It seems the Pixel Watch 4 is going to look a lot like the Pixel Watch 3, but there are some minor tweaks.

British architect Peter Cook has revealed his design for a whimsical children’s pavilion adorned with Lego bricks, planned for construction next to the Serpentine Gallery in London. Titled the Play Pavilion, Cook crafted the vibrant geodesic structure in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery and Danish toy manufacturer, The Lego Group. Scheduled to open on June 11 to celebrate World Play Day, Cook’s orange pavilion will be featured alongside the annual Serpentine Pavilion during the summer. This year, the adjacent pavilion is being designed by Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum. The Play Pavilion will be capped with a striking geodesic dome roof and feature rounded walls adorned with vibrant Lego murals. These walls will be punctuated by a variety of uniquely shaped openings, offering an intriguing visual and tactile experience. The pavilion will include an array of interactive elements, designed to foster an environment for playful exploration and creativity. Visitors will find crawling holes inviting them to embark on mini-adventures, a slide for added fun and excitement, and a small performance space that can be used for impromptu shows or gatherings. This design aims to inspire imagination and engagement among children and adults alike. Designer: Peter Cook “The Play Pavilion tantalizes by being bright, curvaceous, and strange, and on closer inspection, the acrylic skin of the enclosure erupts into delightful and inventive murals that burst out into Lego brick-built elements,” said Cook. “Entering the Play Pavilion, mysterious stalagmite-like masts reveal the intricacy and creative potential of the space. Then you see walls with long runs of Lego baseplates, with visitors invited to play and create,” he concluded. Cook sought to evoke a sense of mystery and discovery in the pavilion’s design by partially obscuring the activities taking place inside. “The Play Pavilion is an opportunity to remind the public that architecture can be cheerful as well as focused, with a degree of mystery on first sight,” said Cook. “We can see glimpses of people moving around inside, with children appearing from mystery places. Then, on entering, all is revealed. Cheerful architecture takes you beyond the day-to-day predictability of cause and effect. Just as in the tradition of pantomime, it sends you away with a smile on your face.” The Play Pavilion will feature a strong steel frame, complemented by bolt-on panels that contribute to its modular design. Its distinctive geodesic dome will be enveloped in a skin of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE), a durable and lightweight material known for its transparency and weather resistance. The structure is thoughtfully engineered to allow for easy disassembly, facilitating its potential relocation and reconstruction at a different site once its tenure at the Serpentine concludes on August 10. This design ensures that the pavilion can continue to inspire and delight in new settings, extending its life and impact beyond its initial installation. The post This Whimsical & Playful Children’s Pavilion Is Made From LEGO Blocks first appeared on Yanko Design.

The blockbuster antitrust case begins Monday. Its outcome could impact how Big Tech companies grow—but the government has a long way to go to prove its case.

Apple's iPadOS 19 at WWDC is rumored to be a more macOS-like update, with boosts to multitasking and productivity potentially making the tablet even more of a workhorse.iOS and iPadOS 19 will be shown off at WWDC this summerAs a format, the iPad doesn't easily lend itself to productivity, outside of art and design. Even with the addition of a keyboard to the mix, it's not quite a full replacement for a MacBook Pro, but it could get closer with some tweaks at WWDC.According to Mark Gurman in Sunday's Bloomberg newsletter, Apple's changes to iPadOS 19 will involve a shift to make the design of its operating system catalog more consistent. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Bungie’s Marathon recently revealed its gameplay to the world, showcasing the sci-fi extraction shooter and its mechanics (alongside a snazzy cinematic short). While impressions range from excited to skeptical, several media outlets and content creators went hands-on with its alpha and revealed new details, like the launch content. It’s confirmed that Marathon will arrive with Season 1 – with director Joe Ziegler discussing the creation of “adventures” for players to embark on. However, many outlets, including GameSpot, confirmed it would launch with three maps. A fourth will become available shortly after. There will also be six playable Runners at launch, with four revealed thus far – head here for more details. The narrative is currently “very vague in its nature and unclear in its implementation.” Meanwhile, the character progression didn’t “yet show signs of offering a meaningful sense of growth.” Again, these are alpha build impressions, so time will tell if these aspects are available at launch. Marathon will launch for Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC on September 23rd, with the closed alpha starting on April 23rd.

