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The storied design consultancy Ideo has been shedding staff throughout 2023 as it navigates a future where its traditional services are less in demand.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:      Section 1.  Purpose.  Artificial intelligence (AI) holds extraordinary potential for both promise and peril.  Responsible AI use has the potential to help solve urgent challenges…

Caltech researchers are experimenting with a space-based solar power system that would assemble itself after being launched by rockets.

Floods, freezes and heatwaves threaten seed production as farmers scramble to produce strains that resist climate chaos

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Constructed from cement, carbon black, and water, the device holds the potential to offer affordable and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources. Two of humanity's most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and carbon black (which resembles very fine charcoal), may form the basis for

“Prove your value.” “Justify your presence.” “Demonstrate impact.” Too many organizations have convinced designers that they’re the…

We must resist normalizing opacity in the design of generative AI systems, says Eryk Salvaggio.

Turning movie shots into 3D scenes using 3D Gaussian Splatting. We found movie clips online, converted scenes to image sequences, trained their GSPLATS, and brought them to UNREAL ENGINE 5. 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering Paper: https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/ Join our discord server: https://discord.gg/fUTyYnvceB If you wanna see us to do cool things follow us here too: Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/badxstudio/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/badxstudio TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@badxstudio LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/badxstudio Bad Decisions Podcast 🎙️: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/badxstudio Our personal handles: (if you wanna stalk us) https://www.instagram.com/farhad_sh/ https://www.instagram.com/farazshababs/ https://twitter.com/Farhads__ https://twitter.com/farazshababi https://www.linkedin.com/in/farhadshababi/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/farazshababi/ #unrealengine5 #3dgaussiansplatting #3dscan #gaussiansplatting #3d #3drender #nerf #unrealengine #blender3d #blender #drone #ai #photogrammetry #vfx #cgi #film

Parent company Meta says bug caused ‘inappropriate’ auto-translations and was now fixed while employee says it pushed ‘a lot of people over the edge’

The closure of the plant in Askeaton, County Limerick, will mean more than 500 job losses.

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In the first of our new Insight reports, we investigate whether the hunt for productivity might be hindering our creativity.

City councillors pass motion to let community groups, charities and neighbours cultivate fruit and veg

The globe could be "nearing the point of falling power sector emissions."

Might GitHub Copilot become more expensive soon?

The new light would enable autonomous vehicles to help control traffic flow – and let human drivers know what’s going on.

I read this story on Canary Media with interest – “Solarpunk is going mainstream. This couple’s $1M Kickstarter proves it. Canary chats with the co-creators of the forthcoming video gam…

Australian design student Alexander Burton has developed a prototype kit for cheaply converting petrol or diesel cars to hybrid electric.

Researchers’ analysis of DNA suggests housing circumstances ‘get under the skin’ and are associated with significant health consequences

The posting of the audio on the first day of Labour conference comes amid stark warnings of the threat AI poses to democracy.

Sam Woods, head of the Bank’s financial stability watchdog, says lenders have only shown they can survive ‘slow burn’ changes to temperatures

Scientists are scouring garbage sites around the world for bacteria, fungi and even insects that harbor enzymes that could be harnessed for breaking down various polymers. It’s early days, but if the efforts can be efficiently scaled-up, such biological recycling could put a dent in the plastic waste problem.

Volvo’s last diesel-powered car will roll out next year as the Swedish automaker looks toward an all-electric future. As one...

Find could point to new ways to prospect for material in high demand for batteries.

“They were pretty secretive on what they’re doing out there,” says a former mayor about Microsoft’s data center projects.

Why the tech giant is so high on Heirloom Carbon

Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed