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Playfool spotlights hidden digital labour in data centre cleaning game at the V&A

Visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London vacuum digital dust from an overheating data server in game installation ‘The Server’ by design-duo Playfool. The post Playfool spotlights hidden digital labour in data centre cleaning game at the V&A appeared first on Dezeen .

Perrier-Jouët and Iris van Herpen partnership celebrates “biological processes that shape life”

Champagne house Perrier-Jouët has unveiled a creative collection with designer Iris van Herpen that draws on art nouveau design, soundscapes and the “invisible forces that shape the natural world”. As part of the partnership, Van Herpen created Symphonic Bloom, a sculptural piece crafted from silk and recycled 22-carat gold. The collectable sculpture was designed to […] The post Perrier-Jouët and Iris van Herpen partnership celebrates “biological processes that shape life” appeared first on Dezeen .

AI models cost more when you don't use English

Some languages need many more tokens to process, which raises costs and shrinks usable context for their speakers.

Yasmim: “How racist that can be?”

Conflict in the Red Sea is forcing cloud giants to find a new route for the internet

War around Yemen is pushing Google and Meta to reroute the subsea cables that carry the internet.

Startups recalibrate Chinese AI for the West

Startups are adapting Chinese open-weight models for Western firms worried about censorship and security.

A rare strike in Taiwan exposes labor unrest beneath the global AI rush

Chip workers organizing in Taiwan show discontent over how AI-boom profits are shared.

As U.S. blocks DJI, Insta360 races to win American creators

A smaller Chinese camera maker is using regulatory timing to grow its drone brand in the US.

This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degeneration

The PRIMA implant lets people with advanced macular degeneration read again.

Rotterdam's Echo is a Tokyo-inspired listening bar inside the brutalist Groot Handelsgebouw

A listening bar brings Tokyo's deep-listening culture into a brutalist landmark.

Henry Holland creates wallpaper and fabric with a 'language developed through ceramics'

A textile line built from a visual vocabulary first drawn in clay.

These startups hope 'blended' food will cut our appetite for red meat

Blending plants into meat products as a bridge away from beef.

The UAE embraces AI for kindergartners

AI education becomes mandatory from kindergarten in the Emirates.