If there's one prominent architectural style that can be observed throughout history—and throughout the world—it's neoclassical architecture. With origins in the mid-18th century, this tailored style pairs the traditions of classicism with a sense of restraint and refinement, making it an enduring and timeless approach to both residential and public architecture for centuries to come. To learn more about neoclassical architecture, including its most common characteristics and notable examples in the public space, check out our comprehensive guide below. Related StoriesWhat Is Neoclassical Architecture?Chris Hellier//Getty ImagesNeoclassical architecture is a design movement that emerged in the mid-18th century as a reaction to the ornamental exuberance of the Baroque and Rococo styles. Drawing inspiration from the classical architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, it emphasizes simplicity and symmetry, with a sense of refined grandeur.That said, neoclassical architecture is more than a nostalgic nod to antiquity—it’s a powerful visual representation of the Enlightenment ideals of order, beauty, and civic pride. It's no wonder the style became the go-to for government buildings and monuments across Europe and the United States that still stand proud today.Related StoryThe History of Neoclassical ArchitectureNeoclassical architecture originated during the 18th-century Enlightenment, a period in which reason, civic virtue, and empiricism were highly valued. At that time, archaeological discoveries at ancient sites like Herculaneum and Pompeii reignited interest in Greco-Roman art and architecture. The rational geometry and structural clarity of the ancient works were thought to embody Enlightenment values.By the late 18th century and early 19th century, neoclassicism had become dominant across Europe and the newly formed United States. In the U.S., the style was closely associated with the democratic ideals of the young republic, so it became the architectural style of choice for government buildings, universities, and other public institutions.Related StoryCharacteristics of Neoclassical ArchitectureAndreas von Einsiedel//Getty ImagesNeoclassical architecture is defined by several key features.Symmetry and proportion: Buildings are often designed with perfectly mirrored façades and layouts that emphasize order and balance.Columns: Frequently modeled after the classical orders—Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian—columns are both decorative and functional.Triangular pediments: These classical gables are typically found above entryways or porticos.Domed or flat roofs: Many neoclassical buildings feature either large domes or low-pitched roofs.Minimal ornamentation: Compared to the Baroque or Rococo styles, neoclassical buildings have fewer decorative elements.Grand scale: The buildings often project an imposing or monumental presence, especially in civic architecture.Famous Examples of Neoclassical ArchitectureMany iconic buildings around the world display the neoclassical style—here are some of the most famous.The United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.Thanasis//Getty ImagesThe U.S. Capitol is one of the most prominent examples of neoclassical architecture in the United States. Designed initially by William Thornton and later modified by several other architects, the building features a central dome, grand staircases, and porticos with columns, all referencing Roman temples.The Panthéon in Paris, FranceChristophe Lehenaff//Getty ImagesOriginally built as a church to honor St. Genevieve, the Panthéon was repurposed into a mausoleum for France’s most celebrated citizens. Architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot blended Gothic engineering with classical design to create a structure inspired by Rome's Pantheon; it's notable for its prominent dome, classical columns, and temple-front portico.The British Museum in London, EnglandPawel Libera//Getty ImagesBuilt in the mid-19th century by architect Sir Robert Smirke, the British Museum is a classic example of the Greek Revival style, a specific branch of neoclassicism. The building features a dramatic colonnaded façade and symmetrical wings that reference Greek temples.La Madeleine in Paris, FranceAtlantide Phototravel//Getty ImagesMore closely resembling a Roman temple than a traditional church, La Madeleine is a striking neoclassical structure. Commissioned by Napoleon as a temple to honor his army, the Pierre-Alexandre Vignon-designed strucure features a peristyle of 52 Corinthian columns and a sculptural pediment.The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, GermanyRICOWde//Getty ImagesThis monumental gate, built between 1788 and 1791 by Carl Gotthard Langhans, is one of Berlin’s most recognizable landmarks. Modeled after the Propylaea in Athens—the gateway to the Acropolis—it features Doric columns and a sculptural quadriga (chariot).The White House in Washington, D.C.Caroline Purser//Getty ImagesDesigned by architect James Hoban, the White House was modeled in part after Leinster House in Dublin (Hoban was born in Ireland) and in part after the works of Venetian architect Andrea Palladio. The presidential residence has a columned portico and symmetrical wings.Follow House Beautiful on Instagram and TikTok.

Following Severance is a tough job, but Apple TV+ has done surprisingly well so far, helped in large part by Seth Rogen’s hit comedy The Studio. And per a new interview with one of the show’s co-creators, there’s no end in sight for the series. The Studio’s team wants ‘to keep doing it indefinitely’ The Studio has provided Apple TV+ with the kind of buzz and momentum it hoped to keep up following Severance’s strong run. While the series hasn’t officially been renewed for season 2 yet, a new interview with co-creator Alex Gregory reveals the creative team isn’t planning to stop any time soon. Russ Milheim at The Direct interviewed Gregory, where they discussed The Studio’s future. When asked the long-term plan for the series, and how long it might run for, Gregory replied: I think we’d like to keep doing it indefinitely… Put it this way, I don’t think there are any plans for an end… I am hopeful [for a Season 2]. It sounds like the team has already logged several season 2 ideas, and could potentially pull from scripts originally intended for season 1. Gregory continues: I think we might like to go overseas for something. I mean, there are all sorts of things to do, and there were full episodes written that got shelved in favor of other episodes. It’s, yeah, it is a business that has a lot of stories to tell, so we’re excited to see where we can take it. One key part of The Studio is the involvement of many real-life Hollywood celebrities through one-off guest appearances. Gregory believes the show’s buzz could lead to even more success in this area with season 2: “I’m hopeful that next year we’ll get even more cool cameos.” The Studio is the rare Apple TV+ series that’s not only extremely well regarded by critics, but has also scored lots of viewers. Even though season 2 isn’t official yet, it sounds like the creative team wants to keep going a while yet. And I have no doubt Apple wants that too, with as many new seasons coming to Apple TV+ as possible. Have you been watching The Studio? Do you hope it gets a lengthy run? Let us know in the comments. Apple TV+ is currently available for just *$2.99* per month with a limited-time special. Best iPhone accessories 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

It's no secret that Musk is anxious about the world's population. In 2022, he made the controversial proclamation that "population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming."That wasn't just one of his many idle thoughts, but a serious mantra to live by. The centi-billionaire now has at least 14 children with at least four different women — Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis, author Justin Wilson, musician Claire "Grimes" Boucher, and right-wing influencer Ashley St. Clair — and those are just the ones we know about.It's all part of his sci-fi addled worldview, where humanity is somehow at risk of extinction unless he can sire an army of kids and waste tens of billions of dollars trying to get to Mars — instead of doing something concretely useful like ending homelessness, an issue he's called "propaganda."In 2024, the world's richest man bought a $35 million compound to house his "legion" — his eyebrow-raising word for his children — and their mothers, so that his kids could "be a part of one another's lives." Musk has likewise explored ways to fill the compound as fast as possible, telling a then-pregnant St. Clair that "to reach legion-level before the apocalypse, we will need to use surrogates."As Musk's profile rises to simply un-ignorable levels thanks to his reckless work dismantling the US government, so too have the billionaire's efforts to keep his growing brood a secret from prying eyes. Unfortunately for Musk — or, more accurately, his kids — he's just not very good at it.Damning reporting by the Wall Street Journal this week has uncovered the ways Musk tries to keep his harem under wraps. Not surprisingly, it has a lot to do with money, veiled threats, and sinister innuendo intended to silence the many mothers of his children.Working through a personal fixer named Jared Birchall, Musk deploys nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) and payment contracts designed to keep the mothers of his children quiet under threat of legal action.St. Clair, for example, told the WSJ she was offered $15 million on top of $100,000 a month for her silence about Musk's child. Months after their child was born, Musk began ghosting St. Clair, prompting her to file for sole custody of the infant. Musk then immediately retaliated by substantially reducing his child support payment while refusing a paternity test, St. Clair's lawyer told People.Per the WSJ, St. Clair told Birchall "I don’t want my son to feel like he’s a secret." The fixer's response? That going the "legal route" with Musk "aways, always leads to a worse outcome for that woman than what it would have been otherwise.""Privacy and confidentiality is the top of the list in every aspect of his life," Birchall told St. Clair at the time.Even the women who reject Musk's uncomfortable advances are subject to strict privacy rules. Tiffany Fong, for example, is a cryptocurrency influencer whom Musk privately messaged back in 2024, asking if she was interested in having his kid. Fong, who made hundreds of thousands of dollars posting on Musk-owned X-formerly-Twitter, turned him down, but confided to friends her worry that the rejection would hurt her revenue.Sure enough, once Musk learned she shared details of his babymaking proposal, he lost it. The billionaire scolded her for her "indiscretion," unfollowed her on X, and severely limited her earnings on his app — exactly the vindictive repercussion she'd been worried about.There's a popular rumor swirling that Musk has many more children than is commonly known. If his previous attempts to keep things on the down low are any indication, it's only a matter of time until someone spills the beans on them too.Share This Article

What surprises me most about the new trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps isn’t the fact that it’s set in the past (or at least in what the press release calls a “retro-futuristic” New York City). It’s not that it features a female version of the Silver Surfer, played this time by Julia Garner. It’s that this film — the first from Marvel Studios featuring the company’s most central and fundamental heroes, the ones who launched the so-called “Marvel Age of Comics” in the 1960s — appears to be extremely close to the story of a Fantastic Four movie that already exists.That would be 2007’s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. In that movie, Reed Richards and Sue Storm are about to get married when their nuptials are interrupted by the arrival of the Surfer as the herald of an unstoppable alien god named Galactus. In First Steps, Reed and Sue are expecting their first child when their domestic bliss is interrupted by ... the arrival of the Surfer as the herald of an unstoppable alien god named Galactus.I am sure there will be many differences between the films when all is said and done. And I know that Galactus is one of the FF’s greatest villains, and those tend to rise to the top of the pile anytime you get a new crack at a franchise. (Obviously the team’s #1 villain, Doctor Doom, has already been claimed for the upcoming Avengers sequel, which will co-star this FF.) Still, there are many other Fantastic Four characters and stories out there you could make a movie out of that haven’t appeared onscreen before.Anyway, here is the new trailer for the film.READ MORE: The Best Marvel Movies Not By Marvel StudiosThe trailer looks good! I dig the retro-futuristic vibe! The costumes are neat! The Jack Kirby-esque version of the Thing rules! But yeah, I just hope the film doesn’t feel like Rise of the Silver Surfer.There’s a new poster for the movie as well.THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPSMarvelloading...Here is The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ official synopsis:The Fantastic Four: First Steps introduces Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm/Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kiry), Johnny Storm/Human Torch (Joseph Quinn) and Ben Grimm/The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) as they face their most daunting challenge yet. Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, they must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus (Ralph Ineson) and his engimantic herald, Silver Surfer (Julia Garner). And if Galactus’ plan to devour the entire planet and everyone on it weren’t bad enough, it suddenly gets very personal.The Fantastic Four: First Steps is set to open in theaters on July 25.THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPSMarvelloading...Get our free mobile appThe 10 Best Comic Book Movies of the Last 10 Years (2015-2024)There have been a lot of comic book movies over the last ten years. These are the best of the best.Categories: Movie News, Superheroes, Trailers

Google DeepMind’s latest update to a top Gemini AI model includes a dial to control how much the system “thinks” through a response. The new feature is ostensibly designed to save money for developers, but it also concedes a problem: Reasoning models, the tech world’s new obsession, are prone to overthinking, burning money and energy in the process. Since 2019, there have been a couple of tried and true ways to make an AI model more powerful. One was to make it bigger by using more training data, and the other was to give it better feedback on what constitutes a good answer. But toward the end of last year, Google DeepMind and other AI companies turned to a third method: reasoning. “We’ve been really pushing on ‘thinking,’” says Jack Rae, a principal research scientist at DeepMind. Such models, which are built to work through problems logically and spend more time arriving at an answer, rose to prominence earlier this year with the launch of the DeepSeek R1 model. They’re attractive to AI companies because they can make an existing model better by training it to approach a problem pragmatically. That way, the companies can avoid having to build a new model from scratch.  When the AI model dedicates more time (and energy) to a query, it costs more to run. Leaderboards of reasoning models show that one task can cost upwards of $200 to complete. The promise is that this extra time and money help reasoning models do better at handling challenging tasks, like analyzing code or gathering information from lots of documents.  “The more you can iterate over certain hypotheses and thoughts,” says Google DeepMind chief technical officer Koray Kavukcuoglu, the more “it’s going to find the right thing.” This isn’t true in all cases, though. “The model overthinks,” says Tulsee Doshi, who leads the product team at Gemini, referring specifically to Gemini Flash 2.5, the model released today that includes a slider for developers to dial back how much it thinks. “For simple prompts, the model does think more than it needs to.”  When a model spends longer than necessary on a problem only to arrive at a mediocre answer, it makes the model expensive to run for developers and worsens AI’s environmental footprint. Nathan Habib, an engineer at Hugging Face who has studied the proliferation of such reasoning models, says overthinking is abundant. In the rush to show off smarter AI, companies are reaching for reasoning models like hammers even where there’s no nail in sight, Habib says. Indeed, when OpenAI announced a new model in February, it said it would be the company’s last nonreasoning model.  The performance gain is “undeniable” for certain tasks, Habib says, but not for many others where people normally use AI. Even when reasoning is used for the right problem, things can go awry. Habib showed me an example of a leading reasoning model that was asked to work through an organic chemistry problem. It started out okay, but halfway through its reasoning process the model’s responses started resembling a meltdown: It sputtered “Wait, but …” hundreds of times. It ended up taking far longer than a nonreasoning model would spend on one task. Kate Olszewska, who works on evaluating Gemini models at DeepMind, says Google’s models can also get stuck in loops. Google’s new “reasoning” dial is one attempt to solve that problem. For now, it’s built not for the consumer version of Gemini but for developers who are making apps. Developers can set a budget for how much computing power the model should spend on a certain problem, the idea being to turn down the dial if the task shouldn’t involve much reasoning at all. Outputs from the model are about six times more expensive to generate when reasoning is turned on. Another reason for this flexibility is that it’s not yet clear when more reasoning will be required to get a better answer. “It’s really hard to draw a boundary on, like, what’s the perfect task right now for thinking?” Rae says.  Obvious tasks include coding (developers might paste hundreds of lines of code into the model and then ask for help), or generating expert-level research reports. The dial would be turned way up for these, and developers might find the expense worth it. But more testing and feedback from developers will be needed to find out when medium or low settings are good enough. Habib says the amount of investment in reasoning models is a sign that the old paradigm for how to make models better is changing. “Scaling laws are being replaced,” he says.  Instead, companies are betting that the best responses will come from longer thinking times rather than bigger models. It’s been clear for several years that AI companies are spending more money on inferencing—when models are actually “pinged” to generate an answer for something—than on training, and this spending will accelerate as reasoning models take off. Inferencing is also responsible for a growing share of emissions. (While on the subject of models that “reason” or “think”: an AI model cannot perform these acts in the way we normally use such words when talking about humans. I asked Rae why the company uses anthropomorphic language like this. “It’s allowed us to have a simple name,” he says, “and people have an intuitive sense of what it should mean.” Kavukcuoglu says that Google is not trying to mimic any particular human cognitive process in its models.) Even if reasoning models continue to dominate, Google DeepMind isn’t the only game in town. When the results from DeepSeek began circulating in December and January, it triggered a nearly $1 trillion dip in the stock market because it promised that powerful reasoning models could be had for cheap. The model is referred to as “open weight”—in other words, its internal settings, called weights, are made publicly available, allowing developers to run it on their own rather than paying to access proprietary models from Google or OpenAI. (The term “open source” is reserved for models that disclose the data they were trained on.)  So why use proprietary models from Google when open ones like DeepSeek are performing so well? Kavukcuoglu says that coding, math, and finance are cases where “there’s high expectation from the model to be very accurate, to be very precise, and to be able to understand really complex situations,” and he expects models that deliver on that, open or not, to win out. In DeepMind’s view, this reasoning will be the foundation of future AI models that act on your behalf and solve problems for you. “Reasoning is the key capability that builds up intelligence,” he says. “The moment the model starts thinking, the agency of the model has started.”

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OpinionApril 17, 20254 min readGutting NIOSH Endangers Every U.S. WorkerI was fired from my job as a scientist at the only federal agency dedicated to the science of workplace safety. The Trump administration’s cuts put the U.S. workforce in dangerBy Catherine Blackwood Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesFor most of us, it is a foregone conclusion that you will go to work and come home safely at the end of the day. If there is a hazard in your workplace, and the odds are good there is one, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health tries to identify it, understand it and help prevent it from hurting you and other workers.Or rather, we were until April 1, when hundreds of agency scientists, support staff and civil service employees were placed on administrative leave, or terminated, via an early morning e-mail carrying out President Trump’s Executive Order 14210. I am one of those scientists. What the administration has done doesn’t just affect us. Without NIOSH, workplaces will become more dangerous, and more workers will die.In my home state of West Virginia, the consensus a half-century ago was that if you were a miner, it would probably kill you. Mine explosions, collapses, machinery failure, floods and poor ventilation that resulted in buildup of toxic gas threatened miners every day. If you survived all that, there was a good chance you’d develop black lung disease, or pneumoconiosis. Nearly one third of coal miners died of black lung disease until the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 declared that they, not the coal they mined, were the industry’s most precious resource.On supporting science journalismIf you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.With the act came a new priority to identify threats to workers and a need to understand occupational hazards and risks. In 1970 NIOSH was established to work hand in hand with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Where OSHA functions as enforcement, NIOSH is tasked with performing research, providing education and making recommendations concerning occupational health and safety standards. As the institute has grown and evolved, its scientists now research construction, oil and gas extraction, firefighting, law enforcement and service work. NIOSH research programs have examined mine safety, mask and respirator efficacy, cancer prevention in firefighters, hearing loss prevention and any number of other threats to America’s 164 million workers.I worked at NIOSH for almost four years, building my career as a scientist. Our laboratory team studied occupational allergy and microbial triggers of disease. We examined how bodies respond to inhaling mold, using collective knowledge and equipment that exists nowhere else in the world. We worked with other teams to understand the effects of on-the-job exposure to cannabis, coal mine dust, metal working fluid and more. With my Ph.D., I could have moved away from my home state and gone to work at a biotech company. I chose to stay in West Virginia because I wanted to work at NIOSH and do the science that would improve people’s lives.But that dream is gone. NIOSH is effectively gone.The administration claims the cuts are intended to reduce redundancy and inefficiency. They claim the cuts have no direct effect on ongoing science and studies, but that is a lie. Without warning, our research and ongoing studies were halted. We have not been allowed back to finish experiments, complete analyses, or collect data for publication. There are freezers full of samples we cannot analyze. We have lost years of scientific effort, with no option to wrap things up.The hypocrisy in saying that functionally eliminating NIOSH will “Make America Healthy Again” cannot go unchecked. We were the only ones performing research with worker safety at the heart of our interest. We don’t do the research to benefit a company’s bottom line; we do it for the American people. As new technologies and industries emerge, so do new threats to health and safety. We publish publicly accessible data that are used by enforcement agencies like the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) and OSHA to keep you safe at work. Now there will be no one to find answers when the workforce calls for help. Already MSHA has paused enforcement of a rule regarding silica exposure, specifically citing the upheaval at NIOSH. Who, if not NIOSH, will investigate the country’s next epidemic like black lung was investigated? Who, if not NIOSH, will perform research to identify safe chemical exposure levels?I