Cold Picnic, the home brand loved for its aesthetic rugs, has launched a series of hand-tufted designs inspired by the Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away. Dubbed "An Enchanted Feast," the collection arrives as an extension of "The Goldfish" range."There was once a family who unknowingly entered a spirit world. The parents were almost immediately lost to an enchantment, which turned them into pigs, leaving the daughter alone in this new world of gods and spirits," the brand explains the story behin...

Breaking streaming records across Spotify and YouTube, BTS has brought a new treat for all ARMYs – a "Hotter Remix" version of "Butter." The seven K-pop members – Jungkook, Jimin, V, Suga, J-Hope, Jin and RM – teased the release with a series of images on social media this week.Just like the original version, Jungkook opens the track: "Smooth like butter/Like a criminal undercover/Gon’ pop like trouble/Breakin’ into your heart like that." Contrasting the initial track, the updated trac...

Instagram now allows users to hide public "like counts" on their posts. The app officially announced the move after months of testing the feature on select accounts, a change that left the internet divided."We tested hiding like counts to see if it might depressurize people’s experience on Instagram," the Facebook-owned platform explained in a blog post. "What we heard from people and experts was that not seeing like counts was beneficial for some, and annoying to others, particularly because ...

Hate crimes against the AAPI community have been surging since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Last August, the United Nations issued a report that detailed an "alarming level" of "racially motivated violence and other incidents against Asian-Americans" due to the virus. According to Stop AAPI Hate, in 2020, it received more than 2,800 reports of hate incidents, including verbal harassment, shunning, physical assault, being coughed or spat on, and workplace discrimination or refusal of s...