Table of ContentsTable of ContentsTurning it all, into a podcastHow it helped me?Convenience, above allMore effective, tooA few snagsThe shift away from Google Assistant, and into the Gemini era, is nearly in its last stages. One can feel nostalgic about the eponymous virtual assistant, but its undeniable that the arrival of Gemini has truly changed what an AI agent can do for us.The language understanding chops are far better with Gemini. Conversations are natural, app interactions are fluid, integration with other Google products is rewarding, and even in its free state, Gemini takes Siri to the cleaners even on an iPhone.Recommended VideosThere are, however, a few tricks that put Gemini in an altogether different league. Deep Research is one of those agentic features that I use on a daily basis and continue to be amazed at. In March, Google added another rewarding feature to the Gemini arsenal: Audio Overviews. Nadeem Sarwar / Digital TrendsImagine turning your drab documents, overtly complex research paper, or academic reading material into a lively two-way podcast chat. Thats essentially what Audio Overviews is all about. The feature first arrived on Googles deeply underrated NotebookLM, and has finally been ported over to the core Gemini experience on mobile and web.You dont have to go through any technical hoops, or write a hyper-specific text prompt to get these audio makeovers. Just upload a file from the attachment picker, and you will see a Generate Audio Overview chip appear right above the chat box. Tap on it, and the podcast generation will commence.It may take a few minutes to complete, but in the meanwhile, you can safely switch to another app (or window). Once the process is over, you will get a notification about the podcast being ready for your listening pleasure, or sharing with other people.The audio overview is typically a two-person, free-flowing chat in an eerily natural tone. It almost feels as if you are chatting with Gemini Live, which itself feels dramatically more natural than any AI chatbot Ive used so far in voice conversation mode.These AI-generated podcasts are generally pretty well-made, Id say. But I gravitate towards them for a couple of reasons. First, I stare at a screen, read articles for research, and write my own stuff, pretty much the entire day.Nadeem Sarwar / Digital TrendsThat leaves little room for engaging with any further text-based material, be it academic, work-related, or even recreational. However, if I could just change the sensory mode to engage with that material, my reading fatigue takes a backseat.Audio podcasts offer a whole new way of engaging with text-based material in a more immersive fashion. That brings us to the second advantage, which is sensory stimulation, or variance. This formula has been well-documented and experimented with, in the field of academia and professional coaching.The text fatigue takes its own toll. It makes even exciting work appear like a chore that you need to get past, just because you cant afford to miss it. However, engaging with the same work, or its essence, through a different sensory media suppresses that fear of overloading on more text-based material. It actually helps in a few other ways.Engaging multiple senses strengthens memory. When we listen and interactwhether through reading, writing, or doingthe brain builds stronger connections, making it easier to recall later, says Yasir Naseem, a linguistics expert whose research work has focused on the modernization and gamification of teaching methodologies.Naseem, who is currently a curriculum expert at a leading ed-tech firm, tells me that you cant solely rely on a single medium for learning. Instead, he tells me, you need to combine different methods for maximum benefit, ranging from sentimental effect to memory retention.Nadeem Sarwar / Digital TrendsResearch published in Computers & Education journal also highlighted how students found audio files to be the superior learning and revision material. Flexibility, and sensory versatility, played a major role in their preference for podcasts over other media.True understanding and long-term retention happen when listening is paired with visuals, discussions, or hands-on activities, Naseem adds. My own experiences with Geminis audio overviews echo his advice. I have a stronger recollection of the knowledge I absorbed via the audio podcasts compared to reading the same material.You see, these audio podcasts are not a simple text-to-audio conversion. Instead, they break down an otherwise boring wall of text into a two-person conversation that you are essentially the sole audience to. Its a boon for any text-based material that doesnt instantly spark your curiosity and goads you into an instant reading.In my most recent experiment, Geminis audio podcast helped me understand the significance of a paper discussinga framework for interpretable neural learning based on local information-theoretic goal functions. In simpler terms, the research discussed how nerve cells organize themselves.You get the point Im trying to make here, right?Nadeem Sarwar / Digital TrendsConvenience plays an important role when it comes to absorbing information. And so does enthusiasm and excitement about the whole process. As per a paper published in the Computers in Human Behavior journal, podcasts enhance convenience, flexibility and accessibility to information and knowledge. It didnt take me long to realize that.Living in the national capital, spending anywhere between 2-3 hours stuck in a traffic or public commute is a daily reality for me. But more than the discomfort of it all, its the wasted time that hurts the most. Audio learning material offers the most convenient way to utilize that time in a productive