Espolòn Celebrates Short Kings with The Hangover’s Ken Jeong
Campari Group’s Espolòn Tequila has launched a Short King Week campaign featuring actor Ken Jeong, celebrating confident underdogs. The promotion runs May 1‑9 and includes a nine‑day “Short Kings” advent calendar with a $75 margarita kit. Espolòn, the seventh‑largest tequila globally, reported a 3% sales increase in 2025, with reposado up 8% and blanco down 1%. Campari plans to lean on flagship brands like Espolòn in its 2026 strategy.
The Great Unbalding. Fallen Follicles, Rise! (NY Mag)
Scientists at Pelage Pharmaceuticals unveiled PP405, a novel drug that reprograms dormant hair‑follicle stem cells to regrow thick hair on balding scalp. Early Phase 2a data released in June 2024 showed rapid regrowth in areas previously considered irreversibly lost, sparking intense...
A&K Travel Journeys with Colt for Global Quantum-Safe Network
Travel operator A&K Travel Group has partnered with Colt Technology Services to build a global, quantum‑safe network for its portfolio of luxury travel brands. The solution incorporates Arqit’s quantum‑resistant encryption, enabling secure, low‑latency connectivity across more than 100 countries, including...
Master of Malt Reveals World Cup-Inspired Whisky Line-Up with Retro Kits
Master of Malt has unveiled a five‑bottle World Cup collection, each label styled after classic football kits from Italia ’90 and France ’98. The range includes two English expressions—a 12‑year single malt at £59.95 (≈$75) and a 9‑year rye at...
Azamara Opens New International HQ and UK/EMEA Call Centre
Azamara Cruises has moved its international headquarters from Weybridge to Woking, launching a new office that consolidates its UK sales team, senior leadership and a UK/EMEA contact centre. The centre, led by former Royal Caribbean manager Jade Way, offers multilingual support...
The Entertainer Outlines 2026 Store Expansion Plans
The Entertainer announced a three‑store rollout for the first half of 2026, including a 25% larger flagship at Cardiff’s St David’s Shopping Centre, a new outlet at Junction 32 in Castleford, and its biggest outlet to date – an 8,000 sq ft store at...
Buffalo Trace Distillery Café Confirms Opening Date
Buffalo Trace Distillery will launch its first permanent dining venue, the John G Carlisle Café, on May 11. Housed in the 1935 Elmer T Lee Clubhouse, the 4,900‑square‑foot space seats 70 guests and adds patio seating. The menu blends made‑to‑order...
AI Is Already Training on Music. The Real Question Is: Who Gets Paid?
AI systems are already being trained on vast libraries of recorded music, often without the creators’ knowledge or consent. While 87% of artists now use AI tools for tasks ranging from mastering to songwriting, the compensation mechanisms lag behind, creating...
Best Custom Ink Alternatives: Top Picks for 2026
Custom Ink faces growing competition as a range of specialized print providers emerge. Platforms such as RushOrderTees, UberPrints, Printify, Printful and 4imprint each excel in distinct use cases, from rapid bulk orders to ecommerce‑friendly print‑on‑demand solutions. Pricing starts as low...
New Study Published Evaluating PharmaSens All-in-One Insulin Patch Pump
PharmaSens AG announced that the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology published data from the first clinical feasibility study of its niia all‑in‑one insulin patch pump, which combines insulin delivery with continuous glucose monitoring. The single‑arm trial enrolled 18 adults...
BioAegis and Prenosis Partner for Inflammatory Disease Therapies
BioAegis Therapeutics has teamed up with AI‑focused startup Prenosis to accelerate precision‑medicine approaches for inflammatory diseases. The partnership will analyze biospecimens from BioAegis’s Phase II BTI‑203 trial of recombinant human plasma gelsolin in 600 ARDS patients across Europe, Canada and the...
High-Throughput Diffuse Electron Projection Lithography
Researchers introduced diffuse electron projection lithography (DEPL), which uses a wide diffuse electron beam in air and patterned gold‑nanoparticle masks to pattern features as small as 4 nm. The technique demonstrated a throughput of 15 4‑inch wafers per hour and projects up...
