Design enthusiasts, rejoice! A remarkable discovery has sent ripples through the collectible design world as 500 pristine Enorme telephones, created by legendary designer Ettore Sottsass, have emerged from a time capsule in Stanford, California. These vibrant relics of 1980s postmodernism, untouched since their creation in 1985, represent a fascinating intersection of art, technology, and cultural history. For those who appreciate design artifacts with genuine provenance, this unexpected find offers a rare opportunity to own an authentic piece of design history.The story behind these phones is as colorful as their appearance. The Enorme telephone was born from a collaboration between Italian architect Ettore Sottsass (founder of the influential Memphis Group), IDEO founder David Kelley, and entrepreneur Jean Pigozzi. Together, they formed the aptly named Enorme Corporation with a revolutionary vision: to transform the mundane telephone, at that time a purely functional object, into something that celebrated both utility and beauty. The result was a bold statement piece that challenged conventional thinking about everyday technology.Designers: Ettore Sottsass, David Kelley (Jean Pigozzi, investor)What makes these phones instantly recognizable is their distinctive postmodern aesthetic. The rectangular silhouette features a playful polychrome palette with a red speaker and yellow base, embodying the Memphis Groups signature style. This design language, characterized by bold geometric shapes, bright colors, and playful proportions, became the visual shorthand for 1980s design innovation. Sottsass and his Memphis colleagues deliberately rejected the austere functionalism that dominated design thinking, instead embracing emotional connection and visual joy as legitimate design considerations.The timing of this discovery couldnt be more perfect, as contemporary design continues to experience a renewed appreciation for postmodern aesthetics. Todays designers regularly cite Sottsass and the Memphis Group as influences, with their work appearing in major museum retrospectives worldwide. The Enorme telephone stands as a perfect encapsulation of this influential movement, a physical manifestation of the groups philosophy that everyday objects should bring delight rather than merely perform functions. Its design remains surprisingly fresh despite being nearly four decades old.Whats particularly remarkable about this find is the pristine condition of these telephones. Each comes complete with its original 1985 packaging and instruction booklet, including the controversial sumo wrestler logo. These arent reproductions or reissues; theyre authentic pieces preserved exactly as they were intended to be experienced. For collectors and design historians, this represents an unprecedented opportunity to acquire what is essentially a museum-quality piece of design history directly from its original production run.The cultural significance of these phones extends beyond their visual appeal. They represent a pivotal moment when technology began to be viewed through a more humanistic lens. Before Apple made technological beauty mainstream, Sottsass and his collaborators were pioneering the idea that functional objects deserved thoughtful design consideration.The Enorme telephone challenged users to reconsider their relationship with everyday technology, suggesting that even the most utilitarian objects in our lives could and should bring visual and tactile pleasure. At a surprisingly accessible $495, these phones offer a unique opportunity to own a piece created by one of the 20th centurys most influential designers at a fraction of what his other works typically cost.Photo courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)The post Postmodern Treasure: Rare Ettore Sottsass Enorme Telephones Emerge After Decades first appeared on Yanko Design.

