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Inside the resurgence of the baseball card industry and its $1 billion face

An $11 million card? Over $1 billion in market value? Ohtani's card values have skyrocketed over the years. Here's how his cards tell the story. (And open your own rare pack at the end!)

Callaway Golf’s apology for ad showing woman being shoved to the ground exposes a major industry blind spot

The viral ad shows a male golfer pushing a female golfer to the ground. Since 2019, women and girls made up nearly 60% of net golfer growth.

Japan strategizes to support forestry industry revitalization

The plans are expected to include consolidation of forests held by different owners, use of information and communication technology, and improving lumber products' added value.

From celluloid to digital: the changing face of Chennai’s cinema industry

Over 84 years, Kodambakkam, the heart of Tamil cinema, has changed beyond recognition, and so has the Tamil film world. Surviving all odds, cinemas have evolved from a single projector and four intervals to the IMAX of today, while filmmaking has moved on from the expensive proce

Deauville American Film Festival Reveals Industry Lineup

The Deauville American Film Festival has revealed the lineup for the industry section of its 2026 edition. The Deauville Industry Days sidebar, taking place over two days at the festival being held at the French seaside town, will incorporate various talks, panels and sessions. A

Sugar price hike: MCCI voices food product manufacturing industry’s concerns

Haim Saban, Lawrence Bender and Teddy Schwarzman Among Industry Group Accusing Mark Ruffalo of “Antisemitism” in Attack on Paramount Leadership

The group, calling itself The Brigade, also includes Ram Bergman, Matti Leshem, Anthony Bregman, Micah Green and Lynn Harris.

Australia's music industry bans AI-generated tracks from official charts

Australia's recorded music industry will bar tracks wholly generated by artificial intelligence from official charts as burgeoning generative technologies threaten artists' livelihoods, a representative said on Tuesday.

Australia’s music industry bans AI-generated songs from official charts

Australia’s recorded music industry will bar tracks wholly generated by artificial intelligence from official charts as burgeoning generative technologies threaten artists’ livelihoods , a representative said on Tuesday. The crackdown comes as a variation of Madonna’s pop hit “Li

People’s Picks: Our Readers Say These Mobile Carriers Are Better Than the Industry Giants

One mobile virtual network operator wins over readers with its value, cellular data connection and customer satisfaction.

Catching cow burps in real time: Methane sensor matches industry monitor in early field test

Methane is a short-lived but powerful greenhouse gas; cutting methane emissions can slow near-term warming and improve air quality by reducing harmful ground-level ozone. As ruminants digest feed, they release methane—through burps. In fact, emissions from cattle are the largest

Volkswagen warns Germany's car-making industry is in jeopardy

The CEO of the German car-making group Volkswagen is warning that the situation at the company is "more than critical". Oliver Blume is saying that ahead of meetings with the car giant's staff. He says Volkswagen and the rest of Germany's car industry are facing "the biggest uphe

Disney Tightens Spousal Health Benefits as Industry Costs Surge

The entertainment giant joins a growing list of major employers scaling back coverage amid a projected 11 percent rise in 2027 health care costs.

Sugar price surge puts Mysuru hotel industry under strain

According to Mysuru Hotel Owners’ Association, the steep rise is partly attributed to the increasing use of sugar for ethanol production

No shortage of sugar in India, retail prices to come down: industry body ISMA

The ISMA president also categorically said that mills were not involved in creating artificial scarcity and jacking up the ex-mill prices

Industry and residents clash over water near Berlin

The state surrounding Berlin is drying out, but local Tesla and Red Bull plants are looking to expand. Is Brandenburg running out of water to share?

Cyberabad Security Council marks 20 years of police-industry partnership

'He has inside knowledge': MPs sound alarm over defence industry lobbying

The ETF industry's newest asset class is absurdity: Chart of the Day

Struggling households need more help with bills, energy industry says

Industry body Energy UK says the current support for households most in need does not go far enough.

Taylor Swift Remembers Dolly Parton’s “True Grace and Grit”: “Her Legacy Will Be Everlasting”

The 14-time Grammy Award winner previously told The Hollywood Reporter that Parton was "a force of evolution and transformation in our industry."

Dolly Parton Dead at 80: Music Executives Remember the Country Icon

Following the music legend's passing at the age of 80, industry executives are sharing their reactions and condolences

‘Call My Agent’ Is Getting Its First Movie — Can the Beloved French Farce Delight Fans New and Old?

Six years after the series wrapped its fourth (and final?) season, the entertainment industry farce is back with a Netflix feature film all about the harrowing comedy of making (what else?) a feature film.

A ‘Culinary Class Wars’ Alum Has Opened One of NYC’s Hottest New Restaurants

This excerpt was originally published in Pre Shift, our newsletter for the hospitality industry. Subscribe for more first-person accounts, advice, and interviews. Now Open is a yearlong series celebrating some of 2026’s most exciting new restaurants. Throughout the year, we’ll ch

Kit Harington joins HBO's Harry Potter series as Gilderoy Lockhart

The role marks Harington's third collaboration with HBO, after starring in the tentpole Game of Thrones and financial drama The Industry.

Humanoid robot beats Usain Bolt's 100m world record

Robots exceeded human records at the World Robot Games over the weekend in Beijing's Olympic speed skating arena as China showcased its dominance in the industry. Dozens of humanoids and their human operators competed in events from athletics and boxing to football and martial ar

Cloud Nine’s Takuya Chigira Talks Ado’s WME Deal, J-Pop Event Zipangu & Paving the Way to the World for Japan’s Artists

The Cloud Nine president spoke candidly about the structural challenges facing Japan's music industry in this interview with Billboard Japan.

Grand Theft Auto VI exists in its own universe

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on GTA VI and the state of the video game industry, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it st

Apple Music Will Also Now Label AI-Generated Songs

The music industry is facing a moral and existential crisis as AI-generated music becomes increasingly prevalent. The latest development in streaming platforms’ response is that Apple Music will begin labeling AI-generated songs. According to The Hollywood Reporter , an email sen

Australian Promoter Fuzzy Rebrands for 30th Anniversary

“Thirty years is a huge milestone in live music, particularly when you think about how much the industry has changed since 1996,” said Fuzzy CEO Adelle Robinson.

The Womack Sisters Keep It In the Family

After years of music industry dead ends, the trio emerge from the shadow of their famous family. Read full story on the Bandcamp Daily .

Tasmanian film and TV have had a stellar decade. So why is the state gutting its local screen body?

With huge successes such as The Nightingale and Deadloch, Tasmania’s creatives have built a screen industry worth protecting.

Why is Saudi Arabia spending billions to become a global Esports power?

Saudi Arabia is betting big on the global gaming industry. It's already gobbled up Electronic Arts in a $55 billion deal and the flagship Esports World Cup is now being held outside the country -- in Paris -- for the first time. This is part of efforts to diversify away from its

The UAE is fighting AI hackers with AI of its own

Attacks on the country’s banks, aviation, and energy systems have climbed since the war with Iran began. Its answer is a homegrown AI security industry.

Atari is taking another shot at reviving RollerCoaster Tycoon

Last we saw RollerCoaster Tycoon it was in pretty rickety shape. More than a decade after RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, the follow-up—RollerCoaster Tycoon World—was released to nearly universally poor reviews. Even worse, in one of the all-time dick moves in gaming industry history, At

Hot Chips 2026: Samsung makes LPDDR5X smart with logic unit in memory — LPDDR5X-PIM is 3.01x faster than LPDDR5X in AI inference with 8x the bandwidth

Earlier this month, Samsung introduced the industry's first LPDDR5X-PIM memory, adding in-memory logic to the low-power memory standard, and at Hot Chips 2026, it dove into the memory technology that's we've previously seen at play through HBM stacks. PIM, or Processing-in-Memory

Here are the finalists for the 2026 Kirkus Prize.

