year in review

In June 2021, Ralf Wenzel founded the grocery delivery startup JOKR to meet the demand of millions of people who had discovered the convenience of online shopping for food. One month later, the startup had raised $170 million to build “a…

It’s a tough game to whittle down the best beauty products of 2021: The past 12 months alone saw a staggering number of launches in the multibillion-dollar market, between the palettes, peels, and primers; the lip liners, plumpers, and…

Supporters of algorithmic reparation suggest taking lessons from curation professionals such as librarians, who’ve had to consider how to ethically collect data about people and what should be included in libraries. They propose considering…

 As Vogue Runway’s 2021 wrap-up content shows, fashion has never been more expressive and more personal, or less coherent. The year’s hottest items range from silly fur hats to $1,000 clogs to sensual corsets, while our Instagram polls of…

Since 2018, Delta has worked with CBP to offer international passengers flying from Atlanta the option of checking in and going through security using face recognition instead of conventional documents. In 2019, the airline used face…

In 2021, Canadians were informed about the discovery of thousands of unmarked graves at former residential schools, witnessed devastating weather events in B.C. and visited mass vaccination clinics that popped up around…

Even if 2021 wasn’t the “post-pandemic” free-for-all we hoped for, this year gave us plenty of reasons to feel excited about fashion again. We saw some major debuts, celebrities experimented with their red carpet comebacks, and we got a…

This may be remembered as the year when the world learned that lethal autonomous weapons had moved from a futuristic worry to a battlefield reality. It’s also the year when policymakers failed to agree on what to do about it.On Friday, 120…

In the United Kingdom, the Institute of Digital Fashion is masterminding fashion’s transition to the metaverse. Founded by a group of digital natives, the organization launched its IRL x URL Academy to teach designers around the world how…

October 2021 was an important month for crisis meetings. There was the big one, COP26, where decisionmakers descended on Glasgow to spend two frenetic weeks figuring out how to achieve the goals set out in the Paris Climate Agreement and…