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People are gathering in cities all over the United States and globally to protest an illegal, billionaire power grab by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Theyre being put on by over 150 different organizations, including civil rights groups, labor unions, and LGBTQ+ advocates, and span more than 1,200 locations.Last weekend, Tesla Takedown protests targeted Tesla showrooms around the country to show disapproval for Musk, its CEO, who has spearheaded an effort to carry out mass federal workforce layoffs and hollow out government agencies. As Teslas sales have plummeted this quarter, Musk has threatened to go after the companys critics, while the FBI has created a task force to investigate individual acts of vandalism and other actions aimed at the company.The scope of these protests is much broader, targeting both Trump and Musk, who the Hands Off website accuses (accurately) of shuttering Social Security offices, firing essential workers, eliminating consumer protections, and gutting Medicaid. The Verges Mia Sato is in Manhattans Bryant Park in New York City, where she took the above video. She told me it wasnt clear how many people are there, but that its wall to wall everywhere despite the fact that its raining here and really nasty.My colleague Lauren Feiner, who attended the protest in Washington, DC, said the protest there is very big, thousands here around the Washington monument. She described it as very peaceful and orderly, with attendees listening quietly to the speakers, occasionally chanting in response.People gather to protest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Photo: Jessica TomanJessica Toman, who went to the protest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, texted the above image to me. A person posting images of the same protest on Bluesky guessed that protesters numbered in the thousands.It looks like a similar story in Boston, where thousands are seen in this video from today:Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul posted aerial footage of a massive crowd gathered at the State Capitol building in St. Paul, Minnesota:Demonstrators gathered in massive numbers in Daley Plaza in Chicago, Illinois, too, where a CBS Chicago livestream showed what looked like many thousands of people streaming from one side of the street to another for many blocks while this story was being written. Protests are also taking place overseas, in cities like Berlin, Germany and London, England.Its not just major cities. Hundreds appear to have shown up to protest in cities like St. Augustine, Florida, which the US Census Bureau estimates has less than 16,000 people, and Riverhead, New York, where only about 36,000 people live. Cars honked in apparent support of a protest in Manhattan, Kansas (under 54,000 residents), according to the Bluesky user who posted this video:A similar scene plays out in this video, apparently taken in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, a town of fewer than 4,000 people, today:Heres a gallery with some more images taken by Sato, Toman, and The Verges Chris Welch:1/13Protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Photo: Jessica TomanSee More:

Today, Meta AI announced the release of its latest generation multimodal models, Llama 4, featuring two variants: Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. These models represent significant technical advancements in multimodal AI, offering improved capabilities for both text and image understanding.Llama 4 Scout is a 17-billion-active-parameter model structured with 16 expert modules. It introduces an extensive context window capable of accommodating up to 10 million tokens. This substantial context capacity enables the model to manage and interpret extensive textual content effectively, beneficial for long-form document processing, complex codebases, and detailed dialogue tasks. In comparative evaluations, Llama 4 Scout has demonstrated superior performance relative to contemporary models such as Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, and Mistral 3.1 across recognized benchmark datasets.Parallel to Scout, Llama 4 Maverick, also built upon a 17-billion-active-parameter architecture, incorporates 128 expert modules explicitly designed to enhance visual grounding. This design facilitates precise alignment between textual prompts and associated visual elements, enabling targeted responses grounded accurately to specific image regions. Maverick exhibits robust performance in comparative assessments, surpassing GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash, particularly in multimodal reasoning tasks. Additionally, Maverick has achieved comparable outcomes to DeepSeek v3 on reasoning and coding benchmarks while employing approximately half the active parameters.A key feature of Maverick is its noteworthy performance-to-cost efficiency. Benchmarking efforts, specifically on the LMArena platform, have recorded an Elo rating of 1417 for Mavericks chat-optimized version, indicating its computational efficiency and practical applicability in conversational and multimodal contexts.The development of Scout and Maverick draws heavily from distillation techniques derived from the ongoing training of Metas more powerful model, Llama 4 Behemoth. Behemoth, which remains under active training, has preliminarily shown significant advantages over established models such as GPT-4.5, Claude Sonnet 3.7, and Gemini 2.0 Pro, particularly within STEM-focused benchmarks. The insights and advanced methodologies from Behemoth have been instrumental in refining Scout and Mavericks technical capabilities.With the introduction of Llama 4, Meta AI advances multimodal artificial intelligence through highly refined and technically sophisticated models capable of deep semantic understanding and precise multimodal alignment. This release further exemplifies Meta AIs ongoing commitment to fostering innovation and