Meet ARCHIVISMs inaugural collection, bringing a fresh sense of Brutalist and Romantic touches to any interior. An earnest exploration into the history of American woodwork and craft, ARCHIVISM strives to usher in a new era, one that prioritizes sustainable manufacturing and local craftsmanship. A collaboration between longtime friends Chris Hardy and Ben Gaffney, this collection combines furniture and preservation of knowledge as one.The debut collection features pieces such as the Pryn Occasional Tables and Elmyr Dining Table, both designed by co-founder and creative director Chris Hardy. The approach to our design process starts with a clear, overarching brand vision that serves as a guiding framework for our collaborative partners, he explains. This helps create a framework for them to work within that gives them the flexibility to express their own point of view, but also delivers a product that works within our goals for an assortment. With solid, sturdy lines, taking care to not spare any expense, these tables embody the timelessness of American design: a mix of folk art, modern innovation, and woodworking heritage.Our goal is to create thoughtful furnishings that are pure in both concept and execution, filling a gap between high-end American and European design, says Hardy. Drawing inspiration from a multitude of global influences and makers, were committed to showcasing a variety of design voices through collaboration and fostering a rich culture. The Fane Book Stand, designed by Norm Architects, is an elegant example of these concepts. Marrying the simplicity of Danish design and American handicraft, the Fane collection aims to elevate the presence of books as a cornerstone of culture.The Edda Credenza exudes old-world charm, with the enticing regularity of Art Deco. Made of a beautiful walnut, this piece helps enhance the qualities within the wood, shining through the refined proportions weve grown to know and love from Norm Architects. The details within the credenza are hidden intentionally, allowing the front to be perfectly seamless. The jaunty overhang of the top adds a slimness to the base, highlighting the simple relationship between the legs, dignified and solid in their form.The Pryn Occasional Tables feature a unique leg design, the footprint of the leg following unchanged up to the top, ending in an exquisitely crafted lip. This extends up slightly from the tabletop, almost like a wave lapping up on shore. A delicate touch of movement frozen in walnut, this modern table would make a beautiful addition to any interior. The Edda Credenza and Elmyr Dining Table are produced in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, while the Pryn Occasional Tables are crafted in Seattle. Our mission is to fulfill an idealized lifestyle through design that merges aesthetic beauty with precise craftsmanship, adds Gaffney. We are proud to manufacture almost exclusively in the U.S., offering a competitive alternative to European brands without sacrificing quality or design integrity.ARCHIVISM is a culmination of the friendship between Hardy and Gaffney, offering high quality products thoughtfully crafted in the United States. They offer a designer-led approach, curating a library of vintage books on art, architecture, and design, available for purchase on their website. Gaffney shares: We aim to foster a proud and impactful dialogue around American design and manufacturing, striving for a level of quality and innovation that hasnt been done in the past 30 years. This isnt about chasing short-term gains were building a legacy brand.For more on ARCHIVISM and their debut collection, please visit their website at archivism.com.

