• Apple @ Work Podcast: Using Apple in logistics and manufacturing
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    Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle,the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost.Request your EXTENDED TRIALtoday and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple.In this episode of Apple @ Work, I talk with Phillip Avelar from Advanced Solutions about their use of the iPad and iPhone in logistics and manufacturing. more
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  • Hackers Use .NET MAUI to Target Indian and Chinese Users with Fake Banking, Social Apps
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    Mar 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Data TheftCybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an Android malware campaign that leverages Microsoft's .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) framework to create bogus banking and social media apps targeting Indian and Chinese-speaking users."These threats disguise themselves as legitimate apps, targeting users to steal sensitive information," McAfee Labs researcher Dexter Shin said..NET MAUI is Microsoft's cross-platform desktop and mobile app framework for creating native applications using C# and XAML. It represents an evolution of Xamarin, with added capabilities to not only create multi-platform apps using a single project, but also incorporate platform-specific source code as and when necessary.It's worth noting that official support for Xamarin ended on May 1, 2024, with the tech giant urging developers to migrate to .NET MAUI.While Android malware implemented using Xamarin has been detected in the past, the latest development signals that threat actors are continuing to adapt and refine their tactics by developing new malware using .NET MAUI."These apps have their core functionalities written entirely in C# and stored as blob binaries," Shin said. "This means that unlike traditional Android apps, their functionalities do not exist in DEX files or native libraries."This gives a newfound advantage to threat actors in that .NET MAUI acts as a packer, allowing the malicious artifacts to evade detection and persist on victim devices for extended periods of time.The .NET MAUI-based Android apps, collectively codenamed FakeApp, and their associated package names are listed below -X (pkPrIg.cljOBO) (pCDhCg.cEOngl)X (pdhe3s.cXbDXZ)X (ppl74T.cgDdFK)Cupid (pommNC.csTgAT)X (pINUNU.cbb8AK) (pBOnCi.cUVNXz)XGDN (pgkhe9.ckJo4P) (pCDhCg.cEOngl) (p9Z2Ej.cplkQv)X (pDxAtR.c9C6j7) (pg92Li.cdbrQ7) (pZQA70.cFzO30) (pAQPSN.CcF9N3)indus credit card (indus.credit.card)Indusind Card (com.rewardz.card)There is no evidence that these apps are distributed to Google Play. Rather, the main propagation vector involves tricking users into clicking on bogus links sent via messaging apps that redirect unwitting recipients to unofficial app stores.In one example highlighted by McAfee, the app masquerades as an Indian financial institution to gather users' sensitive information, including full names, mobile numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, residential addresses, credit card numbers, and government-issued identifiers.Another app mimics the social media site X to steal contacts, SMS messages, and photos from victim devices. The app primarily targets Chinese-speaking users via third-party websites or alternative app stores.Besides using encrypted socket communication to transmit harvested data to a command-and-control (C2) server, the malware has been observed including several meaningless permissions to the AndroidManifest.xml file (e.g., "android.permission.LhSSzIw6q") in an attempt to break analysis tools. Also used to remain undetected is a technique called multi-stage dynamic loading, which makes use of an XOR-encrypted loader responsible for launching an AES-encrypted payload that, in turn, loads .NET MAUI assemblies designed to execute the malware."The main payload is ultimately hidden within the C# code," Shin said. "When the user interacts with the app, such as pressing a button, the malware silently steals their data and sends it to the C2 server."Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.SHARE
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  • Nest Step: Social Media Marketing Specialist (Remote - Europe-Based)
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    Headquarters: Saatwinkler Damm , Berlin, Germany URL: https://nextstep-job.comWe are looking for a creative and driven Social Media Marketing Specialist to lead and execute our social media strategies across multiple platforms. This is a remote position, and we welcome applications from candidates based in Europe.As part of our dynamic marketing team, you will take ownership of content creation, audience engagement, and performance analysis. If you have a passion for social media and know how to grow and engage online communities, wed love to hear from you.Key Responsibilities Plan and implement social media strategies to increase brand awareness and engagement Create engaging and visually appealing content, including graphics and short videos Manage day-to-day publishing across platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Twitter Respond to comments, messages, and mentions to foster strong community relationships Track performance metrics and generate reports to guide future strategy Collaborate closely with design and marketing teams to maintain brand consistencyRequirements 2+ years of experience in social media marketing or a related role Deep understanding of key social media platforms and current trends Strong copywriting and communication skills in English Creative mindset with a portfolio of past work or campaigns Ability to work independently, manage deadlines, and adapt to changing priorities Familiarity with tools such as Hootsuite, Buffer, or similar scheduling platformsWhy Join Us Fully remote position with flexible working hours Collaborative, supportive international team Opportunity to make a visible impact on brand presence and growth Creative freedom and ownership over campaigns Competitive compensation based on experienceReady to shape and grow our social presence? Apply now and lets make something great together.To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/nest-step-social-media-marketing-specialist-remote-europe-based
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  • Why the world is looking to ditch US AI models
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    This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first,sign up here. This weeks edition of The Algorithm is brought to you not by your usual host, James ODonnell, but Eileen Guo, an investigative reporter at MIT Technology Review. A few weeks ago, when I was at the digital rights conference RightsCon in Taiwan, I watched in real time as civil society organizations from around the world, including the US, grappled with the loss of one of the biggest funders of global digital rights work: the United States government. As I wrote in my dispatch, the Trump administration's shocking, rapid gutting of the US government (and its push into what some prominent political scientists call competitive authoritarianism) also affects the operations and policies of American tech companiesmany of which, of course, have users far beyond US borders. People at RightsCon said they were already seeing changes in these companies willingness to engage with and invest in communities that have smaller user basesespecially non-English-speaking ones. As a result, some policymakers and business leadersin Europe, in particularare reconsidering their reliance on US-based tech and asking whether they can quickly spin up better, homegrown alternatives. This is particularly true for AI. One of the clearest examples of this is in social media. Yasmin Curzi, a Brazilian law professor who researches domestic tech policy, put it to me this way: Since Trumps second administration, we cannot count on [American social media platforms] to do even the bare minimum anymore. Social media content moderation systemswhich already use automation and are also experimenting with deploying large language models to flag problematic postsare failing to detect gender-based violence in places as varied as India, South Africa, and Brazil. If platforms begin to rely even more on LLMs for content moderation, this problem will likely get worse, says Marlena Wisniak, a human rights lawyer who focuses on AI governance at the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law. The LLMs are moderated poorly, and the poorly moderated LLMs are then also used to moderate other content, she tells me. Its so circular, and the errors just keep repeating and amplifying. Part of the problem is that the systems are trained primarily on data from the English-speaking world (and American English at that), and as a result, they perform less well with local languages and context. Even multilingual language models, which are meant to process multiple languages at once, still perform poorly with non-Western languages. For instance, one evaluation of ChatGPTs response to health-care queries found that results were far worse in Chinese and Hindi, which are less well represented in North American data sets, than in English and Spanish. For many at RightsCon, this validates their calls for more community-driven approaches to AIboth in and out of the social media context. These could include small language models, chatbots, and data sets designed for particular uses and specific to particular languages and cultural contexts. These systems could be trained to recognize slang usages and slurs, interpret words or phrases written in a mix of languages and even alphabets, and identify reclaimed language (onetime slurs that the targeted group has decided to embrace). All of these tend to be missed or miscategorized by language models and automated systems trained primarily on Anglo-American English. The founder of the startup Shhor AI, for example, hosted a panel at RightsCon and talked about its new content moderation API focused on Indian vernacular languages. Many similar solutions have been in development for yearsand weve covered a number of them, including a Mozilla-facilitated volunteer-led effort to collect training data in languages other than English, and promising startups like Lelapa AI, which is building AI for African languages. Earlier this year, we even included small language models on our 2025 list of top 10 breakthrough technologies. Still, this moment feels a little different. The second Trump administration, which shapes the actions and policies of American tech companies, is obviously a major factor. But there are others at play. First, recent research and development on language models has reached the point where data set size is no longer a predictor of performance, meaning that more people can create them. In fact, smaller language models might be worthy competitors of multilingual language models in specific, low-resource languages, says Aliya Bhatia, a visiting fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology who researches automated content moderation. Then theres the global landscape. AI competition was a major theme of the recent Paris AI Summit, which took place the week before RightsCon. Since then, theres been a steady stream of announcements about sovereign AI initiatives that aim to give a country (or organization) full control over all aspects of AI development. AI sovereignty is just one part of the desire for broader tech sovereignty thats also been gaining steam, growing out of more sweeping concerns about the privacy and security of data transferred to the United States. The European