TELUS PureFibre Brings 5 Gbps Internet Speeds to Calgary-Bonavista
TELUS, together with Fibre Connect and Ledcor, will roll out its PureFibre FTTP service to Calgary‑Bonavista, adding the community to the 1.2 million Alberta homes and businesses already covered. The deployment involves more than 250,000 metres of underground fibre and will deliver...
Wall Street Law Firm Apologises For AI Errors
Sullivan & Cromwell, a 140‑year‑old New York law firm, apologized to a federal judge after AI‑generated citations in a filing were found to be fabricated. Partner Andrew Dietderich acknowledged the errors, which included nonexistent case names and misquoted authorities. The mistakes...
MSC Air Cargo Targets APAC Growth with Shanghai Station
MSC Air Cargo officially opened a dedicated station at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, cementing its push into the Asia‑Pacific market. The move follows a 2025 partnership with China‑based parcel leader SF Express and Shanghai Airport Authority Logistics Development Co. (AVINEX) to...
Canada’s F-35 Review and Trump’s Threats Risk Excluding the U.S. From Ottawa’s $500 Billion Defense Boom
Canada’s multi‑year review of its US$14.2 billion F‑35 purchase remains without a clear timeline, pushing the decision past the original 2024 deadline. Cost estimates have ballooned to US$73.9 billion over the aircraft’s life cycle, while the total value of pending U.S. defense...
Cementation Africa Flexing Specialist Water Sealing Muscles in Underground Mining
Cementation Africa is leveraging its in‑house engineering expertise to deliver specialised water‑sealing solutions for underground mines across Africa and beyond. By combining geotechnical analysis, precision drilling and tailored cementitious or chemical grouts, the firm creates permanent barriers against groundwater ingress....
Borrell Addresses 74% Problem Facing Radio’s Digital Sales Teams
Gordon Borrell of Borrell Associates warned that 74% of radio’s existing advertisers still aren’t purchasing digital inventory, even as digital revenue reached $2.3 billion in 2025, representing 24.4% of total ad sales. The 14th Annual Digital Benchmarking Report shows top‑performing market...
ACM to Axe Weekday Editions of 150-Year-Old Tamworth Newspaper
Australian Community Media (ACM) announced it will cease Monday‑to‑Friday print editions of the Northern Daily Leader, a newspaper with a 150‑year legacy in Tamworth. The daily will become digital‑only on weekdays starting May 11, while an expanded weekend edition will be...
Graham Lands £74m Didcot Bypass Job
Graham has secured a £74 million (≈$95 million) contract to build the Clifton Hampden Bypass in Oxfordshire. The new single‑carriageway will reroute A415 traffic around the village, adding segregated walking and cycling routes and a roundabout serving Culham Science Centre. Funding comes...
Why Advisers Must Move From 'Retailers' To 'Guardians'
U.S. commercial healthcare consumes about $1.3 trillion annually, with roughly $325 billion—equivalent to a $4,000 per‑employee leak—attributed to administrative waste and opaque PBM pricing. Traditional benefits brokers earn commissions tied to premium volume, creating a direct conflict between adviser income and client...
Anker Made Its Own Chip to Bring AI to All Its Products
Anker unveiled the Thus processor, a custom AI chip that uses compute‑in‑memory architecture to embed neural‑net inference directly in audio, mobile accessories, and IoT devices. The chip, smaller and lower‑power than conventional AI silicon, will first appear in Soundcore’s upcoming...
What Will It Take for the US and China to Slow Fentanyl Flows?
In February 2026, U.S. and Chinese law‑enforcement officials reconvened under the Bilateral Drug Intelligence Working Group in Colorado to coordinate on fentanyl precursor controls. A recent supply‑side shock appears to have reduced fentanyl potency, contributing to a modest decline in...
Parents or States: Who Should Decide How Much Social Media Time Is Too Much?
In February, a federal judge blocked Virginia's law that limits minors to one hour of social‑media use per day unless a parent provides verifiable consent. The decision held that parents, not the state, should set initial usage limits, citing First...
The Eames Pavilion System for Prefab Housing Launches in Milan, and Other News.
The Eames Office and Kettal unveiled the Eames Pavilion System at Milan Design Week, a modular prefabricated housing kit that blends aluminum frames with interchangeable glass, wood and composite panels for scalable, customizable homes. Taschen released a new monograph on...
