This transparent glass foosball table at Milan Design Week looks straight out of a 2000s sci-fi movie

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The early 2000s had a very clear idea of the future. Think of films like *Minority Report* with its PreCrime headquarters, all white rooms and glass interfaces where everything looked seamlessly bonded rather than bolted together. Or *I, Robot*, which pushed that look even further with its glossy USR tower and Audi concept car, a world that had erased any sign of how things were actually made. That aesthetic has aged remarkably well, but it’s a territory most game furniture never touches, usually favoring rich materials over making things look like they are barely there. Basaglia + Rota Nodari are the exception, and Ghost, their foosball table for FAS Pendezza, is the proof.

The table itself is built from thick tempered glass, laminated at 12 and 9 mm, with a playing field that’s 114.5 by 70.5 centimeters, and it’s made entirely in Italy. Its body is bonded with a special adhesive, so there are no visible screws or bolts anywhere in the frame. That’s a key decision, because if you saw hardware, the whole ghost-like vibe would fall apart. A clean, conical white metal base holds up the floating glass volume, while chrome rods and two-tone players complete a color scheme that’s intentionally minimal. At 8,900 euros, it’s priced as a piece of design, and it earns it on looks alone before a single ball gets dropped.

Designers: Basaglia + Rota Nodari for FAS Pendezza

Even the players, made of white and gray resin, look like they belong in this sci-fi world. They’re somewhere between a medical illustration and a concept-car sketch, simplified to the point of anonymity. That’s exactly why they work. If they were in conventional team colors, the table would feel like just another piece of recreational equipment. Instead, these figures feel closer to the NS-5 robots of *I, Robot* than to any real athlete, which helps keep the whole look clean and unified. The chrome coil springs connecting them to the rods are the one little nod to mechanical texture, and they look almost like jewelry against all that glass.

But what really captures you are the detailed shadows the Ghost projects on the floor, if paired with the right lighting. At Salone Satellite, Ghost casts an incredible wireframe shadow on the floor, like it’s drawing a blueprint of itself in real time. Pitch markings are printed beneath the crystal surface, so they appear to float inside the glass instead of sitting on top. From any angle in the FAS Pendezza booth, you can see right through the structure, with the players and chrome rods suspended against the room itself. The name makes perfect sense when you see it in person.

FAS Pendezza is presenting Ghost at Salone Satellite this week as part of Milan Design Week 2026, in a booth where the table’s shadow alone justifies the detour. Seeing it alongside the rest of the brand’s lineup confirms Ghost as a deliberate formal departure rather than FAS Pendezza’s default register. The studio, Basaglia Rota Nodari, launched in 1997 with a stated ambition to build objects that convey emotion beyond their function, and Ghost may be their sharpest expression of that intent to date. For those who have already left Milan, Ghost is available in white and black finishes and retails at €8,900.

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SpaceX and Cursor strike partnership that might end in a $60 billion acquisition

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SpaceX and AI company Cursor have struck a new partnership that could see the owner of X buy the AI company for $60 billion later this year. "SpaceXAI and  @cursor_ai  are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI," SpaceX wrote in a post on X. 

According to SpaceX, the deal allows for it to either invest $10 billion into the company known for its AI coding tool, or acquire it entirely "later this year" for $60 billion. If an acquisition were to happen, it's not clear at what point Cursor could officially join the fold of Elon Musk's rapidly expanding and increasingly enmeshed web of companies. SpaceX bought xAI, the billionaire's AI company that also controls X, earlier this year. SpaceX is currently getting ready to go public this summer in what will likely be the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in history. 

Cursor, which has reportedly been in talks to raise its own $2 billion round of funding, is known for its AI coding tool of the same name that's become the vibe coding platform of choice for many developers. It allows people to use either its own models or those from other leading AI companies, including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and xAI.

In a statement, Cursor said its partnership with SpaceX will "accelerate our model training efforts" while addressing infrastructure-related issues that have slowed it down in the past. "We've wanted to push our training efforts much further, but we've been bottlenecked by compute," the company said. "With this partnership, our team will leverage xAI's Colossus infrastructure to dramatically scale up the intelligence of our models for coding and beyond."

