Category: 8. Tech

veil: a layered intervention in patissia’s urban fabric

Arid reworks and extends a two-story corner building from 1951 in the Patissia district of Athens into a hybrid residential, co-living, and co-working building. The project, dubbed Veil,…

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I’ve found a big problem with the Honor Magic 8 Pro’s camera that urgently needs addressing. I’ve taken hundreds of test photos in my weeks with the company’s latest flagship phone, and while plenty of them are perfectly decent, many of the…

Many widely used analytics formats, such as Parquet, were designed when computer processors worked in a more sequential way. Today’s machines can do much more work at the same time. A CPU (the main all-purpose processor) has SIMD…

Animal locomotion involves the coordination of multiple muscles under the control of the nervous system. To ensure smooth movements, diverse regulatory mechanisms operate at different hierarchical levels within the motor system, narrowing…

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is a nonprofit organization that promotes the advancement of astronomy and astrophysics. The AAS hosts annual meetings inviting thousands of attendees from a wide…

If you’re on the phone with someone, a babbling newborn can be very cute but they can also be distracting for the person on the other end of your call. If you have an iPhone, you can enable a hidden feature called Voice Isolation that can make…