“I always say to start with the shell of the house and then work your way into the fine details,” said interior designer Robin Strickler. The founder of Orange County-based interior design firm Design Works has a soft spot for finishing touches, but only after the “big picture” has been set. To begin, Strickler spoke […]

After serving on countless DesignCon technical program committees and delivering 19 years worth of tutorials and technical papers, Mike Peng Li says the conference has become a part of him. “It takes a bit of energy and passion to do it,” he told Design News recently. “It becomes so much a part of your life, it’s hard to separate […]

There’s a device called the Mosquito that emits an annoying sound at a very high frequency—so high that only young people can hear it. It’s marketed by its manufacturers as a means of discouraging kids from loitering in streets and other public spaces. (Shopkeepers have blasted Barry Manilow, to similar effect.) The UK’s first children’s commissioner, Sir Al […]

Called PathWave, the aim is to have a common software platform for product development, supporting design and manufacturing. It is based on a suite of interoperable design and test tools with associated data management. PathWave is a scalable and an AI-based predictive software platform that combines design software, instrument control, and application-specific test software in […]

A mysterious “blockchain company” just bought 62 percent of a 162 square mile Industrial park near Reno, Nevada. That's 67,000 acres. This land has been bought at the Tahoe/Reno Industrial Center, also home of Tesla's Gigafactory. The Gigafactory is the largest building in the world, with a planned …

Along with the skyrocketing value and gyrations in exchange prices of Bitcoin and other, popular digital cryptocurrencies, recent developments and events have raised serious doubts regarding much-touted claims that blockchain distributed trading and transaction systems are as secure and tamper-proof as they are made out to be. Furthermore, serious doubts are being raised regarding the […]

Many of the companies as well as authorities all over the world are trying to tap into the blockchain technology in order to make it easier for the governments and companies to provide services to their customers. One such platform which we are speaking about today is specifically designed to remove …

Iota is a cryptocurrency, but unlike just about every other cryptocurrency, it’s not built on a blockchain. Aiming to design a distributed ledger that’s low-cost and scalable enough for the internet of things (IoT), the project’s developers have started from scratch and built a new sort of structure they call the “tangle.” The tangle is […]

As the cryptocurrency craze continues, with Bitcoin leading the way, a slew of smaller, cheaper projects are emerging that investors are getting excited about. One is Tron, a coin that its Chinese founder hopes will challenge the world's major content providers, such as Facebook and YouTube. According …

In the world of cryptocurrency, trading platforms are in high demand these days. Most exchanges seem to focus on very similar trading markets, even though there seems to be a high demand for anything related to Bitcoin Cash right now. It seems there is at least one exchange which offers pure BCH …