10. A Vibrant Tokyo Building With a Vertical Rainbow FacadeSAKO Architects makes a colorful statement with the Vertical Rainbow Office Building, an architectural headquarters for Musashi Paint Holdings Co., Ltd. The rainbow facade features high-transmittance tempered laminated glass coated with a gradient of colors, symbolizing the companys extensive palette. The design transforms sunlight into colorful shadows during the day and emits soft hues at night, creating a dynamic visual experience for both occupants and passersby.9. This Confectionary Office Is the Stuff of Willy Wonkas DreamsThe Ritter Sport Schokozentrale in Waldenbuch, Germany, designed by Ippolito Fleitz Group, is a confectionery wonderland that would make Willy Wonka envious. This vibrant office includes a chocolate workshop, a caf, and a lush Ideas Garden adorned with cacao pod pendant lights, creating an environment where work feels like play. Embracing sustainability, the design incorporates eco-friendly materials, earning it a gold certificate from the German Sustainable Building Council.8. Architecture Plus Information Designs Utopian Office for Publicis GroupeArchitecture Plus Information (A+I) has crafted a vibrant, utopian workspace in New York Citys SoHo for Publicis Groupes innovative collective, Le Truc. With flexible areas like bullpens, auditoriums, libraries, and lounges, the design fosters creativity and collaboration at every turn. Bold colors, curved designs, and playful elements like upside-down mirrors challenge traditional office norms, creating a Clubhouse for Creativity that redefines modern workspaces.7. From Video Game to Vivid Reality: Exploring PUBG Studios Playful New OfficeKinzo Architekten transformed KRAFTONs PUBG Studios office in Seoul into a real-life battleground, mirroring the games dynamic environments. Office floors are structured as maps with iconic monuments and interconnected pathways, encouraging exploration and interaction among employees, much like players experience in the game. A striking main staircase, inspired by the games battle royale mechanics, serves as a focal point, leading to relaxation areas such as tea kitchens and recreation rooms.6. A Bank Relocates Its Office to an Unlikely Location The Mall!The Bank of Montreal (BMO) relocated 3,000 employees from various Toronto offices to a new 346,401-square-foot headquarters within Ontarios Eaton Centre, a major shopping mall. Designed by IA Interior Architects, the space repurposes four floors of a former Sears store, featuring a central 100-foot atrium that enhances interdepartmental visibility and collaboration. The office includes amenities such as prayer and meditation rooms, mothers rooms, and accessible features like wide corridors and voice-activated elevators, all while pursuing LEED Gold certification for sustainability.5. A New Office in Mumbai Highlights Sustainable DesignUsing the Vastu principles, an ancient Indian system that fosters harmony using the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, and space), Sanjay Puri Architects designed the new Office@27 in Mumbai for Vibrant Group India that emphasizes sustainable materials and construction methods. With an emphasis on building green, the office features custom furniture crafted from recycled plywood and on-site fabrication to minimize waste, reflecting the companys commitment to eco-friendly practices.4. Intuit Designed Its New Atlanta Office Based on the Idea of a CityDesign Milk chatted with Christian Widlic, Group Creative Director at Wink (Mailchimps in-house creative agency) on its collaborative project with local design firm TV and Studio O+A in designing Intuits new Atlanta, Georgia office. Designed around the concept of a city, the office features diverse neighborhoods that reflect a mix of work styles and atmospheres. This thoughtful approach creates an environment that fosters collaboration, creativity, and community for its employees.3. Reimagining the Travel Experience With Biophilia in Singapores Changi AirportThe new Changi Airport Terminal 2 in Singapore is a biophilic adventure waiting for you to explore it as you wait for your next flight. Designed by BOIFFILS Architectures, the renovation masterfully created a serene, nature-inspired environment, including vertical gardens, a 14-meter-high digital Wonderfall, and a parametrically designed ceiling. This innovative approach aims at reducing travel-related stress and providing a tranquil atmosphere that prioritizes traveler comfort and well-being.2. Gensler Goes Big With Experiential Clubhouse Office for HugeStep inside Huges new Brooklyn Navy Yard headquarters, and youll find a creative playground where collaboration, innovation, and sustainability take center stage. Designed by Gensler, the space is a bold experiment in rethinking the modern office with circular tables for inclusivity and adaptable furniture to fit any teams needs. This dynamic environment fosters creativity, all while meeting impressive Fitwel 2 Stars and LEED Silver sustainability standards.And the most popular commercial post of 2024 is1. A Parking Lot Becomes a Colorful School for Early Childhood EducationParking lots are not at all inspiring, unless theyve been transformed by Estdio Protobox. The studio transformed an underused parking garage in Vitria, Brazil, into the Childrens Studio at Colgio Salesiano, a vibrant space dedicated to early childhood education. The design incorporates principles from the Montessori method and Brazils National Common Core Curriculum, creating flexible areas that promote autonomy and collaborative learning. Features include colorful vinyl flooring, custom furniture scaled for children, and playful elements like abstract trees and an accordion ceiling, all aimed at fostering an engaging and functional environment for young learners.Check out the rest of Design Milks end of the year coveragehere!

