Architects: Want to have your project featured? Showcase your work by uploading projects to Architizerand sign up for ourinspirational newsletters.When one sees the words France and balcony together, a specific image comes to mind: wrought iron railings, a pair of doors that might not open all the way and just enough room to lean out with a coffee or a cigarette (in the true spirit of the French). While we all love the charm of a classic French balcony, France also excels at larger terraces with a real presence and more versatile uses (though some might argue that the original French balcony serves its purpose just fine).From wide planted platforms and stepped rooftops to deep loggias and layered facades, these outdoor spaces are no longer just decorative. Theyre functional, generous and central to the architecture. To capture that shift in scale and intent, this collection features nine projects across the country where terraces shape the building, frame the view and give users room to live beyond the walls.EmblemBy Hamonic+Masson & Associs, Lille, FranceAt the edge of Parc Matisse, Emblem rises between roads, rail lines and the city. The building steps up gradually, starting low near the park and reaching 50 meters at its tallest point. This shift in height brings light into the site and opens up views in every direction. Its most striking feature is the residential towers continuous balconies, which wrap the building in curved lines of perforated metal.These terraces extend the apartments and provide shade, airflow and outdoor space throughout the tower. The perforated metal screens filter light and add a fine texture to the curved faade. Finished in an earthy tone, the balconies pick up on the colors of the nearby park and local buildings. They shape how the tower is seen from a distance and how it is experienced by the people living inside.ARBORESCENCE Winner of Imagine AngersBy WY-TO Group, France Located between Angers historic center and the banks of the Maine, Arborescence introduces a layered design that brings nature into every part of the building. A mix of housing, senior living, childcare and co-working spaces makes it a place for all generations.Terraces define the projects identity. They shift and grow across the faade like branches, shaped by wind and light. Deep planters and green edges soften the concrete and create privacy without closing residents off from their surroundings. These outdoor spaces add texture and variety, offering different ways to live with the seasons.The building wraps around a planted courtyard, where shared spaces and gardens bring people together. Every unit opens to light, air and views of the evolving landscape.Apartments in Illkirch GraffenstadenBy tectne architectes, France In a car-free woodland near the Rhine-Rhne Canal, this six-story housing project is shaped by its calm setting and careful densification. The structure follows a compact rectangular form, allowing space for gardens and shared areas at ground level.Each of the 31 apartments includes a private loggia, framed by a concrete exoskeleton that wraps the entire building. These terraces act as sheltered extensions of the interiors, offering fresh air and outdoor space while preserving privacy. Beveled pillars and wooden guards filter views and sunlight, giving the faade a quiet rhythm. A shared rooftop terrace crowns the building, offering residents a place to meet, relax or enjoy the surrounding trees from above.LArboretumBy Leclercq associs, Nanterre, France Set along the Seine in Nanterre, Arboretum reimagines the office campus with a focus on sustainability and sensory comfort. Spanning 1355 square feet (126,000 square meters), the complex is built almost entirely from cross-laminated timber and organized around a curved central path that follows the rivers slope.Terraces play a key role in the campus design. Every office opens onto outdoor extensions some for meetings, some for quiet work, others simply for fresh air. These planted spaces vary in size and purpose but all support a connection to the surrounding landscape. The scent of wood, access to light and changing views offer a calmer work rhythm. Together, the terraces and gardens bring nature into the workday without losing sight of the sites industrial past.Tale of Transformation La Fantaisie Hotel, ParisBy PETITDIDIERPRIOUX, Paris, France Tucked between dense city blocks in Paris 13th arrondissement, Hotel Rosalie transforms a former hotel into a garden-focused retreat. The renovation keeps the original structure while introducing a new faade of pre-patinated zinc that shifts in tone with the light. At the rear, terraces open out toward a reimagined courtyard garden.These outdoor spaces extend the hotel experience beyond the rooms, offering guests a quiet place to pause, read or have a coffee. The terraces connect directly to a ground-level restaurant beneath a wide glass roof, where diners overlook dense plantings that change with the seasons. More than a simple refresh, the project is shaped by a clear goal: to give city guests a reason to slow down and step outside.Tolbiac ApartmentsBy Atelier Architecture Vincent Pareiram, Paris, France On a corner site in Paris 13th arrondissement, Les toffes de Tolbiac builds on the areas layered history, replacing former workshops with housing, retail and generous outdoor space. The project is shaped by a striking grid of balconies that stretches across three volumes, tying them into a single architectural gesture.These balconies are not just repetitions however as they they shift slightly on each floor, expanding outward as the building rises. This subtle movement increases outdoor space and creates a rhythm that softens the scale of the concrete and timber structure. On the courtyard side, shared terraces and raised walkways link the blocks, offering spaces to gather, rest or look out over the city. A rooftop garden completes the network, giving all residents access to the Paris skyline.I ParkBy NBJ architects, Montpellier, France Facing Montpelliers new city hall, I Park explores how housing can adapt to the Mediterranean climate. The eight-level building is made up of shifting horizontal bands, each one adjusted to optimize shade, airflow and outdoor living.Terraces are central to the design. Every apartment opens onto an outdoor space, with planted faades that bring greenery to the edges of each floor. These terraces vary in depth and layout, shaped by solar exposure and wind conditions. The result is a building that reads like a series of stacked gardens.Designed in close collaboration with local specialists, the project uses vegetation not as decoration, but as an essential part of daily comfort. The terraces make space for both privacy and connection, shaped by climate and site.Ateliers VaugirardBy Hamonic+Masson & Associs, Paris, FranceStretching 425 feet (130 meters) along a busy street, this housing project aims to replace repetition with variety. Ninety-six apartments are divided into 37 distinct layouts, each shaped by a generous terrace or garden. The buildings stepped form opens up views and sunlight, while breaking down the scale of its long volume.Terraces are wide and deep, averaging 215 square feet (20 square meters) per unit. These outdoor spaces give residents room to grow plants, eat outside, or simply pause between indoors and out. The planted terraces also act as visual filters, softening views between neighbors and creating a layered edge to the street. Above, the skyline rises and dips. On the ground, shops and public paths invite life to spill into and around the building.BEAUPASSAGEBy Franklin Azzi Architecture, Paris, France In Paris 7th arrondissement, a formerly hidden industrial block is carefully brought back to life through a mix of rehabilitation and new construction. Franklin Azzis design respects the sites patchwork of buildings, preserving historic faades and structures while introducing modern uses.Terraces are carved into the architecture with precision. Inserted between existing frames and new additions, they act as quiet thresholds between the homes and the city. These outdoor spaces vary in scale, responding to the irregular geometry of the site. Some open to shared courtyards, others are tucked above street level, catching light where it falls.The project stays close to the original materials and proportions, using terraces to invite daily life into a place long kept out of view.Architects: Want to have your project featured? Showcase your work by uploading projects to Architizerand sign up for ourinspirational newsletters.The post Beyond the Balustrade, Balconies Gone Wild: How French Architecture is Expanding Outside appeared first on Journal.

Tomorrows Nintendo Switch 2 Direct promises to be an event to remember. Running for 60 minutes, it will showcase the upcoming console and its features, but what about the games?If there was any doubt regarding potential announcements, Nintendo has announced the return of Treehouse: Live for April 3rd and 4th. Each day at 7 AM PT, it will showcase hands-on gameplay of Nintendo Switch 2 titles.Well likely see the next Mario Kart in action, but what about other titles? Could Nintendo showcase titles like Pokemon Legends: Z-A, which has all but confirmed that its coming to the Switch 2? Maybe highlight select enhanced Switch titles running at higher resolutions with better performance? Will there be something, anything, for Hollow Knight: Silksong?Time will tell, but if nothing else, fans will have something to look forward to other than trailers. The Switch 2 Direct starts at 6 AM PT on April 2nd.Join us on April 3rd and April 4th at 7 a.m. PT each day for a Nintendo Treehouse: Live | Nintendo Switch 2 presentation featuring hands-on gameplay of #NintendoSwitch2 games! pic.twitter.com/gsi0MqyZyZ Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) April 1, 2025

Pocketpair, the studio behind Palworld, has revealed through a recent interview that the game development industry doesnt seem to have any money going around at the moment. Speaking to GamesRadar at GDC 2025, Pocketpair communications director and publishing manager John Buckley spoke about the studio getting pitches from other development teams after the release of Palworld.No one has money at the moment. Minutes, thats not even a joke; minutes after Palworld released and that started to happen, people were sending us pitches even though we werent a publisher, said Buckley. I think there was just this desperate, you know, we need money thats going on right now, and a lot of people contacted us.To our surprise, it wasnt just little two-man teams or something, continued Buckley. Some really big names contacted us, you know, AAA, AA, premium indies, all these contacts.Pocketpair had announced that it would be publishing games back in January. As part of this move, the company is helping Tales of Kenzera: Zau developer Surgent Studios with an unannounced new horror game. Buckley spoke about how the company had begun to hear out studio pitches as it was getting its publishing arm ready.We started meeting these people very early last year, listening to ideas, explained Buckley. And we were very honest. We said, hey, were not publishers or anything, but well listen. And we talked about it a lot internally. What can we do? What can we not do?We want to help cool indies get made. We want to help cool, premium indie, kind of AAs get made.Not many details about the first title with Surgent Studios have been revealed so far, except for the fact that it will be a horror game. Studio founder Abubakar Salim (also the voice of Bayek in Assassins Creed Origins), spoke about the opportunity his studio was getting through Pocketpair.We noticed a pattern in the entertainment industry, and Pocketpair has given us the opportunity to make a horror game about it, said Salim. Both Surgent and Pocketpair are well versed in taking risks. This game will be short and weird, and we think players will be interested in what we have to say.Buckley had spoken about the studios publishing arm being created in order to help more indie studios get their games made back in January. Taking to social media, Buckley commented on how quickly game pitches started coming in after the publishing arm was announced. He also spoke about wanting to give smaller studios financial independence to make their games.We give you money. You make the game, posted Buckley. If you want help with marketing or something well help out, but otherwise do whatever you want. Were giving devs the financial freedom to make games they want so they DONT have to get wrapped up in stinky rule makers and bullies.Pocketpair has been able to kickstart its publishing arm in a bid to help smaller developers thanks to the massive success seen by its game Palworld. According to a report from back in February, Palworld has been played by more than 32 million players so far. For context, the game was developed on a budget of $6.7 million.

Modern Architecture: The BasicsBy Graham Livesey (Routledge, 2024)Review Ian ChodikoffReading an architectural textbook many years after architecture school may seem like rereading the road safety manual we used when preparing for our drivers license examination. In both cases, its to our benefit to re-evaluate what we learned years ago in a contemporary voice.From my vantage point, reading through Graham Liveseys tightly constructedModern Architecturewas a worthwhile exercise, if only to recalibrate, cross-check, and validate the beliefs Ive evolved about my chosen profession during the intervening decades from first learning about the Farnsworth House, critical regionalism and the Crystal Palace.Modern Architecture is part of Routledges The Basics series of slim introductory textbooks that includes titles ranging from Jewish Ethics to Shakespeare. Within the book, Livesey tackles subjects such as the Bauhaus, Russian Constructivism and Postmodernism, in texts that are laudable in offering a rapid fire of architects, buildings and centres of influence. Collectively, this forms a holistic understanding of how our profession has evolved from Monticello to Canadas Truth and Reconciliation Commission.The book is minimally but helpfully illustrated with delightful hand drawings by Mohammed Moezzi. The intended audience (i.e., a university student) will likely study this guide with a smartphone close at hand and assemble a valuable digital compendium for quick Google searches, containing an infinite amount of imagery. For this reason, this book could not have been written 25 years ago. The many short references and sources supplied by Livesey offer thousands of little breadcrumbs as he revisitsand indeed correctsthe many subjects and periods discussed, such as dedicating overdue attention to the many women whose history was forgotten or subjugated by white men. This book recognizes the contributions of Black architects and the innovation and brilliance that emerged from countries like India, Malaysia, China, and Africa over the past 250 years. It also provides insightful connections to politics, technology, landscape architecture, and design that help contextualize the evolution of modern architecture.The work of practicing architects is supported by this volume, too. Including discussions of notable academics focussing on socialism, phenomenology, poststructuralism, and the effects ofcolonialism helps us understand the trajectory of thought that defined several generations of architects.Modern Architecturemakes a logical attempt at working chronologically. But the pendulum shifts both ways when advancing diversity, or practicing within a global climate crisis and social inequality: progress is not always linear or assured. This humbling circumstance reminds us that, to do our best work, we need to understand the past and as many facets of our history as possible.As appeared in theApril 2025issue of Canadian Architect magazineThe post Book Review: Modern ArchitectureThe Basics appeared first on Canadian Architect.

Northern JourneysBy Blouin Orzes architectes, 2024Review Mason WhiteNorthern Journeys is self-described as a travelogue by Blouin Orzes architectes, but it is much more than that. The Montreal-based practice of Marc Blouin and Catherine Orzes has been working in the northern regions of Quebec (known as Nunavik), as well as in Nunavut and northern Manitoba, for more than two decades. The large-format book is an immersive collection of photographs, drawings, and short diary-like texts.Unlike a typical monograph, the book foregrounds concepts such as self-determination or being together as well as particularly unique journeys and place-based experiences over project descriptions and slick architectural photography. Blouin Orzes positions the collection of material in the book within the tension of what they call the north/south duality, where the north offers a space in which time takes on a different dimension. This atypical approach to a monograph allows for powerful connections between the distinct culture, climate, geography, and context of architecture and urbanism in both Nunavik and the Arctic as a region. The reader feels as though they are travelling along with Blouin Orzes as they meet Elders for a consultation meeting, or traverse challenging terrain in blizzards, or debate which portions of a project can be prefabricated and delivered by train or sealift.The short texts accompanying the full-page photographs of moments along the northern journeys provide a useful introduction to the unexpected aspects of Arctic-specific matters such as energy, adaptation, community, and land use. For example, the section on energy describes the hydroelectric mega-dams in the James Bay region as an essential to northern power supply, and details how the 1975 agreement for the dams led to the creation of the Inuit self-governing region of the Kativik in Quebec. Another travelogue entry describes the Inuit practice of building traditional structures during celebrations and community events, particularly in Inukjuak, but also in other hamlets and communities. Building these traditional structures ensures the continuation of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, or the Indigenous knowledge of the Inuit.The book also captures Blouin Orzes architectes own site-responsive projects, including the Katittavik Cultural centre in Kuujjuaraapik, Quebec, the OMHK multifunctional warehouse in Salluit, Quebec, and the Wildlife Field Research Station in Pond Inlet, Nuvavut. The architects position buildings not as rarified objects, but as process, and as dialogue. The final projects are seen as artefacts of material culture, serving as modest back-drops to daily life.The format of the book is well-suited to this humble expression of architectureits folio of large-format candid photographs captures not only the buildings and the place, but also the way in which these buildings create opportunities for the intimacy of everyday northern life. Blouin Orzes architectes work, too, is honest yet experimental, and adventurous yet thoughtful.Blouin Orzes architectes work will be featured in Palazzo Mora, Venice, from May 10 to November 23, 2025, as part of a series of exhibitions organized by the European Cultural Centre during the 19th International Venice Architecture Biennale.As appeared in theApril 2025issue of Canadian Architect magazineThe post Book Review: Northern Journeys appeared first on Canadian Architect.

Glenn Hodak, a corporal in the U.S. Army Air Forces, has been accounted for nearly 80 years after he died in a fire at the Tokyo Military Prison in 1945. Defense POW/MIA Accounting AgencyAn American soldier who was killed during World War II has been accounted for nearly 80 years after his death.Last week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that it had identified the remains of Glenn H. Hodak, a 23-year-old corporal in the United States Army Air Forces from Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania. Hodak was accounted for on September 25, 2024.During World War II, Hodak was a gunner with the 93rd Bombardment Squadrons 19th Bombardment Group. He was on a bombing mission to Tokyo when his B-29 Superfortress plane was shot down in March 1945.At first, Hodak was reported as missing in action. But investigators later realized that Japanese forces had captured Hodak as a prisoner of war. He was taken to Tokyo Military Prison, where he was killed in a fire on May 26, 1945.The blaze was the result of heavy U.S. aircraft bombing of the Japanese capital, reported Military.coms Richard Sisk in 2024. On the evening of May 23, 1945, more than 500 American B-29 Superfortress bombers took off from the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. When they reached Tokyo, they firebombed the city with highly flammable explosives under a strategic shift that was intended to force a Japanese surrender.The May 1945 bombing came on the heels of another intense U.S. firebombing campaign known as Operation Meetinghouse. Two months earlier, Operation Meetinghouse had killed an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 people in Tokyo, many of them civilians.After the war, members of the American Graves Registration Service searched for the remains of American soldiers throughout the Pacific region. In early 1946, they visited the Tokyo Military Prison, where the Japanese government indicated they would find the remains of 62 U.S. service members. In the end, they recovered 65 sets of remains and were able to identify 25 of them, including one set that belonged to a repatriated Japanese unknown.The services staff could not identify the remaining 39 bodies, so they buried the servicemen as unknowns in the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines.Decades passed without any answers for surviving