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/spacex-and-cursor-strike-partnership-that-might-end-in-a-60-billion-acquisition-232131487.html?src=rss

Mozilla says it patched 271 Firefox vulnerabilities thanks to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos

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Anthropic's buzzy announcement about using AI to improve cybersecurity earlier this month was met with plenty of skepticism. However, Mozilla shared some details that support use of the company's special Claude Mythos Preview model as a way to protect critical services. Using Mythos helped Mozilla's team find and patch 271 vulnerabilities in the latest release of the Firefox browser. "So far we’ve found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can’t," the foundation said.

The blog post from Mozilla feels like a positive sign for Anthropic's Project Glasswing. Obviously the AI company would want to put itself in the best possible light while presenting its own initiative, but there's something encouraging about hearing the benefits from a third party. Mozilla also noted that in its time with Claude Mythos, the AI wasn't able to turn up any bugs that a human wouldn't have been able to find, given enough time and resources, which indicates that AI isn't presently able to do more to crack cybersecurity protections than a person can.

An organizaion successfully using AI for good is certainly a refreshing change of pace in tech news. And for those Firefox users who aren't personally interested in applying any generative AI in their browsing, Mozilla has given the option to turn it all off for the past several months.

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Lexus LS Concept First-Look: The Six-Wheel Flagship Turning Heads at Milan Design Week 2026

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Six wheels on a Lexus, at a furniture fair in Milan, sounds like either a provocation or a punchline. At this year’s Milan Design Week, Lexus is betting it’s the former. The brand rolled into Superstudio Più in the Tortona district with its LS Concept, a long-body, flat-roofed, twin rear-axle machine that first appeared at the Japan Mobility Show in 2025. It’s a chauffeur-driven vehicle built entirely around the passenger, and it’s Lexus’s clearest statement yet about where its flagships are going. In fact, Chief Branding Officer Simon Humphries said it plainly: the “S” in LS no longer stands for Sedan. It stands for Space.

The car sits inside an installation called SPACE, a fittingly simple name for a big idea. The LS Concept is wrapped in a cylindrical LED screen that’s always moving, cycling through textures and color palettes that wash over the car’s matte metallic finish. The whole thing sits on a low turntable, rotating slowly so you can take in every angle while the screen behind it blurs the line between the vehicle and its environment. From the back, the body is dark and geometric, with red light cleanly tracing the corners and the LEXUS wordmark centered like a final statement. The front has no grille at all, just a wide bar of white light, a dark glassy face, and some sharp diagonal cuts at the lower corners. The side profile is what really sells the scale of it all; the greenhouse is so long and flat it forces you to rethink what a luxury car is supposed to look like.

Designer: Lexus

You’ll notice those sharp diagonal white light signatures at the corners of both the front and back, and they do a great job of anchoring your eye so you don’t get lost in all that surface area. The front is an exercise in restraint, especially for Lexus. There are no intakes, no heritage cues, and definitely no spindle grille, which defined the brand’s look for fifteen years. Instead, a single, clean bar of white light carries the Lexus name across the top, and below it, dark glass sweeps down like a theater curtain. The back is just as clean, with black geometric planes and red light tracing the corners so precisely it feels more like sculpture than taillights. There’s also a louvered panel on the rear quarter that looks both cool and functional, the kind of detail you have to go back and look at a second time.

The twin rear wheels are probably the first thing that throws you off, but the more you look at them, the more they make sense. A six-wheel layout, something you usually see on overland vehicles or high-end coaches, lets Lexus pack in a huge amount of interior volume without the big wheel arches that eat up space in most long cars. The turbine-style wheel covers keep the look clean, where normal spokes would have ruined the effect. When you see it from the side, the lower body looks like a single sculpted piece, and the way it tucks under itself makes the whole thing feel like it’s floating. Lexus is basically saying that a vehicle with the footprint of a small bus can be the next word in luxury, and after a few minutes, you start to believe them.

