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President Donald Trump’s media company is preparing to introduce a controversial data service that could give Wall Street traders faster access to market-moving Truth Social posts, including those written by the president himself. The product, referred to as Truth API in company materials, is scheduled to launch on August 1. It will deliver posts from Truth Social’s most influential accounts to financial firms within milliseconds.

After defeating Argentina at the 2026 FIFA World Cup in New Jersey, Spain, the newly crowned champions shared an official celebration photo in which U.S. President Donald Trump had seemingly vanished from the trophy scene. The image appeared on the Spanish football federation’s social accounts with the caption “Dreams come true.” Captain Rodri stood at the center, holding the trophy above a crowd of celebrating teammates.

Image: Meta A series of guerrilla posters has appeared at bus stops across central London, turning Meta’s own advertising campaign into a pointed critique of its wearable technology. Installed by protest collective Everyone Hates Elon near the company’s headquarters, the lenticular displays mimic Meta’s Kylie Jenner ads before revealing a much darker message. Viewed from another angle, Jenner’s polished campaign image transforms into a black-and-white skeleton alongside the warning, “Meta.

Image: FIFA The 2026 World Cup Final at MetLife Stadium gave fans more than football. For the first time, FIFA rolled out a halftime show, and the lineup was stacked with Madonna, BTS, Justin Bieber, and Shakira. The performances were big, loud, and impossible to ignore, but the reviews were anything but unanimous. Madonna kicked things off with “Music”, rolling in on an ATV with Ronaldo and Ronaldinho by her side.

SK-II is making its skincare worth shedding a few tears over. The Japanese beauty brand has teamed up with Pop Mart’s CRYBABY for a limited-edition Facial Treatment Essence set that turns one of its best-known products into an emotional little collectible. Released on Monday, the SK-II × CRYBABY collaboration places the character’s watery eyes, flushed cheeks and soft features across the brand’s familiar red packaging.

Evangelion has left the futuristic towers of Tokyo-3 for gilded clouds and folding panels. A new art collection places the anime’s pilots and biomechanical machines inside a composition inspired by one of Japan’s best-known classical paintings, creating an art-history crossover with plenty of impact. The five-piece EVANGELION Wind God and Thunder God Folding Screens collection launched in Japan last week.

Google is giving emoji more depth in every sense. The company is opening up its Noto 3D collection, allowing designers and developers to take nearly 4,000 familiar digital expressions off the keyboard and into games, apps, virtual spaces and animations. Announced on World Emoji Day last Friday, the release includes 3,977 redesigned characters and will be free to download as 3D alongside the Unicode 18.0 release. The project is not simply a matter of stretching flat artwork into thicker shapes.

Forget cheese, curry or extra-hot seasoning. FamilyMart’s newest Famichiki flavor is simply FamilyMart, or at least the company’s edible interpretation of itself. A new, limited-edition “Famima Taste” fried chicken seasoning went on sale across roughly 16,400 FamilyMart locations in Japan beginning last week. It also appears on potato chips and puffed rice snacks, giving customers three ways to investigate what “FamilyMart” is apparently supposed to taste like.

Disney Jr. has introduced a new fox to its preschool lineup, but much of the attention is focused on what may be hiding behind the animation. Ozzy Fox, a musical series developed with children’s media company Animaj, is prompting questions about how artificial intelligence is entering kids’ entertainment. The show arrived on YouTube and YouTube Kids on July 17, 2026, without a major Disney press announcement or a simultaneous television premiere.

Apple’s most ambitious desktop plans have apparently reached a silicon ceiling. After exploring processors powerful enough to earn the internal “Extreme” label, the company reportedly decided that the costs did not compute and retired the Mac Pro along with them. The tech giant discontinued the Mac Pro on March 26, removed the tower from its main online store and confirmed that it had no replacement in development.