The former won an Oscar for her role in 2025 in a dress by Vaccarello, exemplifying how brands have expanded its relationship with film past ambassadorial roles.
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José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
15 Jan. 2026
One standout example brings together Tel Aviv’s Newton Tech and Boston’s Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital to develop high-throughput gait and movement analysis technology, exemplifying how Israeli innovation and Boston’s rehabilitation medicine combine to improve patient outcomes.
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse, symbolizing a year of bold energy, rapid change, intense passion and a desire for freedom.
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Ashley Opina,
Twin Cities,
18 Feb. 2026
The suit was brought by the Gilbert Baker Foundation, whose namesake created the Rainbow Pride flag symbolizing LGBTQ equality in 1978, and a number of advocacy organizations, including Village Preservation and Equality New York.
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Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb. 2026
Yet Paramount and Disney have both sent cease-and-desist letters to TikTok owner and AI company ByteDance over intellectual property Infringement by AI platforms and services in the last few weeks, illustrating the industry’s ebb and flow with the fast-changing technology.
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William Earl,
Variety,
19 Feb. 2026
The first issue of Odin will feature variant covers by comic and album artist Alex Eckman-Lawn (Swan Songs), who is illustrating the main Cover A for the full series.
Here, with Erivo embodying everyone from vampire to vampire hunter, doctor to madman, lover and suitor, there is a growing sense of connection between them all, particularly a well of unconscious desire that Dracula is reflecting, rather than merely exploiting.
Yeo’s character, a beer supplier at a hawker centre, is an immigrant woman who arrives in the lives of a father and son, embodying the film’s central tension between belonging and estrangement.
In the 20th century, the scientific community and environmental activists adopted the term Gaia – the Greek goddess personifying the Earth, the mother of all deities – to reflect the notion of the Earth as a living system.
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Melinda Laituri,
The Conversation,
4 Feb. 2026
Because Connor and Hudson are personifying these beloved characters, the fans also get attached to seeing them as their characters.
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