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The humble after-dinner walk has a new name, thanks to a TikToker (mairlynthequeenoffiber) who spoke frankly to the camera about how taking a fart walk will help you age wonderfully. Her voiceover has been added to dozens of videos, some funny, some sincere. But most importantly: the fart walk really is a health hack, so maybe you should try itwhether you call it that or not.What is a fart walk?A fart walk is a walk that you take after a meal. It gets its name for the obvious reason: after a meal, your intestines start moving things around, which can sometimes feel like an uncomfortable level of bloating. But exercise like walking helps to relieve that feeling, while also bringing some benefits to your metabolic health, and adding to your daily and weekly exercise quota.Fart walks may help with the feeling of bloatingExercise does seem to help relieve bloating. Thats been anecdotally known for a long time, but to really prove that point, researchers infused gas into peoples intestines(!) and then had them lie on their backs, pedaling their legs bicycle style. This pedaling helped to relieve the bloating when compared to just resting. They concluded: Mild physical activity enhances intestinal gas clearance and reduces symptoms in patients complaining of abdominal bloating.Fart walks may help glucose controlAfter we eat, our digestive system releases glucose (blood sugar) into our bloodstream. Thats normal and good, and the hormone insulin is then supposed to signal the cells of our body to store and use that blood sugar. Exercise helps with glucose control, and so all types of exercisefrom walking to weight traininghave long been recommended to prevent diabetes and manage symptoms if you already have it.Exercise after meals might be especially helpful. A 2018 systematic review found that after-meal exercise helped people with type 2 diabetes improve their glucose control. The authors concluded with a recommendation that people with this condition try to get at least 45 minutes of moderate intensity exercise (like walking) after their largest meal of the day.That said, the literature is not totally clear on whether exercise really needs to be after a meal to be beneficial, though. The authors of a 2017 study on exercise timing and glucose control concluded that its better to get little bits of exercise throughout the day rather than to exercise just once, whether thats after a meal or otherwise.Its nice to get some exercise and talk a walk, farts or noBesides the benefits to gut health and metabolism, you may just find that you enjoy taking a walk after dinner. A 30-minute walk, at least five times a week, fulfills the minimum exercise guidelines that we should all be meeting (but dont forget to do a little strength training on the side).Or to look at it another way, when you take a walk in the evening, youre engaging in an Italian tradition called la passeggiata. As Becca Lewis writes there, its about taking the time to enjoy some quiet time with your own mind (if you're walking alone), and to connect with others (if you're walking with a partner or a group). It's not a brisk walk for the purpose of raising your heart rate, but about taking in the sights, and maybe stopping to enjoy a beverage. You dont even have to tell anyone that you think of it as your fart walk.

Before I get started: No, people cant steal your credit card information using AirDrop. AirDrop doesnt even know what your credit card number is.In a hoax thats been spreading around TikTok as of late (the source of the rumor is unclear), viral videos are now saying that hackers can use the iPhones AirDrop feature to steal your credit card information from your Apple Wallet. The news was first reported on by The Daily Dot, which to its credit, quickly called it out for the nonsense it is.What the rumors sayIn videos that have been spotted over the embattled social media app the past few weeks, popular users including @vanessaromito13 and @the_journey76 urged their audiences to be cautious of Apples AirDrop feature following a recent update, claiming hackers can now steal your credit card information just by walking by you with an iPhone in their pocket. Specifically, the latter says hackers can walk past you now and from one iPhone to another using that AirDrop setting, they can get all the cards in your wallet. In your Apple Wallet. The former, meanwhile, attempts to offer a solution, encouraging followers to disable the search with other iPhones setting.Fortunately, neither are correct.Can people steal information through AirDrop?Whatever sparked these concerns, theres nothing in the most recent iPhone update (iOS 18.2) that would have done it. Despite the