SoBA Stacks Color-Coded Blocks Into a Castle-Like Kindergarten That Defies Its Urban Surroundings

SoBA Stacks Color-Coded Blocks Into a Castle-Like Kindergarten That Defies Its Urban Surroundings

SoBA — the architecture and landscape practice led by Wang Ruo and Tang Haiyin — has completed Block Kindergarten in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, a 21-class campus that stacks modular, color-coded volumes into something between a fortress and a LEGO set. Sitting east of Hongqi Road and north of Zhenchuan Road, the 9,012-square-meter campus doesn’t try…

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Trump administration permits Volvo to keep selling connected cars in the US

Trump administration permits Volvo to keep selling connected cars in the US

Volvo Cars reached an agreement with the Trump administration that exempts the automaker from a U.S. crackdown on Chinese-connected vehicle technology. The Swedish automaker, which is majority owned by China’s Geely Holding, said Tuesday that it received specific authorization from the U.S. Department of Commerce to continue importing and selling vehicles with Chinese connected car…

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Trump administration permits Volvo to keep selling connected cars in the US

Trump Admin permits Volvo to keep selling connected cars in the U.S.

Volvo Cars reached an agreement with the Trump administration that exempts the automaker from a U.S. crackdown on Chinese-connected vehicle technology. The Swedish automaker, which is majority owned by China’s Geely Holding, said Tuesday that it received specific authorization from the U.S. Department of Commerce to continue importing and selling vehicles with Chinese connected car…

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Apple made strides with iOS 26 security, but leaked hacking tools still leave millions exposed to spyware attacks

Apple made strides with iOS 26 security, but leaked hacking tools still leave millions exposed to spyware attacks

The common assumption among iPhone security experts has been that finding vulnerabilities and developing exploits for iOS was difficult, requiring a lot of time, resources, and teams of skilled researchers to break through its layers of security defenses. That meant iPhone spyware and zero-day vulnerabilities, which aren’t known to the software vendor before they are…

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A Restaurant in China Where Wood Behaves Like a Forest

A Restaurant in China Where Wood Behaves Like a Forest

The first thing you notice about the Lakeside Restaurant at Silk Road Friendship Park in Dingzhou, China, is that the building doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t shout or compete. It simply arrives at the water’s edge like it’s always been there, wooden columns branching upward like trees that never needed permission to grow. Completed in…

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Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises M just two months after launch

Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch

Elon Musk’s Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain–computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile, Chinese serial entrepreneur Phoenix Peng is building rival efforts through two startups: NeuroXess, which develops implantable BCI systems, and a second company, Gestala, developing non-invasive ultrasound-based BCIs. Gestala has raised $21.6 million (CN¥150 million) just two…

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