President Trump's announcement of tariffs and retaliatory measures by China has seen Apple's shares drop to their lowest point since June 2024, as investors predict rising iPhone prices and falling sales.Tim CookThe sweeping tariffs introduced by Trump will affect every single one of the every single one">very many countries Apple relies on for its manufacturing. Consequently, as with all technology firms, the company's share price took an immediate battering but now it's getting worse.In response to the purportedly reciprocal Trump tariffs, China has announced its own retaliatory ones. Trump is levying a 54% import tax on China, now Chinese firms importing goods from the US will face a 34% tariff. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Get Lectured is continuing the end of its Spring term roundups today with a look at whats in for the Department of Architecture at East Los Angeles College (ELAC) in Los Angeles.The three speakers are PaulMatevosyan andRaffy Mardirossian, founders of the Los Angeles-based practice DOMM (April 17); Alice Kimm from JFAK (May 1); and Benjamin Ball of Ball-Nogues Studio (May 8).Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Nintendo has announced a delay to Switch 2 pre-orders in the United States to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. Originally slated to begin on April 9th, the company told GameSpot that it will update the timing at a later date. However, the console is still launching on June 5th.Several retailers, like Walmart and Target, have already created listings for the Switch 2 with the old pre-order dates, so expect those to change soon. The console is still listed for $449.99, while the Mario Kart World bundle is $499.99. Whether the tariffs will result in price increases remains to be seen, so stay tuned.Alongside Mario Kart World, which retails for a whopping $79.99, titles like Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition, Yakuza 0: Directors Cut, Street Fighter 6, Deltarune Chapters 1-4, Fortnite, and more will be available at launch. The console sports a 7.8-inch display with a 1080p resolution, but its dock allows for outputting to 4K. Head here for more details.

The Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation at Mohawk College by mcCallumSather and B+H Architects received the Chief Planner Award at the 2023 Urban Design and Architecture Awards.The City of Hamilton is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Urban Design and Architecture Awards.The biennial City of Hamiltons Urban Design and Architecture Awards (UDAA) aim to recognize and celebrate design excellence throughout the city.Owners, urban designers, architects, landscape architects, planners, contractors, engineers, consultants and students are invited to submit projects. The jurors seek to select high-quality, innovative, sustainable and human-scaled projects.This year the eligibility period has been extended from two years to four years, in order to provide projects with streetscaping and landscaping more time to mature.There are a total of seven categories of submissions for this years awards, including: urban elements, private buildings in context, public buildings in context, open spaces, public spaces and green infrastructure, visions and master plans, civic achievements, and student projects, with one of the projects having the opportunity to be selected for a sustainability award.The deadline for submission is Friday, June 27, 2025, at 4:00 p.m.The awards will be announced to the public, including project design teams and owners, at an awards ceremony on November 6, 2025.More information is available here.The post City of Hamilton accepting submissions for 2025 Urban Design and Architecture Awards appeared first on Canadian Architect.

