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Introducing Googlebook, designed for Gemini Intelligence
Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to article [[duration]] minutes Over 15 years ago, we introduced the Chromebook, a laptop built for a cloud-first world. Now, as we are moving from an operating system to an intelligence…
Designing An AI Native Organization: Why Org Charts Are Obsolete
Alejandro Martinez is the CEO of Propelling Tech. Sharing insights on how data and analytics generate business impact and value. In 2025, nearly 9 out of 10 organizations reported that they use AI in at least one business function, yet only…
New Report Reveals 6 Top Summer 2026 Interior Design Trends
Personalizing homes with hobby spaces, customized storage and 'color maxxing' are trending this summer. Yelp Summer Home Trends Photo via Hema Persad Summertime and the living is easy and personal. Yelp's 2026 Summer Home Trends report gives a look…
Designing Physical Products That People Won't Want To Hide
Ali Aydan is the founder and CEO of DORIX, building Britain's smart access solutions legacy brand. Early in our smart lock development, the DORIX engineering team asked to add 4 millimeters to the depth of the housing. The change would have…
Away's sleek new luggage is designed for train travel
As Amtrak continues to roll out new high-speed trains, it's also improving on another pain point of train travel: unwieldy suitcases. A new partnership with Away is promoting a set of sleek luggage designed to tackle some of the issues of…
Time-Series Storage: Design Choices That Shape Cost and Performance
Normalizing series identity into a separate metadata table and referencing it by a compact ID reduces time-series storage by about forty-two percent in our experiment. Instead of repeating dimension strings like device name, region, and location on…
Roomba inventor builds robots designed to bond with you
The inventor behind the world-famous Roomba is now working on something far more personal and strange: robots designed to emotionally connect with their owners. You can watch it in action here. Colin Angle, who helped turn the Roomba into one of…
Orta Explores Sensory Luxury and Resilient Design
Orta is seeking to balance authenticity, performance and sensory richness for Fall/Winter 2027-2028. It's a tall order for the Turkish denim mill, but one that Sebla Onder, Orta marketing and sustainability manager, said the mill will achieve…
Here's What Made Jensen Quality Mid Cap Fund Pick Cadence Design Systems (CDNS)
Jensen Investment Management, an asset management company based in the US, released its first-quarter 2025 investor letter for the “Jensen Quality Mid Cap Fund”. A copy of the letter is available to download here. The Jensen Quality…
Alberto Essesi Just Designed the Lamp That Celebrates Mistakes
If you've ever assembled furniture, built a shelf, or wired anything with your own two hands, you know the feeling. You step back, you look at your work, and then you see it. That one thing. The screw facing the wrong way. The panel installed…
NBC's Peacock Logo Turns 40: How the Network Landed on the Iconic Design
In the history of broadcast network logos, NBC's Peacock is relatively young. CBS introduced its “Eye” icon in 1951, while the ABC meatball has been more or less the same (with some slight font alterations) since 1962. But although…
Recreation & Parks Seeking Community Input - The Future Of Play: Design Tomorrow Today
LEONARDTOWN, Md. — As part of a five-year master planning process, St. Mary's County Government's Department of Recreation & Parks (R&P) is updating the department's Land Preservation, Parks, and Recreation Plan. R&P is seeking community…
Designing a Brand: How Apple Built an Architectural Language of Glass and Order
In 2026, Apple marked fifty years since its founding. Over the past two decades, Apple has developed a consistent architectural language that extends its brand into the built environment, transforming stores, workplaces, and public-facing spaces…
Inspiration from nature carries design student to the top
b63b259a-546d-4fa8-8b3d-6f50760f3dbe The award-winning design in Toronto by Naomi Every, an interior design student at Sheridan College (Photograph supplied) Imaginative plans for a corporate library combining beehive imagery with the flowing…
Apple just fixed the Mac mini's biggest design flaw with macOS 26.5
The Mac mini is a great computer, and we love it here at Tom's Guide, but that doesn't mean we won't criticise Apple's design choices. In fact, in my colleague Anthony's review of the Mac mini M4, he said that, 'if only Apple hadn't put the power…
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