An automated dab'll do ya Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering Combining both the big and little solder jobs made a big difference. Kevin Purdy – Apr 30, 2025 4:21 pm | 18 Comparison of undersides of Raspberry Pi 5 (left) and Raspberry Pi 4. Note the smaller pin presence on the Pi 5, potentially reducing the board's exposure to physical defects and damage to connectivity. Credit: Raspberry Pi Comparison of undersides of Raspberry Pi 5 (left) and Raspberry Pi 4. Note the smaller pin presence on the Pi 5, potentially reducing the board's exposure to physical defects and damage to connectivity. Credit: Raspberry Pi Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only   Learn more Getting the hang of through-hole soldering is tricky for those of us tinkering at home with our irons, spools, flux, and, sometimes, braids. It's almost reassuring, then, to learn that through-hole soldering was also a pain for a firm that has made more than 60 million products with it. Raspberry Pi boards have a combination of surface-mount devices (SMDs) and through-hole bits. SMDs allow for far more tiny chips, resistors, and other bits to be attached to boards by their tiny pins, flat contacts, solder balls, or other connections. For those things that are bigger, or subject to rough forces like clumsy human hands, through-hole soldering is still required, with leads poked through a connective hole and solder applied to connect and join them securely. The Raspberry Pi board has a 40-pin GPIO header on it that needs through-hole soldering, along with bits like the Ethernet and USB ports. These require robust solder joints, which can't be done the same way as with SMT (surface-mount technology) tools. "In the early days of Raspberry Pi, these parts were inserted by hand, and later by robotic placement," writes Roger Thornton, director of applications for Raspberry Pi, in a blog post. The boards then had to go through a follow-up wave soldering step. Now Pi boards have their tiny bits and bigger pieces soldered at the same time through an intrusive reflow soldering process undertaken with Raspberry Pi's UK manufacturing partner, Sony. After adjusting component placement, the solder stencil, and the connectors, the board makers could then place and secure all their components in the same stage. Intrusive reflow soldering this way involves putting solder paste on both the pads for SMD bits and into the through-hole pins. The through-hole parts are pushed onto the paste, and the whole board then goes into a reflow oven, where the solder paste melts, the connectors fall in more fully, and joints are formed for all the SMD and through-hole parts at once. You can watch the process up close in this mesmerizing video from Surface Mount Process. The author will not spoil for you exactly when the drop happens; you will have to watch all 19 seconds. Intrusive reflow soldering is not a brand-new process, but what it did for the Raspberry Pi is notable, according to Thornton. The company saw "a massive 50% reduction in product returns," and it sped up production by 15 percent by eliminating the break between the two soldering stages. By removing the distinct soldering bath from its production line, the company also reduced its carbon dioxide output by 43 tonnes per year (or 47.4 US tons). We contacted Raspberry Pi to clarify that 50 percent reduction—whether it compares Raspberry Pi 5 to Raspberry Pi 4, and if it specifies returns for board defect or just returns in general. Either way, it's an interesting factoid about the hobbyist gear and another reason to be jealous of those soldering with paste and stencils instead of with clumsy hands. Kevin Purdy Senior Technology Reporter Kevin Purdy Senior Technology Reporter Kevin is a senior technology reporter at Ars Technica, covering open-source software, PC gaming, home automation, repairability, e-bikes, and tech history. He has previously worked at Lifehacker, Wirecutter, iFixit, and Carbon Switch. 18 Comments

Robots equipped with the π0.5 AI model were tested in homes they had never seen beforePhysical Intelligence An AI enabling robots to do chores like making the bed or cleaning up spills in homes it has never seen before could allow many more robots to become generally useful, its creators say. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have improved robots’ ability to carry out spoken requests. However, most robots work well only in environments in which they have been trained; their performance quality sharply falls when confronted with new and unfamiliar spaces.

China has once again beat everyone else to a clean energy milestone—its new nuclear reactor is reportedly one of the first to use thorium instead of uranium as a fuel and the first of its kind that can be refueled while it’s running. It’s an interesting (if decidedly experimental) development out of a country that’s edging toward becoming the world leader in nuclear energy. China has now surpassed France in terms of generation, though not capacity; it still lags behind the US in both categories. But one recurring theme in media coverage about the reactor struck me, because it’s so familiar: This technology was invented decades ago, and then abandoned. You can basically copy and paste that line into countless stories about today’s advanced reactor technology. Molten-salt cooling systems? Invented in the mid-20th century but never commercialized. Same for several alternative fuels, like TRISO. And, of course, there’s thorium. This one research reactor in China running with an alternative fuel says a lot about this moment for nuclear energy technology: Many groups are looking into the past for technologies, with a new appetite for building them. First, it’s important to note that China is the hot spot for nuclear energy right now. While the US still has the most operational reactors in the world, China is catching up quickly. The country is building reactors at a remarkable clip and currently has more reactors under construction than any other country by far. Just this week, China approved 10 new reactors, totaling over $27 billion in investment. China is also leading the way for some advanced reactor technologies (that category includes basically anything that deviates from the standard blueprint of what’s on the grid today: large reactors that use enriched uranium for fuel and high-pressure water to keep the reactor cool). High-temperature reactors that use gas as a coolant are one major area of focus for China—a few reactors that use this technology have recently started up, and more are in the planning stages or under construction. Now, Chinese state media is reporting that scientists in the country reached a milestone with a thorium-based reactor. The reactor came online in June 2024, but researchers say it recently went through refueling without shutting down. (Conventional reactors generally need to be stopped to replenish the fuel supply.) The project’s lead scientists shared the results during a closed meeting at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. I’ll emphasize here that this isn’t some massive power plant: This reactor is tiny. It generates just two megawatts of heat—less than the research reactor on MIT’s campus, which rings in at six megawatts. (To be fair, MIT’s is one of the largest university research reactors in the US, but still … it’s small.) Regardless, progress is progress for thorium reactors, as the world has been entirely focused on uranium for the last 50 years or so. Much of the original research on thorium came out of the US, which pumped resources into all sorts of different reactor technologies in the 1950s and ’60s. A reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee that ran in the 1960s used Uranium-233 fuel (which can be generated when thorium is bombarded with radiation). Eventually, though, the world more or less settled on a blueprint for nuclear reactors, focusing on those that use Uranium-238 as fuel and are cooled by water at a high pressure. One reason for the focus on uranium for energy tech? The research could also be applied to nuclear weapons. But now there’s a renewed interest in alternative nuclear technologies, and the thorium-fueled reactor is just one of several examples. A prominent one we’ve covered before: Kairos Power is building reactors that use molten salt as a coolant for small nuclear reactors, also a technology invented and developed in the 1950s and ’60s before being abandoned.  Another old-but-new concept is using high-temperature gas to cool reactors, as X-energy is aiming to do in its proposed power station at a chemical plant in Texas. (That reactor will be able to be refueled while it’s running, like the new thorium reactor.)  Some problems from decades ago that contributed to technologies being abandoned will still need to be dealt with today. In the case of molten-salt reactors, for example, it can be tricky to find materials that can withstand the corrosive properties of super-hot salt. For thorium reactors, the process of transforming thorium into U-233 fuel has historically been one of the hurdles.  But as early progress shows, the archives could provide fodder for new commercial reactors, and revisiting these old ideas could give the nuclear industry a much-needed boost.  This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here.