Friday, April 4th, 2025Posted by Jim ThackerMaxon releases Red Giant 2024.4 and Universe 2025.3html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"Maxons promo for its Spring 2025 product updates. The section on Red Giant starts at 02:10.Maxon has released Red Giant 2025.4 and Universe 2025.3, the latest updates to its suite of effects plugins for compositing and editing apps and its online library of effects and transitions.The updates extend support for DaVinci Resolve inside both sets of plugins, making two new Red Giant tools available within the software and streamlining loading of Universe plugins.In related news, Maxon has now discontinued support for Vegas Pro in the Red Giant tools, with the previous release being the last one to include active updates for Vegas Pro users.Red Giant 2025.4: DaVinci Resolve support extended, but Vegas Pro support endedRed Giant 2025.4 adds support for DaVinci Resolve, Blackmagic Designs compositing, editing and effects software, to two more of its key plugins.Real Lens Flares and Optical Glow now support Resolve, alongside Magic Bullet Looks, Cosmo, Mojo, Film, and Renoiser.However, Maxon has ended support for editing app Vegas Pro in the Red Giant tools.The final feature update was for Vegas Pro users was the previous release, Red Giant 2025.3, which will continue to receive technical support and critical bug fixes until 18 March 2026.Universe 2025.3: better loading in DaVinci ResolveUniverse 2025.3 features an improved loading process in DaVinci Resolve.In addition, effects in both Red Giant and Universe are now grouped in the menus of their host applications by effect type and purpose, making them easier to navigate.Price and system requirementsRed Giant is compatible with After Effects 2024+ on Windows 10+ and macOS 12.0+. Some individual tools are compatible with other host applications, including DaVinci Resolve.Complete Red Giant subscriptions, which include Universe, cost $85/month or $639/year. Individual Universe subscriptions cost $32/month or $214/year.Read more about the Red Giant plugins on Maxons websiteHave your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we dont post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.Latest NewsMaxon releases Red Giant 2024.4 and Universe 2025.3Updates to the effects plugins for compositing and video editing apps extend support for DaVinci Resolve, but end support for Vegas Pro.Friday, April 4th, 2025Nekki releases Cascadeur 2025.1 with AI-based InbetweeningInnovative animation app gets new AI system for generating realistic motion connecting two poses. Check out the other new features.Thursday, April 3rd, 2025Maxon releases Redshift 2025.4Big update to the renderer adds OpenPBR support. See the other new features for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya users.Thursday, April 3rd, 2025Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2025.23D animation and motion graphics app gets integrated Spline Modifiers and updates to particle simulation. Liquid simulation 'coming soon'.Thursday, April 3rd, 2025Maxon releases ZBrush 2025.2Check out the changes to the digital sculpting tool, including updates to poly modeling system ZModeler and new Redshift materials.Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025Maxon adds ZModeler and UV Master to ZBrush for iPad 2025.3Significant update to the new iPad edition of the digital sculpting app adds long-awaited poly modeling and UV unwrapping toolsets.Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025More NewsAdobe releases After Effects 25.2Autodesk releases Mudbox 2026Otoy releases OctaneRender 2025.1Poly Hammer releases Meta-Human DNA add-on for BlenderCheck out virtual cinematography tool Radical VCamChaos launches Chaos ArenaLumion unveils Lumion ViewMaster the art of Virtual Makeup Design with Neville PageAutodesk releases Arnold 7.4.13DGS Render 3.0 lets you paint 3D Gaussian Splats in BlenderAdobe releases Photoshop 26.5Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2026Older Posts

Cool FindsStone Tools Discovered in China Resemble Neanderthal Technology Used in Europe, Creating a Middle Stone Age MysteryArchaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but new findings might change that widely held idea The Quina technology discovered in East Asia was a set of stone tools for making other tools. Prehistoric sites in Europe that host similar tools are associated with Neanderthals. Ben MarwickDuring the Middle Paleolithica period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Agegroups such as modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans emerged and began developing new stone tools. Archaeologists have found evidence of these dynamic changes taking place in Africa, Europe and western Asia, but they hadnt seen similar patterns in East Asia. As a result, scholars have suggested the region did not experience such progress during this period.A new discovery, however, challenges that assumptionand it could even overhaul scientists understanding of human development.In 2019 and 2020, researchers in southwest China unearthed a roughly 55,000-year-old Quina system: a prehistoric tool-making kit previously associated with the Middle East and Neanderthal sites in Europe. As detailed in a study published Monday in the journal This is a big upset to the way we think about that part of the world in that period of time, study co-author Ben Marwick, an archaeologist at the University of Washington, says in a statement. It really raises the question of, what else were people doing during this period that we havent found yet? How is this going to change how we think about people and human evolution in this area?The Quina system was a set of tools for making tools, asDiscover magazines Paul Smaglik describes it. These sets of stone artifacts include thick, sharp and asymmetrical scrapers often resharpened to cut materials like meat, animal skins and wood, writes Marwick for the Conversation. European archaeologists theorize prehistoric humans used Quina scrapers while hunting migratory animals.These reusable and versatile tools would have been useful to mobile groups of people living in progressively colder and more severe climates, as study co-author Davide Delpiano, an archaeologist from the University of Ferrara in Italy, tells Science News Bruce Bower. Interestingly, the study reveals that southwestern Chinas climate would have matched the one in Europe at the time these tools were made.The discovery, however, raises more questions than it answers. Quina tools in Europe are specifically associated with Neanderthalsbut Neanderthal remains have never been uncovered in East Asia. So, the finding reveals a mystery: How did the Quina system appear in China?Delpiano suggests two possibilities, per CNNs Katie Hunt: Neanderthals could have spread the technology to China (either themselves or via contact with other groups), or a different group of archaic humans, such as Denisovans, could have independently developed the Quina system around the same time.Paleolithic archaeologist Dongju Zhang of Chinas Lanzhou University, who was not involved in the study, tells CNN that while both speculations are possible, to me, it is far too early to give an explanation of the producers of this style in Longtan, the archaeological site where the tools were found.With further excavations, researchers could uncover a site with more historical layers preserved and examine the archaeological record that predates this find. There, they could search for evidence of earlier versions of Quina technology, which, if found, would suggest early humans in East Asia had developed it independently.Either way, additional work could continue revealing details about East Asias long-underrated Middle Paleolithic.Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.

