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The chip industry's future is memory by design
In 1884, an English schoolmaster wrote a short novel about a world with only length and breadth, whose inhabitants could not conceive of a third direction until one of them was lifted out of the plane and shown his own country from above.
Why AI Agent Memory Is Not A Substitute For Proper Design
Joseph Ours leads the AI Strategy Practice at Centric Consulting. Researchers found something that should worry anyone deploying AI agents in production. They studied agents designed to learn from their mistakes by writing themselves a note after a…
Stop Blaming Kids for Technology Designed to Capture Them
California's new social media law targets addictive design for kids under 16, not screen time or content. Constant online stressors keep the nervous system from returning to baseline, stacking stress Teens' reward and social brain systems are…
Can fashion design Its way out of extraction?
Sascha Camilli knows how to make fashion pay attention. At Milan Fashion Week in September 2023, the PETA campaigner interrupted Gucci's catwalk to protest against the use of wild-animal skins—an intervention that travelled rapidly from the…
Mossy catwalks, mycelial designs and Monty Don: the growth of gardener style
You could argue that photosynthesis, soil bacteria, chlorophyll and germination, by their nature, never go out of style. But somehow, as the news broke this week that Monty Don would step down from Gardeners' World after 23 years behind the shovel…
Hazleton man designated sexually violent predator, sentenced to decades in prison
WILKES-BARRE — A Hazleton man was sentenced to more than 40 years in state prison Thursday after a Luzerne County jury convicted him of raping a child and other offenses. Court of Common Pleas Judge Michael T. Vough sentenced Elias Francoise…
Trump list of U.S.-designated 'foreign terrorist organizations' in Latin America grows to 21
The label was once reserved for groups like the Islamic State group or al-Qaida that use violence for political ends — not for money-focused crime rings. But Trump's aim was to increase pressure on the groups and anyone who the U.S. sees as…
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Designers and Computer Scientists Create New Decoy Fonts That Humans Can Read but A.I. Bots Cannot
As the deployment of A.I. tools into search engines, text messaging and writing platforms becomes increasingly conspicuous and pervasive, some researchers are seeking new ways to insulate words written by humans from the reach of trawling bots and…
The Design Choice That Instantly Made the iPhone Duo the Best Foldable on the Market
I'm sure you know the basics by now. If you've spent any time on the Internet this week, you've seen that Apple released its long-rumored foldable iPhone, dubbed the iPhone Duo. It's the biggest and most expensive iPhone ever, and in his inaugural…
What Is Fueling L.A. Design Week/end's Expansion
The energy around Los Angeles design scene and its makers is palpable. As a result, organizers of Los Angeles Design Week/end, also known as LAD/W, decided to expand the three-day event into a larger, five-day program, now featuring more than 130…
Trump wanted to change the design of mail-in ballot envelopes. A court just ruled against him
A court ruled on Thursday against implementing new rules that would have required local elections officials to redesign mail-in ballot envelopes right before the election. One reason? There's not enough time to make the design changes that were…
National Park Service designates 9/11 Memorial as an affiliated area
The National Park Service has designated the 9/11 Pentagon Memorial as an affiliated area. The National Park Service, the Defense Department and the Pentagon Memorial Fund signed a memorandum of agreement earlier this week to create a formal…
A Major Designer Just Declared a Comeback for This Controversial Early 2000s Hairstyle
I can't believe I'm saying it, but my go-to hairstyle from elementary school was just on the runway. At Christian Siriano's Fall/Winter 2026 show at New York Fashion Week, models waltzed down the runway in a hairdo reminiscent of the exact look I…
MAD Reveals Design to Transform 1923 Warehouse Into Danshuis in Rotterdam
MAD, the architecture studio founded by Ma Yansong, has revealed the designs for Danshuis, a new dance center planned for Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Located on a landmark site in the city's historic docklands, adjacent to the Fenix Museum of…
Review: Bose Lifestyle Ultra Speaker - Premium Sound In a Compact Design!
There are plenty of wireless speakers that can fill a room with music, but every once in a while, one comes along that feels like it was designed to do more than simply make noise. The Bose Lifestyle Ultra Speaker is one of those products. Bose has…
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