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businessinsider.com - Chris Panella - Half the drones in a recent US Army combat exercise were designed to be expendable
Half the drones in a recent US Army combat exercise were designed to be expendable
Business Insider

The US Army brought thousands of drones to a recent combat exercise, and roughly half were designed to be expendable. Soldiers could use and lose the drones in the fight, treating them like ammunition. The Army's shift toward using low-cost drones…

9to5mac.com - Michael Burkhardt - Here's why Apple scrapped its shorter Apple Pencil designed for iPhone Duo: report
Here's why Apple scrapped its shorter Apple Pencil designed for iPhone Duo: report
9to5Mac

Leading into the iPhone Duo launch, we heard from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman that Apple was considering a new Apple Pencil for iPhone Duo, though it was unlikely that the company would go forward with it. Of course, the iPhone Duo keynote came, and…

elle.com - Matthew Velasco - How This Beloved London Designer Reimagined One of the City's Heritage Brands
How This Beloved London Designer Reimagined One of the City's Heritage Brands
ELLE

For his first Mulberry show this afternoon in London, Christopher Kane looked to the tree at the heart of the brand. His idea was simple: sometimes you have to cut back to grow again. An axe, naturally, followed. “It's this person who looks…

pcgamer.com - Fraser Brown - Endless Legend 2 shows that Amplitude is still the master of faction design
Endless Legend 2 shows that Amplitude is still the master of faction design
PC Gamer

Welcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a new game, update, or DLC that we think is well worth checking out. You can subscribe to the newsletter at the link if you want to get our thoughts…

townhall.com - Casey Luskin - Intelligent Design Bears Good Scientific Fruit in the Study of 'Junk DNA
Intelligent Design Bears Good Scientific Fruit in the Study of 'Junk DNA
Townhall

For decades, many scientists have confidently dismissed the vast majority of the human DNA as useless evolutionary garbage. Yet a recently published scientific paper in Cell, one of the world's most prestigious biology journals, declares a…

yardbarker.com - Andrew Wright - Reds designate TJ Friedl for assignment after rough stretch
Reds designate TJ Friedl for assignment after rough stretch
Yardbarker

The 2026 MLB season did not go the way that the Cincinnati Reds had hoped it would. Several key players took a step back and underperformed, causing Cincinnati to miss the postseason for the fifth time in seven seasons. One player that took a major…

mlbtraderumors.com - AJ Eustace - Reds Designate TJ Friedl For Assignment
Reds Designate TJ Friedl For Assignment
MLB Trade Rumors

The Reds announced this morning that they have selected the contract of right-hander Carson Spiers from Triple-A Louisville. He will take the spot of Chase Burns, who is going on the 15-day injured list for a right groin strain. That move is…

pcgamer.com - Issy van der Velde - Night Plane is a horror game designed to scare me, specifically, because I hate flying-and deer demons
Night Plane is a horror game designed to scare me, specifically, because I hate flying-and deer demons
PC Gamer

Night Plane release date trailer - PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct 2026 - YouTube I hate flying. Crammed into a tiny metal tube with 100s of other people, 1000s of feet in the air, unnaturally defying the will of God—it's awful. I don't know how…

wallpaper.com - Carlo Ratti - Why the humble Mutti tomato tin is an icon of Italian design
Why the humble Mutti tomato tin is an icon of Italian design
Wallpaper*

In a Wallpaper* summer series, architect Carlo Ratti explores Italy through the ordinary objects that define daily life. Meet the Mutti tomato tin, a cooking classic in Italy and beyond 'La calle se llenó de tomates.' Or, 'The street filled…

manchestereveningnews.co.uk - Phoebe Jobling - We turned a water tower into a Grand Designs home - now it's selling for £3m'
We turned a water tower into a Grand Designs home - now it's selling for £3m'
Manchester Evening News

A couple transformed a former water tower into a stunning five-bed family home - which is now on the market for £3 million. Jannette, 57, and Russell Harris, 67, took on the huge challenge when they bought the Grade II listed building in the…

proofofconcept.pub - David Hoang - The Design GM
The Design GM
Proof of Concept

The General Manager (GM) role is typically one not held by designers and might feel mysterious. For sports fans, the role may be familiar as the person who runs a franchise; working closely with the head coach. The coach wins games with the roster…

dailymail.com - Katherine Lawton - Gran Designs! Gen Z want their homes to look like 'Grandma's House
Gran Designs! Gen Z want their homes to look like 'Grandma's House
Mail Online

Gen Z are turning their backs on ultra-modern interiors because they want their homes to look like 'Grandma's House'. Britain's youngest generation of adults are embracing dark wooden furniture and patterned fabrics – the traditional tastes…

koreaherald.com - Lee Yoon-seo - [Herald Design Lounge 2026] AI lets us do anything. Kim Gryun asks what we should do now
[Herald Design Lounge 2026] AI lets us do anything. Kim Gryun asks what we should do now
The Korea Herald

The Emmy-winning designer argues creating genuinely novel experience is the key to surviving the age of AI We live in an era when high-quality video no longer surprises anyone. With a single prompt sent to a free AI video generator, almost anyone…

dev.to - nook - Designing an offline notes app for sync that doesn't exist yet (and a landing page with zero build tools)
Designing an offline notes app for sync that doesn't exist yet (and a landing page with zero build tools)
DEV Community

I've spent the last several months building Nookly, a local-first notes app (pages, block editor, tables/kanban, full-text search) in Flutter, backed by Drift/SQLite. No account, no cloud — everything lives on the user's device. This post…

heavy.com - Perry Miller Carpenter - Former Chief Makes Ominous Prediction About Josh Simmons' Future
Former Chief Makes Ominous Prediction About Josh Simmons' Future
Heavy

J osh Simmons ‘ back injury has kept him off the field for a month, and former Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Geoff Schwartz doesn't expect a quick return. Simmons, the Chiefs' 2025 first-round pick, will miss his second straight game…

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