maintaining open accessibility for researchers, developers, and enterprise applications.Future progress in multimodal AI is anticipated with the finalization and public release of Llama 4 Behemoth. Initial results indicate Behemoths potential to set new standards within multimodal performance, particularly in STEM applications and computational reasoning tasks. Meta AI plans to disclose detailed technical specifications and performance metrics upon completion of the Behemoth model.The announcement underscores Meta AIs dedication to pushing the technical limits of multimodal modeling, supporting the evolution of practical and research-oriented AI applications across diverse sectors including scientific research, education, and complex conversational systems. As Meta AI continues this trajectory, the technological advancements embodied in Llama 4 Scout, Maverick, and eventually Behemoth are expected to facilitate substantial progress in the computational and practical capabilities of multimodal AI.Check outTwitterand dont forget to join our85k+ ML SubReddit. Asif RazzaqWebsite| + postsBioAsif Razzaq is the CEO of Marktechpost Media Inc.. As a visionary entrepreneur and engineer, Asif is committed to harnessing the potential of Artificial Intelligence for social good. His most recent endeavor is the launch of an Artificial Intelligence Media Platform, Marktechpost, which stands out for its in-depth coverage of machine learning and deep learning news that is both technically sound and easily understandable by a wide audience. 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Welcome toIndie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If youre a developer and would like your app featured, getin contact.Sofa is an easy-to-use app that helps keep you organized when you dont have something to do. Everyone has some level of downtime, but often dont plan things out. Social media doomscrolling is often an option, but Sofa helps you plan out other leisure activities. In its new update, it also added a built-in podcast player.Top featuresSofa lets you organize apps, books, audiobooks, movies, TV shows, podcasts, music albums, video games, and more. Its a one stop shop. The app has a very large catalog, so when you search for something more than likely it knows what it is. Once you search it, you can either add it to the pile, which is a general place for anything youd like to go through or add it to a tailored list that you curate.You can add your own custom categories for things beyond what I named prior. If you want an articles list, for example, you can choose to make one.Theres also a logbook, allowing you to keep track of every game, podcast, or show youve explored thus far. It serves as a great activity tracker.And, as mentioned earlier, the new Sofa 4.2 update now has a podcast player, so you dont even need to exit the app if youre a huge podcast enjoyer. The podcast player has show notes, and also supports CarPlay.Sofa is available for free on the App Store with all of the features mentioned above. Itll require an iPhone or iPad running iOS 17.6 or later, a Mac running macOS 14.6 Sonoma or later, or an Apple Vision Pro running visionOS 2.4 or later.For even more features, you can check out Super Sofa. Its their premium offering, which adds features like smart lists, deeper customization, enhanced podcast controls, pinned lists, sticky notes, and more. Its available for $3.99/month or $29.99/year. Smart lists are automatically populating lists based on filter criteria you can set up while creating a list.Sofa is plenty capable even if you never subscribe. It offers unlimited groups/lists, the ability to add virtually anything to the app, iCloud syncing, custom categories, and the brand-new podcast player even on the free tier.My favorite Apple accessories on Amazon:Follow Michael:X/Twitter,Bluesky,InstagramAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

The world economy is reeling today as businesses and investors try to unpack Donald Trump's so-called "reciprocal tariffs."Trump aims to curb the United States' reliance on foreign goods by raising the import cost for different countries, which is throwing the US-dominated global supply chain into chaos. Wall Street is in shambles as a result, with some $5 trillion in market value being wiped out in the past two days the worstperformance for the S&P 500 since the pandemic shock of 2020.Tech stocks were hammered especially hard after China announced its own tariffs of 34 percent in response to Trump's moves, thanks to their dependence on Chinese minerals and labor. And of all the tech companies bleeding out on the Stock Exchange floor, Tesla is in particularly rough shape.Elon Musk's EV company posted losses for ten of the last 11 weeks, and this one was no different. On Friday, Tesla's stock plummeted almost immediately after China announced its return volley, and continued to fall throughout the day to the tune of a 10 percent drop. Overall, Tesla's stock value has fallen by nearly 44 percent since Trump took office.That's before you even mention Tesla's dismal quarterly sales results, which came in lower than even the worst estimates at a three-year low. Analysts are now predicting a second straight year of sales decline for Tesla, which is bad news for Tesla's long term outlook.It's all coming together to threaten Tesla's status as a "growth stock," an iron-clad company like Alphabet or Apple whose financial growth is seen as all but guaranteed. Of course, that future depends on a healthy and confident stock market, which we probably won't see again for a while, as all signs point toward a recession.Musk's personal fortune, which is tightly connected to Tesla, likewise took a plunge. Thanks to Trump's tariffs, his massive hoard of riches shed some $11 billion, for a 2.5 percent loss. Forbeshad previously reported in March that Musk's net worth was down by $104 billion since Trump took office on January 20th, a number that these tariffs might soon look like chump change as countries cancel Starlink contracts and the European Union prepares its own retaliatory measures.As the world braces for further economic fallout in the weeks to come, its clear that Trumps tariffs may have set off a chain reaction that could reshape global markets and Musks EV empire forever.Share This Article