worries over AirDrop, last weeks update made no changes to either AirDrop or Apple Wallet, instead focusing the bulk of its attention on Apple Intelligence.Instead, the rumors seem to be a repackaging of earlier concerns over the iPhones NameDrop functionality, which allows two iPhones to share contact information just by coming into close proximity. Even law enforcement got in on the fearmongering here, but tech experts were quick to point out that the feature requires extremely close physical proximity and consent on both ends. In actuality, most concluded that it doesnt pose much of a risk.Saying that people can use AirDrop to steal your credit cards just by walking past you with their iPhone nearby preys on a similar fear, but doesnt even reference a feature that exists.First, there is no search with other iPhones setting to disable. Speaking generously, the influencer might be referring to the Bringing Devices Together setting that got added with NameDrop, or the ability to set your AirDrop permissions to receive requests from everyone for 10 minutes.Regardless, neither work in the way described. Bringing Devices Together is a NameDrop only function, while accepting requests from everyone just means other users can offer to send you files, which youll still need to accept before they make their way over to your phone. For them to get files off your phone, you would need to send them over yourself. And regardless, your settings will revert to Contacts Only after 10 minutes, with no always-on option to share with everyone available.Second, AirDrop cant interact with Apple Wallet. The feature can only share files accessible via the iPhones file browser, which isnt where Apple Wallet stores information. And even if it were, Apple Wallet doesnt actually have your credit card informationit uses a Device Account Number generated by your bank or card provider, which gets encrypted along with everything else in your wallet and is very hard to do anything with unless you have the iPhone it's tied to. According to Apple, your card number is never stored on your device or on Apple servers.In short, the most risk you have of someone nearby stealing your credit card number through Apple Wallet is if they see the last four digits of your card by physically looking at your screen. And even so, theres not much they can do with that.Can people steal your Apple Pay transactions through tap-to-pay?So, yes, this recent warning is a hoax. AirDrop cant do anything with your payment information, and itll take a hacker a bit more diligence to take money from your Apple Pay than just walking by you with an iPhone in their pocket. But that doesnt mean you shouldn't be vigilant.Right now, there are two known ways for people to steal from you using Apple Pay, although neither will give them permanent access to your financial information.The first is to take advantage of stressed-out buyers by overcharging them. As also reported by The Daily Dot, if youve already approved a transaction by double tapping into your Apple wallet and authenticating the payment (via FaceID, TouchID, or your PIN), but havent yet seen the sellers screen, they could charge you whatever they like by simply tapping their phone to yours without confirming the sale with you first. In one case, a woman was charged $975 for what she thought would be a $10 box of chocolates because she was already preparing to use Apple Pay before seeing the scammers seller screen and how much they were actually going to charge her. Always ensure you see a charge before activating Apple Pay, rather than relying on whatever the seller says the charge will be.The second is a bit harder to avoid. While hackers cant use AirDrop to steal your payment information, they can use their own software to steal transactions over-the-air from nearby payment terminals. This is a bit harder to avoid, and is usually employed at particularly busy vendors, such as those at music festivals. In this case, youll only be out on whatever you were intending to pay the vendor, but if youre planning to be in a crowded area with lots of sales going on at once, pay attention to others near you while youre using Apple Pay theyll have to be close by to steal a transaction using NFC. In the case that they do pull it off, though, you can at least rest assured that all information sent to the terminal will have been encrypted.Again, there are legitimate threats to watch out for here, and its a good idea to exercise caution. But allowing panic-spreading social media posts to whip you into a worried frenzy just makes it harder to keep track of the real risks out there, and may make you miss out on the real benefits that come with encryption-focused payment methods like tap-to-pay.