Francisco Montaño quit his full-time job to stay home taking care of his kids. Courtesy of Francisco Montaño 2025-05-01T10:46:02Z Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Francisco Montaño quit his job six years ago when his oldest daughter was sick. Last year, he started building video game modifications to connect with his kids. He now makes $15,000 a month or more selling the mods. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Francisco Montano, who creates game mods under the name Sandi. It has been edited for length and clarity.When my oldest daughter was about 12, she started having seizures. The doctors weren't sure what was causing them, and there was no way to predict when they could happen. I would start work for the day and have to leave suddenly to take care of her. It was too heavy to balance a job and a sick child, so I quit.That was about eight years ago. I worked in marketing and only made about $30,000 to $40,000 annually. It wasn't much, especially considering the high cost of living in San Diego. My wife worked in insurance and was able to support the family on just her income. Plus, we needed the great health insurance her job provided to treat our daughter's seizures.After I quit, I was able to better support my daughter, and she started experiencing fewer seizures. I knew it was the right decision to stop working. Even as she got better, I continued to stay home with my kids, who are 20, 14, 11, and 3 today.I started building mods for my daughter during naptimeMy kids love video games, especially my 11-year-old, Sophia. Playing games is a way for us to spend quality time together. Last year, I started to think it would be run to build a game modification (better known as a mod) to surprise Sophia.A mod allows you to change the experience of a game. I started reading textbooks and watching YouTube to learn how to build mods. I would work on them while my baby napped since I wasn't used to having an hour of free time. I loved creating something that Sophia enjoyed. Then, I started thinking, "If she likes it, other people might too."I can make up to $25,000 a month selling modsMy background in marketing was useful. I posted free mods in the game we like to play, "Ark: Survival Ascended." If people liked them and interacted with them a lot, I would expand them. Eventually, that led to the creation of premium mods that people pay for. I never expected people to enjoy them as much as Sophia and I do, but I was wrong: people love them. My mods have had about 37 million downloads on CurseForge, the platform I use to sell them. I make a residual monthly income of $15,000 to $17,000. When I release a new mod, I make about $10,000 in additional income in the first month.It's so rewarding to make money while creating something my kids loveIt's unbelievable to me that in some months I'm making almost as much as I earned in a full year working a traditional job. Generally, I spend two to three hours building mods each night, usually after the kids are in bed. I don't work on the weekends since that's family time.When I first started making serious money, I bought my wife a new car. Other than that, I've been very responsible about saving. Most of the money is in a high-yield savings account. I want to grow this as a business, so I'm also contracting with professionals, including a film crew and designers.Of course, the money is really nice. But building mods also gives me something to keep my brain engaged. My youngest loves to watch Disney movies on repeat, and without a challenge for my mind, I can find myself singing the "Encanto" soundtrack on repeat. Now, I plan new mods during the day to occupy my mind and build them later at night.The best things the mods have given me are a way to connect with my kids, especially Sophia. She's about to be a teenager, and I know distance will come, so it's incredibly rewarding to create something for her. Recommended video

To kick off his second term, President Donald Trump sought revenge on President Joe Biden, elite law firms, elite universities, and even some of his former staffers — including John Bolton. Bolton has worked in every Republican presidential administration since the ’80s, including Trump’s first, as national security adviser. Together, they tore up the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, better known as the “Iran nuclear deal” put in place by President Barack Obama. The Trump-Bolton partnership, however, was not meant to last. Bolton left the Trump administration acrimoniously and has been a constant critic of the president since, so it should be no surprise that Trump revoked his security detail within hours of taking office for a second term in January.Retribution — a theme of Trump’s first 100 days — was one reason to speak with Bolton this week. The other was to get his take on how our democracy is faring at the moment. Another former Trump staffer named John, former chief of staff John Kelly, has said Trump fits the definition of a fascist. But Bolton wouldn’t go that far, even after 100 days of payback. Our conversation, edited for length and clarity, is below. I