Black Sunday was a severe dust storm that occurred on April 14, 1935, as part of the Dust Bowl, a period of severe dust storms in the American prairies in the 1930s. The storm first hit the Oklahoma panhandle and northwestern Oklahoma, then moved south into Texas. The conditions were the most severe in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, but the storm's effects were also felt in surrounding areas. Drought, erosion, bare soil, and winds caused the dust to fly freely and at high speeds. It is estimated that 300,000 tons of topsoil were displaced from the prairie area. Black Sunday was one of the worst dust storms in American history and caused immense economic and agricultural damage. This photograph shows the storm approaching Stratford, Texas. Photograph credit: George Everett Marsh Jr.; restored by Yann Forget Recently featured: Thomas Jefferson Bali myna The Jewish Cemetery Archive More featured pictures

April 14: Tamil New Year and other New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asia (2024); N'Ko Alphabet Day in West Africa Hailstones from the 1999 Sydney hailstorm 1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Yorkists under Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Barnet, killing Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick. 1945 – World War II: The German town of Friesoythe was razed by the 4th Canadian Division on the orders of Major General Christopher Vokes. 1999 – A storm dropped around 500,000 tonnes of hailstones on Sydney (examples pictured) and the east coast of New South Wales, causing about A$2.3 billion in damages, the costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history. 2010 – Plumes of ash from a major eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland led to widespread disruption of air travel throughout Europe for several days. 2014 – Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from a government secondary school in the town of Chibok, Nigeria. Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton (b. 1852)Robert Carlyle (b. 1961)Rachel Carson (d. 1964) More anniversaries: April 13 April 14 April 15 Archive By email List of days of the year About

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Elon Musk’s popularity with the American public is waning, according to the latest polling average from Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin. The billionaire CEO of multiple companies wears many hats, but the most visible one of late has been as the face of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an organization that has been tearing through the US government administrative state. Silver Bulletin’s average shows that 53.5 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of Musk, and only 39.6 percent of Americans see him favorably. His unpopularity is way up since the beginning of 2024 when only 38 percent of people disliked him, according to the site’s tracker. Silver writes that his process for tracking Musk’s ratings is similar to how he tracks President Trump’s, but with “slightly more conservative settings as Musk is polled less often than Trump.” According to Silver Bulletin, negative views of the billionaire have been especially trending upwards in the wake of his heavy support — in part by paying voters — for Trump’s second Presidential campaign and, not long after, the beginning of his work at DOGE. That work has seen widespread federal agency layoffs as DOGE’s operatives access, or attempt to gain access, to sensitive areas of the government, including IRS records, the US Treasury’s payments system, and the US Social Security Administration. However accurate Silver Bulletin’s average is, the site is not alone in noting Musk’s unpopularity. Outlets like Fox News, Politico, and Axios have all recently pointed to polls showing a growing distaste for the billionaire. That may have already had electoral consequences for Republicans in Wisconsin, where Musk’s attempt to bolster a conservative Supreme Court candidate this month — using the same voter-paying tactics he used during Trump’s campaign — appear to have backfired. More than half of voters in the state disapproved of his involvement, and about a third said it made them less likely to vote for the conservative justice, according to pollster information published by The Washington Post. In the end, Democrat-backed candidate Susan Crawford won by 10 points, preserving Wisconsin’s highest court’s 4-3 liberal majority.

In case the continuously evolving tariff news hasn’t been confusing enough, there’s now another twist to the story. According to the Trump administration, the exemption from the 125% reciprocal tariff is only temporary, and a tariff will apply to smartphones, laptops, and more in “a month or two.” On Friday night, the US Customs and Border Protection published some exclusions for Trump’s new 125% reciprocal tariff on China, as well as the baseline 10% global tariff. These exclusions include “smartphones, laptop computers, hard drives and computer processors and memory chips.” It’s worth noting that Apple still would’ve been subject to a 20% “fentanyl tariff”, which President Trump emphasized in a post on Truth Social today. In short: the total tariff on China specifically would’ve been 145% (125% reciprocal + 20% fentanyl) – but now it’s just 20%. However, the exemption from the reciprocal tariff isn’t a “permanent sort of exemption”, according to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. In an interview with ABC News, he said that the tech sector would be subject to a “special focus type of tariff” (via The Verge). Lutnick emphasized that this “special focus type of tariff” would include products like the iPhone. Trump echoed a similar sentiment on Truth Social, where he said that the administration would be “taking a look at” semiconductors and the “whole electronics supply chain” in an upcoming tariff investigation. So… I suppose the ultimate conclusion for now is that a special tech tariff will be determined at a later date. Ideally it’d be less than the 125% “reciprocal tariff.” We’ll find out in a month or two. Realistically, any tariff on China probably means Apple will shift US imports to India and Vietnam as much as possible. Recent Mac models, like the M4 MacBook Air and M3 Ultra Mac Studio, have been manufactured in Vietnam. However, we have no real insight on the level of capacity outside of China. It might not be viable for every Apple product sold in the US to be manufactured outside of China. Things will ideally turn out alright, but I wouldn’t wait and see. If you need a new Apple product, you should buy it now. Nobody will be “off the hook” from tariffs, according to Trump. My favorite Apple accessories on Amazon: Follow Michael: X/Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed.  FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.You’re 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. Don’t know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel