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MAN VS. WILD
Brave it out in tough leather, exaggerated silhouettes and unorthodox textures

STAY COOL
Another month, another form of community quarantine. We’ll spare you the adjectives, because what it really is, is limbo.

GOOD LEADERSHIP
I’ve been an employee and a business owner for nearly two decades now and during one of the long nights of 2020, I asked myself, “What kind of leader do I want to be?” This is a question that can easily be answered by, “I want to be a good leader.” But the truth is, it is so difficult to even come close to good. You see, many if not all of our jobs is a business, a business that has to keep spending at bay, one that has to increase profits year over year, and one that has to keep workers happy and motivated. Those things are polar opposites of one another and to find the perfect middle is challenging. For months, I’ve mulled over my own question and I think I’ve found the answer. I want to be that leader that inspires personal growth.

BRIDGING THE NEW WORLD
Mike Lagman is laying out a bluepr int where no man is left behind

THE ANATOMY OF IDE FABIO
FROM SUPERMODEL TO SUPER DAD

IN THE MORNING
How do you look at your mornings? Whether you jump out of bed at the first crack of light or slump around your sheets in existential dread, there is not one that stands to be better than the other.

BREAKING BARRIERS WITH TIKTOK
The man behind #HatolNiRoman imparts his insights on going viral on TikTok, the Philippine legal system, and being better citizens

PURE AND SIMPLE
Louis Vuitton’s FW ‘21 takes on the dual role of tourist and purist

BE HAPPY
Two months ago, I was announced as the head of One Mega Group, a position previously held by our late Founder, Sari Yap, and then our current Chairman, Archie Carasco. Full disclosure, I knew about this announcement six months ago at the height of the pandemic. When I was told, I laughed. I wasn’t sure if it was a nervous laughter, an amused chuckle or both. I honestly thought it was a prank that would be revealed seconds later, but it wasn’t.

MONSTERS, DREAMS, AND THAT GOOD OL' MOVIE MAGIC:
THE SHORT PERSONAL HISTORY OF LEEROY NEW

DNA SUCKED INTO AIR FILTERS CAN REVEAL WHAT PLANTS AND ANIMALS ARE NEARBY
DNA is all around us even in the air we breathe. Now scientists have found that air quality monitoring stations - which pull in air to test for pollution — also pick up lots of DNA that can reveal what plants and animals have been in the area.

MONEY STORED IN VENMO AND OTHER PAYMENT APPS COULD BE VULNERABLE, FINANCIAL WATCHDOG WARNS
Customers of Venmo, PayPal and CashApp should not store their money with those apps for the long term because the funds might not be safe during a crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned.

FORMER BYTEDANCE EXECUTIVE SAYS CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY TRACKED HONG KONG PROTESTERS VIA DATA
A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company which owns the popular short-video app TikTok, says in a legal filing that some members of the ruling Communist Party used data held by the company to identify and locate protesters in Hong Kong.

BLUESKY, CHAMPIONED BY JACK DORSEY, WAS SUPPOSED TO BE TWITTER 2.0. CAN IT SUCCEED?
Bluesky, the internet's hottest members-only spot at the moment, feels a bit like an exclusive club, populated by some Very Online folks, popular Twitter characters, and fed up ex-users of the Elon Musk-owned platform.

Vision Pro
THE DAWN OF SPATIAL COMPUTING

THE GIDDY SPLENDOR OF 'SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE'
Let's get this upfront: \"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\" was the best comic-book film of the last decade.

OHIO SENATE MOVES TO CRIMINALIZE SECRETLY TRACKING PEOPLE WITH AIR TAGS, SIMILAR APPS, DEVICES
Tracking someone through apps and devices like the popular Apple AirTag without their consent could soon be deemed a criminal offense in Ohio, after the state's Republican-led Senate advanced the measure Wednesday with a unanimous bipartisan vote.

IS IT A 'SKIP' OR A 'PAUSE'? FEDERAL RESERVE WON'T LIKELY RAISE RATES NEXT WEEK BUT MAYBE NEXT MONTH
Don't call it a \"pause.\"

IS IT REAL OR MADE BY AI? EUROPE WANTS A LABEL FOR THAT AS IT FIGHTS DISINFORMATION
The European Union is pushing online platforms like Google and Meta to step up the fight against false information by adding labels to text, photos and other content generated by artificial intelligence, a top official said this week.

NEW JERSEY UTILITIES FLOAT SOLAR PANELS ON RESERVOIR, POWERING WATER TREATMENT PLANT
New Jersey's Canoe Brook Water Treatment plant produces 14 millions gallons of drinking water a day.