Step through the door, framed in a bright white light, and you see what they mean by hospitality. A slatted wood panel runs up the entire wall of the cabin, a single rear seat is finished in cream and burgundy leather, and the floor is so open you get the sense it was designed for standing as much as sitting. The real achievement here is how Lexus managed to package so much genuine room inside; it feels more like a small, well-designed living space than a stretched-out car. Whether any of this makes it to production is anyone’s guess, and Lexus seems happy to leave that question hanging in the air.

What Lexus is showing here is a clear signal of where its design thinking is headed, and that alone makes it one of the most interesting things you can see in Milan this year. If you want to see it for yourself, you can experience the SPACE installation and the Lexus LS Concept at the Daylight Hall in Superstudio Più, located in the Tortona district, from April 21st to the 26th.

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Yamaha Just Made a Pen That Writes With a Beat

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If you asked most people to name a Yamaha product, you’d probably get piano, guitar, or motorcycle long before anyone said pen. And yet here we are, talking about a writing instrument from one of the most iconic music and motor companies in the world. The Swing Scribe is not a gimmick. It’s a genuinely fascinating piece of design thinking, and it deserves far more attention than it’s been getting.

Part of Yamaha’s Scribe Tool Design 2024 project, the Swing Scribe is a collaboration between Yamaha Corporation and Yamaha Motor designers based in the US. The project’s premise is simple but surprisingly profound: in an age saturated with digital tools, what happens when you return to something as primitive as writing? And more importantly, what can you add to it, not to make it smarter or faster, but to make it more felt?

Designer: Yamaha

The Swing Scribe answers that question with a pen that behaves like a metronome. The design draws its inspiration from the quill, one of the oldest writing instruments in history. As you write, the natural wobble of the feather gives the pen rhythm through a small amount of air resistance. Yamaha took that phenomenon and made it intentional. A weighted tip is attached to a metal bar, and as you write, it swings. The small pendulum force produced by the weight and the movement gives a rhythm to the pen and the way it flows, feeding that beat back into your hand.

What’s particularly clever is the degree of control built into it. You can slide the weight along the bar to change the arc of the swing, adjusting resistance and tempo to match how you’re feeling at any given moment. Slow and contemplative? Let it swing wide. Fast and focused? Pull the weight closer. It sounds like a small, quiet thing, but it genuinely reframes the act of writing as something that has a beat, a pace, its own kind of mood.

This is deeply Yamaha. The company has a long-standing design philosophy rooted in the Japanese concept of Kando, which translates roughly to emotional excitement or deep resonance. The goal isn’t just functionality. It’s feeling. It’s the reason a Yamaha piano doesn’t only produce notes but creates a whole physical experience for the player, something that connects the body to the sound. The Swing Scribe takes that same philosophy and applies it to a writing tool.

I’ll admit my first reaction was skepticism. A pen that swings on a metal arm sounds like something you’d appreciate in a design exhibit and then immediately set down. But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. We’ve spent years optimizing handwriting out of our lives. Keyboards are faster. Voice memos are easier. Dictation tools have gotten good enough to be genuinely useful. And yet journaling, sketching, hand-lettering, and analog note-taking are having a real cultural moment right now. People aren’t returning to pen and paper purely out of nostalgia. They’re returning because it feels different from every other thing they do. Because it slows them down in a way that makes room for actual thinking.

The Swing Scribe leans into that completely. It doesn’t try to make handwriting more efficient. It makes it more deliberate, more sensory, more present. And it does all of this with a mechanism that is elegant in its simplicity. No batteries, no Bluetooth, no companion app. Just physics. Not everything needs to be optimized. Some things are better when they resist you slightly, when they swing a little off-center, when they remind you that creating something by hand is its own reward. Yamaha, of all companies, probably understood that long before the rest of us caught up.

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Cash App now supports accounts for kids 6-12

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Cash App, the banking and payments app run by Block, has added support for parent-managed kids accounts. The new accounts include key benefits from the service's normal account, with an eye towards teaching financial literacy to younger users ages 6 to 12. Cash App first allowed teenage users on its platform in 2021.

As part of the "expanded Cash App Families experience," eligible legal guardians and parents can create managed accounts that offer "a dedicated place on the platform to send allowances, set aside savings, and track spending for their child, kickstarting their path to financial independence," Cash App says. Adults managing these accounts will be able to set up recurring transfers, see how their child is spending and do things like lock their child's account to prevent transactions. Kids will get a custom debit card and the ability to receive payments from up to five trusted accounts, though notably they won't be able to access Cash App itself.

Cash App says managed accounts are designed for kids 6 through 12. Once those kids turn 13, Cash App says parents will be able to choose to convert their account to a "sponsored account" to unlock more features, like the ability to send and receive payments, invest in stocks or trade crypto. Those sponsored accounts are technically still monitored and controlled by a parent or legal guardian, but they do give 13-year-olds more control over how they use their money.

A parent-managed account for kids is not a new idea in the fintech space, though Cash App is trying to reach a younger audience than some of its competitors. Venmo rolled out access to its payment platform to teens between the ages of 13 to 17 in 2023. Separately, both Apple and Google also offer their own kids accounts in Google Wallet and Apple Cash Family.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apps/cash-app-now-supports-accounts-for-kids-6-12-210651025.html?src=rss

YouTube is muting push notifications from channels you don’t watch

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YouTube notifications can get messy fast, particularly if you’re subscribed to a lot of different channels. To address that, today the company will begin muting push notifications from creators that you haven’t engaged with in the last month.

The change to YouTube notifications began as a small trial the company tested out earlier this year. The idea behind it is that if a viewer continually receives notifications about content they don't engage with, this may eventually cause the user to disable YouTube notifications altogether. Now obviously, this is bad for YouTube. Turning off notifications means people will use the platform less, thereby resulting in lower revenue. However, it's also bad for content creators, especially the ones you do like, who will have one fewer avenue to keep you updated about new and upcoming videos. 

So starting today, for channels that you have subscribed to and have notifications set to "all," YouTube will no longer send out push notifications to mobile devices from creators that you haven't interacted with for one month. That said, these notifications will continue to be available inside the YouTube app in your inbox (the little bell icon in the top right). 

Notably, for those who are clicking on notifications and watching related videos, nothing will change. Additionally, based on info from the test earlier this year, YouTube said "channels that upload infrequently will not have their notifications affected." This is a good thing, especially for creators who post long-form content that takes extra time to make, as people probably don't want notifications to go away in case they happen to miss a once-a-month upload. 

The one thing that's unclear is if you start watching a channel again that you have not interacted with in a while, is if YouTube will automatically restart related push notifications. However, as a way to prevent too many alerts from clogging up your phone, YouTube's new protocol seems like a good way to cut down on the clutter.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/youtube/youtube-is-muting-push-notifications-from-channels-you-dont-watch-205119228.html?src=rss

Chopard’s Beehive Table Clock is a masterpiece of horological art with L’Épée 1839

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Brilliance usually comes in limited quantities. In fact, it is embodied by the new limited edition Chopard Table Clock, which stands apart from anything the horologist has created in the past three decades. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Chopard Manufacture in Fleurier, the company has teamed up with L’Épée 1839 – the masters of complex watches – to create the Beehive Table Clock.

After reimaging a legendary car and a colorful hand grenade as clocks, L’Épée 1839 is now giving a new horological dimension to the desk clock. Easily, one of the most complex and finely decorated Objet d’Art – spare a thought for the MB&F – the clock revives Chopard’s own iconic beehive motive originally used by the founder Louis-Ulysse Chopard in the 19th century. The bee was later adopted as the emblem of the Manufacture in Fleurier by Karl-Friedrich Scheufele back in 1996 to represent “labor, precision, and collective skill.”

Designer: Chopard

Chopard timepieces are generally an embodiment of precision and strength highlighted by timeless style. Each of its creations reflects Swiss mastery with the use of dancing gems, fine artworks, and sustainable innovation. All of this is presented well in the Beehive Table Clock, which is made of steel and brass in 18K ethical yellow gold to mimic the color of an original beehive.

The clock, measuring 25.8 cm high and with a diameter of 16.5 cm, features three jeweled bees made in Chopard’s jewelry atelier in Geneva. The bees feature a body made using 18-carat ethical yellow gold, which is studded with gemstones, yellow sapphires, and black diamonds, and have rock crystal for wings. While the bees may feel like the most distinctive part of the clock, which comprises seven rounded tiers of borosilicate glass, two of which have the hour and minute numerals. It’s the chime mechanism of the Chopard Beehive Table Clock that’s, in fact, its best highlight.

The clock’s movement plate is brass, and the base is steel, but both are finished in gold to match the beehive theme. Its chime mechanism is located at the top, where the glass dome is used as the bell struck by a small gold hammer to announce the time. There are three – Active, Silent, and On-Demand – chime modes to choose from, which can be changed by rotating the top part. In the active mode, the clock sounds the time automatically, in Silent mode, it doesn’t chime at all, and in On-Demand mode, you can manually set the clock to sound the current time.

The Beehive Clock is powered by a twin-barreled, hand-wound movement, which can be conveniently wound with a crown located at the bottom. When full-wound, the clock has a power reserve of up to 8 days. With its impressive shape, sophisticated chiming mechanism, and a legacy to live up to, the Chopard Beehive Table Clock is limited to just 10 pieces worldwide. The elusive timepiece will be sold exclusively at Chopard boutiques for an estimated $330,000.

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Browser Gaming Is Heading Toward $3 Billion. Here Is Why It Is Being Taken Seriously

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Browser gaming is on track to triple in market value by 2028, and the audience driving that growth is not who most people would expect. New research from Kantar, partnered with Google, puts the global HTML5 gaming market at $1 billion in 2021 and projects it will exceed $3 billion by 2028, driven by frictionless […]

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AI company deletes the 3 million OKCupid photos it used for facial recognition training

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When online platforms violate their own privacy policies to sell your photos, have no fear: They just might have to pay an undisclosed settlement fee 12 years later. (Who says justice is dead?) According to Reuters, AI company Clarifai says it has deleted 3 million profile photos taken from dating site OkCupid in 2014. It follows a settlement reached last month between the FTC and Match Group, OkCupid's owner.

The Delaware-based Clarifai reportedly certified the data deletion to the FTC on April 7. The company also confirmed to US Representative Lori Trahan (D-MA) that it deleted any models that trained on the data. Clarifai told the representative's office that it hadn't shared the data with third parties.

The FTC opened the investigation in 2019, after The New York Times reported that Clarifai had built a training database using OkCupid dating profile photos. The behavior was a direct violation of OkCupid’s privacy policy. Court documents reviewed by Reuters reveal that Clarifai asked OkCupid executives for the data in 2014. Apparently, they obliged.

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<p>Clarifai uses this creepy facial profiling example to sell its services.</p>
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"We're ⁠collecting data now and just realized that OkCupid must have a HUGE amount of awesome data for this," Clarifai founder Matthew Zeiler wrote in an email to OkCupid co-founder Maxwell Krohn. The AI startup used the dating site's images to build a facial recognition service that can identify a person's age, gender and race. (Another brilliant and totally ethical idea from Clarifai, tapping into unsecured city surveillance cameras without authorization, was reportedly shuttered.)

Zeiller suggested to The New York Times in 2019 that people needed to, well, get over it. "There has to be some level of trust with tech companies like Clarifai to put powerful technology to good use, and get comfortable with that," the AI founder declared. Some of OkCupid's founders were reportedly investors in Clarifai.

As part of the settlement, the FTC "permanently prohibited" OkCupid from misrepresenting its data collection and privacy controls. TechCrunch notes how strange it is to use that as a penalty, given that FTC rules already bar that behavior.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/ai-company-deletes-the-3-million-okcupid-photos-it-used-for-facial-recognition-training-195223996.html?src=rss