fashion.With Gemini, you have another crucial benefit. You dont have to rely on the audio availability of a certain book, news article, or academic material. You can just download whatever material is at your disposal, and Gemini will turn it into a podcast-style conversation.There is plenty of multi-disciplinary research out that supports the benefits of an audio-based approach to learning. And its not solely about listening, but more about breaking things down and presenting them in a more approachable fashion.A couple of folks have said they like the fact were giving them some stuff theyre not reading in the newspaper. They like the fact were trying to introduce ourselves in a different way, says a research paper citing a news editor. The paper, courtesy of Syracuse University, was published in 2006 during the very early days of the podcast trend.Nadeem Sarwar / Digital TrendsAs of 2025, podcasts have become a veritable phenomenon for consuming information, from educational material to entertainment stuff. According to the Pew Research Center, nearly half of Americans have engaged with podcasts. Over half of the surveyed audience listened to podcasts for learning, for entertainment, or to have some audio material while doing something else.Nearly a third wanted to hear other peoples opinions, and another equally large segment was hooked up so that they could keep an eye on news and current events. My engagement didnt fall too far away from the aforementioned pattern. For long-form journalism stories or investigative work, I often found their podcast version more pleasing.Interestingly, podcasts appeared to drive practical changes, as well. Roughly two-thirds of the listeners engaged with a book or film after hearing a podcast, more than half of the audience started following a person on social media, and a third of them made lifestyle changes such as taking up exercise or changing their diet.Research published in the Journal of Social Media Marketing highlighted concepts such as media substitution and functional similarity in the context of listening to media and the audiences willingness. The overarching idea is that users evaluate the medium and pick the one that suits them the most.For the uniqueness of podcast contents, the influence on listening willingness and media substitution is positive, suggesting that unique contents, high quality and wide diversity make people want to listen podcasts, says the paper. I can personally attest to this finding, as well.pic.twitter.com/mhDugg1zdg Nadeemonics (@nsnadeemsarwar) March 30, 2025Over the past few days, I have podcast-ified numerous research papers discussing the impact of fiber, meat, and packaged food consumption on sleep patterns, cognitive health, and gut health. Compared to the overtly technical tone of scientific papers, having two hosts break down the findings with a sentimental and persuasive tone had a discernibly deeper effect on me.Think of it as learning about social etiquettes or cultural sensitivities in a book. And years later, seeing them in action with your own eyes. Or, think about learning a foreign language from a book, all on your own, and the difference it makes when you learn it from a person filling all that knowledge into your ears.The latter approach reaps better results. And thats primarily because the compound effect of multi-sensory engagement speeds up the learning process, or just makes it more effective. Geminis Audio Overviews have created a similar effect, and theyve helped me a lot.As productive as it all sounds, Geminis audio overviews are not. They can drain the true essence of a tastefully-written story in its podcasti-fication efforts, or miss out on a few small details. There are a couple of functional oddities, too. The length of the audio overview, which directly corresponds to the depth of the source material, can be quite random.The type of research work you can turn into podcasts. Nadeem Sarwar / Digital TrendsFor example, when I fed it a 260-page book on the topic of conjugations and morphology of verbs in the Persian language, the audio overview generated by Gemini was just over seven minutes in length. Qualitatively, it covered the most crucial parts, but missed out on the finer details.In another case, I turned a Deep Research document worth four pages into an audio podcast. The duration for this one was about 13-minutes. Unfortunately, Geminis automatic task chip wont let you adjust the length, or conversational depth of the audio overview.If you are using Google NotebookLM, which is where the audio overview feature first appeared, you can write a prompt that can dictate how deep the podcast conversation goes. I generated an audio podcast with a 59 runtime on NotebookLM a few weeks ago.Gemini wont let you do that. Not yet.Automatic document recognition by Gemini in Files app. Nadeem Sarwar / Digital TrendsThen, we have the language barrier, as Google is currently in the process of fine-tuning the whole pipeline beyond English. Another problem was the Anglicized pronunciation. For example, the AI podcast host mispronounced the Persian world Raf-thin as Raaf-tin.To an untrained ear not familiar with bilingual nuances of English-Persian translation, or how accents change the auditory perception of words in a different language, the AI podcast hosts could very well be spewing total gibberish.The sum total of my experiences is that Gemini Audio Overviews arent a revolution. They just offer a different, and more engrossing medium, to engage with content. It doesnt work all the time, but it certainly takes from the boredom of reading through pages of text that would otherwise put you to sleep.Editors Recommendations