TV Measurement Experts: How To Cultivate Audience In The Age Of Attention
The TV industry is moving beyond traditional ratings to metrics that capture attention, engagement and outcomes. Nielsen announced a new one‑minute qualifier for local TV, narrowing the gap with streaming’s two‑second view standard, and expanded its Outcomes Marketplace to link...
Rocca & Bargatze Back Broadcast’s Power During NAB Awards
At the NAB Show 2026, veteran journalist Mo Rocca received the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation Insight Award while comedian Nate Bargatze was honored with the NAB Television Chairman’s Award. Both appeared on a Main‑Stage fireside chat, using the platform to champion...
Medicare Obesity Drug Pilot Extended After Insurer Pushback
The Trump administration has pushed back the start of the Medicare GLP‑1 Bridge pilot by a year after insurers fell short of the 80% enrollment target. The federal government will continue to cover drugs such as Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy, Eli Lilly’s...
How Earnix Elevate Data Accelerates Pricing and Underwriting Decisions
Earnix introduced Elevate Data, a modern data‑management layer that centralizes and automates data preparation for insurers and banks. The platform connects to enterprise sources like Snowflake, Amazon S3, and Databricks, delivering automated profiling, transformation, and governance. By refreshing datasets in...
GAC’s Aion Introduces the Aion V to the UK Market
Chinese EV maker Aion, a GAC subsidiary, will debut its Aion V SUV in the UK at the end of May, pricing the single‑trim model at £36,450 (about $45,600) on‑the‑road. The vehicle boasts a rapid 30‑80% charge in 13 minutes...
‘Go Nuts All the Way’: What Sid Krofft Knew About Television That Everyone Else Forgot
Sid Krofft, the visionary behind surreal children’s classics like H.R. Pufnstuf and Land of the Lost, died on April 10 at age 96. His mantra, “When you’re nuts, you’ve got to go nuts all the way,” defined a fearless creative...
Data Centre Grid Demands and the BYOP (Bring-Your-Own-Power) Solution
Canada hosts just over 300 data centres, with eight hyperscale projects under construction and dozens more planned, while the U.S. dominates global capacity. New Canadian facilities face immediate grid‑capacity constraints, prompting provincial selection processes and higher rates for loads above...
3 Top Trends From ProWine Tokyo 2026
ProWine Tokyo 2026 gathered 188 exhibitors from 23 countries, spotlighting three strategic trends: Japanese wine, rosé, and South American offerings. Japanese wines, which make up only 5.4% of domestic distribution, focused on quality storytelling to attract discerning buyers. The fair...
South Africa: Standard Bank Backs Mulilo’s Mercury Battery Storage Project
Standard Bank has led financing for Mulilo Energy’s Mercury battery storage project, achieving financial close on a 76 MW/304 MWh system in South Africa’s Free State. The BESS was awarded under the second bid window of the Battery Energy Storage Independent Power...
Voronoi Diagram-Based Volume Decomposition and Overhang Control in Topology Optimization for Multi-Axis Additive Manufacturing
The study introduces a Voronoi diagram‑based partitioning method for topology optimization tailored to multi‑axis additive manufacturing. By using a Softmax‑Heaviside projection, the approach guarantees full domain coverage and stable partitions controlled by a few seed points. Overhang constraints are integrated...
Belief in Treatment Lowers Brain Pain Activity
Simply believing you’re being treated can measurably reduce the brain’s pain processing. MRI scans across 20 studies show that placebo treatment reduces activity in pain-processing brain regions. The effect is small, but consistent. Full video on placebo: https://t.co/l1PV2LNyhA Study: PMID: 33654105
What Causes Spun Bearings — And Can They Be Fixed?
A spun bearing occurs when the thin oil film that separates the crankshaft journal from its bearing shells collapses, causing metal‑to‑metal contact and often catastrophic engine failure. The most common trigger is inadequate lubrication—low oil level, a failing pump, delayed...
Bond Wants AI to Cure Your Doomscrolling, Then Monetise Your Memories
Bond, a new "post‑feed" social network founded by ex‑Index Ventures partner Dino Becirovic and former Google DeepMind researcher Arthur Brazinskas, launched on April 21 without an infinite scroll or algorithmic timeline. The app lets users upload photos, video and audio...
