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Victoria Starmer has taken part in a London fashion week show, in one of her first public appearances since her husband, Keir Starmer, stepped down as prime minister.Lady Starmer appeared at Sunday’s Edeline Lee show. The London-based, Canadian British designer’s clothes are a favourite of the Princess of Wales, and have also been worn by celebrities including singer Taylor Swift and actor and screenwriter Phoebe Waller-Bridge.Lee’s spring/summer 2027 show took place in the unusual setting of a north London school sports hall. Starmer wore a bright turquoise knitted midi dress with a high neckline, pleated detailing and short, sculptural sleeves,…

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on streaming platforms, FAST channels, and the future of entertainment, follow Charles Pulliam-Moore. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.Before Netflix fully committed to becoming a streaming service and leaving DVDs behind, the company experimented with the idea of giving its subscribers a physical box that could access high-resolution digital copies of movies. Films would have been downloaded to the box in the evening and become available to users the next day. But…

Strategy’s aspiration isn’t to be a Bitcoin holding company — it’s to be the JPMorgan of Bitcoin. CEO Phong Le explains what that means in practice: creating products, making markets and providing liquidity for a digital asset economy he believes can eventually reach 8 billion people. He walks through Strategy’s digital credit ecosystem, now roughly $15 billion, and why DeFi protocols building yield and tokenized products on top of STRC matter more than anything Strategy ships itself. Le also addresses the MSCI index question and why the company is fighting exclusion on principle. 0:00 — Global Banks Move Deeper Into…

Cats rely heavily on scent to learn about one another, often gathering information from urine and other odor marks left behind in their surroundings. These chemical traces can continue communicating long after the animal that produced them has moved on. That creates a puzzle. Many odor molecules evaporate, break down, or change with time. If a scent is constantly evolving, how can another animal still determine who originally left it? Researchers from Japan, Germany, and Spain, led by Iwate University, may have found part of the answer in domestic cats. Their experiments point to a group of unusual fatty acids…

Democrats controlled the Senate and the presidency when Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse first sought to roust his colleagues from the chamber’s floor, warning them that they were sleep-walking into climate disaster. Fourteen years and more than 300 “Time to Wake Up” speeches later, the Rhode Island Democrat is again prodding members of his own party—but now over a disaster that is manifest in rising costs and greater hazards across the country. In an interview with Inside Climate News in the run-up to Climate Week NYC, Whitehouse said it is more urgent than ever for fellow Democrats and climate action advocates to…

Claim: A meme accurately cites facts and fundraising figures in comparing prosecutors charging Lindsay Clancy with killing her three children, with Clancy receiving more than $1 million in fundraising, and the story of Emma Schols sustaining severe burns while rescuing her six children from a house fire, then receiving only $42,000 in fundraising. Rating: What’s True The meme provides some factual information about both stories and, as of this writing, an accurate GoFundMe tally of donations earmarked to defray Clancy’s parents’ travel and housing costs as they attended the trial. Also, it’s true that a Swedish news outlet reported that…

Sukma, for her part, told us she was called to Abah’s house to discover two police officers and an NWDI lawyer waiting for her. They forced her to sign a document saying all her allegations were lies, she said. Her account is backed up by a secret recording she later made as she challenged Abah’s wife, Hurmiati.Hurmiati can be heard telling her to respect their “agreement” that nothing happened, adding: “Do you want this to haunt you for the rest of your life? Do you want it to damage the chances of you getting married?”This pressure even extended to Abah…

Meta has launched a fresh legal challenge against Britain’s media regulator in the latest of a slew of actions by social media companies who are accused of using the courts to slow down implementation of the Online Safety Act.Lawyers for the parent company of Facebook served notice during the week in an appeal against placing WhatsApp and Instagram, which are also owned by Meta, in a category that subjects them to additional duties.Those additional responsibilities include greater transparency, more user controls, measures to protect users from fraudulent advertising and increased recording of illegal content.The move comes against the backdrop of…

Sleeves rolled up, standing tall in the middle of the Georgia Theatre in downtown Athens, Georgia, last Sunday, Jon Ossoff delivered a brutal political message about Donald Trump, his family and his allies. They “made you pay more for everything” and “lied us into war”, said the 39-year-old senator running for a second term to represent the southern US battleground state.“All while the crook president and his crook family raked in billions from all over the world.” As Democrats attempt to wrench control of the US Senate from Republicans in November’s midterm elections, Ossoff has emerged with a message his party hopes…

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