think a lot of people imagine scientists as apolitical, unopinionated and reserved—a stereotyped caricature of lab coats, quietly crunching numbers in spreadsheets, adjusting glasses perched on noses. We are more than that.Last week, as we were allowed to enter our buildings to gather our belongings, the emotion in the building was palpable. We were sad, scared and angry, yes for ourselves and our livelihoods but also for much more than that. The reason we have chosen to work for NIOSH, and for the American people, is because we care. We tried to find out what will happen to our studies, we asked each other and our leadership what will happen to our data, data that belong in the hands of Americans. No one had answers. We have no idea if we will ever get any.Even with Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s claims that “mistakes” will happen and will be rectified, I doubt I will get the option to return to NIOSH in the near future. This was not a mistake. This was an intentional destruction of the only entity in the country dedicated to researching occupational safety and employee well-being, with the specific purpose of making it easier to abuse an already struggling workforce. They expect us to quietly go away, fade into the ether, accept whatever fate they assign.We will not give them the satisfaction. There have been days of anger and confusion, after months of frustration, just trying to do our jobs while the administration made it harder every day. We have been angry, and we have grieved. Now we fight. We fight for you and your safety. Will you fight with us? Will you fight for us? Tell Congress to stop cuts to NIOSH, and tell them to reinstate workers.This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed by the author or authors are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

Roblox sued for allegedly selling Charli XCX dance without permission, and it's like the last five years never happened Rotten to the core. Image credit: Roblox News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief Published on April 17, 2025 Back when Fortnite was getting properly big, Carlton from the Fresh Prince famously tried to sue Epic Games for the use of his dance in the game. (You could also buy the Carlton dance in Destiny, I remember, which I absolutely did, but I suppose Fortnite had just become the biggest game on the planet at the time.) Anyway, Carlton - real name Alfonso Ribeiro - was ultimately unsuccessful, as were a handful of other similar cases. But whether because of the bad publicity or actual legal concerns, Fortnite pretty quickly cleaned up its act. Today it's home to countless dance emotes, music tracks and other bits and pieces, all agreed legally and above board. But now, six years on from Carlton vs Fortnite, we have the maker of the Charli XCX Apple dance vs Roblox. The former has alleged that the latter sold their dance without permission, raking in roughly $123k (£93k) in sales. Has no one learned anything over the past half decade? As reported by Polygon, Apple dance creator and copyright holder Kelly Heyer began legal action this week. Heyer originally posted the dance on TikTok last summer, and it was correctly licensed by Fortnite and added to that game last December. Roblox, according to Heyer, added the emote last August after contacting her to gain permission, but before the permission was actually granted. "Roblox moved forward using Kelley's IP without a signed agreement," Heyer's attorney Miki Anzai said. "Kelley is an independent creator who should be compensated fairly for her work and we saw no other option than to file suit to prove that. We remain willing and open to settle and hope to come to a peaceful agreement." Charli XCX herself, by the way, does not seem to be getting involved. The artist has used the dance on tour, but was not part of its creation. "As the Apple Dance emote comprises solely of the Apple Dance choreography, completely separate and distinct from the Charli XCX song, the sole 'artist' for purposes of the emote is Ms. Heyer," the TikTok creator's lawsuit reads. Responding to the lawsuit, a Roblox spokesperson said the game took "the protection of intellectual property very seriously and is committed to protecting intellectual property rights of independent developers and creators to brands and artists both on and off the platform". "Roblox is confident in its position and the propriety of its dealings in this matter and looks forward to responding in court." Earlier this year, Roblox boss Dave Baszucki said parents who were "not comfortable" about their children's safety shouldn't let them play Roblox.

You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you're reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and advice is unique and original. Check out how we test and review games here Popular Roblox game mode Dress to Impress has slayed too close to the sun. The dress-up runway game favoured by fashionable gamers has been hit with a lawsuit for allowing players to perform a viral dance emote originated on TikTok.  On TikTok, user Kelley Heyer created a dance for the Charli XCX song Apple. Known as the “Apple Dance”, this dance went all over the internet, eventually ending up on Dress to Impress.  Kelley Heyer sues Roblox for Apple Dance emote  On April 11, 2025, via Polygon, Heyer filed a lawsuit against Roblox after the dance was added to the game without permission.  Heyer’s lawsuit reveals that she was in talks with the game to add the emote to Dress to Impress on April 12, 2025. However, the game released the emote before negoations were finished to tie into a new Charli XCX collaboration within the modelling game mode.  “Roblox moved forward using Kelley’s IP without a signed agreement,” said Heyer’s attorney Miki Anzai. “Kelley is an independent creator who should be compensated fairly for her work and we saw no other option than to file suit to prove that. We remain willing and open to settle and hope to come to a peaceful agreement.” At the time of writing, the Apple Dance is no longer available to purchase in Roblox, but it’s estimated to have earned over $123,000 in its short availability.  “As the Apple Dance emote comprises solely of the Apple Dance choreography, completely separate and distinct from the Charli XCX song, the sole ‘artist’ for purposes of the emote is Ms. Heyer,” the attorney stated.  This isn’t the first time the Apple Dance has been added to a video game either. Heyer’s choreography was added to Fortnite alongside Charli XCX’s music, and no lawsuit was filed, although the game has been in trouble for using other dances without permission.  Roblox Platform(s): Android, iOS, macOS, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Arcade, Board Games, Card, Casual, Educational, Family, Fighting, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online, Platformer, Puzzle, Racing, RPG, Shooter, Simulation, Sports, Strategy Related Topics Subscribe to our newsletters! By subscribing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and may receive occasional deal communications; you can unsubscribe anytime. Share

It doesn’t hurt that Carter also knows how to sketch, which he starts doing to explain how the dining room at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party was inspired by a fabled restaurant from Hollywood’s Golden Age. “I wanted it to be a little bit like what I imagined the Brown Derby to be like. Banquettes all went around the room in a circle, and then you had tables in the middle, so everybody could see everybody else. That was the most important thing in that room.”Opinions like these inform every one of Carter’s homes, offices, and parties, and the editor’s attention to even the smallest details emphasizes that what most people take for granted as intangibly well-functioning or attractive can actually be chalked up to a series of discrete choices. Carter maintains that any hardware should have flat-head rather than Phillips-head screws, desks and worktables must be electrified whenever possible, and a room ought to have many sources of light, all of them shoulder height or lower. “One reason why Elaine’s was so successful is that the lighting was so good,” he says, referencing the much lamented bygone Upper East Side publishing watering hole.Asked if there’s something that makes successful editors equally good designers and collectors, Carter shrugs and shakes his head. But the vast filing system in his office, which comprises 60-or-so black file boxes from an old French law firm—another thing that’s been carried over from his previous homes—suggests that keeping the past close at hand has been helpful in both pursuits.A One Kings Lane ottoman centers Anna's dressing room. Vintage chandelier and sofa; silk rug from ABC Carpet & Home. Art: David DowntonFamily pictures, including a portrait of daughter Izzy by illustrator David Downton (on wall) and photos in tiny Hermès frames, in Graydon's dressing room. Art: David DowntonThe best editors are unfailingly optimistic, have a nose for what’s worked before, and can squeeze fresh life from what others might prematurely discard. Anyone who dares to practice this faith of fractions has to believe, time after time, that everything will come together at its appointed hour. And when something new isn’t working, editing, like decorating a new home, can also mean having a great inventory to fall back on.Graydon Carter’s Connecticut storage unit is featured in AD’s May issue. Never miss a story when you subscribe to AD.