If you’re a business of any size considering increased deployment of Apple products, perhaps for the first time, you don’t have to go it alone. Apple has a hidden army of experts ready to help you reach the right decision. They won’t force you to do anything, but they will try to help you identify the right solutions for your business. And their advice is completely free. What the team does is scale. They can help explain how Apple’s solutions can be used in any business, but they also offer personalized sessions in which they go in deep to figure out what you need. In the sessions I’ve sat through, there is of course a slant toward Apple, but the intention is to deliver valuable advice rather than maximize sales. If all your business needs is MacBook Airs, they’ll tell you so, even if you aspire to MacBook Pros. The team can also help you identify the right mobile device management system for your business, and they offer in-person group sessions if you choose. Those group sessions are intended to help you get you and your teams on board with new Apple deployments, but they can be scoped out differently to help you handle specific challenges.  Free advice or fee advice? Apple draws on skills from across the company to empower these sessions. You may get an in-depth look at what Macs can do from one of the product marketing team, or a really informative guide to using specific applications from Apple’s in-store creatives — usually people who have worked or still do work professionally in the creative arts. Apple’s business team can explain things like Apple Business Manager, Configurator, and zero-touch deployments. Security experts can be provided to help you understand if your top team should be using Lockdown Mode. The reason I’m mentioning this is because I don’t believe enough businesses considering making the move to widen their Apple deployments are accessing this free service — and they should, because what is available is solid integration advice to help you make better deployment decisions. I think it’s important to mention the availability of Apple’s business teams, given the sheer number of enterprises currently in the process or considering making the move from Windows to Mac. If you are a company making that move, Apple has teams to help. What can you expect? The sessions I’ve sat through follow what has become Apple’s established approach to any presentation.  You get four or five strands within one session. The most recent tutorial I attended looked at Apple’s general offer to business, a series of Mac and iPhone tips for business, an in-depth exploration of applications and how they can be used for business, and Apple Intelligence tools.  It was very much a whistle-stop tour, full of useful pointers. I particularly liked being reminded that you can use the camera on your iPhone to scan a document directly into an email you are writing on your Mac, so long as you are on the same Apple ID. I was also impressed by a tangible swoon that went through the attending crowd when one Apple trainer showed us how you could use the voice recording tools to automatically transcribe what is being discussed, and then tap the Summary tool in Apple Intelligence to build a highly accurate summary of the conversation. This built-in tech will massively improve the life of minute-takers in meetings everywhere, once people begin to use it — which I think they will once they understand that it all takes place on the device. Why this matters I remember when Apple opened its first US retail store. When it did, there was an overwhelming opinion the attempt would fail. It did not fail. Instead, these stores opened globally and became among the biggest revenue-creating stores on the planet. Crowds continue to flock to them to this day. People turn up because they like the free Wi-Fi and because they can learn more about the tech they own and aspire to. They also turn up to get help at the Genius Bar.  Opening the London Regent Street store in 2004, Apple’s then retail chief Ron Johnson told me, “We believe in doing well by doing good. We don’t talk about revenue, we talk about pleasing our customers.” The Regent Street store was designed by Peter Bohlin of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, who had flown into London to launch the store. He told me his perspective on the space: “This is really about people more than things,” he said. “Steve [Jobs] has always said he sees himself as at the nexus of technology and art, and I would add, people. We are at the point where technology, art and people meet.” But back when those stores first opened, things were different. There were no iPhones, and Apple’s Mac market share stood at just under 4%. Today, the iPhone is the best-selling consumer electronics product in history, and in some sectors, Mac market share stands at over 20%. Apple’s stores supported this growth by being designed to become places where customers can get good help and support without feeling intolerably marketed at, and without feeling forced to sale up. The principle is that if you treat people with respect, you will generate respect — respect that helps build customer loyalty, which is the most valuable commodity to any business. It’s also the most valuable commodity inside a business.  Choice and respect If you think about it, respect for others is an argument for employee choice when it comes to technology tools. It’s also why Apple’s approach to business users in its stores reflects the same qualities. It means that if you are interested in exploring your options for wider Apple deployment in your business, you can book a free appointment with the business team to gain valuable insights to help your decision, and guidance to put it into effect. When I’ve spoken to members of Apple’s business teams, they’ve always been resolute in saying that they aren’t interested in just selling you an Apple product, they want to help you identify the most appropriate solution for your needs. That means if it really makes sense for your company to stick with its existing legacy tech supplier (despite forced upgrades and CrowdStrike), they’ll tell you so. Though I don’t think they need to tell you that very often. The bottom line?  If you or your business is considering widening Apple adoption in your business, or if you are in the process of such a deployment and want to book a group session to help get your teams on board, or even if you just want advice to help you respond to growing demand from your staff for an employee choice scheme, then an experienced support team is available to you at a local store. That’s got to be a whole lot easier to budget for than employing a third-party IT consultant to advise you, who probably has a vested interest in keeping you on Windows anyway. The truth is that in today’s business environment, there is an alternative. It’s easy to explore, and excellent advice is available for free. You can follow me on social media! 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It feels like we’ve been waiting a long time for an official build of SteamOS to make its way beyond the Steam Deck. Today, the latest version of SteamOS officially supports the Lenovo Legion Go SteamOS Edition, the first third-party handheld gaming PC to run Steam right out of the box. It’s scheduled for a retail release later this month. “Added official support for the Lenovo Legion Go S,” reads the update notes for SteamOS 3.7.8 Stable. Among a long list of bug fixes and other adjustments, Valve also lists “Improved support for other AMD powered handhelds (like the ROG Ally and original Legion Go).” That indicates, with very little room for doubt, that fully-compatible Linux-based builds for these other devices from Asus and Lenovo are on their way. It shouldn’t be too hard. With the notable exception of the MSI Claw series, every handheld PC from a major manufacturer uses an AMD APU as its starting point… and even MSI is now on the AMD bandwagon. So building support for the smaller differences in these Ryzen-based hardware designs, while not trivial, is certainly within the power of Valve and anyone it wishes to partner with. PC gamers and reviewers have expressed their dissatisfaction with Windows in this low-powered form factor, which can be clunky at best and dreadful at worst. Not that Microsoft is ignoring the situation. It’s apparently teaming up with Asus for a new version of its Ally hardware that has Xbox branding, indicating a more dedicated, streamlined Windows gaming handheld in the future. But that “ROG Ally 2” leak did include two devices, one of which conspicuously lacked that Xbox branding. I wonder if the second variant also runs Windows? Or is it preparing for a SteamOS variant? That’s speculation on my part, to be clear. But if you’ve been hoping for a bit more variety in your gaming PC handhelds, it looks like it’s right around the corner. Unfortunately, it’s not going to solve the other big problem with non-Steam Deck handhelds: price. Originally pegged for a $500 MSRP, Best Buy is currently showing the cheapest Legion Go S SteamOS Edition (sigh) with a $599.99 price tag. Hooray for trade wars.

Latin America at the 2025 Venice Biennale: Exploring Territory, Memory, and Ancestral Knowledge to Build the PresentSave this picture!Andamio Vivo - Perú. Image © Gonzalo Vera Tudela De MontreuilThe 19th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale officially opened to the public on May 10, becoming a significant international platform for exploring the current state of global architecture and sparking conversations about the challenges the discipline faces today—both shared and specific to each territory. This year’s theme, "Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective," proposed by general curator and Italian architect Carlo Ratti, invites reflection on architecture’s interconnection with other fields—such as art, artificial intelligence, and technology—while also emphasizing the importance of territories, landscapes, and, above all, the people who collectively shape our built environment.In this context, the national participations of Latin American countries have enriched the international exhibition with contributions deeply rooted in their local cultures and identities. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay represented Central and South America in Venice. Across their proposals, several shared themes emerged—most notably, the idea that contemporary architecture must consciously reconnect with its territory and draw from its history in order to build more thoughtfully today. Along these lines, the installations explored the re-signification of local elements and ancestral knowledge, adapting them to contemporary challenges and contexts.Brazil and Mexico centered their exhibitions on an in-depth investigation of land recording and mapping, addressing the use of ancestral construction technologies in relation to agriculture and the natural landscape. Both explored how these traditional techniques can be adapted to contemporary contexts. Uruguay, recognizing that over half of its territory is composed of water, emphasized the importance of considering this resource as an integral part of the country’s history, culture, and development. Peru and Argentina, meanwhile, focused on the re-signification of unique local elements—the silobag, emblematic of the Argentine countryside, and totora, a plant traditionally used in various forms of construction in Peru. In both pavilions, these materials were prominently featured, evoking the cultural and symbolic significance they carry. Finally, Chile’s participation presented a reflective and thought-provoking working table that examined recent debates around artificial intelligence policies established in the country. Related Article Between Algorithms and Ancestral Knowledge: Expanding the Concept of Architectural Intelligence Siestario - Argentina Save this picture!Save this picture!Upon entering Siestario, the Argentine Pavilion located in the Arsenale of Venice, visitors are immersed in a space of soft light and evocative soundscapes. At the center, serving as the undisputed focal point, is a large pink inflatable bag that instinctively invites repose. This is a silobag—a storage element commonly used in the Argentine countryside for preserving grain, especially soy, and emblematic of the country’s export-driven economy. In this context, the silobag functions not only as a spatial gesture but also as a temporal one: an invitation to pause and reflect amid the pace of the Biennale.In this way, architects Marco Zampieron and Juan Manuel Pachué succeed in decontextualizing this characteristic element—deeply rooted in national identity—by re-signifying its function and placing it within a space of critique and questioning. The result is effective: visitors are drawn to the installation, climb onto it, rest, and surrender to the experience, surrounded by images and sounds that induce a dreamlike drowsiness.(re) invenção - BrazilSave this picture!Save this picture!Brazil’s exhibition, curated by Luciana Saboia, Eder Alencar, and Matheus Seco—members of Plano Coletivo—is divided into two rooms, presenting research on the knowledge drawn from the lands of the Amazon. The installation establishes a dialogue between ancestral wisdom and contemporary urban infrastructure through exhibition elements that also serve as the structural system of the display.In the first room, lined with biodegradable wooden panels, maps and documents are spread across the floor, evoking the direct relationship that Indigenous peoples of the Amazon have with their land. In the second, a curated selection of architectural and urban infrastructure projects illustrates how these traditional forms of knowledge—deeply connected to Brazilian territory—are transformed into collective knowledge, capable of adapting to contemporary projects while preserving this cultural heritage.This balance between local culture, territory, and contemporary challenges is expressed almost literally through a minimalist and precise installation, composed of vertical panels and a suspended table made of reforested wood, both connected by tensioned steel cables. The balance is achieved through stone counterweights and a central metal tube that distributes the forces, turning the table into a structural element that redefines the spatial experience of the room.Reflective Intelligences - ChileSave this picture!Save this picture!The Chilean Pavilion presents a powerful proposal: upon entering the room, a central table—the main exhibition element—reflects a series of videos, essays, and images on its water surface. These works focus on archival research exploring the country’s growing role in the development of artificial intelligence, data center buildings, and the impact this has on the territory and, above all, its inhabitants.Serena Dambrosio, Nicolás Díaz Bejarano, and Linda Schilling Cuellar, the architects behind the pavilion, conceive the table not only as a physical support but also as a reference to the political tool of the "roundtable" used by the Chilean government to introduce policies and regulations around AI. In this case, the use of the water’s reflection invites visitors to reflect on what this technological development truly entails, questioning the exclusion of communities and environmental factors in these decision-making spaces. In this way, the table within the pavilion becomes a fertile ground for fostering collective dialogue among all key stakeholders: architects, researchers, communities, and policymakers.Chinampa Veneta - MéxicoSave this picture!Save this picture!The experience of entering the Mexican Pavilion, located in the Arsenale at the Biennale, is completely immersive. Visitors are welcomed by a recreation of a chinampa—an ancient cultivation system that involves creating platforms of earth over water to form small agricultural islands—which immediately captures attention through its lush vegetation, the scent of damp soil, and the sounds of water. The rest of the room, where vegetables, flowers, and medicinal herbs planted in the central chinampa are also expected to grow, is arranged to mimic the canals of Xochimilco, drawing a parallel with Venice itself, famously built over water.With this installation, the curatorial team—comprising Estudio Ignacio Urquiza and Ana Paula de Alba, Estudio María Marín de Buen, ILWT, Locus, Lucio Usobiaga Hegewisch & Nathalia Muguet, and Pedro&Juana—proposes revisiting these traditional chinampa agricultural systems to reflect on their adaptation in the present as a sustainable response, thanks to their self-irrigation system, within the context of droughts and global climate crisis. It also stands as evidence of a collective system bridging the natural and the built environment, as well as sustained care over time.Living Scaffolding - PerúSave this picture!Save this picture!The Peruvian Pavilion, with Alex Hudtwalcker as chief curator and Sebastián Cillóniz, José Ignacio Beteta, and Gianfranco Morales as associate curators, is presented at the Biennale’s Arsenale with Living Scaffolding, a proposal centered around a monumental structure built from totora reed wood. This installation brings to Venice the ancestral knowledge of the Uros and Aymara peoples of Lake Titicaca, who for centuries have used totora to construct floating habitable islands, homes, boats, and other essential elements for life on the lake.Over time, the refinement of this ancient technique incorporated other essential components—such as ropes and logs—that contribute to the stability and buoyancy of the structures. All this knowledge is materialized in an installation that can be fully experienced: visitors enter and walk through the scaffolding, exploring its construction system from within.Living Scaffolding highlights the technical precision and enduring relevance of this tradition, which in the contemporary context takes on a new meaning connected to collectivity, material memory, and the possibility of reactivating ancestral techniques as a response to today’s challenges. 53,86% Uruguay Land of Water - Uruguay Save this picture!Save this picture!Curated by architects Ken Sei Fong and Katia Sei Fong, alongside visual artist Luis Sei Fong, the Uruguayan Pavilion explores the country’s relationship with its maritime territory, which accounts for just over half of its total surface area. Located in its own building within the Biennale’s Giardini, the pavilion features a poetic and musical installation: a wavy ceiling from which amethyst stones hang, dripping water that strikes metal containers on the floor. This sensory and sonic experience invites visitors to contemplate water as a thread that weaves together the country’s memory, identity, and development.The installation presents a critique of the global water management model, emphasizing that, as a finite and increasingly scarce resource, it is essential to establish policies and regulations for its preservation. In this context, architecture plays a key role: it can not only offer innovative solutions but also promote conscious planning around water in cities and territories, acting as a bridge between the way we inhabit and the way we collectively manage this vital resource.Save this picture!Latin America’s participation in the 2025 Venice Biennale reveals that architecture is not only a design discipline but also a powerful critical and cultural tool. Each pavilion, rooted in its specific territorial context and local cultural identity, enacts a form of resistance by exploring ancestral knowledge, natural resources, and contemporary technologies as collective ways of knowing—learning from the past to build better today. In a global context marked by environmental crises, inequalities, and technological transformations, these architectural and deeply reflective endeavors construct new and reimagined narratives, where the local is no longer intrinsic to a fixed context but rather knowledge that expands, connects, and adapts to shared new realities.Save this picture! Image gallerySee allShow less About this authorPaula PintosAuthor••• Cite: Pintos, Paula. "Latin America at the 2025 Venice Biennale: Exploring Territory, Memory, and Ancestral Knowledge to Build the Present" [Latinoamérica en la Bienal de Venecia 2025: territorio, memoria y saberes ancestrales para construir el presente] 23 May 2025. ArchDaily. 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Hollywood is about to get Tarnished (Bandai Namco) A film adaptation of FromSoftware’s Elden Ring is in the works, with George R.R. Martin on board as a producer. After rumours emerged earlier this month, FromSoftware has officially announced it is partnering with A24 to make a live-action film adaptation of Elden Ring. As announced in a press release, Alex Garland will write and direct the project. He’s best known for directing films like Ex Machina, Annihilation, and Civil War, but he’s also served as writer on several Danny Boyle films, specifically Sunshine, 28 Days Later, and its upcoming sequel 28 Years Later. Garland has worked on video games too, serving as a co-writer on 2010’s Enslaved: Odyssey To The West and a story supervisor on 2013’s DmC: Devil May Cry. George R.R. Martin, who contributed to the story of Elden Ring alongside the game’s director Hidetaka Miyazaki, is a producer on the film. He’s joined by Game Of Thrones producer Vince Gerardis, Peter Rice, and Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich from DNA Films. Interestingly, Miyazaki’s name isn’t mentioned, which suggests he’s not involved. Speaking to The Guardian last year, he expressed his interest in making a film adaptation of Elden Ring but said he doesn’t think he has the ‘knowledge or ability to produce something in a different medium’. Adapting Elden Ring’s dark fantasy world to live-action will certainly be a challenge, but the biggest task might be translating the game’s lore into a tight narrative, unless it opts to tell its own story within the same universe. More Trending Between Garland and Martin though, this is probably the most promising film based on a video game currently in development. Others in the works include a BioShock movie at Netflix, a new Street Fighter movie, a Death Stranding film, OutRun with Sydney Sweeney, along with countless more. There is no indication of when the Elden Ring film will be released, or when it will start shooting, so it will likely be a few years away yet. This announcement comes a week ahead of Elden Ring: Nightreign, a roguelike multiplayer spin-off which is set to launch on May 30 across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Nightreign launches this month (Bandai Namco) 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

Let’s imagine for a second that the impressive pace of AI progress over the past few years continues for a few more. In that time period, we’ve gone from AIs that could produce a few reasonable sentences to AIs that can produce full think tank reports of reasonable quality; from AIs that couldn’t write code to AIs that can write mediocre code on a small code base; from AIs that could produce surreal, absurdist images to AIs that can produce convincing fake short video and audio clips on any topic. This story was first featured in the Future Perfect newsletter.Sign up here to explore the big, complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them. Sent twice a week.Companies are pouring billions of dollars and tons of talent into making these models better at what they do. So where might that take us?Imagine that later this year, some company decides to double down on one of the most economically valuable uses of AI: improving AI research. The company designs a bigger, better model, which is carefully tailored for the super-expensive yet super-valuable task of training other AI models. With this AI trainer’s help, the company pulls ahead of its competitors, releasing AIs in 2026 that work reasonably well on a wide range of tasks and that essentially function as an “employee” you can “hire.” Over the next year, the stock market soars as a near-infinite number of AI employees become suitable for a wider and wider range of jobs (including mine and, quite possibly, yours).Welcome to the (near) futureThis is the opening of AI 2027, a thoughtful and detailed near-term forecast from a group of researchers that think AI’s massive changes to our world are coming fast — and for which we’re woefully unprepared. The authors notably include Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI researcher who became famous for risking millions of dollars of his equity in the company when he refused to sign a nondisclosure agreement.“AI is coming fast” is something people have been saying for ages but often in a way that’s hard to dispute and hard to falsify. AI 2027 is an effort to go in the exact opposite direction. Like all the best forecasts, it’s built to be falsifiable — every prediction is specific and detailed enough that it will be easy to decide if it came true after the fact. (Assuming, of course, we’re all still around.) The authors describe how advances in AI will be perceived, how they’ll affect the stock market, how they’ll upset geopolitics — and they justify those predictions in hundreds of pages of appendices. AI 2027 might end up being completely wrong, but if so, it’ll be really easy to see where it went wrong.Forecasting doomsdayIt also might be right. While I’m skeptical of the group’s exact timeline, which envisions most of the pivotal moments leading us to AI catastrophe or policy intervention as happening during this presidential administration, the series of events they lay out is quite convincing to me. Any AI company would double down on an AI that improves its AI development. (And some of them may already be doing this internally.) If that happens, we’ll see improvements even faster than the improvements from 2023 to now, and within a few years, there will be massive economic disruption as an “AI employee” becomes a viable alternative to a human hire for most jobs that can be done remotely. But in this scenario, the company uses most of its new “AI employees” internally, to keep churning out new breakthroughs in AI. As a result, technological progress gets faster and faster, but our ability to apply any oversight gets weaker and weaker. We see glimpses of bizarre and troubling behavior from advanced AI systems and try to make adjustments to “fix” them. But these end up being surface-level adjustments, which just conceal the degree to which these increasingly powerful AI systems have begun pursuing their own aims — aims which we can’t fathom. This, too, has already started happening to some degree. It’s common to see complaints about AIs doing “annoying” things like faking passing code tests they don’t pass.Not only does this forecast seem plausible to me, but it also appears to be the default course for what will happen. Sure, you can debate the details of how fast it might unfold, and you can even commit to the stance that AI progress is sure to dead-end in the next year. But if AI progress does not dead-end, then it seems very hard to imagine how it won’t eventually lead us down the broad path AI 2027 envisions, sooner or later. And the forecast makes a convincing case it will happen sooner than almost anyone expects. Make no mistake: The path the authors of AI 2027 envision ends with plausible catastrophe. By 2027, enormous amounts of compute power would be dedicated to AI systems doing AI research, all of it with dwindling human oversight — not because AI companies don’t want to oversee it but because they no longer can, so advanced and so fast have their creations become. The US government would double down on winning the arms race with China, even as the decisions made by the AIs become increasingly impenetrable to humans. The authors expect signs that the new, powerful AI systems being developed are pursuing their own dangerous aims — and they worry that those signs will be ignored by people in power because of geopolitical fears about the competition catching up, as an AI existential race that leaves no margin for safety heats up.All of this, of course, sounds chillingly plausible. The question is this: Can people in power do better than the authors forecast they will? Definitely. I’d argue it wouldn’t even be that hard. But will they do better? After all, we’ve certainly failed at much easier tasks.Vice President JD Vance has reportedly read AI 2027, and he has expressed his hope that the new pope — who has already named AI as a main challenge for humanity — will exercise international leadership to try to avoid the worst outcomes it hypothesizes. We’ll see.We live in interesting (and deeply alarming) times. I think it’s highly worth giving AI 2027 a read to make the vague cloud of worry that permeates AI discourse specific and falsifiable, to understand what some senior people in the AI world and the government are paying attention to, and to decide what you’ll want to do if you see this starting to come true.A version of this story originally appeared in the Future Perfect newsletter. 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In the court of public opinion, acolytes of great architects are rarely treated as legends themselves. Take Chicago-area architect Don Erickson, who apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin from 1948 through 1951. Although the Chicago Tribune lauded Erickson’s work as “delicate, beautiful, and always original” after his death in 2006, local interior designer Jennie Bishop reports that most of his houses “are often purchased and torn down or so drastically changed that you can’t recognize them.”Bishop discovered an exception in 2021, when a friend in real estate suggested a meeting with clients who had just purchased the Winnetka, Illinois, residence that Erickson had designed for photographer Richard Boyer in 1966. “I went in blind and just gasped,” Bishop recalls of arriving at the impeccably preserved home, adding, “I was saying silent prayers that they would not rip things out or depart from Erickson’s vision.”Bishop sourced a circular sectional, designed by Adrian Pearsall, for the great room’s living area. She and one of the clients plan to replace its vintage upholstery when the homeowners’ two young sons are less rambunctious. In the living area, a pair of lounge chairs upholstered in a Schumacher checkerboard pattern stand guard over an original fireplace. Bishop’s invocations were answered quickly, when the husband and wife described their predilection for living in unique spaces. They also explained that they had promised the previous homeowner to steward this midcentury gem and envisioned a delicate renovation ahead. Bishop started the commission as cofounder of Chicago-based Studio Gild, and she completed the project under her recently launched AD PRO Directory firm Bishop Studio.The Winnetka residence features several hallmarks of a Frank Lloyd Wright–designed house. Applying Wright’s concept of “pressure and release” to the 6,000-square-foot interior, for example, Erickson created a skinny formal entry hall that he made even more narrow by arcing a raised fireplace hearth into the space. Just beyond the hearth, the newcomer overlooks a great room that is as expansive as the entry was constrained.“We didn’t want all the fixtures to look like they had been left there,” Bishop says of layering a contemporary lighting vocabulary into the well-preserved interior. For the kitchen island, she specified a Light Object 015 from Naama Hofman to shed strong uniform light on the work surface. The island’s Afternoon Plus stools are from DWR. The kitchen’s perimeter cabinetry traces one of the orioles with which original architect Don Erickson had lined the west elevation of the house. The millwork was done by Abruzzo Kitchen & Bath. The kitchen’s breakfast area, as seen from the hallway dividing the great room from the dining room: a Heritage Unicolor pendant from Taiwan-Lantern tops the custom table and banquette; leather sling dining chairs from CB2. Other aspects of the house, such as its fan-patterned brick floors, historically evocative windows, and balletic ceilings, suggest that Erickson counted himself among the likes of A. Quincy Jones and Edward Durrell Stone—architects who were trying to reshape High Modernism for a popular American audience.Bishop determined that the Winnetka project required neither window replacement nor ceiling removal. At first, she planned to leave the enchanting brick floor untouched too. “We thought that its muted colors were original,” she says, “but we discovered a warmer palette underneath the kitchen appliances.” While Boyer and the homeowners who followed him had maintained the interior with almost religious devotion, their years of cleaning and coating the floors had unintentionally dulled their appearance. So began an exhaustive process of diamond sanding and resealing the surface, which Bishop admits caused moments of second-guessing: “It was painful to get to where we are, but now I’m super happy for the rusty and spicy colors that we achieved. We dramatically changed the house and honored it simultaneously.”A Maho sectional sofa by Wendelbo and a pair of vintage hammock chairs anchor the Florida room, which distinguishes itself from the great room by stepping down from the living area. The Florida room is oriented south to the patio. Bishop completed the project’s other major intervention in a similar spirit. While redoing the primary and children’s bathrooms in the bedroom wing, the interior designer preserved the spaces’ organization into eight-by-eight-foot modules and specified surfaces featuring period-appropriate patterns and colors. To make the three-compartment primary bathroom more gracious, she converted a never-used sauna into a wet room that remains crowned in its original cedar. (Bishop notes that she could upgrade plumbing and electrical systems largely without touching the house’s historic fabric thanks to a crawl space that Erickson had presciently included under the bedroom wing.)For the house’s furnishings, Bishop dotted the interior with antiques. For new and custom pieces, she leaned more toward complementing rather than aping the past. “We’re surrounded by so much wood in this house that we expressed ourselves with stone,” she cites as one example. Bishop also explains that the trio’s admiration for this palimpsest has only grown with time, so much so that the homeowners have granted her right of first refusal, should they someday decide to sell the house.The house is ostensibly L-shaped in plan, its east- and south-facing crook enfolding a generous patio area. Bishop and the homeowners are spreading the love by including the nest in a home tour hosted by Community House. The annual event raises funds for the local nonprofit and, this year, it promises to raise the profile of Erickson too. Bishop reinvented the service entrance, located immediately adjacent to the three-bay garage, as a cozy entry wrapped in Cranes wallpaper by Milton & King. “Nothing in this house is super precious,” Bishop says, noting that the homeowners enjoy entertaining at home. To wit, the designer created a double-pedestal dining room table topped in Jadore Quartzite “that could be danced upon.” It is overseen by a Rib Vault Light by Talbot & Yoon. Within the great room, the Florida room’s glassed-in corner contains a vintage pedestal table surrounded by Crate & Barrel chairs upholstered in a House of Hackney bouclé. Bishop says she purchased and arranged the pieces on her own volition to help the then-unconvinced homeowners envision the vignette as a place for sipping wine or playing mah-jongg, “and they never left.” The primary bedroom occupies a semidetached volume at the easternmost end of the house. Here, a walnut Feve Desk from Ferm Living overlooks a custom king-size bed finished in wine-colored Kirkby Design upholstery. Like so many other original finishes in the house, the cedar ceilings in the primary bathroom suite were perfectly preserved. Bishop tacked a Mori pendant by RBW above the room’s middle module rather than tear into the cedar planks. The primary bath is a suite of three eight-by-eight-foot modules linked by travertine flooring. Jupiter’s Axis Wall Sconces flank the double vanity. The primary bath and this walk-in closet face one another across a hallway. Because the primary bedroom is so clearly distinguished from the rest of the house in plan, the two dressing areas form a metaphorical proscenium to the sanctum. The house’s privacy-giving serpentine wall is visible from the kids’ bathroom, in which a custom vanity sits against a backdrop of Claybrook Confiserie and Concrete Collaborative Pacifica tiles. The interior’s many swaths of pink are no accident—it is the husband’s favorite color. Bishop leaned into the hue with gusto for the powder room, using Sarah Von Dreele’s Brian XL wallpaper, a Twin 1.0 sconce, a slab of Quartzite, and other flamingo-like sources. Architect Don Erickson placed a serpentine brick wall in front of the house’s north elevation to shield the sleeping wing’s bathing and dressing areas.

President Donald Trump on Friday threatened Apple with a 25% tariff unless the company manufactures iPhones sold in America domestically rather than in India or other overseas locations. Trump posted on Truth Social that he had "long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple" about his expectation for US-based iPhone production, warning that failure to comply would trigger the substantial tariff penalty. The ultimatum follows Trump's expressed displeasure with Cook during his recent Middle East trip over Apple's plans to build iPhones at newly constructed Indian facilities. Apple has historically maintained that domestic iPhone manufacturing remains unfeasible due to insufficient skilled engineering talent and substantially higher production costs compared to Asian facilities. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to make a scientific comeback and to repair his reputation after a three-year incarceration for illegally creating the world’s first gene-edited children.  While he has bounced between cities, jobs, and meetings with investors, one area of visible success on his come-back trail has been his X.com account, @Jiankui_He, which has become his main way of spreading his ideas to the world. Starting in September 2022, when he joined the platform, the account stuck to the scientist’s main themes, including promisingposted in August 2024. He also shared mundane images of his daily life, including golf games and his family. But over time, it evolved and started to go viral—first with a series of selfies accompanied by grandiose statements (“Every pioneer or prophet must suffer”), and then, in April of this year, it became particularly outrageous and even troll-like, blasting out bizarre messages (“Good morning bitches. How many embryos have you gene edited today?”). This has left observers unsure what to take seriously. Last month, in reply to MIT Technology Review’s questions about who was responsible for the account’s transformation into a font of clever memes, He emailed us back: “It’s thanks to Cathy Tie.” You may not be familiar with Tie but she’s no stranger to the public spotlight. A former Thiel fellow, she is a partner in the attention-grabbing Los Angeles Project, which promised to create glow-in-the-dark pets. Over the past several weeks, though, the 29-year-old Canadian entrepreneur has started to get more and more attention as the new wife to (and apparent social media mastermind behind) He Jiankui. On April 15, He announced a new venture, Cathy Medicine, that would take up his mission of editing human embryos to create people resistant to diseases like Alzheimer’s or cancer. Then just a few days later, on April 18, He and Tie announced that they got married, posting pictures of themselves in traditional Chinese wedding attire. But now, Tie says that just a month after marrying “the most controversial scientist in the world,” her plans to relocate from Los Angeles to Beijing to be with He are in disarray; she says she’s been denied entry to China and the two “may never see each other again,” as He’s passport is being held by Chinese authorities and he can’t leave the country. Reached by phone in Manila, Tie said authorities in the Philippines intercepted her during a layover on May 17 and told her she couldn’t board a plane to China, where she was born and where she says she has a valid 10-year visa. She claims they didn’t say why but told her she is likely “on a watch list.” (MIT Technology Review could not independently confirm Tie’s account.)  “While I’m concerned about my marriage, I am more concerned about what this means for humanity and the future of science,” Tie posted to her own X account. A match made in gene-editing heaven The romance between He and Tie has been playing out in public over the past several weeks through a series of reveals on He’s X feed, which had already started going viral late last year thanks to his style of posting awkward selfies alongside maxims about the untapped potential of heritable gene editing, or changing people’s DNA when they’re just embryos in an IVF dish.  “Human [sic] will no longer be controlled by Darwin's evolution,” He wrote in March. That post, which showed him standing in an empty lab, gazing into the distance, garnered 9.7 million views. And then, a week later for 13.3 million: “Ethics is holding back scientific innovation and progress.”  In April, the feed started to change even more drastically.  He’s posts became increasingly provocative, with better English and a unique sensibility of online culture. “Stop asking for cat girls. I’m trying to cure disease,” the account posted on April 15. Two days later, the account followed-up: “I literally went to prison for this shit.”  This shift coincided with the development of his romance with Tie. Tie told us she has visited China three times this year, including a three-week stint in April when she and He got married after a whirlwind romance. She bought him a silver wedding ring made up of intertwined DNA strands.  The odd behavior on He’s X feed and the sudden marriage have left followers wondering if they are watching a love story, a new kind of business venture, or performance art. It might be all three.  A wedding photo posted by Tie on Chinese social media platform Rednote shows the couple sitting at a banquet hall, with a small number of guests. MIT Technology Review has been able to identify several people who attended: Cai Xilei, He’s criminal attorney; Liu Haiyan, an investor and former business partner of He; and Darren Zhu, an artist and Thiel fellow who is making a “speculative” documentary about the biophysicist that will blur the boundaries of fiction and reality. In the phone interview, Tie declined to say if she and He are legally married. Tie also confirmed she celebrated a wedding less than one year ago with someone else in California, in July of 2024, but noted they broke up after a few months; she also declined to describe the legal status of that marriage. In the phone call, Tie emphasized that her relationship with He is genuine: “I wouldn’t marry him if I wasn’t in love with him.” An up and comer Years before Tie got into a relationship with He, she was getting plenty of attention in her own right. Soon, she began appearing on the entrepreneurs circuit, a “wunderkind” who was featured on a Forbes “30 Under 30” list in 2018 and was presented as an up-and-coming venture capitalist on CNN that same year. In 2020, she started her second company, Locke Bio, that focuses on online telemedicine. Like Thiel, Tie has also staked out contrarian positions. She’s called mainstream genomics a scam and described entrepreneurship as a way to escape the hidebound practices of academia and bioethics. “Starting companies is my preferred form of art,” she posted in 2022, linking to an interview on CNBC.  By February 2025, Tie was ready to announce another new venture, the Los Angeles Project, a stealth company she had incorporated in 2023 under her legal name, Cheng Cheng Tie. The company, started with the Austin-based biohacker and artist Josie Zayner, says it will try to modify animal embryos, including to make fluorescent glow-in-the-dark rabbits as pets. The Los Angeles Project revels in explicitly transgressive aims for embryo editing, including a plan to add horn genes to horse embryos to make a unicorn. That’s consistent with Zayner’s past stunts, which include injecting herself with CRISPR during a livestream. “This is a company that should not exist,” Zayner said in announcing the newly public project. Although the Los Angeles Project has only a tiny staff with uncertain qualifications, it did raise $1 million from the 1517 fund, a venture group that supports “dropouts” and whose managers previously ran the Thiel Fellowship.  Asked for his assessment of Tie, Michael Gibson, a 1517 partner, said in an email that he thinks Tie is “not just exceptional, but profoundly exceptional.” He sent along a list of observations he’d jotted down about Tie before funding her company, which approvingly noted her “hyper-fluent competence” and “low need for social approval. Thoughts & actions routinely unconventional.”  A comeback story He first gained notoriety in 2018, when he and co-workers at the Southern University of Science & Technology in Shenzhen, injected the CRISPR gene-editor into several viable human embryos, and then transferred these into volunteers, leading to the birth of three girls who he claimed would be resistant to HIV. A subsequent Chinese investigation found he’d practiced medicine illegally while “pursuing fame and fortune.” A court later sentenced him to three years in prison. He has never apologized for his experiments, except to say he acted “too quickly” and to express regret for the trouble he’d caused his former wife and two daughters. (According to a leaked WeChat post by his ex-wife, she divorced him in 2024 “because of a major fault on his side.”) Since his release from prison, He has sought to restart his research and convince people that he should be recognized as the “Chinese Darwin,” not “China’s Frankenstein,” as the press once dubbed him.  But his comeback has been bumpy. He lost a position at Wuchang University of Technology, a small private university in Hubei province, after some negative press. In February 2024, He posted that his application for funding from the Muscular Dystrophy Association was rejected. Last September, he even posted pictures of his torn shirt—which he said was the result of an assault by jealous rivals. One area of clear success, though, was the growing reach of his X profile, which today has ballooned to more than 130,000 followers. And as his public profile rose, some started encouraging He to find ways to cash in. Andrew Hessel, a futurist and synthetic biologist active in US ethics debates, says he tried to get He invited to give a TED Talk. “His story is unique, and I wanted to see his story get more widespread attention, if only as a cautionary tale,” Hessel says. “I think he is a lightning rod for a generation of people working in life sciences.” Later, Hessel says he sent him information on how to join X’s revenue-sharing program. “I said, ‘You have a powerful voice.’ Have you looked into monetization?” Hessel says. By last fall, He was also welcoming visitors to what he called a new lab in Beijing. One person who took him up on the offer was Steve Hsu, a Michigan State physics professor who has started several genetics companies and was visiting Beijing.  They ended up talking for hours. Hsu says that He expressed a desire to move to the US and start a company, and that he shared his idea for conducting a clinical trial of embryo editing in South Africa, possibly for the prevention of HIV.  Hsu says he later arranged an invitation for He to give a lecture in the United States. “You are a little radioactive, but things are opening up,” Hsu told him. But He declined the offer because the Chinese government is holding his passport—a common tactic it uses to restrict the movement of sensitive or high-profile figures—and won’t return it to him. “He doesn’t even know why. He literally doesn’t know,” says Hsu. “According to the law, they should give it back to him.” A curious triangle Despite any plans by He and Tie to advance the idea, creating designer babies is currently illegal in most of the world, including China and the US. Some experts, however, fret that forbidding the technology will only drive it underground and make it attractive to biohackers or scientists outside the mainstream.  That’s one reason Tie’s simultaneous connection to two notable biotech renegades—He and Zayner—is worth watching. “There is clearly a triangle forming in some way,” says Hessel. With Tie stuck outside China, and He being kept inside the country, their new gene-editing venture, Cathy Medicine, faces an uncertain future. Tie has posted previously on Rednote that she was “helping Dr. He open up the U.S. market,” and was planning to return to the US with He for scientific research. But when we spoke on the phone, Tie declined to disclose their next steps and said their predicament means the project is “out of the window now.” But even as the couple remains separated, their social media game is stronger than ever. As she waited in Manila, Tie sought help from friends and followers, even the entire internet. She blasted out a tweet to “crypto people” calling them “too pussy to stand up for things when it matters.” Within hours, someone had created a memecoin called $GENE as a way for the public to support the couple.  On May 20, Tie posted on X claiming that the amount donated to them is now worth almost $2 million. “I may need to retract my last statement about crypto,” wrote Tie.  He’s X account also retweeted to express support: “I only want to reunite with my wife @CathyTie, and continue my gene editing research.” He added the hashtag $GENE.

Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to make a scientific comeback and to repair his reputation after a three-year incarceration for illegally creating the world’s first gene-edited children.  While he has bounced between cities, jobs, and meetings with investors, one area of visible success on his come-back trail has been his X.com account, @Jiankui_He, which has become his main way of spreading his ideas to the world. Starting in September 2022, when he joined the platform, the account stuck to the scientist’s main themes, including promisingposted in August 2024. He also shared mundane images of his daily life, including golf games and his family. But over time, it evolved and started to go viral—first with a series of selfies accompanied by grandiose statements (“Every pioneer or prophet must suffer”), and then, in April of this year, it became particularly outrageous and even troll-like, blasting out bizarre messages (“Good morning bitches. How many embryos have you gene edited today?”). This has left observers unsure what to take seriously. Last month, in reply to MIT Technology Review’s questions about who was responsible for the account’s transformation into a font of clever memes, He emailed us back: “It’s thanks to Cathy Tie.” You may not be familiar with Tie but she’s no stranger to the public spotlight. A former Thiel fellow, she is a partner in the attention-grabbing Los Angeles Project, which promised to create glow-in-the-dark pets. Over the past several weeks, though, the 29-year-old Canadian entrepreneur has started to get more and more attention as the new wife to (and apparent social media mastermind behind) He Jiankui. On April 15, He announced a new venture, Cathy Medicine, that would take up his mission of editing human embryos to create people resistant to diseases like Alzheimer’s or cancer. Then just a few days later, on April 18, He and Tie announced that they got married, posting pictures of themselves in traditional Chinese wedding attire. But now, Tie says that just a month after marrying “the most controversial scientist in the world,” her plans to relocate from Los Angeles to Beijing to be with He are in disarray; she says she’s been denied entry to China and the two “may never see each other again,” as He’s passport is being held by Chinese authorities and he can’t leave the country. Reached by phone in Manila, Tie said authorities in the Philippines intercepted her during a layover on May 17 and told her she couldn’t board a plane to China, where she was born and where she says she has a valid 10-year visa. She claims they didn’t say why but told her she is likely “on a watch list.” (MIT Technology Review could not independently confirm Tie’s account.)  “While I’m concerned about my marriage, I am more concerned about what this means for humanity and the future of science,” Tie posted to her own X account. A match made in gene-editing heaven The romance between He and Tie has been playing out in public over the past several weeks through a series of reveals on He’s X feed, which had already started going viral late last year thanks to his style of posting awkward selfies alongside maxims about the untapped potential of heritable gene editing, or changing people’s DNA when they’re just embryos in an IVF dish.  “Human [sic] will no longer be controlled by Darwin's evolution,” He wrote in March. That post, which showed him standing in an empty lab, gazing into the distance, garnered 9.7 million views. And then, a week later for 13.3 million: “Ethics is holding back scientific innovation and progress.”  In April, the feed started to change even more drastically.  He’s posts became increasingly provocative, with better English and a unique sensibility of online culture. “Stop asking for cat girls. I’m trying to cure disease,” the account posted on April 15. Two days later, the account followed-up: “I literally went to prison for this shit.”  This shift coincided with the development of his romance with Tie. Tie told us she has visited China three times this year, including a three-week stint in April when she and He got married after a whirlwind romance. She bought him a silver wedding ring made up of intertwined DNA strands.  The odd behavior on He’s X feed and the sudden marriage have left followers wondering if they are watching a love story, a new kind of business venture, or performance art. It might be all three.  A wedding photo posted by Tie on Chinese social media platform Rednote shows the couple sitting at a banquet hall, with a small number of guests. MIT Technology Review has been able to identify several people who attended: Cai Xilei, He’s criminal attorney; Liu Haiyan, an investor and former business partner of He; and Darren Zhu, an artist and Thiel fellow who is making a “speculative” documentary about the biophysicist that will blur the boundaries of fiction and reality. In the phone interview, Tie declined to say if she and He are legally married. Tie also confirmed she celebrated a wedding less than one year ago with someone else in California, in July of 2024, but noted they broke up after a few months; she also declined to describe the legal status of that marriage. In the phone call, Tie emphasized that her relationship with He is genuine: “I wouldn’t marry him if I wasn’t in love with him.” An up and comer Years before Tie got into a relationship with He, she was getting plenty of attention in her own right. Soon, she began appearing on the entrepreneurs circuit, a “wunderkind” who was featured on a Forbes “30 Under 30” list in 2018 and was presented as an up-and-coming venture capitalist on CNN that same year. In 2020, she started her second company, Locke Bio, that focuses on online telemedicine. Like Thiel, Tie has also staked out contrarian positions. She’s called mainstream genomics a scam and described entrepreneurship as a way to escape the hidebound practices of academia and bioethics. “Starting companies is my preferred form of art,” she posted in 2022, linking to an interview on CNBC.  By February 2025, Tie was ready to announce another new venture, the Los Angeles Project, a stealth company she had incorporated in 2023 under her legal name, Cheng Cheng Tie. The company, started with the Austin-based biohacker and artist Josie Zayner, says it will try to modify animal embryos, including to make fluorescent glow-in-the-dark rabbits as pets. The Los Angeles Project revels in explicitly transgressive aims for embryo editing, including a plan to add horn genes to horse embryos to make a unicorn. That’s consistent with Zayner’s past stunts, which include injecting herself with CRISPR during a livestream. “This is a company that should not exist,” Zayner said in announcing the newly public project. Although the Los Angeles Project has only a tiny staff with uncertain qualifications, it did raise $1 million from the 1517 fund, a venture group that supports “dropouts” and whose managers previously ran the Thiel Fellowship.  Asked for his assessment of Tie, Michael Gibson, a 1517 partner, said in an email that he thinks Tie is “not just exceptional, but profoundly exceptional.” He sent along a list of observations he’d jotted down about Tie before funding her company, which approvingly noted her “hyper-fluent competence” and “low need for social approval. Thoughts & actions routinely unconventional.”  A comeback story He first gained notoriety in 2018, when he and co-workers at the Southern University of Science & Technology in Shenzhen, injected the CRISPR gene-editor into several viable human embryos, and then transferred these into volunteers, leading to the birth of three girls who he claimed would be resistant to HIV. A subsequent Chinese investigation found he’d practiced medicine illegally while “pursuing fame and fortune.” A court later sentenced him to three years in prison. He has never apologized for his experiments, except to say he acted “too quickly” and to express regret for the trouble he’d caused his former wife and two daughters. (According to a leaked WeChat post by his ex-wife, she divorced him in 2024 “because of a major fault on his side.”) Since his release from prison, He has sought to restart his research and convince people that he should be recognized as the “Chinese Darwin,” not “China’s Frankenstein,” as the press once dubbed him.  But his comeback has been bumpy. He lost a position at Wuchang University of Technology, a small private university in Hubei province, after some negative press. In February 2024, He posted that his application for funding from the Muscular Dystrophy Association was rejected. Last September, he even posted pictures of his torn shirt—which he said was the result of an assault by jealous rivals. One area of clear success, though, was the growing reach of his X profile, which today has ballooned to more than 130,000 followers. And as his public profile rose, some started encouraging He to find ways to cash in. Andrew Hessel, a futurist and synthetic biologist active in US ethics debates, says he tried to get He invited to give a TED Talk. “His story is unique, and I wanted to see his story get more widespread attention, if only as a cautionary tale,” Hessel says. “I think he is a lightning rod for a generation of people working in life sciences.” Later, Hessel says he sent him information on how to join X’s revenue-sharing program. “I said, ‘You have a powerful voice.’ Have you looked into monetization?” Hessel says. By last fall, He was also welcoming visitors to what he called a new lab in Beijing. One person who took him up on the offer was Steve Hsu, a Michigan State physics professor who has started several genetics companies and was visiting Beijing.  They ended up talking for hours. Hsu says that He expressed a desire to move to the US and start a company, and that he shared his idea for conducting a clinical trial of embryo editing in South Africa, possibly for the prevention of HIV.  Hsu says he later arranged an invitation for He to give a lecture in the United States. “You are a little radioactive, but things are opening up,” Hsu told him. But He declined the offer because the Chinese government is holding his passport—a common tactic it uses to restrict the movement of sensitive or high-profile figures—and won’t return it to him. “He doesn’t even know why. He literally doesn’t know,” says Hsu. “According to the law, they should give it back to him.” A curious triangle Despite any plans by He and Tie to advance the idea, creating designer babies is currently illegal in most of the world, including China and the US. Some experts, however, fret that forbidding the technology will only drive it underground and make it attractive to biohackers or scientists outside the mainstream.  That’s one reason Tie’s simultaneous connection to two notable biotech renegades—He and Zayner—is worth watching. “There is clearly a triangle forming in some way,” says Hessel. With Tie stuck outside China, and He being kept inside the country, their new gene-editing venture, Cathy Medicine, faces an uncertain future. Tie has posted previously on Rednote that she was “helping Dr. He open up the U.S. market,” and was planning to return to the US with He for scientific research. But when we spoke on the phone, Tie declined to disclose their next steps and said their predicament means the project is “out of the window now.” But even as the couple remains separated, their social media game is stronger than ever. As she waited in Manila, Tie sought help from friends and followers, even the entire internet. She blasted out a tweet to “crypto people” calling them “too pussy to stand up for things when it matters.” Within hours, someone had created a memecoin called $GENE as a way for the public to support the couple.  On May 20, Tie posted on X claiming that the amount donated to them is now worth almost $2 million. “I may need to retract my last statement about crypto,” wrote Tie.  He’s X account also retweeted to express support: “I only want to reunite with my wife @CathyTie, and continue my gene editing research.” He added the hashtag $GENE.