Union appointed its first commissioner for tech sovereignty, security, and democracy last November and has been working on plans for a Euro Stack, or digital public infrastructure. The definition of this is still somewhat fluid, but it could include the energy, water, chips, cloud services, software, data, and AI needed to support modern society and future innovation. All these are largely provided by US tech companies today. Europes efforts are partly modeled after India Stack, that countrys digital infrastructure that includes the biometric identity system Aadhaar. Just last week, Dutch lawmakers passed several motions to untangle the country from US tech providers. This all fits in with what Andy Yen, CEO of the Switzerland-based digital privacy company Proton, told me at RightsCon. Trump, he said, is causing Europe to move faster to come to the realization that Europe needs to regain its tech sovereignty. This is partly because of the leverage that the president has over tech CEOs, Yen said, and also simply because tech is where the future economic growth of any country is. But just because governments get involved doesnt mean that issues around inclusion in language models will go away. I think there needs to be guardrails about what the role of the government here is. Where it gets tricky is if the government decides These are the languages we want to advance or These are the types of views we want represented in a data set, Bhatia says. Fundamentally, the training data a model trains on is akin to the worldview it develops. Its still too early to know what this will all look like, and how much of it will prove to be hype. But no matter what happens, this is a space well be watching. Now read the rest of The Algorithm Deeper Learning OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects peoples emotional well-being OpenAI released two pieces of research last week that explore how ChatGPT affects people who engage with it on emotional issues, yielding some interesting results. Female study participants were slightly less likely to socialize with people than their male counterparts who used the chatbot for the same period of time, our reporter Rhiannon Williams writes. And people who used voice mode in a gender that was not their own reported higher levels of loneliness at the end of the experiment. Why it matters: AI companies have raced to build chatbots that act not just as productivity tools but also as companions, romantic partners, friends, therapists, and more. Legally, its largely still a Wild West landscape. Some have instructed users to harm themselves, and others have offered sexually charged conversations as underage characters represented by deepfakes. More research into how people, especially children, are using these AI models is essential. OpenAIs work is only a start. Read more from Rhiannon Williams. Bits and Bytes Opinion Why handing over total control to AI agents would be a huge mistake Companies like OpenAI and Butterfly Effect (the startup in China that made Manus) are racing to build AI agents that can do tasks for you by taking over your computer. In this op-ed, some top AI researchers detail the potential missteps that could occur if we cede more control of our digital lives to decision-making AIs. A provocative experiment pitted AI against federal judges Research has long shown that judges are influenced by many factors, like how sympathetic they are to defendants, or when their last meal was. Despite AI models inherent problems with biases and hallucinations, researchers at the University of Chicago Law School wondered if they can present more objective opinions. They can, but that doesnt make them better judges, the researchers say. (The Washington Post) Elon Musks truth-seeking chatbot often disagrees with him Musk promised his company xAIs model Grok would be an antidote to the woke and politically influenced chatbots that he says dominate today. But in tests done by the Washington Post, the model contradicted many of Musks claims about specific issues. (The Washington Post) A Disney employee downloaded an AI tool that contained malware, and it ruined his life MIT Technology Review has long predicted that the proliferation of AI will enable scammers to up their productivity as never before. One victim of this trend is Matthew Van Andel, a Disney employee who downloaded malware disguised as an AI tool. It led to his firing. (Wall Street Journal) The facial recognition company Clearview attempted to buy Social Security numbers and mugshots for its database Three years ago, Clearview was fined for scraping images of individuals faces from the internet. Now, court records reveal that the company was attempting to buy 690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos in the USrecords that also contained Social Security numbers, emails, and physical addresses. The deal fell through, but Clearview nonetheless holds one of the largest databases of facial images, and its tools are used by police and federal agencies. (404 Media)
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  • Ethically sourced spare human bodies could revolutionize medicine