The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Becoming, Architectures for a Planet in Transition has officially launched its Call for Participants, inviting architects, researchers, and practitioners worldwide to contribute to the congress with their insights and ideas.Becoming represents the continuous transformation of our environments, acknowledging existing cultural and physical landscapes rather than starting from a blank slate. It promotes alternative transitions beyond the exhausted paradigms of the centrality of capitalism, fostering material, political, ecological, and poetic interrelations.Contributions must align with one of the six key themes that define Becoming. The open call encourages submissions in diverse formats aiming to break silos between research, practice and education:Critical Design: Submissions in this format include design projects, industrial design concepts, prototypes, and explorations of design methodologies, ranging from conceptual ideas to practical solutions and innovative approaches, both built and unbuilt.Critical Essay: This format is for written works such as essays, academic articles, research papers, critical analyses, theoretical discussions, research findings, or transcribed interviews related to the field of design.Critical Image: Submissions in this category include visual works such as films, photography, multimedia pieces, visual conversations, and creative or experimental work.Learn more about the submission guidelines and requirements here.Becoming explores the transformation of existing reality, understanding time as a design tool and addressing the relationship between the urgency of contemporary challenges and a long-term perspective, through six research lines: More-than-human, Attuned, Embodied, Interdependent, Hyper-Conscious, and Circular.This call will select a significant number of speakers for the congress, evaluated by a renowned jury of experts. We invite research that critically explores how architecture connects to these six lines. Submissions must address at least one of them.Read about Terms & Conditions and Conceptual Framework.Who can participate?UIA 2026 is aimed at architects, landscape architects, urban planners, designers, engineers, photographers, filmmakers, artists, and researchers in the social sciences and humanitiesfocusing on transdisciplinary approaches related to practical space.Image courtesy of UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 BarcelonaContributions - Three submissions formatsCritical DesignThis format invites submissions of Design projects, industrial design concepts, prototypes, or explorations of design methodologies. The focus is on innovative approaches within the design field, ranging from conceptual ideas to practical solutions, whether built or unbuilt.Critical EssaySubmissions in this format should be written works such as academic essays, research papers, or theoretical discussions that address critical analyses, theoretical perspectives, or research findings while also connecting to the themes of the Becoming research lines.Critical ImageThis format encompasses visual works, including films, photography, multimedia pieces, and experimental or creative visual projects that engage with design themes and the critical discourse surrounding architecture and spatial practice.Scientific Committee & JuryScientific Committee MembersJoan Busquets, Honorific President of The CongressFuensanta Nieto, President of the Scientific Advisor CommitteeCurators of the Congress: Pau Bajet, Mariona Benedito, Maria Giram, Tomeu Ramis, Pau Sarquella and Carmen Torres.Delegates UIA Regions: 5 Representative MembersCOAC/CSCAE Advisors: Oscar Miguel Ares, Meritxell Inaraja, Josep Lluis Mateo, Mar Santamaria, Elisa Valero.Image courtesy of UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 BarcelonaAcademic supportThis open call counts with the institutional support from the ETSAB-UPC (Escola Tcnica Superior dArquitectura de Barcelona, Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya) and the academic advice of Areti Markopoulou.Jury of ExpertsCritical design. Citical essay. Critical image. Each format will have an associated Jury of Experts, a panel of distinguished professionals and academics, each linked to one or more of the research lines of the congress. The complete list of the jury members will be disclosed in further announcements.Evaluation CommitteeThe Evaluation Committee will consist of academics and professionals from diverse nationalities, with established academic ties in the case of the critical essay. The total number of evaluators will be determined according to the number of submissions received through the Call for Participants. The complete list of evaluators will be made public prior to the start of the selection process.ScheduleMarch 31, 2025: Launch of the call for participantsMay 23, 2025: Submission deadlineSeptember 30, 2025: Announcement of selected proposalsJune 28July 2, 2026: UIA World Congress of Architects 2026Register via this link.Inaugural event The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona will officially kick off with an event on 14 April 2025 at 10 a.m. (CEST). The event is publicly accessible with prior registration and will also be streamed on YouTube. Streaming via this link.Physical presence: Assembly Hall located on the first floor of the COAC Barcelona headquarters (Architects Association of Catalonia), Spain.The top image in the article: Collage of digitally manipulated images. Image courtesy of UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona.> via UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona