Ever since a lot of pet owners have been more visible and vocal on social media about their fur babies, were seeing a lot of brands and products specific for both the pets and their owners. From food to shelter to clothes to toys, you can find a lot of options for your dogs, cats, and even other pets. Not all of them are of course well thought of when it comes to design and materials. But there are also brands and product designers that put a lot of consideration when creating these products, prioritizing things like the pets comfort, safety, and well-being and also putting the owners lifestyle and even aesthetic preferences. Designer: Karim Rashid for Ubbi This dog toy bundle for Ubbi, designed by Karim Rashid, is one such product line that has taken a lot of things into consideration. The toys are made from natural rubber which are PVC, BPA and phthalate free. These materials make the toys not only safe but also durable so they can last a long time even if the dog plays with it regularly. Theyre also easy to clean since these toys are dishwasher safe. Aside from these functional features, theyre also visually pleasing and can capture the interest of your fur babies with their colors and shapes. In this particular bundle, there are three kinds of toys that can be used for different play styles, inclduing fetch, tug, and chew. The tuggle tug toy has a twisted shape so the dog can pick it up easily and also play tug with their human. It has a bright pink color which can easily catch the attention of your fur baby. The chomp chew toy meanwhile is designed to have an erratic bounce so it can bounce in unexpected directions. This is a dark purple colored chomp chew toy that can last for some time because of the natural rubber material. The kibbler treat toy is not just a toy but is actually something that can keep kibble and small stick treats. The mint green toy has 2 side compartments to keep the food and is a more playful way for the dogs to enjoy their treats. All three toys are fun and trendy and are recommended for use of medium-sized dogs, although small and large dogs may also find it appealing. The way theyre designed and the material used should make it safe for any dog, no matter what their size. The post Ubbi dog toy bundle lets dogs have fun with trendy, colorful chew toys first appeared on Yanko Design.

Called the Yohoo Museum, Beijing-based architecture firm Aedas designed this intriguing structure. It will be located on an artificial island in Hangzhou, China, and it signifies the surreal flow of the Yangtze River. It will boast an undulating facade that seems to float gently above the water, characterizing it as a cultural landmark. The concept of jade, a material that has a lot of cultural significance in China, is the focal point of the museums design. The symbolism of jade is witnessed in the double-ring structure, which imitates two interlocking jade rings.Designer: AedasThe double-ring structure occupies over 5,356 sq m and seems to defy gravity. The edges of the building are elevated above the ring and supported by a singular steel frame that provides no visible support, giving the impressive impression that the building is floating in mid-air. The museums faade will feature translucent emerald glass panels crafted from multilayered laminated glass. These panels are designed to allow natural light to flow into the interior, creating a gentle interplay of light and shadow that enriches the museums ambiance.The Yohoo Museum will be elevated above the tranquil lake that surrounds it, providing visitors with breathtaking panoramic views from nearly every angle of the building. The architectural design includes a raised west side, which is supported by a robust steel framework. This elevation creates a dynamic piazza beneath the museum, making it the perfect venue for hosting a variety of outdoor events and community gatherings.The space is designed to be a lively hub of activity, bringing people together in a vibrant setting. On the north side of the museum, large glass panels have been thoughtfully incorporated into the design to offer expansive views of the picturesque surrounding landscape. This design choice seamlessly blends the museums interior spaces with the natural beauty of the external world, enhancing the overall experience for visitors.As you enter the museum, you are welcomed by an interior that feels modern, interactive, and quite multi-dimensional. This space is designed to support cultural engagement, creating a lively and conducive environment for community interaction. It includes a series of open courtyards, and circular light wells, thereby showcasing a variety of different spatial experiences. The diverse spatial experiences have been thoughtfully and carefully created and crafted to evoke different emotional responses and thoughts.The Yoohoo Museum displays a bold, visionary, and dynamic approach to museum architecture, but we are unsure whether it is sustainable and practical in the long term. The elevated structure is visually impressive and captivating but could be quite difficult to maintain and access. Also, the museums floating design and extensive use of glass bring up concerns about climate control and energy consumption, specially in Hangzhou, where temperatures can change quite quickly. But besides these potential problems, the Yohoo Museum does have the ability to become an architectural masterpiece that will make quite an impact.The post This Upcoming Museum In China Seems To Gently Float Above The Water first appeared on Yanko Design.

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MacworldRecent models of Apple Watchthe Series 8 and later, to be preciseare equipped with a temperature sensor. That might sound useful for a variety of health purposes, but in practice, there are limitations. One of which is that you cant simply ask your Apple Watch to measure your body temperature right now. Lets see whats going on. If you open the Health app on your iPhone and tap Browse > Body Measurements youll notice that wrist temperature trends are given in terms of variance from baseline. In the screenshot below, for example, its -0.3C from baseline. Very interesting, but what if you want to know the absolute temperature rather than how much higher or lower it is than a standard/average reading?David Price / FoundryFortunately, that information is available, and its relatively easy to findyou just need to slog through a few menus. Scroll down on the Wrist Temperature screen shown above to find a section headed Options. Tap on the option labelled Show All Data, and youll see a long list of the dates and times when the watch measured your temperature. Tap one of these and youll see an absolute temperature reading: in this case, for January 11, 2025, the reading is 36.37C (97.47F).David Price / FoundryAlternatively, you can look on the Apple Watch itself. Open Settings and scroll down until you start to see an alphabetically ordered list of apps (probably starting with Activity and App Store). Find Health in this list and tap it.Now tap Health Data > Body Measurements > Wrist Temperature. Youll see a list of recorded temperatures, beginning with the most recent. In the screenshot below you can see that the absolute temperature the last time I took a reading was, once again, 36.37C.David Price / FoundryWhy cant I just take my temperature right now?There are some more limitations that it might be worth mentioning. The Apple Watchs temperature sensor isnt the equivalent of a digital thermometer, something you can use to take a spot check at any moment. Instead, it takes your temperature at a time of its choosing while youre asleep. So when we look up the data using the method above, it still isnt possible to determine your temperature right now. Whatever information you find is likely to be at least a few hours out of date.Whats more, the Apple Watch is quite particular about having a big enough sample size. It wont be sufficient to put the watch on for tonights sleep and then eagerly demand the data tomorrow morning; instead, you need to be wearing the Apple Watch for a few weeks in a row before the results start to appear. If you were wondering why the first screenshot in this article shows trends across the first half of 2024, when my Apple Watch has a reading from January 2025, its because that one-off reading isnt enough for the Apple Watchs satisfaction. If I try to scroll the graph to the right, it says Needs More Data.David Price / FoundryThe Apple Watchs wrist temperature sensor is designed to monitor long-term trends rather than single moments in time. But its possible that Apple may allow the watch to show temperature readings in the future. Fingers crossed.

MacworldAre you saving up for a new Mac, iPhone, or iPad this year? You might need to save more money than you were planning, especially if you live in the U.S. Thats if President Trumps plan to impose tariffs on computer chips goes into effect.On Monday, Trump announced that tariffs of up to 100 percent could be imposed on chips, though he did not provide any specific details. The tariffs would affect nearly every tech company, including Apple, which relies on TSMC to produce the system on a chip at the heart of its products. TSMC is based in Taiwan, and the company gets 70 percent of its revenue from North American companies that import its chips.When a government imposes an import tariff, the company pays the government a fee for the ability to import that product into the U.S. To cover the cost, the company will almost certainly raise the price of the product to the consumer. In Apples case, the company could raise the price of Macs, iPhones, and iPads to cover the tariff imposed on the M- and A-series chips in those products that are made by TSMC. Apples other chips, such as its S-series (Apple Watch, HomePod) and H-series (AirPods), could also be affected.Apple has been making efforts for chip production in the U.S., which could put the company in a better position should tariffs go into effect. Two weeks ago, Nikkei Asia reported that TSMCs plant in Arizona was in the final stage of verifying chips made at the plant. The first batch of chips made at this plant is expected to be as early as this quarter and Apple is expected to be TSMCs largest customer of the Arizona plant. Its not clear which chips will be made in the U.S. to start, but they are said to be lower-volume older processors. CNBC reports that the plant will manufacture 4nm chips, which corresponds to older Apple chips and not the current enhanced 3nm M4, the standard 3nm M3, or the enhanced 3nm A18 used in current Macs and iPhones. TSMC is building another fab in Arizona, which will reportedly be able to create 2nm chips, but it will not be ready until 2030. However, Apple is in a stronger position to quickly shift at least some of TSMCs Taiwan fabrication to the U.S.However, Trumps announcement and its lack of details essentially equates to a trial balloon. The governments effort to increase chip production in the U.S. originated before Trumps presidency, and Trumps announcement could be a negotiating tactic and a way to push companies to increase their U.S. efforts. Furthermore, tech CEOs have been cozying up to President Trump to start his second term, with Tim Cook reportedly donating $1 million of his own money to Trumps inauguration fund and attending the festivities.The Consumer Technology Association issued a report in January that examined Trumps tariff proposals. The report states that there are two proposals: a 10 percent tariff on all imports from all countries and a 60 percent tariff on all imports from China; or a 20 percent tariff on all imports from all countries and a 100 percent tariff on all imports from China. The CTA calculated that the tariffs would result in consumer price increases of laptops and tablets by 46-68 percent, and smartphones by 26-37 percent.

They may be stressed about shadow IT, security, endpoint management, and the recent proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Theyre challenged not just by static budgets and rising costs, but by the proliferation of tools they now must use to do their job. And while IT admins are not exactly struggling for work, there is plenty for them to do.Those are some of the findings inJumpClouds latest surveyof IT admin decision-makers across the US, UK, and Australia. The report confirms that the workplace continues to become increasingly multi-platform, with 27% of enterprise employees nowpreferring to use Macs, up from low-single figures at the turn of the century.JumpCloud, which this weekacquired Stack Identity, is one of the larger unified device, identity, and access management platforms toprovide support for the burgeoning Apple enterprise.Windows down, macOS and Linux upWindows use has shown the most significant decrease over the last six months, compared to macOS and Linux, which both increased, said JumpCloud. When asked about the breakdown of their organizations device type, admins reported Windows devices comprise 56% (down from 63% in Q3 2024), macOS 27% (up from 24% in Q3 2024), and Linux 20% (up from 18% in Q3 2024).Mac adoption in the enterprise iscertain to continue to climb. The tech support cost overhead of managing Windows systems means a migration might represent low-hanging fruit for many enterprise leaders working to squeeze more from their budgets. Initial cost aside (and the difference between Mac and equivalent Windows systems is smaller now than ever), the total cost of ownership has a significant impact on budgets.Make no mistake. Budget-wrangling really is a thing: 39% spend up to half of their entire budget on licensing fees. While this reflects the grim reality that tech providers of all kinds are forcing subscriptions onto their customers, it represents a massive increase in such costs. In Q3, 2024 just 28% of admins endured similar budget erosion for licensing fees.What do you get for your money?Windows and other Microsoft devices were seen as the most difficult things to manage by 23% of respondents. To be fair, Apple devices were seen as difficult to manage by 19% of IT admins, with Linux winning unspoken praise just 14% of admins saw it as the most difficult.All the same, what that difference in Windows-vs-Mac management difficulty means is that the Windows experience is more abrasive, which in conjunction with the upcoming Windows licensing replacement cycle means IT will be tempted to look at alternatives.Perhaps thats why 43% of admins expect macOS device use to increase in the coming year, though 54% also anticipate increased use of Windows. The default rate enterprises dropping support for either platform is fairly equal, though Apple has the edge.On-prem, off-prem, and multicloudAdmins are also frustrated at the complexity of managing cloud and multi-cloud setups. Thats turning into a big opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs) who increasingly offer to ease the pain of managing multi-cloud setups. MSPs arent just about cloud services management, of course. But it does appear to be their time to shine, with 93% of organizations already using or considering an MSP. Their role also seems to be changing, as theyre increasingly seen as trusted advisors.Can AI supplement IT roles? Admins see the technology as both a risk and an opportunity. But organizations appear to be accelerating AI deployments, with 15% of admins warning the tech is being put in place too fast and 67% believing these deployments are outpacing organizational ability to protect against threats.Keeping pace with all the improvements and changes keeps me up at night, one anonymous survey respondent told JumpCloud. AI has bought a new way of doing business and requires major adjustments.Back to the (AI) futureIts not just deployment that has admins spooked. Thirty-seven percent of them fear AI will take their jobs and 56% of corporate vice presidents now worry AI will replace them, up from 29% a year ago. All the same, fear of redundancy is endemic across every role.How is AI being managed? Most enterprises are taking steps to accommodate its use, with just 21% having taken no steps or put AI restrictions in position. Almost half (49%) of companies have developed policies to guide employee use of AI, with 47% encouraging use of tools such as ChatGPT.With data being the new gold, its no surprise that 28% of IT admins said their companies now have controls in place to prevent employee use of AI. To harness [AIs] power responsibly, organizations must lead with clear governance and innovation frameworks that balance opportunity with risk, JumpCloud said.All the same, unauthorized use of AI continues, and just like any other form of Shadow IT this proliferation is a big problem for IT. The usual suspectsThe number of admins concerned about the use of apps and devices that arent managed has increased again, with 88% of IT admins now worried about this. They estimate that most employees use between one and five unauthorized applications.There are lots of reasons for this, one of them being the speed at which businesses are moving, which means the current needs arent being met, driving employees to seek solutions that fit. And while youd expect IT to spend time handling this, lack of time and lack of visibility into all the apps employees use means that just as fiscal budgets demand careful juggling, so too does precious IT time.What else is eating that time? Security. It currently consumes the lions share of IT budgets. A plurality of organizations (47%) spend between 10% and 25% of their yearly IT budget on cybersecurity; another 24% spend 26% to 50%; 5% spend more than half their budget on security; and 24% less than 9% on security. In other words, security remains a tidy little earner for vendors, and a significant revenue expenditure line item for IT.Youd think withall that money spent, security would already be tightly constrained, but thats not the case.Almost half (46%) of organizations report that they have fallen victim to a cyberattack. AI-augmented attacks are also proliferating this is now the third-biggest security concern after phishing and shadow IT. Man-in-the-middle attacks, MFA hacks and security breaches in partner organizations are also on the rise.In other words, security is an endless feast of fear for some, and of revenue for others. Of course, things might be better if there were platform choices that couldmitigate this attack surface.You can explore some of the highlights from aprevious JumpCloud survey here.You can follow me on social media! Join me onBlueSky, LinkedIn,Mastodon, andMeWe.

Apple is facing more controls in Germany due to its dominance in the market, as a German federal court has signaled that the country's antitrust regulator could win its legal fight.Headquarters of Germany's BundeskartellamtApple is facing the prospect of being deemed subject to an extended anti-competition law in Germany, and is fighting the country's Bundeskartellamt antitrust regulator in court over the matter. However, it seems that Apple may not get its way.On Tuesday, judges from the Federal Court of Justice deliberated for over three hours on whether Apple should be made to deal with additional controls to encourage competition in the market. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums