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10 Fall Pedicure Trends and Nail Art Designs to Book Before Thanksgiving
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, nail salon calendars are filling up fast. After all, nobody wants a dull pedicure when the boots come off at the family table. From a rich gel pedicure with glossy nail polish to a French pedicure with a…
Do Female Designers Hold the Key to Kering's Creative Revival?
LONDON — With the appointment of Martine Rose at Balenciaga, Kering gave the clearest indication yet of the direction it plans to take regarding the creative direction at its brands. It appears Kering ‘s focus is on appealing to a…
America's AI backlash is Asia's design challenge
An AI server can meet every specification and still sit idle, waiting for electricity or local approval. For Asia's suppliers, the US midterms have made those constraints harder to ignore. Their response should begin before the next specification…
Penpot's future as Figma's acquisition fallout reshapes open-source design tooling - TechNewsDaily - Technology News & Reviews
Figma's market value collapsed to under $10 billion by June 2026, a sharp decline from its July 31, 2025 IPO close at $56.3 billion. This financial erosion followed the mutual abandonment of Adobe's $20 billion acquisition proposal in December…
How a former high school became this Asian city's coolest design hub
At Make by Ginlee at New Bahru, I'm folding and tying fabric into a pleat-shaped corrugated cardboard mould that will be steamed in a special oven in the wall. While waiting for the oven to do its work, I start browsing the boutique's sculptural…
Powerhouse Parramatta: a museum of science, design and technology supercharged by spectacular art
There are so many published images of the new Powerhouse museum's steel exoskeleton that it is hardly a surprise when two dazzling white structures like giant milk crates suddenly emerge from the depressing jumble of modern office buildings that…
This haven of minimalism is São Paulo's newest design store, by Studio mk27
Part of the Micasa furniture campus in São Paulo, Casual Store is conceived as both a functioning exhibition space and a beautifully designed spatial object in its own right. The new showroom for the well-known design and product destination…
Lead designer Bruce Nesmith says Skyrim was a hit because it was built on institutional knowledge from Oblivion
I don't know about you, but I'm not a huge fan of the way YouTube encourages everything becoming a video that's over an hour long and doesn't have a text version available. There's a recent video putting the original Pool of Radiance into the…
System Design Drill Day 14: URL Shortener and Unique ID Generation
SMS is billed per 160-character segment, and a long tracking URL can push a single message into two. Over a whole marketing blast that adds up to real money, and that alone is reason enough for a marketplace to run its own short links. The URL…
Scotland's most miserable towns named including 'place designed to kill dreams
All over Scotland, there are countless cities, towns, and villages that are widely beloved by locals and tourists alike. However, no matter how nice or popular a place is, there will always be people who dislike it for one reason or another.
Retro or ANC? Sony and Bose are courting the younger generation with two very different wired headphone designs, and I'm all for it
Sony and Bose have been at the forefront of the wireless headphones market for a decade now. In 2016, both brands launched their respective premium over-ear headphones that combined wireless connectivity with active noise cancellation (ANC). For…
Hands-On: The Sinn EZM 19 - A Mission Timer Designed For The Command Room
A look at Sinn's latest addition to the Einsatzzeitmesser family Some watches are designed for the cockpit, the dive site, or the open road. The new Sinn EZM 19 has a rather different workplace in mind — the command room. Developed with…
How to Calibrate News Monitoring Retrieval Design: 3 Metadata Filter Gates
Short answer: put metadata filters before and after semantic retrieval, measure each gate separately, and choose the narrowest filter set that preserves recall for your news-monitoring queries. This keeps latency predictable without hiding relevant…
How to Design Approval Gates for AI Agents Before They Take Real Actions
AI agents are becoming increasingly capable of doing more than generating text. And in some systems, they can initiate actions that affect real users or real business data. That creates a fundamental engineering question: When should an AI agent be…
Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith loved that Baldur's Gate 3 closed off story paths based on your decisions, but defends Bethesda's approach: 'They were both fun, they're just fun in different ways
The Biggest Lesson Bethesda Learned From Skyrim | Bruce Nesmith - YouTube Speaking on a new episode of The Examined Game, Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith shared his big takeaway from Baldur's Gate 3, and contrasted the approaches Bethesda and…
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