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Ikea is growing its resale business. It's attracting bargain hunters and design nerds.
Your old Ikea bookshelf is part of a growing secondhand market. Ikea has spent five years growing its buyback and resell division, which pays customers for their old Ikea-brand furniture in store credit and resells it at the chain's stores. In…
Apple considers round screens and more radical designs for future Apple Watch revamp
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman goes into some detail today about the future for the Apple Watch product line. He suggests Apple is going back to the drawing board as the Watch faces stiffer competition from the likes of the Oura Ring and other screenless…
This on-trend design detail makes date night tops feel less basic - M&S' £36 puff sleeve style looks designer
Whether it's a date night with your partner or brunch with your besties, ' jeans and a nice top' is always a go-to. After a while, though, that fail-safe can sometimes feel a little, well, basic. Not anymore! Knot fastenings (which are also called…
iPhone 18's Base Design Will Just Be an iPhone 17 in Disguise
For years, a new base iPhone has always looked at least a little different from the one before it. Never a full redesign, just enough to spot from across a room. New colors show up. The camera housing gets nudged, angled differently, or grows by a…
From 'Designed Viruses' To 'Digital Telepathy' - AI Panic Kicks Into Overdrive
Two days ago, I wrote an article detailing the sudden rash of “rogue AI agents” allegedly besetting the tech community, and how that may be used to bring in new regulations, notionally targeting AI, but actually limiting or monitoring…
Designers swear by these weird hacks that make your home way bougier
Making your home look more expensive does not have to involve a full renovation or a designer-sized budget. Sometimes, the biggest difference comes from paying attention to a few unexpected details — like hiding loose cords, swapping dated…
Why the Autogrill bridge is Italy's testbed for motorway design
In a new Wallpaper* summer series, architect Carlo Ratti explores Italy through the ordinary objects that define daily life. Meet the Autogrill Bridge, Italy's ubiquitous motorway restaurant chain Here we are, in the middle of Italy's great summer…
23-yr-old design student raped by security guard on terrace of Ahmedabad apartment complex
2 min read Ahmedabad Make us preferred source on Google A 23-year-old student of interior design was allegedly raped by a security guard on the terrace of a housing society in Ahmedabad late on Saturday (August 8) evening, police said on Sunday.
From Zootopia and Toy Story to X-Men's Storm, the Disney D23 poster design is raising big expectations
Disney 's been the centre of controversy lately amid the Pixar layoffs, the critical and commercial mauling of the live-action Moana, the skepticism about Hexed and the regular claims of Disney same-face syndrome. We needed a reminder of what…
The designer of Diamond City, Little Lamplight, and Starfield's Neon thinks Bethesda's galaxy was just too big: 'I would have done a handful of planets with bespoke layouts'
In a new episode of The Examined Game podcast (spotted by GamesRadar), longtime Bethesda environment artist and The Axis Unseen dev Nate Purkeypile spoke about his time at the legendary studio, including what he found to be Starfield's biggest…
AI Can Write the Code. You Still Have to Design the System.
The foundation of your application is everything, especially when you use agents to write your code. Everyone talks about garbage in/garbage out with AI and machine learning, but no one really talks about what that means when you hand an LLM an…
GTM engineering is a systems design job. Most people doing it are building the wrong system.
Two years ago 'GTM engineer' wasn't a job title. Now it's in every growth team's hiring plan. If you're a developer, you've probably seen it on your feed and wondered: real engineering job, or a marketer who learned Zapier? The honest answer: it's…
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. $CDNS Position Trimmed by Seilern Investment Management Ltd
Seilern Investment Management Ltd reduced its holdings in Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS - Free Report) by 21.5% during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The fund owned 114,321 shares of…
A Design Flaw in Claude Code's Documentation Skill: One Question, 265k-355k Tokens
I typed a one-line question into Claude Code - does fable use api billing? - and then ran /context out of habit. 30% of a 1,000,000-token context window was gone. One question, one answer, 295k tokens used. Then I ran the same prompt on a second…
Nobody Designs for 2G. Here's What Building in Kenya Taught Me About 'Fast' Websites
Most performance advice online assumes a baseline that doesn't exist for most of the world. Fast wifi, a recent phone, a stable connection. Lighthouse scores optimized for conditions half the planet doesn't have. I build web products for businesses…
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