Sam Hu Named Managing Director at Universal Music China
Universal Music Group has appointed Sam Hu as Managing Director of Universal Music China and Senior Vice‑President of Universal Music Greater China, effective April 22, 2026. Hu brings over two decades of experience, having led Sony Music Entertainment China, Warner...
Seacon and China Marine Bunker Formalise Partnership
Seacon and China Marine Bunker (CHIMBUSCO) have formalised a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly accelerate the green, low‑carbon transition of the global shipping industry. The partnership will integrate their core capabilities across marine fuel coordination, green‑fuel logistics, talent training, technology...
Colgate Keeps the Smiles Coming with Extended AFL Partnership and New Campaign via VML
Colgate‑Palmolive has renewed its partnership with the Australian Football League, remaining the Official Smile of the AFL. A new hero campaign created by VML features Carlton captain Patrick Cripps, highlighting oral‑health benefits and personal resilience. The deal adds naming rights to...
Northern Ireland to Be Boosted by Defence Growth Deal
The UK government has launched a £50 million (≈$64 million) Northern Ireland Defence Growth Deal to help small and medium‑sized enterprises and start‑ups break into the defence supply chain. Defence Minister Luke Pollard and NI Office Minister Matthew Patrick visited Belfast to meet industry...
AI Agents Create Unprecedented, Unpredictable Insurance Risk
AI agents present an unprecedented insurance challenge because of their unpredictable behavior, which cannot be compared with business perils such as hurricanes "where the parameters of the threat are easier to define" @FT https://t.co/3mdMpPESBl
Cambria Drills Bonanza Gold at Premier
Cambria Gold Mines released initial assay results from a 27,000‑meter infill drill program at the Premier Gold Mine in British Columbia. Surface drilling in the 602 Zone returned a 0.5‑meter bonanza interval grading 552 g/t gold, while underground work in the...
SolarEdge Targets C&I with New All-in-One Battery
SolarEdge introduced the CSS‑OD 197, a 197 kWh all‑in‑one commercial and industrial battery that can be configured up to 1 MW/4 MWh. The system uses lithium‑iron‑phosphate modules, delivering 187 kWh usable capacity and a 0.5C charge/discharge rate. It is modular, supporting up to 20 inverters...
Wave-Roofed Ādisōke Library Advances with Indigenous Design, Net-Zero Features
The $334 million CAD (≈ $244 million USD) Ādisōke central library in Ottawa’s LeBreton Flats is under construction, featuring Indigenous‑inspired design and net‑zero carbon performance. The five‑storey, 216,000‑sq‑ft building will replace the 1970s main branch and house both the Ottawa Public Library’s central...
Norway: Dry Well in License Awarded in 1985
Equinor and its partners drilled wildcat well 34/8‑A‑37 H in Norway’s 1985‑granted licence 120, located 140 km west of Florø. The well reached 3,081 m vertical and 6,662 m measured depth but was classified as dry despite hydrocarbon shows in the Statfjord and Lunde...
Tahini’s Launches “First-of-Its-Kind” Shawarma Ramen
Tahini’s Restaurants, Canada’s fastest‑growing Mediterranean‑fusion chain, is debuting a “Shawarma Ramen” that fuses Middle‑Eastern shawarma flavors with Japanese ramen broth. The product, two years in development, features chicken or halloumi, mozzarella, corn, crispy onions and optional spice levels. Early pilots...
OM in the News: Understanding Manufacturing AI Terminology
Industry Week’s latest guide demystifies the AI buzzwords flooding manufacturing and supply‑chain meetings, from machine learning and large language models to copilots, agents, and embeddings. It outlines concrete use cases—demand forecasting, email summarization, ERP navigation, autonomous inventory actions—and warns that...
Bosch Sampling Third-Generation SiC Chips to Global Automakers
Bosch has begun sampling its third‑generation silicon carbide (SiC) power chips to automakers worldwide. The new chips deliver about 20% higher performance while being significantly smaller, enabling more chips per wafer and lower costs. Bosch has invested roughly $3.3 billion in...