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Flipper Zero Transmits APRS With No Extra Parts
Hacker Community this week: A developer has modified the Flipper Zero’s firmware to transmit the APRS amateur radio data protocol using its; and A Hackaday columnist installs the minimalist SliTaz distribution on a 2005-era 32-bit Dell…
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AI, Virtual Try-On & Digital Fashion, ASOS Redesigning online fashion speed AI, and more.
AI, Virtual Try-On & Digital Fashion Tools this week: ASOS is deploying Microsoft’s cloud and AI stack across its value chain to compress operational timelines and; and AWS has published a generative AI playbook for retail, consolidating…
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Textile Recycling & Circular Fashion, REWIND PET Process Validated, and more.
Textile Recycling & Circular Fashion this week: A consortium of Axens, Jeplan, and Ifpen has validated the REWIND PET chemical recycling process for textiles at a; and The circular fashion ecosystem is consolidating around long-term…
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Digital Product Passports & RFID, SML s InfuseRFID wins 2026 SEAL award, and more.
Digital Product Passports & RFID Compliance this week: SML Group’s InfuseRFID technology, which embeds durable RFID tags into garments before wet processing, has won a; and The EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) mandate, enacted via the…
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“TotalRecall Reloaded” tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11’s Recall database
Hacker Community this week: This matters for Hacker Community because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Two years ago, Microsoft; and This matters for Hacker Community because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Your…
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Roundup: VFX artistry under the hood, the science of creature animation, and more.
Industry insights and VFX artist spotlights this week: Senior animation directors from DNEG and Framestore detail the practical constraints and creative compromises in; and A retrospective on three landmark VFX achievements—Terminator 2’s…
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Roundup: VFX & 3D Tools, Maxon ships C4D 2026.2 with iPad beta, and more.
New software and tools for 3D and VFX artists this week: Maxon has released Cinema 4D 2026.