This morning, Kirkus Reviews announced the 18 finalists for the 2026 Kirkus Prize, which recognizes excellence in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’ Literature. Books are selected by a panel of peers, editors, and other industry professionals. Winners in

Building Technology People Can Trust

This article is brought to you by Emerson . I’ve spent much of my career as an engineer, including years in the semiconductor industry. And one lesson has stayed with me through every major technology shift: innovation always creates new complexity. In semiconductors, we have see

The people of video games on what gives them cause for hope

Hello and welcome to one of our final pieces for Optimism Week here on Eurogamer. This time, we've turned to the industry itself for some answers, and as such I'm going to do my best to get out of the way as quickly as possible. Read more

World Liberty Financial launches USD1 natively on Canton Network

USD1 is the sixth-largest stablecoin, with a market capitalization of more than $4 billion, according to industry data.

AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds

For years , AI industry watchers of all stripes have been warning of a coming jobs apocalypse driven by ultra-intelligent AI systems that will be able to replicate most human tasks more cheaply. Now, newly updated research from Stanford University economists suggests AI seems to

An Honest Look at What Three Fashion People Bought—And Spent—In a Month: Show Us the Receipts

We asked three stylish people in or adjacent to the fashion industry to chronicle one month of their fashion consumption.

Guillermo del Toro, James Gunn Join Crunchyroll’s Inaugural Anime Future Forum

The Oct. 7 industry summit in New York will also feature some of Japan's most powerful anime executives, including leaders from MAPPA, Toho, Shueisha and Aniplex.

AI is taking over logistics’ endless calls and emails

The multi-trillion-dollar logistics industry runs on trucks and trains, ships and planes. It also runs on calls, texts, and email. “We get hundreds of thousands of emails saying, ‘Hey, I have this freight that needs to move from X to Y—how much would it cost?’” says Mike Neill, c

Tech layoffs August 2026 update: Apple, TikTok, LinkedIn, Netflix join the list of companies slashing jobs

August is quickly coming to a close, but it appears to be ending the way it began : with mass layoffs at some of the biggest tech companies on the planet. Here’s the latest roundup of job cuts from some of the most prominent tech players in the industry. Apple slashes positions o

Epic Games Store overhaul might be "too little, too late", says Newzoo analyst

While Epic has spent much of this year promising a launcher overhaul, including a faster, redesigned storefront with tailored recommendations and quicker ways to browse, one industry analyst has revealed that it might not be enough. Read more

Texas welcomed the AI boom. Now Abbott says data centers "dug their own grave"

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott delivered one of the starkest warnings yet from a Republican to the AI industry, saying data center companies "dug their own grave" and deserve the backlash they're facing after failing to win community support. Why it matters: Abbott is the latest governor

The Vogue Business People Moves Tracker

Bringing you the latest hires and exits, and highlighting the leaders shaping the industry of tomorrow.

STAT+: Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings

From new hires to departures, promotions and transfers, here are the latest comings and goings in the pharmaceutical industry.

US-Canada trade war escalates as Trump threatens tariff hike on autos after Carney vows to retaliate

Mark Carney accused Trump of wanting to "destroy" Canada's auto industry, and said he would only resume trade talks if the US comes with the "right attitude".

Hotel stigma may drive Chinese hospitality graduates away from careers

Research published in the International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development analyzed interviews with more than 300 Chinese hotel interns to examine how perceptions of hotel work affect whether graduates pursue a career in the industry. The findings suggest that neg

'We didn't have layoffs before, and now all of a sudden we have yearly layoffs': Bethesda artist says 'something has changed' under Microsoft

Last week, the Communications Workers of America and the Bethesda Game Studios OneBGS union took part in the Save Our Devs rally across the United States and Canada (and on Twitch ) "to call out layoffs and corporate greed across the industry and to demand fair first contracts ac

How Trump intervened in the DOJ case against Live Nation

The Department of Justice spent more than a decade building a case accusing Live Nation of illegally dominating the live event industry by thwarting competition to keep ticket prices high. But according to a Wall Street Journal investigation, President Trump urged senior DOJ offi

Higher Education Overgrazing: Fixed Costs Are Leaving Nothing Behind

Higher Education Overgrazing: Fixed Costs Are Leaving Nothing Behind kjohnsonbowles… Mon, 08/24/2026 - 03:00 AM The habits and behaviors of industry negatively impact and consume higher education and students to feed their own agendas and fill their coffers, but there is no free

