"Everything has become an admin nightmare" due to Brexit say UK designers
Designers and architects in the UK are suffering in the wake of Brexit, with companies abandoning exports and setting up offices in the EU to avoid losing clients. Read more Designers and architects in the UK are suffering in the wake of Bre.....»»
Norman Foster, Virgil Abloh and more share their thoughts on the global impact of Covid-19
One year ago today, the World Health Organisation officially declared coronavirus a global pandemic. Twenty of the world's leading designers, including Thomas Heatherwick, Kelly Hoppen and Sevil Peach, gave us their views on how it has changed the wo.....»»
Rent the Runway’s first iOS team launches Runway, an easier way to coordinate app releases
A team of mobile app engineers and designers from companies like Rent the Runway, ClassPass, Kickstarter and others, are now launching their own startup, Runway, to address the common pain points they experienced around the mobile app release cycle......»»
Fabless IC firms facing quote hikes at backend partners
Taiwan's IC designers are facing increasingly tight capacity and resultant quote hikes at their backend partners though foundry capacity they booked in fourth-quarter 2020 are being fulfilled starting late first-quarter 2021, according to industry so.....»»
Twenty-two women architects and designers you should know
To mark International Women's Day, we asked 22 of the world's most inspirational women architects and designers to nominate another woman who should be better known for their work. Read more To mark International Women's Day, we asked 22 of.....»»
MediaTek may seek capacity support from China OSATs for lower-end chips
Taiwan's first-tier IC designers including MediaTek, now facing increasingly tight capacity support from domestic backend houses, are expected to release some orders to Chinese OSATs JCET, Tongfu Microelectronics and Tianshui Huatian Technology in se.....»»
Highlights of the day: Taiwan IC designers seeking support from Chinese OSATs
Semiconductor manufacturing capacity has been tight, sending some major IC design houses in Taiwan seeking support from Chinese backend firms for packaging lower-end chips. Notebook vendors and ODMs currently do not have a clear outlook for second-ha.....»»
Visible Touch: How Cameras Can Help Robots Feel
Computer vision combined with deep learning can replicate the sense of touch in some social robots The dawn of the robot revolution is already here, and it is not the dystopian nightmare we imagined. Instead, it comes in the form of soci.....»»
Why App Designers Gambled on These Las Vegas Casino Tricks
The casino and our mobile phones are designed in such a way that they draw in people to spend hours and even whole days fully immersed in the experience. Continue reading........»»
Lockdown skepticism not linked to pro-Brexit values, despite high-profile skeptics being Leave supporters
Public lockdown skepticism and Euroscepticism are not driven by the same psychological values—despite high-profile lockdown skeptics holding pro-Brexit views, a new analysis has found......»»
Creator or Creature? A Nightmare Wakes dramatizes the birth of Frankenstein
Ars chats with director Nora Unkel about the origins, themes of her first feature film. Alix Wilton Regan stars as Mary Shelley in the throes of creating her timeless literary masterpiece in A Nightmare Wakes. It's one of the most famous.....»»
How Britain could keep its "crown" in finance and technology after Brexit
The United Kingdom should introduce special visas and overhaul its stock market rules to allow entrepreneurs to keep control of their companies if it wants to remain competitive in financial technology after Brexit......»»
Huge gaps in UK regulation exist following transition from EU, new academic report finds
The UK is still not in a position to assume responsibility for regulation in several critical policy areas including trade, crime and the environment, a new academic report—UK regulation after Brexit—has found......»»
SC06 workstations by Castiglia Associati and K Miksza for IOC Project Partners
Dezeen Showroom: designers Castiglia Associati and K Miksza joined with Italian office furniture brand IOC Project Partners to create the SC06 workstation system, which can be configured into individual, bench, executive or meeting configurations. Re.....»»
Biden admin plans executive order to address chip-shortage woes
Semiconductor demand isn't going to drop, but supply has proven a problem. Enlarge / President Joe Biden signing a different executive order on January 28, 2021. (credit: Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images) The White House is launching an effort.....»»
China demand set to buoy Taiwan ASIC designers in 2021
Taiwan-based ASIC and SoC design service providers including Alchip, Faraday Technology and Global Unichip will continue to enjoy robust demand from China's chipmaking industry in 2021 with revenue set to be driven by a strong pull-in of orders for C.....»»
Google has an ingenious plan to kill cookies — but there’s one big drawback
Cookies are a privacy nightmare for all of us, but Google's plan to eradicate them could cause just as many problems as it solves......»»
Torii announces $10M Series A to automate SaaS management
Today, that software is offered as a cloud service should be pretty much considered a given. Certainly any modern tooling is going to be SaaS, and as companies and employees add services, it becomes a management nightmare. Enter Torii, an early stage.....»»
Microsoft"s new testing program helps devs make their games more accessible
Microsoft in January 2020 launched the Xbox Accessibility Guidelines (XAGs), a set of best practices used to validate the accessibility of a game. The idea was to assist designers in coming up with ideas to help drive accessibility efforts forward......»»
How to rebrand a fish so that it sounds tastier
British fishermen have decided to rename two of their biggest exports as they turn to local markets to overcome some Brexit-related difficulties with shipping products abroad. What used to be known as the megrim sole and spider crab will now be Corni.....»»
Kelly Wearstler and Ole Scheeren named judges for Dezeen Awards 2021
German architect Ole Scheeren will be joined by designers Kelly Wearstler and Chrissa Amuah as well as structural engineer and design director Hanif Kara to judge Dezeen Awards 2021. Read more German architect Ole Scheeren will be joined by.....»»