relatives of the unidentified service members. Meanwhile, the American Battle Monuments Commission meticulously cared for the unknown service members graves at the cemetery, according to the agency statement.In March and April 2022, the remains were disinterred and sent to the agencys laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. In 2024, the agency launched its Tokyo Prison Fire Project, with a goal of identifying the American service members who perished in the 1945 blaze.The project faces considerable forensic challenges due to the condition of the remains, which were burned, damaged and commingled, the agency wrote in a social media post. Within one casket, for example, the agency found at least four sets of DNA.Eventually, forensic anthropologists Aelwen Wetherby and Kristen Grow were able to use dental and anthropological techniques, as well as circumstantial evidence, to identify Hodaks remains. They also used mitochondrial DNA, drawing on a sample provided by Hodaks great-nephew Benjamin Hodak.The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has had recent success accounting for Americans from the Tokyo Prison Fire, the agency says in a statement shared with CBS News Kerry Breen. We have accounted for two service members thus far for this project.Now that his family has been notified, Hodak will be laid to rest in Spring Creek, Pennsylvania, in May. He will be buried next to his mother and two of his brothers, reports Erie News Nows Mike Ruzzi.I was happy that a match was able to be made, Benjamin tells WENYs Jackie Palmer. It's amazing that they were able to find his remains, that we matched, and now they are bringing him home. I just want him back home; the whole family wants him home.Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.Filed Under: American History, Bones, DNA, Fire, Genetics, History, Japan, Military, Prisons, Teeth, US Government, US Military, Warfare, World War II

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Astra: Knights of Veda and Dungeon Stalkers publisher HYBE IM has raised $21 million to accelerate its business by leveraging K-pop artist IPs.The company said interest in its upcoming MMORPGs Architect: Land of Exile and Arkheron also drove interest in the deal.HYBE IM is a subsidiary of Korean entertainment company HYBE, a record label, talent agency, and music production company perhaps best known for managing immensely popular boyband BTS through its Big Hit label.HYBE has been making inroads into the video game industry through HYBE IM, which it established in 2022 to spearhead its development and publishing ambitions.The division previously secured an $80 million investment from the Makers Fund and other backers in 2024meaning it has now raised over $100 million to date.The latest funding round united previous investor IMM Investment with newcomers Shinhan Venture Investment and Daesung Private Equity.The cash will largely be used to bolster marketing, operations, and localization strategies to support the successful launch and live service operation of its titles.HYBE IM president Wooyong Chung said the company ultimately intends to "evolve beyond IP-based gaming and become a next-generation publisher delivering compelling content to gamers worldwide."Related:

A year and a half ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) worked with state attorneys general to shut down Prehired, a shady tech sales bootcamp program that a court said deceptively saddled students with millions of dollars in loans. Now, as the federal watchdog is being dismantled by Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a consumer advocacy group says the company is relaunching its old pitch under a new name: FastTrack.Prehired was an online program that offered training for entry-level software sales roles, promising that students would only have to pay the courses cost once they landed a job that paid more than $60,000 within 12 months of finishing. In a 2023 complaint, the CFPB and 11 states claimed that these were deceptively marketed loans with buried terms that left students on the hook even if they didnt get a job. After students had signed up, Prehired allegedly claimed theyd benefit from converting these loans into settlement agreements with the company, which actually made it harder for them to fight debt collectors.In November 2023, a court approved an order shutting down Prehired and permanently banning it from offering similar loans in the future. The company had already filed for bankruptcy. Prehired was ordered to refund $4.2 million paid by student borrowers on the income share agreements, and void $27 million worth of outstanding loans.Prehired, however, has allegedly done little to honor those terms. Last year, former Prehired students came across a new company called FastTrack, which looked suspiciously similar. It offered the same member success guarantee of landing a job with a salary of at least $60,000 within 12 months of completing the program, featured the same images on its website, and even displayed reviews that appeared to have actually been reviews of Prehired. It also featured a page of blogs authored by Joshua Jordan the name of the executive who previously ran Prehired (the author of those blogs has since been swapped out).There it was verbatim, just staring right at us the exact same sales pitchIn December 2024, the former Prehired students flagged the new FastTrack program to the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC), the nonprofit group that originally blew the whistle on Prehired. We did a side-by-side comparison of what we had saved as records of his old scheme, and there it was verbatim, just staring right at us the exact same sales pitch, says Mike Pierce, SBPCs executive director.FastTrack is offering interest-free financing for $30,000 in deferred dues, rather than an income share agreement, but Pierce says the guarantee offered is basically the same as Prehireds. We knew that was a lie at Prehired because eventually he drove a bunch of students who didnt get jobs into court and then into debt collection, he says. I would assume that thats a lie here too, because it doesnt seem like any other piece of the deal is any different.If FastTrack which Pierce says apparently launched soon after the initial consent order is simply a renamed Prehire, it is likely that Jordan has flagrantly violated the terms of the Prehired settlement, SBPC research and policy analyst Ella Azoulay says in a blog post. In letters sent on Monday to state AGs, SBPC claimed that Jordan appears to at least be violating the clear intent of the Prehired settlement, and FastTrack is at the very least engaged in the same unlawful conduct that resulted in the settlement agreement.FastTrack, which claims it has helped hundreds of members, could put a whole new crop of students at risk of wasted time and financial damage. Prehired used tactics that we had never seen a fraudster do before, Pierce says. That included a mass filing of debt collection actions against former students to get them to pay their income share agreements, and later push them into arbitration.One former Prehired attendee is Chris Belcher, a former Marine who signed up for the course in 2019 to get into tech sales. Belcher soon joined the company as a commission-based contractor, marketing the program to the military and to tech companies that might be interested in hiring Prehired students. But he says he was unable to recruit new businesses and left after a few months. Thats when he says Prehired started harassing the crap out of him. Belcher says hed gotten a job selling windows the glass, not the software yet Prehired was coming to collect on the $15,000, seeming to take credit for Belcher landing a role in an unrelated field. Belcher says he held firm in refusing to pay the fee.Belcher says hes not entirely surprised to see Jordans name pop up again with a similar program, because hes come to see many such businesses as suspect, though commonplace. It just doesnt surprise me, having learned about the shadiness of this side of this business, he says. He now advises people trying to get skills to go into tech sales not to take classes like those Prehired offered if they cost any money to do so.Instead of doing their job, we have watched the Trump CFPB fire its enforcement attorneys, shut down the agency, [and] take the name off the buildingUnder normal circumstances, the CFPB would have already initiated a new action against FastTrack and Jordan, says Pierce, who previously worked at the agency. But now, its been greatly weakened by President Donald Trump and DOGE. A backlog of cases built up under Russell Vought, acting director of the Office of Budget and Management, who ordered staff to stop working on February 10th and a judge only just ruled last Friday that they could get back to work while a broader case is pending. This injunction means the judge believes the workers union will likely prevail in claiming the Trump administration unlawfully dismantled the CFPB, but reaching that conclusion could take months and if a Republican-led Congress formally shuts the agency down, much less can be done. The CFPB is supposed to be monitoring these consent orders to make sure that corporate criminals follow the terms of their deals here, Pierce days. Instead of doing their job, we have watched the Trump CFPB fire its enforcement attorneys, shut down the agency, [and] take the name off the building. So of course, thats a giant open for business sign for every two-bit fraudster in America. For now, as a battered CFPB is getting back to business, the SBPC is turning to state AGs as a last line of defense, Pierce says. But that doesnt mean theyre a sustainable replacement for a federal watchdog. You cant have the kind of scale and resources in a state AGs office that you get in Washington when you have a federal regulator with thousands of employees whose only job day in and day out is to watch for financial fraud, he says. This doesnt mean that the state agencies werent doing their jobs. It means that CFPB has a mission and the resources to do its job, and when it doesnt, people get hurt.See More:

The Pixel 10 Pro Fold might not look all that different. | Image: OnLeaks via <em><a href="https://www.androidheadlines.com/google-pixel-10-pro-fold">Android Headlines</a></em>You probably shouldnt expect major changes to Googles next Pixel foldable. Renders shared with Android Headlines by reliable leaker Onleaks show a Pixel 10 Pro Fold that looks very similar to its predecessor, potentially indicating that it could largely be just a spec bump.As shown in the renders, the Pixel 10 Pro Fold appears to feature the same stacked rear camera setup as the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, along with a hole-punch camera on the external display and one on the top-right corner of the inner screen. The upcoming phone also seems to have a similarly-sized bezel and nearly the same dimensions as the Pixel 9 Pro Fold when unfolded: 6.1 x 5.9 x 0.21 inches.It does look like Google may have shrunk the gap between the screen and the devices hinge on the left side of the display, which would be a plus.The Pixel 10 Pro Fold will also likely come equipped with an upgraded Tensor G5 processor. Sources tell Android Headlines that the device could have a lower price compared to the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, which starts at $1,799.Google might not be making any big changes to the standard Pixel 10, either, as another set of renders OnLeaks shared with Android Headlines hint at …Read the full story at The Verge.