Xiaomi recently launched the Mijia Hidden Smart Curtain in China. This is a smaller, more space-effective way of controlling curtains than many of the options currently on the market, and it interacts with a variety of different devices. Its unclear whether this newest smart home device will make its way to Western markets, but it could solve many of the problems posed by existing smart curtain solutions.The Mijia Hidden Smart Curtain can be controlled via remote control, the Mijia app, and with voice commands. It can also be scheduled to open and close at specific times, but perhaps the most innovative option is to give the curtain a gentle tug. This sends a signal to the motor to complete the movement, providing an easy and intuitive way of controlling the curtains for the less tech-savvy.Recommended VideosEach unit can support up to 110 pounds of fabric, and it only generates around 30db when operating. That said, it doesnt support L- or U-shaped tracks, so some types of curtains are incompatible without modification (including any with eyelets.)Image used with permission by copyright holderThe main selling point of this device is its small size. Xiaomi lists the dimensions as 2.1 x 3 x 4.1 inches small enough to fit in the palm of the hand, and much better than some of the larger options currently available.Please enable Javascript to view this contentThe product is currently on sale for CNY 599, which is roughly $82. What its price in domestic markets would be isnt clear, but it would compete against other smart curtain solutions like the SwitchBot Curtain 3 or the Ryse SmartCurtain $70 and $150, respectively.Editors Recommendations

GONE SILENT FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why. Dan Goodin Mar 30, 2025 3:41 pm | 21 Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Story textSizeSmallStandardLargeWidth *StandardWideLinksStandardOrange* Subscribers only Learn moreA prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.Xiaofeng Wang has a long list of prestigious titles. He was the associate dean for research at Indiana University's Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, a fellow at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a tenured professor at Indiana University at Bloomington. According to his employer, he has served as principal investigator on research projects totaling nearly $23 million over his 21 years there.He has also co-authored scores of academic papers on a diverse range of research fields, including cryptography, systems security, and data privacy, including the protection of human genomic data. I have personally spoken to him on three occasions for articles here, here, and here."None of this is in any way normal"In recent weeks, Wang's email account, phone number, and profile page at the Luddy School were quietly erased by his employer. Over the same time, Indiana University also removed a profile for his wife, Nianli Ma, who was listed as a Lead Systems Analyst and Programmer at the university's Library Technologies division.According to the Herald-Times in Bloomington, a small fleet of unmarked cars driven by government agents descended on the Bloomington home of Wang and Ma on Friday. They spent most of the day going in and out of the house and occasionally transferred boxes from their vehicles. TV station WTHR, meanwhile, reported that a second home owned by Wang and Ma and located in Carmel, Indiana, was also searched. The station said that both a resident and an attorney for the resident were on scene during at least part of the search.Attempts to locate Wang and Ma have so far been unsuccessful. An Indiana University spokesman didn't answer emailed questions asking if the couple was still employed by the university and why their profile pages, email addresses and phone numbers had been removed. The spokesman provided the contact information for a spokeswoman at the FBI's field office in Indianapolis. In an email, the spokeswoman wrote: "The FBI conducted court authorized law enforcement activity at homes in Bloomington and Carmel Friday. We have no further comment at this time."Searches of federal court dockets turned up no documents related to Wang, Ma, or any searches of their residences. The FBI spokeswoman didn't answer questions seeking which US district court issued the warrant and when, and whether either Wang or Ma is being detained by authorities. Justice Department representatives didn't return an email seeking the same information. An email sent to a personal email address belonging to Wang went unanswered at the time this post went live. Their resident status (e.g. US citizens or green card holders) is currently unknown.Fellow researchers took to social media over the weekend to register their concern over the series of events."None of this is in any way normal," Matthew Green, a professor specializing in cryptography at Johns Hopkins University, wrote on Mastodon. He continued: "Has anyone been in contact? I hear hes been missing for two weeks and his students cant reach him. How does this not get noticed for two weeks???"In the same thread, Matt Blaze, a McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown University said: "It's hard to imagine what reason there could be for the university to scrub its website as if he never worked there. And while there's a process for removing tenured faculty, it takes more than an afternoon to do it."Local news outlets reported the agents spent several hours moving boxes in an out of the residences. WTHR provided the following details about the raid on the Carmel home:Neighbors say the agents announced "FBI, come out!" over a megaphone.A woman came out of the house holding a phone. A video from a neighbor shows an agent taking that phone from her. She was then questioned in the driveway before agents began searching the home, collecting evidence and taking photos.A car was pulled out of the garage slightly to allow investigators to access the attic.The woman left the house before 13News arrived. She returned just after noon accompanied by a lawyer. The group of ten or so investigators left a few minutes later.The FBI would not say what they were looking for or who is under investigation. A bureau spokesperson issued a statement: I can confirm we conducted court-authorized activity at the address in Carmel today. We have no further comment at this time.Investigators were at the house for about four hours before leaving with several boxes of evidence. 13News rang the doorbell when the agents were gone. A lawyer representing the family who answered the door told us they're not sure yet what the investigation is about.This post will be updated if new details become available. Anyone with first-hand knowledge of events involving Wang, Ma, or the investigation into either is encouraged to contact me, preferably over Signal at DanArs.82. The email address is: dan.goodin@arstechnica.com. Dan GoodinSenior Security EditorDan GoodinSenior Security Editor Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening, cooking, and following the independent music scene. Dan is based in San Francisco. Follow him at here on Mastodon and here on Bluesky. 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Indu Navar and her late husband, Peter Cohen. Courtesy of Indu Navar. 2025-03-30T19:58:06Z SaveSaved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.Have an account? Indu Navar has spent her career in tech, building and investing in organizations in Silicon Valley.She founded the Peter Cohen Foundation and EverythingALS after her husband died of ALS.Cohen had a long tech career, too. He built Amazon Mechanical Turk and AWS at Amazon.This is an As-Told-To essay based on a conversation with Indu Navar, the CEO and Founder of EverythingALS. It has been edited for length and clarity.Both my husband and I have been on the ground floor building technology that changed the world.I have degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. I started my career at NASA and was on the founding team of what is today's WebMD. Then, I started another company that I ran for 14 years. After that, I was investing and advising. I've always been fascinated with big data and building analytics on top of it. My husband, Peter Cohen, worked at Amazon for about 18 years. He joined around 1996 or 1997 and built Amazon Mechanical Turk, a crowd-sourcing marketplace.Life was really good. Here we are making change. He was still in his late forties, and then he started saying, "Hey, I think something is wrong with my ankle. It's not dorsal flexing."We're like, "Oh, no big deal, it's just an ankle issue." No, it was a spine issue. Oh no, it was a brain issue. It took us two years to figure out that it was actually ALS, which is degenerative. The method of diagnosing ALS is called elimination, so you eliminate other diseases and problems. I think we spent over $100,000 just to diagnose it.Every 90 minutes, somebody is getting diagnosed with ALS, and they're hearing the same diagnosis they heard 80 years ago. You have 2 to 5 years to live from your first symptom. That's what shocked me. It takes a long time to get diagnosed, and we diagnose late compared to other diseases, like cancer. A lot of people pass away without even being diagnosed.Peter was diagnosed in 2018 and passed away in 2019. It shook us. It shook us in a way that, as entrepreneurs and as problem solvers, we ask how this is in such a dire state where we haven't done something about it in 80 years? This problem is very opaque until you've gone through it.I started a nonprofit in his name called the Peter Cohen Foundation. My goal is to be able to say that he helped cure ALS with what he went through. We used to talk all the time about what we would do differently if we knew this problem existed before it happened to us.Our goal with the Peter Cohen Foundation and EverythingALS is to bring technology innovations to ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases. We do everything from monitoring and assessing what is happening in clinical trials and using sensors to predict what will happen. The sensors measure patients' speech, breathing, walking, and fine motor skills.Today, we don't actually have the tools to figure out if the drug you give a patient is really working because the way they evaluate your deterioration is by asking you, "On a scale of 1 to 4, how is your speech? How is your walking? How easy is it for you to cut your food?" For us, we're vegetarians. We don't cut our food, so how would we know how to answer that? It's called a patient-reported outcome, and a lot of the questioning has not evolved in years.By using sensors, we don't have to wait for you to get to the point where you can't do things. We can actually predict where you're going to be in 3, 6, 9, or 12 months. We'll use them for early diagnosis. We've digitized a lot, and our algorithm is in clinical trials.We call it citizen-driven research because we go directly to patients and do research with people who are being affected by the disease, so we can get thousands of people involved. We send the sensors to them, they wear them, and we monitor them remotely.We have an EverythingALS app that lets patients talk to others who have ALS and have gone through this journey. They can also talk to our LLM-based generative AI tool, but it's not like talking to ChatGPT. Our AI is really walled off and trained only with the data we have and the 220 hours of experts who have spoken to us. It's a very trusted dataset.Right now, we are moving to applying our process to our first other disease, which is Alzheimer's. Huntington's and Parkinson's will be in the near future as well. Our goal is to move the needle and fill the gap. We just felt like there was an unmet need in terms of how we care for people, and if you don't care for people, you'll never come up with a cure.Recommended video

Were still cackling in delight at the first Nacelle Toys Star Trek drop, which is now available for pre-order after being revealed at last years New York Comic Con. But its time to stop gazing at the Weyoun figure that you still cant believe will soon join your collection, for io9 has an important announcement to make: wave two of Nacelles Star Trek action figure line is coming! At last, Star Trek toys have broken away from their weird history and are now delivering figures on a level that fans have been wanting for literal decades. Revealed at Nacelles Star Trek action figure panel with Nicholas Meyer (director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) at this weekends WonderCon in Anaheim, CA, the wave two figures kick off with this killer entry: Captain Kirk from Star Trek: Generations This figure was teased at the recent New York Toy Fair, and its the only one with accompanying prototype images so far. Note the accessories: jar of dill weed! HORSE! Nacelle Heres a closer look at the accessories in prototype form: Nacelle Nacelle Nacelle Nacelle Nacelle Nacelle The rest include: Captain Janeway from the Star Trek: Voyager episode Year of Hell Nog (Starfleet Uniform) from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine TPol from Star Trek: Enterprise Valeris from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Romulan Commander from Star Trek: The Original Series Carol Marcus from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Bem from Star Trek: The Animated Series Worf (Generations Sailor) from Star Trek: Generations Geordi La Forge (Generations Sailor) from Star Trek: Generations Nacelle A press release from Nacelle reminds us that its founder and CEO (not to mention noted toy fanatic) Brian Volk-Weiss specifically wanted these releases to be made by passionate Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans, and drew on fan feedback and suggestions when deciding which characters to include. Youll note that wave two has 10 figures, building on the eight included in wave one. Were trying to take a simple, but calculated approach with this line, Volk-Weiss added. We want to find the perfect balance of making characters for the first time as toys, combined with doing modern versions of the series main cast in their duty uniforms. By listening to fellow fans, we have hopefully found a line up that will keep everyone excited for many years to come!The attention to detail was impeccable in wave one (those perfectly chosen accessories!), and were eager to see the full images of wave two when theyre made available. As a reminder, heres whos included in wave one: Captain Jellico from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Chain of Command; Weyoun from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; Captain Garrett from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Yesterdays Enterprise; Captain Sulu from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; Peter Preston from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; Tuvix from Star Trek: Voyager episode Tuvix; Valkris from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock; and Mirror Archer from Star Trek: Enterprise episode In A Mirror, Darkly.For now, you can pre-order wave one at the Nacelle Store. Those initial figures should ship out in October, and cost $29 for individual figures or $225 for the full set. No word yet on when wave two will be up for pre-order or a shipping date, but well keep you posted. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, whats next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.

Throughout the history of the X-Men, theres been one constant: Charles Xavier makes everyones lives just absolute hell. Sooner or later, everyone in his circle finds a reason to hate him, and then he goes away to ruin someone elses life until his students and surrogate family need him again. After terrorizing his fellow mutants on Earth the last few years, Charles is doing the next worse thing and spreading his special brand of chaos to the stars. On Friday, Marvel revealed Charles and his frequent lover Lilandra of the Shiar Empire will be major players in the upcoming Imperialcomic. If you havent been keeping up with the X-Men in a while, Charles was imprisoned in his own institute after Krakoa fell and Orchis was defeated. During the recently endedX-Manhuntevent, he broke out and went on the run while suffering from a brain tumor thats been killing innocent people. The various X-Men teams fought individual mutants like Storm and Havok over whether to arrest or help him, but in the end, Xavier meets with Lilandra to jettison off to space and help their daughter Xandra. The big premise ofImperialwritten by Jonathan Hickman and drawn by Iban Coello and Federico Vicentiniis the sudden assassination of several major galactic leaders. So far, Marvels been mum on who specifically gets got, but in addition to being a chaos agent, one thing Charles tends to do is lead. Given Hickmans promise of this event being a huge shakeup for the comics cosmic side, making Xavier a big player in that landscape would certainly fit the bill. But will the various empires of the galaxy survive whatever he puts them through before he dips back to Earth? Well find out more whenImperialkicks off on June 4. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, whats next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.

Arch House / Tiago Castro Sousa LdaSave this picture! Ivo Tavares StudioHousesParedes de Coura, PortugalArchitects: Tiago Castro Sousa LdaManufacturersBrands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers: BRUMA, Moon on light, Sanitana, Slamp, Stan - FaroMore SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. The village house is located at the top of the slope, above the village of Paredes de Coura Due to its location, shape and size, the house is a prominent element that imposes itself on the village experience. It was built for commercial use Pharmacy. Elegant, large spans, decorated with stonework elements, such as jambs, lintels, among others. This house is different from the local architecture. The location, the ornamental elements and the exterior proportions lead us to an image of a spatially refined house. It leads us to imagine spaces decorated with shapes and materials very much in the Art Nouveau style.Save this picture!Save this picture!This imaginary, this dream in which we travel as we pass in front of the house, is not reflected in the interior. The existing interior has monotonous, divided, small and gloomy spaces. It consists of a central space, with high ceilings, facing north and south, but surrounded by four other small spaces to the east and west (bedroom, kitchen, sanitary installation, storage). These are connected directly by interior doors, which multiplies the routes and consequently conditions the habitation of the admittedly central/main space.Save this picture!Save this picture!On the top floor, in the attics, two bedrooms and a storage space. The connection between them is made by a staircase, built between walls and of reduced size. It is clearly an organization that grew out of need. In these, without planning, without concepts, functionalist spaces, the protagonist is the man.Save this picture!Save this picture!Soon the challenge arose! The challenge came from the client, connoisseurs of culture, music and Design, especially lovers of Art Nouveau or arts and Crafts. Both understood that living in the house did not do justice to the object. The project sought to harmonize space and form. It was the challenge of making the imagination come true! Square, simple plan, with large openings on all sides. It sketches a design devoid of sensations.Save this picture!Thus, through natural light, shadow and arch we establish a set of concepts that are reflected in our emblematic imagery. The arch appears in the memory of the use and shapes of the first project. It is an element of pure elegance. Through form, the arch, an element used in history as an element of art, we organize the space and create a new habitation and new sensations.Save this picture!Save this picture!The ground floor, entrance floor, consists of a single space, subdivided by two arcades. This gives rise to 3 spaces for different uses. These elements allowed a single space to provide three interconnected but diverse moments of living Kitchen, Living Room and Dining Room. Clearly these refined elements create an elegant symbiosis between form and function. The upper floor consists of a central office, support room, sanitary installation and storage. On the lower floor, semi-buried, there are two bedrooms, a bathroom and a laundry room.Save this picture!On these floors, for private use, tranquillity reigns through natural northern light. A light, faint, constant, synonymous with serenity. The connection between them is made by a concrete staircase covered in wood. It is a suspended and decorative element, which strictly matches the metrics imposed by the arches. It starts and arrives inside the arches. The arch became the main element of the house. It is the organizing element of the interior space as well as the exceptional element on the exterior (entrance marking). This responds to the dream of Art Nouveau so often spoken in the clients speeches. Arch House.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessAbout this officePublished on March 30, 2025Cite: "Arch House / Tiago Castro Sousa Lda" [Casa Arco / Tiago Castro Sousa Lda] 30 Mar 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1028398/arch-house-tiago-castro-sousa-lda&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

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Project Files: https://www.patreon.com/posts/12496746 .This is the 21st part of the tutorial series, where we are going to implement a Real Time Strategy game using Unreal Engine and C++. In this episode, we are going to implement an actor details panel. When we have selected multiple actors, a simple icons that represent all the selected actors along with their health levels/ Hit points. But when we select only one actor, we will see a more detailed representation of the selected actor in the same area of the HUD. Here we will see the selected actor name (farmer, lumberjack, knight.. etc) and a slightly larger icon, hit points, actor properties such as attack and range. We will work on the UI part and how to connect it with existing systems here. Full C++ RTS Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNTm9yU0zou5_PYxEdjNbAgbVRn-daOga .Unreal Strategy game with Blueprints series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNTm9yU0zou4Eulmi8YIfzHiNZEzfbSMk // ! https://www.patreon.com/codelikeme Patrons will have access to project files of all the stuff I do in the channel and other extra benefitsJoin this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClb6Jh9EBV7a_Nm52Ipll_Q/join Like my facebook page for more content : https://www.facebook.com/gamedevelopersclub/ Follow me on twitter : https://twitter.com/CodeLikeMe2 Follow me on reddit : https://www.reddit.com/user/codelikeme #CodeLikeMe #unrealengine #ue5 #ue4 #indiegamedev

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