don’t disagree with John Kelly on his assessment about Trump, what Trump does, and what’s wrong with [his behavior]. To be a fascist [however], you have to think at some conceptual level, which Trump never does. Would quibble with the term “fascist” because it’s too simplistic? It’s too far above Trump’s capabilities. He has no philosophy. He has, in the national security space, no grand strategy, and doesn’t do policy as we conventionally understand that term. It was difficult for me to accept. … There are plenty of people around hi with problematic philosophies, people who do have the ability to think at a more conceptual level. What they say may ultimately be reflected in certain Trump decisions, but it’s not because he shares their worldview or anything like that.What was your impression of his approach — if not something leaning towards fascism or authoritarianism — when you were in his administration?I think he wants to be the center of attention. I think that’s probably his principal motivating factor. I think his approach was once described by [conservative columnist] Charles Krauthammer very well. Krauthammer said that he began by thinking Trump was an 11-year-old. But he realized after a close evaluation that he was about 10 years off: Trump’s really a 1-year-old who just sees everything in the world and asks the question, “What’s in this for me?” Somebody else, I don’t remember the name, observed that Trump doesn’t have ideas, he has reactions. And I think that’s also an important insight. If you took all of his decisions in his first term, they’d be a big archipelago of dots; a lot of the dots I agreed with. But if you try to connect the dots…Trump himself couldn’t connect the dots.What have you thought of the first 100 days of the second administration so far?I think it’s even more incoherent. What you’re seeing in public now [is] what many of us who were in the first term saw in private. Obviously, they spent the four years in exile at Mar-a-Lago planning. [In] their first 100 days, much more was accomplished from Trump’s point of view than in his first 100 days in the first term. I’m not sure that history will record that after this burst of activity in the first 100 days, there’s much more follow-up. I think Trump will get bogged down in a lot of subsidiary issues that happen to catch his attention. For example, he’s now chairman of the board of the Kennedy Center. And I can think of nothing more important than for a man who knows so much about buildings [than] to spend a little time on the question of the rugs at the Kennedy Center, the carpeting, the curtains, and the stages. I think you’re getting at something that I’m constantly struck by, which is while this seems like a serious administration with serious ideas, there’s also all of these distractions that make this seem like a bit of a clown car. The DOGE firings and then hiring back of nuclear safety personnel, the infamous Houthi PC small group chat, the tariffs, no tariffs, tariffs, just kidding, no tariffs. At the same time, you’ve got the campaign of retribution we’ve spoken about. You’ve got defying court orders and challenging the judiciary. You’ve got the silencing of speech left and right; the First Amendment.When you see these constitutional infringements, are you worried for the state of the republic?I don’t think Trump is an existential threat. I think our institutions are a lot stronger than him. … I think we will survive. But I think many of the things you’ve mentioned, he has singled out by executive order for example, Chris Krebs, former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Bureau at Department of Homeland Security in his first term, for prosecution because he dared to say that the 2020 election was safe and free from interference in cyberspace, which Trump didn’t want to believe. He singled out a fellow named Miles Taylor, who had been chief of staff to the secretary of Homeland Security. These are actions by a president with no predicate for a criminal investigation that I think are very threatening. But you’ve got to evaluate all this [as] Trump making the first move. He’s done all this in the first 100 days. He’s done it in Trump time bcause he stays up until two in the morning. He’s constantly active. The judicial system obviously doesn’t normally react with such speed. Trump makes his headline and then moves on to something else. The real question is: What is followed up? I think if we come back in a couple of years, we’ll see a lot of the effort of the first 100 days just in ashes because the courts will have held. I think that is the ultimate check. It obviously will have cost people money for attorneys’ fees and time and aggravation and concern. But I think a lot of these efforts will fail, and they will set precedents that will make it even harder for a future president to try this kind of thing. It was 95 years since the Smoot-Hawley tariffs, which were an act of monumental stupidity in 1930. I think history will record that Trump-Vance tariffs as another monumental act of stupidity, and hopefully it’ll be another 95-year-long lesson. From that perspective, a lot of what has happened in the first 100 days is incomplete because while Trump has moved his pawn to King 4, the rest of the system is still reacting.You have worked under four presidential administrations, from Reagan to George H.W. Bush to George W. Bush to, of course, President Trump. Does that historical long view that you personally possess work to your advantage in these trying times of ours?Well, we’ve suffered a lot worse in this country. We did have a civil war where over 600,000 soldiers died of one cause or another, and the country moved on. I’m not underestimating the problems that Trump is causing. I just think it’s important to bring as many people along on the proposition that this is unacceptable. I think sometimes, using the rhetoric that says this is existential turns people off. And I’m looking to convince as many people as possible that this is an aberration in American politics, that it’s not sustainable, and particularly in the Republican Party, that beginning in 2026, certainly in 2028, we’ve got to move on from it.See More:

Fortnite developer Epic Games is prepared to end its ongoing legal battle with Apple after the latter was ordered by a judge to make changes to how it handles fees outside of appsTech10:01, 01 May 2025Could Fortnite be back on iPhone soon?Fortnite will see a TV show premiere exclusively within the game tomorrow. It has its own LEGO sets, and has drawn in the likes of Sabrina Carpenter for her digital debut, but Epic Games isn't done there.The company has long been embroiled in a feud with tech giant Apple over the latter taking a cut of in-app purchases, and that's left the game unable to be played on iPhone or iPad since August 2020.‌Now, however, mobile gamers could be closer than ever to getting Fortnite back on their device, as a US Judge finally ordered Apple to cease its 27% commission on iOS purchases through links.‌Fortnite's new Star Wars-themed chapter lands tomorrowYesterday, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers passed down the judgement, which also includes and order for Apple to stop telling users not to use links outside of apps to make purchases.Developers, including Epic Games, had been sending users to web links to make payments to circumnavigate Apple's fees.Article continues belowThe Judge also ordered Apple to pay Epic's attorney fees, and said that the company had violated a 2021 injunction, even going as far as to accuse VP Alex Roman "outright lied under oath", which could open up Apple to criminal contempt charges.Fortnite can be played on iPhone and iPad via the Epic Games Mobile Store, which is allowed in the EU as part of the Digital Markets Act.‌However, Epic said that if Apple accepts the latest ruling, it can bring Fortnite to iOS as soon as next week.In a press briefing (transcribed by The Game Business), Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said: “I’ve been fighting Apple for a long time.Article continues below"But I’m an iPhone customers. This is an awesome device. I love having it. I don’t love the policies that Apple has made with respect to stores, but there’s a lot of respect of Epic towards Apple’s quality of product and focus."I hold out hope that there’s a way for Apple to get back on the right side of history here. I think this is a great time for Apple to consider doing that.”For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletters.‌‌‌

Super sexist Leisure Suit Larry franchise is being delisted from Steam GameCentral Published May 1, 2025 11:51am Updated May 1, 2025 11:51am It’s no loss to gaming but it’s not right for any game to just disappear (Assemble Entertainment) Almost all of the Leisure Suit Larry games are about to be removed from Steam and strangely it may have something to do with Codemasters’ troubles. The point ‘n’ click graphic adventure genre has long since ceased to be a mainstream concern for major publishers. There’s still the occasional example from indie developers but the golden age of LucasArts titles like The Secret Of Monkey Island and Day Of The Tentacle is well in the past. 2022’s Return To Monkey Island is the only recent example of one of the classic franchises continuing into the modern day but surprisingly the only other one still going is Leisure Suit Larry, which had a new entry as recently as 2020. For those that don’t know the series, they’re ‘sex comedies’ where you control a middle age pickup artist called Larry Laffer, as he lusts after various younger women. They’re not very sexually explicit but they are inherently sexist and painfully unfunny, although it’s not clear if that’s why they’ve been delisted. A post on Steam entitled ‘Time for Larry to Retire (Just a Little Bit)’ states that ‘After decades of questionable pickup lines and unforgettable adventures, it’s finally time for Larry to hang up his leisure suit – at least the retro version of it!’ That means that Leisure Suit Larry 1 through 7 (as a running joke there was no 4) and Leisure Suit Larry Magna Cum Laude Uncut and Uncensored will ‘soon’ be leaving Steam, although if you’ve already bought them, you will be able to still play and redownload them. The newer games Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry and Wet Dreams Dry Twice, by German studio CrazyBunch, are unaffected though, even though most people probably haven’t heard of those. It’s very hard to say what’s going on here as the original games, or at least compilations of them, are still available at GOG and Fanatical, unless they’re going to suddenly disappear as well. Although the games are embarrassing, with their initial success largely dependent on an audience of teenage boys, they’re not as outrageously objectionable as they sound, and no game should be erased from existence no matter what it’s like – although this is more likely to be a question of IP rights rather than censorship. Unlikely as it seems, it may have something to do with the current problems at Codemasters. They announced this week that they will not be making any more rally games, and it’s feared that they will be badly hit by the hundreds of job cuts at owner EA. Although they’ve done very little with it, Codemasters is believed to be the current owner of the Leisure Suit Larry IP. Or at least the original games. More Trending They published the particularly awful Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust, by Team 17, in 2008 although they were so embarrassed to do so they did it under the Funsta label. Original publisher Sierra On-Line went bust in 2008 and a number of different companies have made and published Leisure Suit Larry games since then, with the most recent titles, which are unaffected by the Steam purge, being published by indie company Assemble Entertainment. Whatever the reason for what’s going on, things do not look good for Codemasters, with its main Twitter account having been taken down shortly after its WRC announcement. The publisher generally relied on other game-specific accounts for its announcements but, sadly, it all points to an ignoble end for one of the UK’s longest lasting developers. This is about as explicit as the original games got (Assemble Entertainment) Email gamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader’s Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. GameCentral Sign up for exclusive analysis, latest releases, and bonus community content. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Your information will be used in line with our Privacy Policy

GIG Residence / Atelier RampazziSave this picture!© Simone Bossi•Ascona, Switzerland Architects: Atelier Rampazzi Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2023 Photographs Photographs:Simone Bossi, Atelier RampazziMore SpecsLess Specs Save this picture! Text description provided by the architects. The project involved the renovation and extension of a secondary residence located on the residential outskirts of Ascona, a small village in the Locarno region. The neighborhood, surrounded by vegetation and characterized by independent buildings with large green spaces, is located near the lake, offering a unique naturalistic context, overlooking one of the oldest golf courses in Switzerland. The original building was a single-family house organized on one floor with tiny spaces, two bedrooms with separate external entrances, all unfortunately in a precarious state of maintenance. Volumetrically, it was unbalanced and clearly assembled volume after volume with addition after addition, without any clear planimetric intentions or even less defined spatial concepts. A patchwork situation that, in consideration of the client's requests, the regulations, and other aspects, such as the flood hazard zone of Lake Maggiore, led to a radical and general intervention.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Starting from the roots of the building, considering a maximum legal extension of 30%, a material and compact approach was chosen, inspired by the image of a green bush resting on a rock. This very figurative material image has been transposed by means of a compact rocky volume that clearly distinguishes the building and a more abstract one defined by the greenery covering the volume of the pergola terrace on the first floor. The rocky volume of sedimentary origin, sandy in appearance, is flanked by bare reinforced concrete volumes that recall the granite bowls (gneiss) that came wandering to the river delta from the mountains of the nearby Maggia Valley. The project is inserted in a land of alluvial origin, on the edge between the Maggia river delta and Lake Maggiore, an area that was once marshy and difficult to use, even for agricultural purposes, characterized by sandy soils dotted with large boulders. The intervention rationalized the volumetry and gave the building a new architectural expression, profoundly linked to the landscape context. The objective was to reduce the volumetric perception of the dwelling, making it almost imperceptible in the landscape. The choice of materials - rough striped plaster, reinforced concrete, and vegetation - strengthens this mimetic strategy, integrating into the vegetation redesigned for the terraces, the pergola, and the green roofs, up to the surrounding garden.Save this picture!Save this picture!The new distribution of the internal program on the ground floor mainly includes the daytime living areas, flanked by the guest room to the west and some essential rooms. This large living area, although without clear divisions, is strongly structured. Connecting the whole, in addition to a 15 metre wooden ridge integrating cupboards and a high kitchen, we find the kitchen island with a double-sided fireplace acting as a sculptural pivot to communal living. As in the days of our grandmothers, the kitchen with its fireplace became the warm heart of sharing, and so we wanted to place a fireplace directly in the centre of the house to make it the master of the whole scene, of the words and memories of the family. The large wooden wall in the background unifies the living area, hiding the service spaces and the staircase leading to the upper floor and providing defined but varied spaces. The relationship between the living room and the garden has been emphasized with the insertion of tall rhythmic openings, while the material continuity between various elements reinforces the dialogue between inside and outside.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The elevation has allowed the creation of a master bedroom isolated from the rest of the dwelling. The first floor is characterized by a fluid organization, with a central wooden core of reduced height that subdivides without clearly separating the sleeping area from the wardrobes, bathroom, and service. The bedroom opens onto an outdoor terrace, obtained by removing the old pitched roofs. Bounded by a solid parapet and covered by a metal pergola with climbing plants, the terrace is conceived as an intimate and protected space, in continuity with the surrounding landscape. A platform invisible from the outside, in perfect harmony with the landscape.Save this picture! Project gallerySee allShow less About this officeAtelier RampazziOffice••• MaterialConcreteMaterials and TagsPublished on May 01, 2025Cite: "GIG Residence / Atelier Rampazzi" 01 May 2025. ArchDaily. 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It started with an innocent leaf. We held this gadget up, expecting to see some gentle ridges or tiny veins. Instead, we were face-to-face with what looked like an alien.  That’s the magic (and mild horror) of this pocket-sized digital microscope. With 80x magnification and built-in photo and video recording, it turns a simple walk outside into a full-blown nature documentary. If you want to unlock a whole new way of seeing the world (literally), you can save $30 on the gadget right now. The microscope that fits in your pocket Let’s zoom in even further. The bug on that leaf—something we all normally brush off without thinking—suddenly has textured armor, segmented legs, and what looks like tiny antennae in full alert. It’s like stumbling onto a sci-fi set, except it’s right in your backyard. That’s the thing with this handheld microscope: Once you start, you can’t stop. The 80x zoom opens up an entire universe of details you’ve never noticed, and the 4-inch LCD screen means you don’t need to squint through an eyepiece to see them. You get a full view, in full color, without the neck strain of a traditional microscope. Curious about what’s crawling on your windowsill? Or what’s hiding in the grooves of a dollar bill? You can snap 2MP stills or record full 1080p video, all saved straight to the included 32GB microSD card. It’s perfect for creating your own bug archive, plant diary, or just proving to your friends that, yes, spiders have hair. Even better? It’s not just for daytime adventures. Built-in, adjustable LED lights let you get crystal-clear shots even in low lighting, like under your porch at dusk or in the corner of your garage where something just moved (probably best not to zoom too far in there). And don’t worry about batteries. This thing runs on a rechargeable 2,000mAh battery, so it’s ready for field trips, camping explorations, or late-night investigations without constantly hunting for AAAs. Order one of these pocket microscopes with recording for $69.97 (reg. $100). StackSocial prices subject to change. Portable Handheld Pocket LCD Microscope with 4″ Screen – $69.97 See Deal What makes this deal special Spring’s finally here, and this gadget might be the nudge you need to spend more time outside. It’s a fun way to reconnect with nature, whether you’re dragging your kids away from screens for a backyard bug hunt or just rediscovering how weird and wonderful the world looks up close. For $69.97, this pocket microscope adds a dose of curiosity and discovery to every walk, picnic, or lazy afternoon in the sun.

Nature, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01304-8Ancient and present-day genomes from members of the Indigenous American tribe Picuris Pueblo in the US Southwest show genetic continuity with Ancestral Pueblo individuals from the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. These results confirm traditional knowledge and contest previous accounts that suggested that the population in the region collapsed before European colonization.