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    Why do we hear about medical breakthroughs in mice, but rarely see them translate into cures for human disease? Why do so few drugs that enter clinical trials receive regulatory approval? And why is the waiting list for organ transplantation so long? These challenges stem in large part from a common root cause: a severe shortage of ethically-sourced human bodies. It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human biological materials are an essential commodity in medicine, and persistent shortages of these materials create a major bottleneck to progress. This imbalance between supply and demand is the underlying cause of the organ shortage crisis, with more than 100,000 patients currently waiting for a solid organ transplant in the US alone. It also forces us to rely heavily on animals in medical research, a practice that cant replicate major aspects of human physiology and necessitates the infliction of harm to sentient creatures. In addition, the safety and efficacy of any experimental drug must still be confirmed in clinical trials on living human bodies. These costly trials risk harm to patients, can take a decade or longer to complete, and make it through to approval less than 15% of the time. There might be a way to get out of this moral and scientific deadlock. Recent advances in biotechnology now provide a pathway to producing living human bodies without the neural components that allow us to think, be aware, or feel pain. Many will find this possibility disturbing, but if researchers and policymakers can find a way to pull these technologies together, we may one day be able to create spare bodies, both human and nonhuman. These could revolutionize medical research and drug development, greatly reducing the need for animal testing, rescuing many people from organ transplant lists, and allowing us to produce more effective drugs and treatments. All without crossing most peoples ethical lines. Bringing technologies together Although it may seem like science fiction, recent technological progress has pushed this concept into the realm of plausibility. Pluripotent stem cells, one of the earliest cell types to form during development, can give rise to every type of cell in the adult body. Recently, researchers have used these stem cells to create structures that seem to mimic the early development of actual human embryos. At the same time, artificial uterus technology is rapidly advancing, and other pathways may be opening to allow for the development of fetuses outside of the body. By integrating these different technologies and using established genetic techniques to inhibit brain development, it is possible to envision the creation of bodyoids a potentially unlimited source of human bodies, developed entirely outside of a human body from stem cells, that lack sentience or the ability to feel pain. There are still many technical roadblocks to achieving this vision, but we have reason to expect that bodyoids couldradically transform biomedical research by addressing critical limitations in the current models of research, drug development and medicine. Among many other benefits, theywould offer an almost unlimited source of organs, tissues and cells for use in transplantation. It could even be possible to generate organs directly from a patient's own cells, essentially cloning their biological material to ensure that transplanted tissues are a perfect immunological match to a patient and thus eliminating the need for lifelong immunosuppression. Bodyoids developed from a patient's cells could also allow for personalized screening of drugs, allowing physicians to directly assess the effect of different interventions in a biological model that accurately reflects a patient's own personal genetics and physiology. We can even envision using animal bodyoidsin agriculture, as a substitute for the use of sentient animal species. Of course, exciting possibilities are not certainties. We do not know whether the embryo models recently created from stem cells could give rise to living people or, thus far, even to living mice. We do not know when, or whether, an effective technique will be found for successfully gestating human bodies entirely outside a person. We cannot be sure whether such bodyoids can survive without ever having developed brains or the parts of brains associated with consciousness, or whether they would still serve as accurate models for living people without those brain functions. Even if it all works, it may not be practical or economical to grow bodyoids, possibly for many years, until they can be mature enough to be useful for our ends. Each of these questions will require substantial research and time. But we believe this idea is now plausible enough to justify discussing both the technical feasibility and ethical implications. Ethical considerations and societal implications Bodyoids could address many ethical problems in modern medicine, offering ways to avoid unnecessary pain and suffering. For example, they could offer an ethical alternative to the way we currently use nonhuman animals for research and food, providing meat or other products with no animal suffering or awareness. But when we come to human bodyoids, the issues become harder. Many will find the concept grotesque or appalling. And for good reason. We have an innate respect for human life in all its forms. We do not allow broad research on people who no longer have consciousness or, in some cases, never had it. At the same time, we know much can be gained from studying the human body. We learn much from the bodies of the dead, which these days are used for teaching and research only with consent. In laboratories, we study cells and tissues that were taken, with consent, from the bodies of the dead and the living. Recently we have even begun using for experiments the animated cadavers of people who have been declared legally dead, who have lost all brain function but whose other organs continue to function with mechanical assistance. Genetically modified pig kidneys have been connected to, or transplanted into, these legally dead but physiologically active cadavers to help researchers determine whether they would work in living people. In all these cases, nothing was, legally, a living human being at the time it was used for research. Human bodyoids would also fall into that category. But there are still a number of issues worth considering. The first is consent: The cells used to make bodyoids would have to come from someone, and wed have to make sure that this someone consented to this particular, likely controversial, use. But perhaps the deepest issue is that bodyoids might diminish the human status of real people who lack consciousness or sentience. Thus far, we have held to a standard that requires us to treat all humans born alive as people, entitled to life and respect. Would bodyoidscreated without pregnancy, parental hopes, or indeed parentsblur that line? Or would we consider a bodyoid a human being, entitled to the same respect? If so, whyjust because it looks like us? A sufficiently detailed mannequin can meet that test. Because it looks like us and is alive? Because it is alive and has our DNA? These are questions that will require careful thought. A call to action Until recently, the idea of making something like a bodyoid would have been relegated to the realms of science fiction and philosophical speculation. But now it is at least plausibleand possibly revolutionary. It is time for it to be explored. The potential benefitsfor both human patients and sentient animal speciesare great. Governments, companies and private foundations should start thinking about bodyoids as a possible path for investment.There is no need to start with humanswe can begin exploring the feasibility of this approach with rodents or other research animals. As we proceed, the ethical and social issues are at least as important as the scientific ones. Just because something can be done does not mean it should be done. Even if it looks possible, determining whether we should make bodyoids, nonhuman or human, will require considerable thought, discussion, and debate. Some of that will be by scientists, ethicists, and others with special interest or knowledge. But ultimately, the decisions will be made by societies and governments. The time to start those discussions is now, when a scientific pathway seems clear enough for us to avoid pure speculation but before the world is presented with a troubling surprise. The announcement of the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep back in the 1990s launched a hysterical reaction, complete with speculation about armies of cloned warrior slaves. Good decisions require more preparation. The path toward realizing the potential of bodyoids will not be without challenges; indeed, it may never be possible to get there, or even if it is possible, the path may never be taken. Caution is warranted, but so is bold vision; the opportunity is too important to ignore. Carsten T. Charlesworth is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (ISCBRM) at Stanford University. Henry T. Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University. Hiromitsu Nakauchi is a professor of genetics and an ISCBRM faculty member at Stanford University and a distinguished university professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo.
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  • Reeves announces extra 2bn for affordable homes
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    Login or SUBSCRIBE to view this storyExisting subscriber? LOGINA subscription to Building Design will provide:Unlimited architecture news from around the UKReviews of the latest buildings from all corners of the worldFull access to all our online archivesPLUS you will receive a digital copy of WA100 worth over 45.Subscribe now for unlimited access.Subscribe todayAlternatively REGISTER for free access on selected stories and sign up for email alerts
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  • RX Architects completes two coastal homes in East Sussex
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    1/5show captionRX Architects has completed two beachfront houses at Pett Level in East Sussex.The houses are arranged over three floors, with the main family spaces located on the top floor to maximise views across the beach.The site is adjacent to the Royal Military Canal to the north, a scheduled ancient monument, and the shingle beach and cliffs to the south.Each house contains three double bedrooms. Petersen Tegl linear white bricks have been used for the first and second floors, while the ground floors are clad in black bricks.Cantilevers form large external terraces on each floor, creating outdoor spaces and sheltered areas below.1/5show captionThe houses have views in all directions, with the cliffs to the west, the beach to the south, Camber and Dungeness to the east, and the Royal Military Canal to the north. Windows and terrace doors are positioned to frame key views of the surrounding landscape.Each house includes a heat pump, full solar arrays, battery storage, triple glazing, and highly insulated building fabrics, achieving an EPC A100 rating.Externally, both houses have private courtyard gardens designed to link with the surrounding landscape. Coastal plant species have been used to help integrate the gardens with the natural environment.Each plot also includes a separate cedar-clad, zinc-roofed garden studio, providing additional workspace overlooking the courtyard gardens.Project detailsArchitect:RX ArchitectsSite Location:Pett Level, East SussexGIA:260 sq m x 2 unitsContractor:Joseph Bentley DevelopmentsStructural engineer:ErigoM&E engineer: OHM EnergyPhotography:James Tarry and Richard Chivers
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  • Revamp of Foster + Partners Millennium Bridge pushed back a year
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    Foster + Partners' Millenium Bridge in London Source:&nbsp ShutterstockThe refurbishment of Foster + Partners Millennium Bridge has been delayed by a year after the owners were unable to find a contractor to do the work The central London Thames crossing needs resurfacing, its cables need to be retensioned and all of its steel needs to be repainted. Work was initially due to begin this spring during the bridges 25th anniversary year.But the 3.5 million job has not garnered sufficient interest from contractors, according to owners the City Bridge Foundation.Now they have split the work into two parts, with the redecking and repainting separated from the retensioning of cables.AdvertisementPutting the job out to tender again means that the work wont be done until 2026 at the earliest.Contractors will also have to find a way to minimise disruption to people traversing the bridge, which links the City of London and the South Bank. The closest landmarks on either side of the crossing are St Pauls Cathedral and the Tate Modern gallery.The bridge was completed to designs by Foster + Partners and Arup in June 2000 but almost immediately closed for 18 months due to lateral movement caused by synchronised footfall.After its disastrous start, the crossing was reopened to the public in February 2002 with significant modifications, including tuned mass dampers to reduce vertical and horizontal vibrations and viscous dampers to resist sway movements.Announcing the refurbishment tender in January this year, the City Bridge Foundation suggested that the bridge might become unsafe if the work were not done soon.AdvertisementThe foundation added in a statement: Owing to high footfall over the bridge, the slip-resistance of the top surface of the deck has reduced and in some places the texture has completely worn away.The project will introduce a new surface coating to each deck plank to improve this slip-resistance.The City Bridge Foundation is a 900-year-old charity which manages London Bridge, Tower Bridge, Blackfriars Bridge and Southwark Bridge, as well as the Millennium Bridge. Its sole trustee is the City of London Corporation. Source:Dafinka/ShutterstockThe Millennium Bridge2025-03-25Richard Waitecomment and share
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  • AJ webinar: Discover fresh thinking in threshold design
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    Sam Jacob will speak about his studios remodelling of the V&As Cromwell Road entrance in an AJ webinar exploring what makes a stand-out threshold design.Run in association withINTRAsystems, the free-to-attend webinar is taking place at 1.30pm today (Tuesday 25 March).Jacob will be joined on the panel by Morrow + Lorraines associate Sarah Matheou and architect Radostina Stoyanova, who will talk about their practices refurbishment of Alder Castle, a central London building looking over London Wall, which is now nearing completion.AdvertisementAlso taking part is Joanna Warda, senior interior designer at tp bennett, who will discuss the practices process for designing inclusive entrances with responsibly sourced materials using its in-house tool AD Lib.Aaron Dixon, specification consultant at INTRAsystems, will talk about how he helps architects learn about and select the most suitable specification for different project environments.Entrances are a key focus in experiencing buildings, both practically and physiologically, and how to design and incorporate this space of transition and welcome is critical.Through compelling case studies and expert input and with a focus on commercial and public buildings this webinar will:Explore key issues that shape our experience of entry sequence and welcome from the technical to the sensory, from shelter to wayfindingConsider evolving approaches to good threshold design, looking at detail design of entrance portals, lobbies and reception areasAddress issues such as material choices, circularity and airtightnessJacob is the director of Sam Jacob Studio for architecture and design a collaborative practice that makes buildings, places, strategies and objects. His projects embody stories, sensations and feelings in space, form and material.AdvertisementHis sculpturalredesign of the V&As main Cromwell Roadentrance is an ambitious transformation of the Grade I-listed building entrance and incorporates glass tubes to create optical distortions and enhance natural light, alongside sliding doors that improve environmental performance.Matheou joined Morrow + Lorraine in 2023 to lead its Alder Castle scheme. The project includes a CAT A office refurbishment, new commuter facilities and an extension that enhances the entrance, reception area and outdoor spaces. She is currently also overseeing the refurbishment of 8 Lancelot Place.Stoyanova has been involved with many projects within Morrow + Lorraine, including Alder Castle. Recently she led the refurbishment of Cobham house an eight-storey office building in the heart of London close to St Pauls Cathedral.Warda is a designer focused on creating spaces that are inclusive, adaptable, and environmentally responsible. Her portfolio spans commercial offices, front-of-house and amenity spaces in public buildings, residential and student accommodation, business parks, and showroom interiors each delivered with a focus on adaptability and longevity.Dixon collaborates with architects, interior designers and clients to help bring their creative visions to life. With over 10 years experience, he has worked on projects such as the Shard, Leadenhall Building, and Tate Modern, building strong relationships with top designers and clients.With practical, technical and theoretical insight, the webinar will explore all the elements that make for a good threshold space and a successful welcome to a building.Registerfor your free webinar place now. Source:Edmund SumnerV&A Cromwell Road Entrance by Sam Jacob Studio: shortlisted in Cultural and Religious building up to 5mDoors thresholds 2025-03-25AJ news deskcomment and share TagsDoors thresholds
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  • Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for March 25, #183
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    Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, No. 183, for March 25. Some of the clues are wild.
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