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The EPOS Impact 1000 Headset Is Designed For Advanced AI Workflows
Søren Holm Printz, VP of strategy and product management at EPOS, says: “The IMPACT 1000 has been in the market for three years, and in that time, it has consistently proven through rigorous, unbiased external testing that it is truly…
The New Nostalgia Problem: Why Gap's Recent Nods To Vintage Design Missed The Mark
As contemporary consumers--many plagued by the current turbulent economic circumstances within the United States--continue to plead for minimal logos, quality fabrication and affordable prices from their favorite retailers, the brands that deviate…
Marvel Makes Hardcore Design Change To Founding X-Men Hero
One of the X-Me n 's original five heroes gains an upgrade during their time with a different mutant team. Numerous branches of mutant teams have tackled different philosophies to Professor X's first squad. X-Factor began as the reunion of the…
Magnet Breakthrough In Europe Might Help Solve The Biggest Problem With Rocket Design
A team from Italy and Germany has made a breakthrough in research by demonstrating that permanent magnets could play a central role in how astronauts are protected against radiation when traveling through space. Radiation events like galactic…
Coolcation' is latest Gen Z travel trend designed to avoid summer heatwaves and Super El Nino
Most of us spend the majority of the year dreaming about that perfect holiday, jetting off somewhere hot and sunny... or at the very least not cold and damp. But there's a trend taking over the globe that is turning the classic holiday experience…
From lecture notes to design projects, I picked the right iPads that belong in your bag
From laptops to dorm essentials, discover the best tech for students and the biggest back-to-school savings. Updated less than 6 minutes ago A semester's worth of notebooks, printouts, and loose assignment sheets can turn your backpack into hefty…
HP OmniBook X Flip 14 Review: Premium design, middling performance
The best laptops must do more than look expensive; they need to justify their price with the right mix of design, performance, display quality, and daily usability. HP's OmniBook X Flip 14 (starts at $1,399.99; $2,599.99 as tested) gets much of…
Rubio's Paranoid Cuba Report Designed to 'Justify a Military Attack on Cuba,' Says Democratic Rep.
A report published this week by the State Department is the latest weapon employed by the Trump administration in its campaign for aggressive intervention in Cuba, according to members of Congress and experts on the beleaguered Caribbean island…
97 Photos That Capture The Best Of 1970s And 1980s Interior Design (New Pics)
The 1970s are famous for a lot of things. It was an era of free love, warm colors, and extremely groovy music. But it was also a time of impeccable style. From the fashion of the decade to the way people's homes were designed, it seems like…
'Removed bass from my voice': How Jaaved Jaaferi designed his role of Manav for Dhamaal
4 min read Mumbai Make us preferred source on Google Actor Jaaved Jaaferi, who is basking in the success of his latest film Dhamaal 4, says bringing his popular character Manav to life required careful attention to everything from costumes and…
10 Most Underrated Lightsaber Designs in Star Wars
Lightsabers are just cool. Much ink has been spilled about the iconic weapons from George Lucas's Star Wars universe, their origins, and how they've influenced the film industry over the decades, but it really comes down to that undeniable feeling…
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How AI is ushering in marketing's self-optimising future
For years, marketing operations have been built on a simple but exhausting loop: collect data, create reports, identify gaps, brief teams, execute changes, review outcomes, and repeat. The problem is not that marketers lack tools. In fact, the…
Anthropic's Opus 5 blows past Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on the benchmark designed to measure real intelligence
Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2 percent on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, nearly four times the previous record of 7.8 percent set by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol (Max). The ARC Prize team attributes the lead to…
Hello Kitty's Darkest Official Design Ever Is Finally Coming to the U.S.
In June 2026, Japanese toy manufacturer Good Smile Company unveiled 'Gyaru Tomie' — a beautifully designed statue that unites the terrifying world of horror mastermind Junji Ito with Sanrio's feline icon, Hello Kitty. Now, it is only a…
Yoshi-P 'Upgraded His Mindset' On FF14 Character Design
Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival kicked off day one in Berlin this weekend with a nearly three-hour-long keynote from producer and director Naoki Yoshida that was jam-packed with information about upcoming expansion Evercold and other future content…
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