Back when Twitter existed, I loved a Mac application called TweetBot. This was a desktop client that offered a streamlined interface, great keyboard shortcuts, and was just overall less ugly than using Twitter in a browser.Bluesky is growing very quickly now, but there aren't any really great Bluesky clients for the desktop. Sure, we've pointed out a few third-party Bluesky clients, but none that can match the design of TweetBot. Clients that good are, right now, only offered for Mastodon. There's Ivory, an extremely good Mastodon client made by Tapbots, the company that built the previously mentioned TweetBot. My colleague Pranay Parab called Mona the best Mastodon client and, good as Ivory is, I agree. And I could go on: there are many great options. Wouldn't it be nice if you could use those applications for Bluesky? Well, you can. SkyBridge is a free web service that makes it easy to connect to and use Bluesky entirely from your Mastodon app of choice. I recently set this up with Mona and I love it. There are a few glitches, mostly owing to features that exist on Mastodon but not on Bluesky, but if you just want to browse your timeline and replies, SkyBridge works very well.To get started, install whatever Mastodon client you want to use and add a new account. When asked for your server, enter "skybridge.fly.dev". Here's how that looks on Mona: Credit: Justin Pot After this, you will be asked to sign into SkyBridge. You can use your standard Bluesky username and password, if you want, but for security's sake it's probably a good idea to create a dedicated app password in the settings (click here to jump right there). Credit: Justin Pot Make sure to check Show replies in the home feed if you like seeing every bit of a thread in your timeline (leave it unchecked if you'd rather just see the first post in a thread). Click "Sign In" and you will be redirected to whatever app you were trying to set up. It should now be working.It should be noted that not every Bluesky feature is supported. And not every feature in your Mastodon client is going to workI couldn't browse the most shared news articles in Mona, for example. But the basicsyour timeline and replieswork very well. I mostly recommend this if you, like me, are already active on Mastodon and have a client of choice. Settings this up means I can manage conversations with both Mastodon and Bluesky users in one application, which I like.

Steam Replay, Valves take on Spotify Wrapped for games youve played through Steam, is available now for your perusal. Valves offered the year-end presentation since 2022, and it can be a pretty revealing glimpse into how time-consuming most games have become in the last two years (or how much one game can really stick in your craw).You can access the data dump directly through the Steam app, your Steam Deck or the web. For 2024, Valve tracked the number of games and demos youve played, the number of achievements youve unlocked, your longest gaming streak and the games you spent the majority of your time playing. The company also collected data on how much of your time spent playing was on Steam Deck, which genres you tend to prefer and shared some details on how the median Steam users plays. For example, the median Steam user only played four games this year, and unlocked 13 achievements.ValveAccording to my Replay, the majority of my time on Steam this year was spent playing 1000xRESIST, Arco, Animal Well and Balatro. Since Ive basically treated the Steam Deck like a console from the moment I bought one, its also where I spent 100 percent of my time using Steam in 2024. I suspect thats unusual for the average user, but its really the only surprise I found combing through Valves data.If you dig up anything interesting in your Steam Replay, Valve has made it easy to make your Replay public so you can share with friends. If youre particularly proud of how much youve completed in 2024, you can also attach an overview of your stats directly to your Steam profile.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/steam-replay-2024-is-available-now-so-you-can-compare-your-balatro-playtime-with-friends-234027828.html?src=rss

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved Californias plan to phase out and ban the sale of new gas-powered cars and light trucks by 2035. ABC News reported the EPA gave California the waivers it needed to enact the Advanced Clean Cars II Regulations (ACC II) devised and approved by the California Air Resources Board in 2022.The EPA also approved Californias plan to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from heavy-duty vehicles in order to reduce the amount of smog in the air. The state will require an initial 75 percent reduction in NOx pollution followed by a 90 percent reduction a few years later.The ACC II provides a year-to-year blueprint for phasing out the selling of combustion-engine vehicles. The plan sets a 2026 deadline by which 35 percent of the states car sales must be electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids or models with hydrogen fuel cells. Then by 2030, the electric vehicle sale threshold rises to 68 percent before reaching its ultimate 100 percent sale requirement by 2035. Consumers and dealerships will still be able to buy, sell and drive used ICE and hybrid cards until the ACC II. California Air Resources Board chair Liane Randolph estimated the ACC II could lead to a 50 percent drop in pollution by 2040.California Gov. Gavin Newsom hailed the decision and ACC II in a statement as evidence that California can rise to the challenge of protecting our people by cleaning our air and cutting pollution.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/epa-gives-thumbs-up-to-californias-new-gas-powered-car-sale-ban-232048688.html?src=rss