Visualisation has become more than creating "a single visual output" says Chaos

Promotion: according to software company Chaos, AI-assisted tools, advances in rendering technologies, and shifting client expectations are transforming the architecture industry's visualisation workflows into a flexible communication tool. Chaos explained that utilising artifici

Tiny ocean plankton hold clues to the future of Maine lobster

The future of Maine's lobster industry may depend on a creature the size of a sesame seed. Researchers at the University of Maine have discovered that planktonic baby lobsters, or larvae, preferentially feed on Calanus finmarchicus, a tiny, calorie-rich zooplankton species, durin

CAA Launches Indie Game Acceleration Fund Frame1Games (EXCLUSIVE)

CAA has launched Frame1Games, a new venture to fund, accelerate and market independent video games. Per the agency, Frame1Games “pairs multi-million-dollar capital investment with a yearlong accelerator, giving developers mentorship from industry veterans and CAA executives and d

Renewable Energy Is Starting to Spend Big on Elections. It’s Working, Too

The fossil fuel industry has some competition

US battery startups have found a lifeline in defense

U.S. battery startups pulled in $500 million in grants from the Department of Energy, throwing a lifeline to an industry that was on the ropes after EV incentives were slashed.

A media M&A chill: The Paramount-WBD antitrust challenge may hold up more deals than one

Paramount's proposed merger with WBD is delayed while an antitrust lawsuit plays out. The holdup could mean a freeze across the media industry.

In Luxury’s New Resale Era, Everyone’s a Fashion Expert

The RealReal’s 2026 resale report illustrates the rise in specificity and savviness in luxury resale. This will change how the industry operates.

The ‘GTA 6’ Leaks Get Higher Quality With No End In Sight - Forbes

The ‘GTA 6’ Leaks Get Higher Quality With No End In Sight Forbes Rockstar Rattled As ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Leaks Again Bloomberg.com Take-Two Interactive files subpoenas against Microsoft, Discord, and X amid ongoing GTA 6 leaks GamesIndustry.biz GTA 6 leaks - a nightmare or a bl

Paramount & AGs Settlement Meeting Monday More Show Than Substance As Cable Channel Sell-Offs & Curbing Ellison’s Power Put On The Table

EXCLUSIVE: A meeting Monday between Paramount brass and state Attorneys General over sussing out settlement talks between the parties in David Ellison’s contested $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery has turned into a “game of PR chicken,” an industry insider says. “

Siobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates. In response, universities are scrambling to launch new courses, research centers, and industry partnerships that prepare students for today’s workforce. But building a cutting-edge AI curriculum

The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem, and what’s driving the heat

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve i

This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 22, 2026 — foundries, supercomputers, China, and how to not overpay on a motherboard

This week, Tom's Hardware Premium published a swath of new features, new roadmaps, and deep industry insights. And if you haven't subscribed to Tom's Hardware Premium yet, you'll have the opportunity to access our Hot Chips 2026 content for free for a limited time with a free Tom

Hardware spending in the US was so low in July that it nearly matched the 2020 pandemic days when everything was out of stock

New data from the industry analysts at Circana has revealed that consumers are spending a lot less than usual on gaming hardware or the games themselves. Circana's latest report covers the US market in July, and it includes a lot of concerning data. Read more

What are youth sports really for?

As families settle into the fall sports season, the American youth sports landscape feels like a thriving industry. Parents monitor league standings. Coaches talk about getting players exposure. Children juggle travel schedules that would challenge many business executives. Entir

Tom’s Hardware Innovation Awards 2026: Progress amid turmoil

The tech industry faces unprecedented challenges as the continued disruption from AI-driven shortages has driven pricing to record highs and supplies to record lows. However, even amidst the damage we've seen in the PC market, the industry is still moving forward, giving us plent

LG enters chip packaging arena with Laser Direct Imaging machine, as TSMC's CoWoS remains constrained — maskless machine is designed to pattern fine interconnec

As advanced packaging technologies like EMIB and CoWoS become yet another battlefield in the semiconductor industry, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) companies are trying new tools in a bid to offer services that others do not. This week, LG Electronics Productio

ADF officer's move to Lockheed Martin part of growing trend