Design

Former Total War developer accuses Creative Assembly of ‘mismanagement’ and says strategy series AI is ‘limited by design’

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A former developer at Total War studio Creative Assembly has written an extensive personal account of his time at the studio, detailing the development problems with the strategy games Total War: Rome 2 and Total War: Attila, claiming that these problems were exacerbated by a inflexible and counterproductive leadership structure and “chronic mismanagement,” sometimes resulting … Read more

Apple Loop: iPhone 16 design leaks, new M4 MacBook Pro, Apple’s open-source AI

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Updated June 23 with details on Apple Intelligence in the EU, M4 release schedule. Looking back at this week’s Apple news and headlines, including the latest iPhone 16 leaks, the iPhone’s AI limitation, a new MacBook Pro for Christmas, Apple’s open-source AI, when Siri gets Apple Intelligence, an AI super cycle of iPhones, and whatever … Read more

Apple Loop: iPhone 16 design leaks, new M4 MacBook Pro, Apple’s open-source AI

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Updated June 22 with details on Apple Intelligence availability in the EU. Looking back at this week’s Apple news and headlines, including the latest iPhone 16 leaks, the iPhone’s AI limitation, a new MacBook Pro for Christmas, Apple’s open-source AI, when Siri gets Apple Intelligence, an AI super cycle of iPhones, and whatever happened to … Read more

Apple Loop: iPhone 16 design leaks, new M4 MacBook Pro, Apple’s open-source AI

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Looking back at this week’s Apple news and headlines, including the latest iPhone 16 leaks, the iPhone’s AI limitation, a new MacBook Pro for Christmas, Apple’s open-source AI, when Siri gets Apple Intelligence, an AI super cycle of iPhones, and whatever happened to Apple’s i? Apple Loop is here to remind you of some of … Read more

A symphony of design details: Sonos Ace headphones

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The Sonos Ace The design story starts with Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair. Bauhaus’s iconic modernist design represented an idealized balance between contrasts – soft and hard, simple and complex, machine versus the human body – and provided the Sonos design team with a perfect aesthetic and functional template for designing what became the first headphones … Read more

Major fusion milestone: Princeton scientists discover a game-changer in reactor design

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This still image from a new simulation shows how plasma from the pedestal region is connected to the divertor plasma region via the so-called final confinement surface. The long and thin lobes fluctuate in time and space. Simulation credit: Seung-Hoe Ku/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory on DOE’s Summit computer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Visualization credit: … Read more

The design of a photonic alloy with topological properties

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This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! by Ingrid Fadelli, Phys.org Schematic diagram of a topological photonic alloy. The red star indicates the position of the line source and the arrow indicates the direction of propagation of the chiral edge state. Credit: Qu et al. × close … Read more

Engineers unlock design for a record-breaking robot that can jump twice as high as Big Ben

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Credit: University of Manchester Engineers from the University of Manchester have unlocked the secrets of designing a robot that can jump 120 meters – higher than any other jumping robot designed to date. Using a combination of mathematics, computer simulations and laboratory experiments, the researchers have discovered how to design a robot with the optimal … Read more

Your best look yet at the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6

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Updated June 17 with details on the next Galaxy Unpacked event: Article originally posted on June 15. Last year’s Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event will be the time when the Galaxy Z Fold 6 is presented to the public. … Read more

What’s on your bookshelf?: Art game creator and level design expert Robert Yang

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Booked For The Week is our weekly conversation with industry people about the books they love, have loved and hope to love in the future. Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry people about books! Books … Read more