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Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders delayed in the US over Trump's tariffsThe June 5 release date is unchangedImage credit: Nintendo News by Samuel Roberts Editorial Director Published on April 4, 2025 Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders will not go ahead on April 9, 2025 in the US as originally planned due to the evolving situation of US President Donald Trump's 'reciprocal' tariffs on imported goods. The console's launch date of June 5 has not changed.As confirmed by IGN, Nintendo has sent out a press statement to numerous outlets confirming the postponement. "Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions."Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged."The tariffs were announced shortly after the latest Nintendo Direct livestream wrapped up on April 2, which confirmed a US launch price of $450. Nintendo manufactures the Switch 2 in countries targeted by the tariffs, like Vietnam, which created speculation around whether the initial price factored in any potential impact.Nintendo, then, made the pricing decision before the full extent of the tariffs' impact was known.Several analysts spoke to GamesIndustry.biz prior to this latest announcement, suggesting the wider impact of tariffs on the games industry and US consumers more generally is yet to be fully understood.Pre-orders, meanwhile, are set to officially begin in Europe on April 8. We'll update you when further details are available from Nintendo.

Microsoft is holding a 50th Anniversary Copilot livestream today at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT on April 4th, the same day Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen started the company in 1975. Dubbed Introducing your AI companion, its set up for Microsoft to show off some significant updates to its Windows AI assistant.You can watch the livestream right here via the YouTube stream or directly from Microsoft.Microsoft announced the event last month, which features Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, and leaders of past and present.Microsoft recently announced deep research and other agentic updates to Copilot in Microsoft 365, and a more significant reboot could help it keep up with tools released for competing AI platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini. CEO Satya Nadella recently commented on the success of DeepSeeks AI, saying to employees that Whats most impressive about DeepSeek is that its a great reminder of what 200 people can do when they come together with one thought and one play not just leaving it there as a research project or an open source project, but to turn it into a product that was number one in the App Store. Thats the new bar to me.Follow along below for all of the updates from Microsofts 50th Anniversary Copilot event.

It's official: The Nintendo Switch 2 is coming very soon. June 5, to be exact! Following a lengthy Nintendo Direct that showed off new games for the highly-anticipated console alongside more information on the Switch 2 hardware itself, some items are starting to go up for preorder. This includes microSD Express cards, which are the only storage cards the Switch 2 will be compatible with. Preorder MicroSD Express Cards at GameStopSwitch 2 CompatibleGameStop 256GB Express MicroSD Card$47.49 for GameStop Pro Members.$49.99 at GameStopSwitch 2 CompatibleGameStop 512GB Express Micro SD Card$80.74 for GameStop Pro Members.$84.99 at GameStopSwitch 2 CompatibleGameStop 1TB Express Micro SD Card$142.49 for GameStop Pro Members.$149.99 at GameStopQuite a few of these cards have already started to sell out, but there's a shining light at the end of the tunnel coming from GameStop. The retailer has created its own line of microSD Express cards that are available to preorder and come in varying capacities, from 256GB ($49.99) to 512GB ($84.99) to 1TB ($149.99). These are set to release on June 5, the same day as the console. You can preorder these cards below, but to stay up to date on more cards as they come back in stock keep our hub page for microSD Express cards bookmarked.The microSD Express cards have been disappearing fast from online retailers, so if you've been hoping to secure a storage upgrade ahead of the Switch 2's release you'll want to be quick to get your preorders in. If you're unsure if you'll need the extra space, it's worth noting that the Switch 2 is set to come with 256GB of internal storage, which is quite a bit more than the original Switch's 32GB. If you have an ever-expanding library of Switch games, it's always worth it to pick up some extra storage.Listings Are AvailableNintendo Switch 2 Preorders at Best BuySee it at Best BuyOutside of the additional storage, if you're curious when preorders will pop up for the console itself, make sure to mark your calendar for April 9. It's worth keeping our Switch 2 preorder guide bookmarked as well so you can stay up to date on when it drops and where it's available to purchase on the day. We've also put together a list full of tips to help increase your chances of getting a Switch 2. The countdown has begun, and we're here to help you secure a Switch 2 on day one.Hannah Hoolihan is a freelancer who writes with the guides and commerce teams here at IGN.